APA Pacific Division 2016 Meeting Program

140 Pages·2016·2.05 MB·English

The American Philosophical Association
PACIFIC DIVISION
N I N E T I E T H
A N N UA L M E E T I N G
P RO G R A M
THE WESTIN ST. FRANCIS
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
MARCH 30 – APRIL 3, 2016
new in paperback
coMPlIcAted Presence
Heidegger and the Postmetaphysical
unity of Being
Jussi Backman
new for spring
towArds A relAtIonAl
In HIs VoIce
ontology
Maurice Blanchot’s Affair
Philosophy’s other Possibility
with the neuter
Andrew Benjamin
David Appelbaum
sPArks wIll fly
Power
Benjamin and Heidegger
oppression, subservience,
Andrew Benjamin and
and resistance
Dimitris Vardoulakis, editors
Raymond Angelo Belliotti
leo strAuss on tHe Borders
out of control
of JudAIsM, PHIlosoPHy,
confrontations between
And HIstory
spinoza and levinas
Jeffrey A. Bernstein
Richard A. Cohen
tHe soPHIsts In PlAto’s
rAtIonAl sPIrItuAlIty
dIAlogues
And dIVIne VIrtue In PlAto
David D. Corey
A Modern Interpretation and
Philosophical defense of Platonism
tHe PHIlosoPHer-loBByIst
Michael LaFargue
John dewey and the People’s lobby,
1928–1940
leo strAuss, PHIlosoPHer
Mordecai Lee
european Vistas
Antonio Lastra and
tHe orIgIn of tIMe
Josep Monserrat-Molas, editors
Heidegger and Bergson
Heath Massey
fundAMentAls of
coMPArAtIVe And
wHose trAdItIon? wHIcH dAo?
InterculturAl PHIlosoPHy
confucius and wittgenstein
Lin Ma and Jaap van Brakel
on Moral Learning and Reflection
James F. Peterman
engAgIng tHe world
thinking after Irigaray
nAturAlIzIng HeIdegger
Mary C. Rawlinson, editor
His confrontation with nietzsche,
His contributions to environmental
tHe deeP ecology of rHetorIc
Philosophy
In MencIus And ArIstotle
David E. Storey
A somatic guide
Douglas Robinson
tHe PolItIcAl PHIlosoPHy
of frAncIs BAcon
wItHout tHe leAst treMor
on the unity of knowledge
The Sacrifice of Socrates
Tom van Malssen
in Plato’s Phaedo
M. Ross Romero, SJ
wonder
A grammar
Between fAItH And BelIef
Sophia Vasalou
toward a contemporary
Phenomenology of religious life
for more information: www.sunypress.edu
Joeri Schrijvers
IMPORTANT NOTICES FOR
MEETING ATTENDEES
SESSION LOCATIONS
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT REGISTRATION
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meeting.
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including the time of the meeting itself, but please note that the advance
registration rates end on March 16.
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SPECIAL EVENTS
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY PUBLIC RECEPTION
Wednesday, March 30, 6:00–7:00 p.m.
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, March 31, 11:00 a.m.–Noon
Thursday, March 31, 4:00–5:00 p.m.
BUSINESS MEETING
Thursday, March 31, Noon–1:00 p.m.
BAY AREA FEMINISM AND PHILOSOPHY RECEPTION
Thursday, March 31, 4:00–5:00 p.m.
ANNUAL RECEPTION
Thursday, March 31, 10:00 p.m.–Midnight
COFFEE BREAK
Friday, April 1, 11:00 a.m.–Noon
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Friday, April 1, 11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
AD HOC COMMITTEE ON SEXUAL HARASSMENT INFORMATION SESSION
Friday, April 1, Noon–1:00 p.m.
DEWEY LECTURE RECEPTION
Friday, April 1, 5:30–6:00 p.m.
PRESIDENTIAL RECEPTION
Friday, April 1, 7:00–8:00 p.m.
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Wednesday Morning, March 30: 9:00 a.m.–Noon
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30
REGISTRATION
8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m., registration desk (mezzanine)
PLACEMENT SERVICE
Information desk: 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m., registration desk (mezzanine)
Interview tables: location to be announced
WEDNESDAY MORNING, 9:00 A.M.–NOON
DIVISIONAL PROGRAM SESSIONS
1A Book Symposium: Sanford Goldberg, Assertion: On the
Philosophical Significance of Assertoric Speech
Chair: Dave Beisecker (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Speakers: Matthew Benton (University of Notre Dame)
Clayton Littlejohn (King’s College London)
Rachel McKinnon (College of Charleston)
Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern University)
1B Book Symposium: Lori Gruen, Entangled Empathy
Chair: Shelley Wilcox (San Francisco State University)
Speakers: Myisha Cherry (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Remy Debes (University of Memphis)
Diana Tietjens Meyers (University of Connecticut)
Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University)
1C Book Symposium: Katherine Withy, Heidegger on Being Uncanny
Chair: Michael Hardimon (University of California, San
Diego)
Speakers: Lauren Freeman (University of Louisville)
Leslie MacAvoy (East Tennessee State University)
Matthew Shockey (Indiana University South Bend)
Katherine Withy (Georgetown University)
1D Invited Symposium: Chinese Philosophy and Language
Chair: Xinyan Jiang (University of Redlands)
Speakers: Yang Xiao (Kenyon College)
“Natural Meaning and Metaphor: A Comparative
Perspective”
Steven Geisz (University of Tampa)
“Daoism, Body Practice, and Philosophy Beyond
Language”
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Wednesday Morning, March 30: 9:00 a.m.–Noon (cont.)
JeeLoo Liu (California State University, Fullerton)
“Name and Reality: A Comparative Study”
1E Invited Symposium: Contractarianism as a Solution to Moral
Diversity
Chair: Piper Bringhurst (University of Arizona)
Speakers: John Thrasher (Monash University)
“Agreeing to Disagree: The Promise of Contractual
Liberalism”
Peter Vanderschraaf (University of California,
Merced)
“Authority and Diversity”
Ryan Mudoon (University at Buffalo)
“Exploring Tradeoffs in Accommodating Moral
Diversity”
Commentator: Michael Moehler (Virginia Tech)
1F Invited Symposium: The Philosophy of Deception
THIS SESSION HAS BEEN CANCELED.
Chair: James Mahon (Washington and Lee University)
Speakers: Clancy Martin (University of Missouri–Kansas City)
“Insincerity and Inauthenticity”
Alan Strudler (University of Pennsylvania)
“Lying and Context”
Gerald Dworkin (University of California, Davis)
“The Care and Management of Lies”
Dallas Denery (Bowdoin College)
“What Does the History of Lying Have to Do with
Lying?”
1G Colloquium: Art, Method, and Form in Hegel’s Idealism
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Nastassja Pugliese (University of Georgia)
Speaker: Gerad Gentry (University of South Carolina)
“Hegel’s Idealism and the Imagination as the ‘End
of Art’”
Commentator: Lydia Moland (Colby College)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Meghant Sudan (Concordia University)
Speaker: Peter Yong (University of California, San Diego)
“Cognitive Phenomenology in the Opening
Arguments of The Science of Logic”
Commentator: Henry Southgate (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
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Wednesday Morning, March 30: 9:00 a.m.–Noon (cont.)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Rafeeq Hasan (University of Chicago)
Speaker: Manish Oza (University of Toronto)
“Hegel and Formal Idealism”
Commentator: Dai Heide (Simon Fraser University)
1H Colloquium: Perceptual Justification
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Matthew Babb (University of Southern California)
Speaker: Lu Teng (Cornell University)
“Is Phenomenal Force Sufficient for Immediate
Perceptual Justification?”
Commentator: Elijah Chudnoff (University of Miami)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Brian McLaughlin (Rutgers University)
Speaker: Adrienne Prettyman (Bryn Mawr College)
“Attention and Perceptual Justification”
Commentator: Carolyn Jennings (University of California, Merced)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Anna-Sara Malmgren (Stanford University)
Speaker: Julia Smith (University of Toronto)
“Bootstrapping, Easy Knowledge, and Perceptual
Justification”
Commentator: Otávio Bueno (University of Miami)
1I Colloquium: The Nature of Moral Responsibility
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Lucia Schwarz (University of Arizona)
Speaker: Heather Gert (University of North Carolina at
Greensboro)
“Awareness Luck”
Commentator: Hannah Tierney (University of Arizona)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Prakash Chenjeri (Southern Oregon University)
Speaker: Taylor Cyr (University of California, Riverside)
“Semicompatibilism: No Ability to Do Otherwise
Required”
Commentator: Christopher Evan Franklin (Grove City College)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Jeremy Carey (University of California, Berkeley)
Speaker: Kyle Fritz (Florida State University)
“Responsibility, Voluntary Control, and Intentional
Action”
Commentator: George Stamets (Florida State University)
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Wednesday Morning, March 30: 9:00 a.m.–Noon (cont.)
1J Colloquium: The Problem of Evil and Its Implications
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Kimberly Dill (University of Texas at Austin)
Speaker: John Pittard (Yale University)
“Evil and God’s Toxin Puzzle”
Commentator: David Vander Laan (Westmont College)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Justin Capes (East Tennessee State University)
Speakers: Benjamin H. Arbour (University of Bristol)
Myron A. Penner (Trinity Western University and
Ryerson University)
“Arguments from Evil and Evidence for Pro-Theism”
Commentator: Gerard Rothfus (University of California, Irvine)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Marilyn Piety (Drexel University)
Speaker: Jonathan Rutledge (University of Oklahoma)
“Commonsense, Skeptical Theism, and Closure of
Inquiry”
Commentator: Glenn Ross (Franklin and Marshall College)
1K APA Committee Session: Contemporary Latin American Philosophy
Arranged by the APA Committee on Hispanics
Chair: José Jorge Mendoza (University of Massachusetts
Lowell)
Speakers: Grant J. Silva (Marquette University)
“On Nation Building with White Minorities and
‘Multiethnic’ Majorities: Lessons from Latin
America to the United States”
Lori Gallegos (Stony Brook University)
“Skillful Coping and the Routine of Surviving: Isasi-
Diaz on the Importance of Identity to Everyday
Knowledge”
Philip Mack (Marquette University)
“The Meaning and Morality of Borders”
1L APA Committee Session: Romanell Lecture
Arranged by the APA Committee on Lectures, Publication, and
Research
Chair: Louise Antony (University of Massachusetts
Amherst)
Speaker: Elisabeth Lloyd (Indiana University Bloomington)
“What a Difference Research Questions Can Make”
Commentator: James Griesemer (University of California, Davis)
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Wednesday Afternoon, March 30: 1:00–4:00 p.m.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 1:00–4:00 P.M.
DIVISIONAL PROGRAM SESSIONS
2A Book Symposium: Gwen Bradford, Achievement
Chair: Kirsten Egerstrom (Syracuse University)
Speakers: Antti Kauppinen (University of Tampere and Trinity
College Dublin)
Simon Keller (Victoria University of Wellington)
Hasko von Kriegstein (Ryerson University)
Gwen Bradford (Rice University)
2B Book Symposium: Lucy Allais, Manifest Reality: Kant’s Idealism
and His Realism
Chair: Henry E. Allison (University of California, San Diego
and Boston University)
Speakers: R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford University)
Anil Gomes (Oxford University)
Karl Schafer (University of Pittsburgh)
Lucy Allais (University of the Witwatersrand and
University of California, San Diego)
2C Book Symposium: Boris Kment, Modality and Explanatory
Reasoning
Chair: Conor Mayo-Wilson (University of Washington)
Speakers: Sara Bernstein (Duke University)
Robert Stalnaker (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology)
Meghan Sullivan (University of Notre Dame)
Boris Kment (Princeton University)
2D Book Symposium: Jonardon Ganeri, The Self: Naturalism,
Consciousness, and the First-Person Stance
Chair: Evan Thompson (University of British Columbia)
Speakers: Christian Coseru (College of Charleston)
Richard Wu (University of British Columbia)
Jennifer Windt (Monash University)
Jonardon Ganeri (New York University Abu Dhabi
and King’s College London)
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Wednesday Afternoon, March 30: 1:00–4:00 p.m. (cont.)
2E Invited Symposium: Philosophy and Economics
Chair: Debra Satz (Stanford University)
Speakers: John Broome (Oxford University and Stanford
University)
“Efficiency and Future Generations”
Deirdre McCloskey (University of Illinois at
Chicago)
“Hobbes, Rawls, Buchanan, Nussbaum, and All the
Socio-Political Virtues”
Margaret Schabas (University of British Columbia)
“Thought Experiments in Economics”
2F Invited Symposium: Responsibility for the World: Jean-Luc Nancy,
Freedom, and the Future
Chair: Sebastian Musch (University of California, Berkeley)
Speakers: Ted Toadvine (University of Oregon)
“Eschatology and the Elements”
Marie-Eve Morin (University of Alberta)
“Human Exceptionalism and the Freedom of the
World”
Commentators: Rebecca Hansen (State University of New York at
New Paltz)
Hakhamanesh Zangeneh (California State
University, Stanislaus)
2G Invited Symposium: Science and Pragmatism
Chair: David Boersema (Pacific University)
Speakers: Richard Healey (University of Arizona)
Mark Wilson (University of Pittsburgh)
Commentators: James Mattingly (Georgetown University)
Jill North (Rutgers University)
2H Colloquium: Ancient Metaphysics and Epistemology
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Chair: James Hall (Arizona State University)
Speaker: Dougal Blyth (University of Auckland)
“Plato’s Socrates, Sophistic Antithesis, and
Scepticism”
Commentator: David Ambuel (University of Mary Washington)
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