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The American Philosophical Association
EASTERN DIVISIONO N E H U N D R E D F O U R T E E N T H
A N N U A L M E E T I N G P R O G R A M
SAVANNAH CONVENTION CENTER
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
JANUARY 3 – 6, 2018
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Lessing and the Enlightenment His Philosophy of Religion and Its Relation to Eighteenth-Century ThoughtHenry E. Allison
Satan and Apocalypse And Other Essays in Political Theology Thomas J. J. Altizer
Aristotle on God’s Life-Generating Power and on Pneuma as Its Vehicle Abraham P. Bos Having a Word with Angus Graham At Twenty-Five Years into His Immortality Carine Defoort and Roger T. Ames, editorsMarch 2018 Inheritance in Psychoanalysis Joel Goldbach and James A. Godley, editors
Mystery 101 An Introduction to the Big Questions and the Limits of Human Knowledge Richard H. Jones For Foucault Against Normative Political Theory Mark G. E. Kelly
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Failing Desire Karmen MacKendrick
Unmaking The Making of Americans Toward an Aesthetic Ontology E. L. McCallum
The Symbolic Order of the Mother Luisa MuraroTranslated by Francesca NovelloEdited and with an Introduction by Timothy S. MurphyForeword by Alison Stone Defining Religion Essays in Philosophy of Religion Robert Cummings Neville
The Last Fortress of Metaphysics Jacques Derrida and the Deconstruction of Architecture Francesco VitaleTranslated by Mauro Senatore
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Author Meets Critics Session
Friday, January 8th, 7:00 – 10:00 pmThe Good Is One, Its Manifestations Many Confucian Essays on Metaphysics, Morals, Rituals, Institutions, and Genders Robert Cummings Neville
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IMPORTANT NOTICES FOR MEETING ATTENDEES
SESSION LOCATIONS
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT REGISTRATION
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PRONOUN STICKERS
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Gender-neutral bathrooms and a quiet room will be available at the Convention Center. A key for the quiet room is available at the registration desk.
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Special Events
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETINGWednesday, January 3, 1:00–6:00 p.m.
AAPT/APA TEACHING HUBThursday, January 4, Noon–10:30 p.m.Friday, January 5, 9:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.
DIVERSITY INSTITUTE ALUMNI NETWORKING LUNCHEONInvited participants only.Thursday, January 4, Noon–2:00 p.m.
PRIZE RECEPTIONThursday, January 4, 5:00–6:00 p.m.
RECEPTIONThursday, January 4, 8:00 p.m.–Midnight
BUSINESS MEETINGFriday, January 5, 11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
RECEPTIONFriday, January 5, 9:00 p.m.–Midnight
MENTORING THE MENTORS WORKSHOPInvited participants only.Saturday, January 6, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
2018 Program Committee
Susanne Sreedhar, chairTed SiderRebecca KuklaNeil FeitValerie Hardcastle
Brian McLaughlinLuvell AndersonBrad CokeletMax PenskyAntonia LoLordo
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AAPT/APA Mini-Conference on Teaching Philosophy: The Teaching Hub
The American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) and the American Philosophical Association Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy (CTP) have co- organized a two-day conference on teaching for the 2018 Eastern Division meeting. We are aiming to bring the collegial and supportive culture of the AAPT to the APA; highlight teaching within the context of an APA meeting; stretch beyond the traditional APA session format to offer sessions that model active learning; and attract a broader range of philosophers to the divisional meetings.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 4
Welcome, by Rebecca Scott, Chair, 2018 AAPT/APA Teaching HubNoon
M1 Inclusive PedagogiesNoon–2:00 p.m.
Chair: Rebecca Scott (Loyola University Chicago) Presenters: Kevin Jobe (Our Lady of the Lake University (San
Antonio)) “Global Philosophy at Hispanic-Serving Institutions:
A Data-Driven, Community Cultural Wealth (CCW) Approach”
W. John Koolage (Eastern Michigan University) and Danielle Clevenger (Eastern Michigan University)
“Who Put the Students in Charge!?! The Sophia Project”
Shoshana Brassfield (Frostburg State University) “Plato, DuBois, and the Examined Life”
M2 AAPT Workshop: Innovative Methods in Philosophical Pedagogy2:00–5:00 p.m.
Chair: Zachary Barnett (Brown University) Presenters: Ann Cahill (Elon University) “Teaching Discussion Skills: A Metacognitive
Approach”
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AAPT-APA Mini-Conference on Teaching Philosophy
Scott Tanona (Kansas State University) and Joshua DiPaolo (Kansas State University)
“Behind the Veil: Teaching Rawls through Digital Gaming”
Zoë Johnson King (University of Michigan) “Interactive Formative Assessment” Graham Leach-Krouse (Kansas State University) “Introducing Formal Reasoning with Carnap”
Coffee and light refreshments will be served.
M3 Public School Certification for Philosophy Graduate Students5:15–7:15 p.m.Co-sponsored by PLATO and the APA Committee on Pre-College Instruction
Chair: Alexandra Bradner (Kenyon College) Presenters: George Rainbolt (University of North Florida) Eddy Nahmias (Georgia State University) Ben Lukey (University of Hawaii) Chad Miller (University of Hawaii) Wendy Turgeon (St. Joseph’s College of New York)
FRIDAY, JANUARY 5
M4 Designing a New Course: Strategies for Philosophy Teachers9:00–11:00 a.m.
Chair: Alexandra Bradner (Kenyon College) Presenters: Zoë Johnson King (University of Michigan) “Backwards Planning and Differentiated Course
Design” Austin Rooney (Temple University) “Designing a New Course: Outcomes and
Experience” Steven Hymowech (Fulton-Montgomery
Community College) “Something Old, Something New: Creating a Web-
Based Introductory Philosophy Course from an Established Traditional One”
Daniel Massey (Spring Hill College) “Designing a Service-Learning Course in
Philosophy”Continental breakfast will be served.
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AAPT-APA Mini-Conference on Teaching Philosophy
M5 Walk-In Teaching Consultations: One-on-One Sessions with Expert Teachers11:15 a.m.–1:15 p.m. Sign up or walk in to get help diversifying your syllabus, increasing student participation and engagement, teaching online, starting as a new teacher, or promoting active learning.
Consultants: Stephen Bloch-Schulman (Elon University) Alexandra Bradner (Kenyon College) David W. Concepción (Ball State University) Renee Smith (Coastal Carolina University) Wendy Turgeon (St. Joseph’s College of New York) Sarah Vitale (Ball State University) Organizer: David W. Concepción (Ball State University)
M6 Using Vocabulary from Non-Western Languages in Teaching Philosophy1:30–3:30 p.m.Co-Sponsored by the Society for Teaching Comparative Philosophy
Chair: Sarah Mattice (University of North Florida) Presenters: Leah Kalmanson (Drake University) “What Does it Mean to ‘Do’ Philosophy? Using
Literati (ru 儒) Methodologies in Undergraduate Coursework”
Amy Donahue (Kennesaw University) “Using Pāli and Sanskrit to Ease Undergraduates’
Grasp of the Four Noble Truths” Aaron Creller (University of North Florida) “Arabic Vocabulary in Undergraduate Philosophy”
M7 Closing Reception and Poster Session7:00–9:00 p.m.
Organizer: Christina HendricksSoTL Research by Philosophy Teachers
Posters: Charles Dalrymple-Fraser (University of Toronto) and Mark Fortney (University of Toronto)
“Epistemic Exploitation of Students in Accommodation Policies and Practices”
Yesenia Gonzalez (Texas A&M University) “Pre-College Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Social
Problem Solving” Megan Malone (Georgia State University) and Peter
Nenning (Georgia State University) “Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Flipped Model
in a Critical Thinking Classroom”
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AAPT-APA Mini-Conference on Teaching Philosophy
Michael McGowan (Florida Southwestern State College)
“How (and When) to Walk the Line: The Pedagogy of Contemporary Controversies”
Alexandra Pelaez (Florida State University) “An Inclusive Approach to the Study of Virtues” Ann T. Thebaut (Santa Fe College) “Taking a Moral Journey: Internationalizing
an Ethics Curriculum to Improve Students’ Intercultural Knowledge and Competence”
Sarah Wieten (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) “Visual Philosophy: Posters as Pedagogy” Andrew M. Winters (Slippery Rock University of
Pennsylvania) “Experiential Learning: Its History and Philosophical
Applications” Yiran Zhang (Loyola University Chicago) “Learning by Listening in the General Education
Philosophy Classroom”Independent Research by Undergraduates in Philosophy
Posters: Tez Clark (Harvard University) “Non-Evidential Reasons for Belief” Andrew Bentley Hudgins (Mercer University) “A Bioethical Case Against Queer Erasure” Brett A. Kimmel (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) “Because I Said So” Evan Linn (Yale University) “Was G. E. Moore a Moral Platonist?” Danielle McCain (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) Abby Panek (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) “Rehabilitation vs. Retribution and Deterrence” Joseph Payne (Mercer University) “Vico’s Characterization of Myth and Philosophy” Tyler Schrecongost (Indiana University of
Pennsylvania) Logan Stapleton (Macalester College) and Diane
Michelfelder (Macalester College) “Beyond Bias and Filter Bubbles: Autonomy,
Paternalism, and Machine-Learning Algorithms” Spencer Upton (Slippery Rock University of
Pennsylvania) “Qualia as Process”
Cash bar. Snacks will be served.
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Divisional and Affiliated Group Programs
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3
REGISTRATION10:00 a.m.–6:30 p.m., registration desk (first floor)
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE LUNCH11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m., location TBA
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING1:00–6:00 p.m., location TBA
WEDNESDAY LATE MORNING, 11:00 A.M.–1:00 P.M.
DIVISIONAL PROGRAM
1A Colloquium: Time and Moral Value Chair: John Garner (University of West Georgia) Speaker: Andrew Brenner (University of Notre Dame) “Living and Dying in Four Dimensions” Commentator: Juan Colomina-Almiñana (University of Texas at
Austin) Speaker: Nicholas Sars (Tulane University of New Orleans) “Non-Identity and Reactive Attitudes” Commentator: Zoë Johnson King (University of Michigan)
1B Colloquium: Rational Choice Chair: M. Beth Valentine (Washington and Lee University) Speaker: Leo Yan (Brown University) “Parity, Incomparability, and Categorical
Judgments” Commentator: Peter Finocchiaro (University of Notre Dame) Speaker: Luke Elson (University of Reading) “Vagueness and Pessimism about Climate
Rationality” Commentator: Zachary Barnett (Brown University)
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Wednesday Late Morning, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
1C Colloquium: Epistemic Injustice in Philosophy Chair: Hannah Bondurant (Duke University) Speaker: Abigail Gosselin (Regis University) “Philosophizing from Experience: First-Person
Accounts and Epistemic Justice” Commentator: Joseph Reese (Georgetown University) Speaker: Emmalon Davis (Indiana University Bloomington) “Testimonial Injustice in Philosophical Discourse” Commentator: Katherine Ward (Georgetown University)
1D Colloquium: Reasons and Legitimacy in Political Philosophy Chair: Melissa Zinkin (Binghamton University) Speaker: Marilie Coetsee (Rutgers University) “On the Reasonability of Deep Reasons” Commentator: Chetan Cetty (University of Pennsylvania) Speaker: Jonathan Kwan (The Graduate Center, CUNY) “A People’s Legitimacy and the Qualified Right to
Exclude” Commentator: Brian Berkey (University of Pennsylvania)
1E Colloquium: Other Minds and Mental Illness Chair: Mathew Foust (Central Connecticut State
University) Speaker: Jingjing Li (McGill University) “Through the Mirror: The Account of Other Minds in
Chinese Yogacara Buddhism” Commentator: Amit Chaturvedi (University of Hawaii) Speaker: Laura Matthews (University of Georgia) “Mental Illness as Inadaptivity” Commentator: Marina DiMarco (University of Pittsburgh)
1F Colloquium: Philosophy of Law: Punishment and Desert Chair: Brian Palmiter (Harvard University) Speaker: Nathan Hanna (Drexel University) “Punishment, Permissibility, and Justification” Commentator: Robert Hughes (The Wharton School, University of
Pennsylvania) Speaker: Steven Sverdlik (Southern Methodist University) “Desert as a Limiting Condition” Commentator: Mallory Medeiros (Florida State University)
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Wednesday Late Morning, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. (cont.)
1G Colloquium: Language: Reference and Semantics Chair: Elise Woodard (University of Michigan) Speaker: Ethan Jerzak (University of California, Berkeley) “Two Ways to Want?” Commentator: Janice Dowell (Syracuse University)
1H Colloquium: Blame and Forgiveness Chair: Daniel Corrigan (University of Miami) Speaker: Elizabeth Foreman (Missouri State University) “Forgiving and Forgetting” Commentator: Brandon Warmke (Bowling Green University) Speakers: Andrew Khoury (Arizona State University) and
Benjamin Matheson (University of Gothenberg) “Is Blameworthiness Forever?” Commentator: David Shoemaker (Tulane University)
1I Colloquium: Deontology: Revivied and Criticized Chair: Kathleen Connelly (University of California, San
Diego) Speaker: Tyler Paytas (Australian Catholic University) “Sidgwick’s Critique of Deontology: Scrupulous
Fairness or Serpent-Windings?” Commentator: David Phillips (University of Houston) Speaker: Nathan Wood (University of Georgia) “Deontology Revived” Commentator: Mark Timmons (University of Arizona)
1J Symposium: How Should Deep Self Theorists Account for Weakness of Will?
Chair: Samantha Berthelette (Florida State University) Speaker: August Gorman (University of Southern California) Commentators: Yishai Cohen (University of Southern Maine) Meghan Griffith (Davidson College)
1K Symposium: Contingent Labor in the Academy: Precarity, Power, and Ideology
Chair: Whitney Mutch (Univ of Alabama) Speaker: Robin Zheng (Yale-NUS College) Commentators: Landon Schurtz (Fort Hayes State University) Ed Kazarian (Rowan College)
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Wednesday Late Morning, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. (cont.)
1L Symposium: Plural Slot Theory Chair: Savannah Kincaid (Rutgers University) Speaker: T. Scott Dixon (Ashoka University) Commentators: Elle Benjamin (University of Massachusetts) Tom Donaldson (Simon Fraser University)
1M Symposium: Attitudinal and Phenomenological Theories of Pleasure
Chair: Teresa Bruno (Syracuse University) Speaker: Eden Lin (Ohio State University) Commentators: Chris Heathwood (University of Colorado Boulder) Laura Sizer (Hampshire College)
1N Symposium: Talking Ourselves Senseless Chair: Brandon Hogan (Howard University) Speaker: Daniel Mendez (Boston University) Commentators: Tom Wilk (Johns Hopkins University) Lucia Munugia (Cornell University)
1O Symposium: Self-Blame and Sexual Violence: A Feminist Intervention
Chair: Audrey Brokes (St. Joseph’s University) Speaker: Amy McKiernan (Dickinson College) Commentators: Cassie Herbert (Hobart and William Smith) Debra Jackson (California State University,
Bakersfield)
1P Symposium: What’s the Point of Understanding? Chair: Georges Dicker (The College of Brockport, SUNY) Speaker: Michael Hannon (University of London) Commentators: David Black (Rutgers University) Peter van Elswyk (Rutgers University)
1Q Symposium: Animal Rights, Terrorism, and Pacifism Chair: Christine Cuomo (University of Georgia) Speaker: Blake Hereth (University of Washington) Commentators: Nathan Nobis (Morehouse College) Jeff Sebo (New York University)
1R Colloquium: Hume and Mill on Women Chair: Piers Stephens (University of Georgia) Speaker: Getty Lustila (Boston University) “‘The Sovereigns of the Empire of Conversation’:
Hume on Women”
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Wednesday Afternoon, 1:00–3:00 p.m.
Commentator: Anne Jacobson (Somerville College, Oxford) Speaker: Van Tu (University of Michigan) “Mill on Ideological Conversion and Social Reform:
An Interpretation of Mill’s Argumentative Strategy in The Subjection of Women”
Commentator: Elizabeth Edenberg (Georgetown University)
1S Symposium: Something Stinks: Smell and the Problem of Secondary Qualities
Chair: Alex Kohav (Metropolitan State University of Denver)
Speaker: Jack Collins (Mercy College) Commentators: Benjamin Young (University of Nevada–Reno) Ann-Sophie Barwich (Columbia University)
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 1:00–3:00 P.M.
DIVISIONAL PROGRAM
2A Symposium: “Non-Idealizing Abstraction” as Ideology: Nonideal Theory and the Power Dynamics of Oppression
Chair: Kirun Sankaran (Brown University) Speaker: Youjin Kong (Michigan State University) Commentators: Vanessa Wills (George Washington University) Lidal Dror (Harvard University)
2B Colloquium: Mind Chair: Joseph A. Murphy (Dwight-Englewood School) Speaker: Roger Christan Schriner (Independent Scholar) “Sensory Experiences Are Ontologically Opaque” Commentator: Brie Gertler (University of Virginia) Speaker: James Kintz (Saint Louis University) “Social Interactions, Aristotelian Powers, and the
Ontology of the I-You Relation” Commentator: Veronica Gomez (Rutgers University)
2C Colloquium: Dispositions and Properties Chair: Duncan Purves (University of Florida) Speaker: Yongming Han (Brown University) “Desire and Loving for Properties” Commentator: Ronald de Sousa (University of Toronto)
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Wednesday Afternoon, 1:00–3:00 p.m. (cont.)
Speaker: David Blanks (Texas A&M University) “What Extrinsic Dispositions Tell Us about What
Dispositions Are” Commentator: Neil Williams (University at Buffalo, SUNY)
2D Colloquium: Moral Luck and Moral Obligation Chair: Patrick Fleming (James Madison University) Speaker: Jonathan Spelman (Ohio Northern University) “In Defense of Subjectivism about Moral
Obligation” Commentator: Remy Debes (University of Memphis) Speaker: Philip Swenson (Rutgers University) “A Solution to the Problem of Moral Luck” Commentator: Jon Garthoff (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
2E Symposium: Biology’s 2nd and 3rd Laws Chair: Sylvia Hobbs (Oberlin College and Boston
University School of Public Health) Speaker: James Mattingly (Georgetown University) Commentators: Katherine Valde (Boston University) John Roberts (University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill)
2F Colloquium: Truth Chair: Steven Wagner (University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign) Speaker: Shay Logan (North Carolina State University) “Metastability and Truth Transmission” Commentator: Jared Henderson (University of Connecticut) Speaker: Jay Newhard (East Carolina University) “A Kripke-Style Solution to the Liar Paradox” Commentator: Roy Cook (University of Minnesota)
2G Symposium: Spatiotemporal Betterness and Pareto in Infinite Worlds
Chair: Paddy McShane (University of Portland) Speaker: Amanda Askell (New York University) Commentators: Luc Lauwers (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Peter Vallentyne (University of Missouri)
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Wednesday Afternoon, 1:00–3:00 p.m. (cont.)
2H Colloquium: Kant Chair: Anna-Maria Bartsch (University of Kassel) Speaker: Tyke Nunez (Washington University in St. Louis) “Kant’s Conception of Pure General Logic: A Reply
to MacFarlane” Commentator: Alexandra Newton (University of Illinois) Speaker: Krista Thomason (Swarthmore College) “Wild Chimeras: Kant on the Dangers of
Enthusiasm” Commentator: Jenny Uleman (SUNY Purchase)
2I Symposium: Expertise and Educating for Excellence: Socrates on Soul Care as Techne in the Laches
Chair: Blake Hestir (Texas Christian University) Speaker: Allison Piñeros Glasscock (Yale University) Commentators: Emily Austin (Wake Forest
University) Evan Rodriguez (Idaho State University)
2J Colloquium: Explanation and Abstraction Chair: Max Hayward (Columbia University) Speaker: Jonah Nagashima (University of California,
Riverside) “Control and Contrastive Explanations” Commentator: Fran Fairbairn (Cornell University) Speaker: David Colaco (University of Pittsburgh) “Mechanist Explanation and the Characterization of
Phenomena” Commentator: Sara Aronowitz (University of Michigan)
2K Invited Symposium: Early Modern Laws of Nature Chair: Lewis Powell (University at Buffalo, SUNY) Speakers: Alison Peterman (University of Rochester) Title TBA Helen Hattab (University of Houston) Title TBA
2L Author Meets Critics: Dale Dorsey, The Limits of Moral Authority Chair: Shayan Koeksal (Tufts University) Critics: Julia Driver (Washington University) Sarah Stroud (McGill University) Author: Dale Dorsey (University of Kansas)
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Wednesday Afternoon, 1:00–3:00 p.m. (cont.)
2M Author Meets Critics: Paul Katsafanas, The Nietzschean Self Chair: Alison Merrick (California State University, San
Marcos) Critics: R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford University) Rebecca Bamford (Quinnipiac University and
University of Fort Hare) Author: Paul Katsafanas (Boston University)
2N Author Meets Critics: Jason Brennan, Against Democracy Chair: David Wiens (University of California, San Diego) Critics: Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt University) Thomas Christiano (University of Arizona) Author: Jason Brennan (Georgetown University)
2O Invited Symposium: The Philosophical Significance of James Baldwin
Chair: Corey Barnes (University of San Diego) Speakers: John Drabinski (Amherst College) Myisha Cherry (University of Illinois at Chicago)
2P Author Meets Critics: John Kaag, American Philosophy: A Love Story
Chair: Skye Cleary (Columbia University) Critics: Mike Ventimiglia (Sacred Heart University) Douglas Anderson (University of North Texas) Author: John Kaag (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
2Q Diversity Institute Advisory PanelTopic: Race, Language, and Bioethics
Chair: Perry Zurn (American University) Speakers: Robert Budron (Loyola University, Chicago) “Exploring the Potential Use of Racial Identity Play” Nabina Liebow (Georgetown University) “‘Good White/Bad White’: Talking about Being
White and Resisting Racism” Keisha Ray (Texas State University) “Affirmative Enhancement: Are the Socially
Disadvantaged Entitled to Drugs?” Commentator: Linda Martín Alcoff (The Graduate Center, CUNY,
and Hunter College)
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Wednesday Late Afternoon, 3:00–5:00 p.m.
2R APA Committee Session: Barwise Prize LectureArranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers
Chair: Gary Mar (Stony Brook University) Speaker: Edward N. Zalta (Stanford University) “How Computational Results Can Improve
Metaphysics: Case Study” Commentators: Christopher Menzel (Texas A&M University) Branden Fitelson (Northeastern University)
AFFILIATED GROUP PROGRAM
G2A Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and PsychiatryTopic: Philosophical Perspectives on Critical Psychiatry
Chair: Kathryn Tabb (Columbia University) Speaker: Sarah Kamens (Yale University) “Postcolonialism
and (Anti)Psychiatry: On Hearing Voices and Ghostwriting”
Commentator: Louis Charland (University of Western Ontario)
WEDNESDAY LATE AFTERNOON, 3:00–5:00 P.M.
DIVISIONAL PROGRAM
3A Colloquium: Political Philosophy Chair: Manon Garcia (Harvard University) Speaker: Nicolas Frank (Lynchburg College) “State Authority by Convention and Fairness” Commentator: Julinna Oxley (Carolina Coastal University) Speaker: Aaron Ancell (Duke University) “Utopianism and Political Irrationality” Commentator: Suzy Killmister (University of Connecticut)
3B Colloquium: Sex and the Body Chair: Susan Brison (Dartmouth College) Speaker: Andreas Falke (University of Florida) “Tipsy Sex: When Sex Under the Influence
Becomes Morally Problematic” Commentator: Hallie Liberto (University of Connecticut) Speaker: Celine Leboeuf (Florida International University) “Anatomy of the Thigh Gap” Commentator: Summer Renault Steele (George Washington
University)
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Wednesday Late Afternoon, 3:00–5:00 p.m. (cont.)
3C Invited Symposium: The Non-Identity Problem Chair: Molly Gardner (Bowling Green State University) Speakers: David Boonin (University of Colorado) Melinda Roberts (The College of New Jersey)
WEDNESDAY LATE AFTERNOON, 3:00–6:00 P.M.
DIVISIONAL PROGRAM
3D Colloquium: Epistemology: Dogmatism, Self-Knowledge, and Virtue
Chair: Andrew Moon (Virginia Commonwealth University) Speaker: Chris Tucker (College of William and Mary) “Dogmatism and the Epistemology of Covert
Selection” Commentator: Kevin McCain (University of Alabama at
Birmingham) Speaker: Jordan Ochs (University of Connecticut) “Epistemic Asymmetry and the Role of Inner
Speech in Self-Knowledge” Commentator: Peter Langland-Hassan (University of Cincinnati) Speaker: Andrei Marasoiu (University of Virginia) “Intellectual Virtues and Biased Understanding” Commentator: Laura Callahan (Rutgers University)
3E Colloquium: Ancient Philosophy Chair: Noell Birondo (Wichita State University) Speaker: Samuel Baker (University of South Alabama) “Aristotle on Truth and Practical Truth:
Nicomachean Ethics VI 2” Commentator: Sophia Stone (Lynn University) Speaker: Rosemary Twomey (Simon Fraser University) “Aristotle on Discriminating the Common
Sensibles” Commentator: Robert Howton (University of Pittsburgh) Speaker: John Proios (Cornell University) “The House of the Good: A Special Kind of Cause
in the Philebus” Commentator: Simon Shogry (Brasenose College (Oxford))
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Wednesday Late Afternoon, 3:00–6:00 p.m.
3F Colloquium: Norms, Language, and Meaning Chair: Kelly Gaus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Speaker: Devin Sanchez Curry (University of Pennsylvania) “Interpretivism and Norms” Commentator: Kristin Andrews (York University) Speaker: Robert Siscoe (University of Arizona) “Sui Generis Linguistic Norms” Commentator: Anna Bjurman Pautz (Brown University) Speaker: Sebastian Greve (Oxford University) “Complex Thought and Private Language” Commentator: Jackson Kernion (University of California, Berkeley)
3G Colloquium: Time and Spacetime Chair: Jesse Schupack (University of Notre Dame) Speaker: Michael Longenecker (University of Notre Dame) “Imprints in Time: A Moderately Robust Past” Commentator: Maya Eddon (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Speaker: Harriet Baber (University of San Diego) “Worms, Stages, and Names” Commentator: Irem Kurtsal (Allegheny College and Boğaziçi
University) Speaker: Isaac Wilhelm (Rutgers University) “Subgroup Not Subset: On Comparing Spacetime
Structure” Commentators: Hans Halvorson (Princeton University) Alex Meehan (Princeton University)
3H Colloquium: Reasons: Ontology, Semantics, and Nihilism Chair: Brendan de Kenessey (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology) Speaker: Alex Marmor (Harvard University) “The Nature of Reasons: Alienation and the Wrong
Kind of Reason” Commentator: John Brunero (University of Nebraska) Speaker: Lucia Schwarz (University of Arizona) “A (Partial) Possible Worlds Semantics for Reasons” Commentator: Eric Snyder (Ohio State University) Speaker: Spencer Case (University of Colorado Boulder) “Is Nihilism Self-Defeating?” Commentator: Derek Baker (Lingnan University)
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Wednesday Late Afternoon, 3:00–6:00 p.m. (cont.)
3I Colloquium: Philosophy of Religion Chair: Adam Blincoe (University of Virginia) Speaker: Paul Saka (University of Texas at Rio Grande) “Religion and Happiness” Commentator: Andrew M. Winters (Slippery Rock University of
Pennsylvania) Speaker: Luis Oliveira (University of Houston) “Skeptical Theism and the Paradox of Evil” Commentator: Benjamin McCraw (University of South Carolina
Upstate) Speaker: Matthew Lee (Berry College) “The Bayesian Challenge to Faith” Commentator: Liz Jackson (University of Notre Dame)
3J Colloquium: Kantian Ethics Chair: Asia Ferrin (American University) Speaker: Adam Shmidt (Boston University) “Freedom and Responsibility in Kant” Commentator: Reza Hadisi (University of Illinois at Chicago) Speaker: Bowen Chan (University of Toronto) “Humanity As an End in Itself: Respect for
Humanity Refers to Respect for Personality” Commentator: Yi Deng (University of North Georgia) Speaker: Nataliya Palatnik (University of Wisconsin–
Milwaukee) “Kantian Agents and Their Significant Others” Commentator: Katherine Gasdaglis (California State Polytechnic
University, Pomona)
3K Author Meets Critics: Susanna Siegel, The Rationality of Perception Chair: Sheridan Hough (College of Charleston) Critics: Adam Pautz (Brown University) Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto) Peter Railton (University of Michigan) Author: Susanna Siegel (Harvard University)
3L Invited Symposium: Realism and the Absence of Value Chair: Luís Pinto de Sá (Saint Louis University) Speaker: Shamik Dasgupta (University of California,
Berkeley) Commentators: John Hawthorne (University of Southern California) Amie Thomasson (University of Miami)
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Wednesday Late Afternoon, 3:00–6:00 p.m. (cont.)
3M Author Meets Critics: Amy Allen, The End of Progress Chair: Ernesto Hernandez Colon (Valencia College) Critics: Linda Martín Alcoff (The Graduate Center, CUNY,
and Hunter College) Jay Bernstein (New School University) Author: Amy Allen (Pennsylvania State University)
3N Author Meets Critics: J. D. Trout, Wondrous Truths Chair: Hilary Kornblith (University of Massachusetts
Amherst) Critics: Steve Downes (University of Utah) Deena Weisberg (University of Pennsylvania) Author: J. D. Trout (Illinois Institute of Technology)
3O Invited Symposium: Intersections of Continental Feminism and Philosophy of Race
Chair: Desiree Valentine (Pennsylvania State University) Speakers: Sabrina Hom (Georgia College) Natalie Cisneros (Seattle University) Donna-Dale Marcano (Trinity College)
3P Invited Symposium: The Role of Teleology in Aristotle’s Natural Science and Metaphysics
Chair: Marta Jimenez (Emory University) Speakers: Sukaina Hirji (Virginia Tech) Katy Meadows (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology) Jessica Gelber (University of Pittsburgh)
3Q Invited Symposium: Emilie Du Châtelet and the Metaphysics of Physics
Chair: Deborah Boyle (College of Charleston) Speakers: Katherine Brading (Duke University) Andrew Janiak (Duke University) Monica Solomon (Notre Dame University)
3R Invited Symposium: Democracy After Trump Chair: Laurie Shrage (Florida International University) Speakers: Naomi Zack (University of Oregon) Saba Fatima (Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville) Daniel Bonevac (University of Texas at Austin) Adam Hosein (University of Colorado Boulder)
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Wednesday Late Afternoon, 3:00–6:00 p.m. (cont.)
3S Colloquium: Continental Philosophy Chair: Richard Kamber (The College of New Jersey) Speaker: Adam Knowles (Drexel University) “Heidegger as a Nazi Bureaucrat: An Archival
Report” Commentator: Peter Hanly (Boston College) Speaker: James Kinkaid (Boston University) “Phenomenology and Metaphysics in Being and
Time” Commentator: Oren Magid (Georgetown University) Speaker: Christopher French (Suffolk County Community
College) “Schopenhauer and Kant: Teleology and the
Meanings in Intentional Cognition” Commentator: Pierre Keller (University of California, Riverside)
WEDNESDAY EVENING, 6:30–9:30 P.M.
DIVISIONAL PROGRAM
4A APA Committee Session: Jobs and Careers: How to Get and Keep a Full-Time Position at a Community CollegeArranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy in Two-Year Colleges
Chair: Richard Legum (Kingsborough Community College) Panelists: Marc Bobro (Santa Barbara City College) Timothy Davis (The Community College of
Baltimore County) A. J. Kreider (Miami Dade College) Thomas Urban (Emeritus, Houston Community
College) Andy Wible (Muskegon Community College)
4B APA Committee Session: Author Meets Critics: Bryan W. Van Norden, Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural ManifestoArranged by the APA Committee on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies
Chair: Lynne Tirrell (University of Connecticut) Critics: Julianne Chung (University of Louisville) Owen Flanagan (Duke University) Kenneth A. Taylor (Stanford University) Author: Bryan W. Van Norden (Vassar College and Yale-NUS
College)
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Wednesday Evening, 6:30–9:30 p.m.
AFFILIATED GROUP PROGRAM
G4A American Association for the Philosophic Study of Society (AAPSS)Topic: Modern Stoicism and the Resurgence of Applied Virtue Ethics
Chair: Jennifer Baker (College of Charleston) Speaker: Massimo Pigliucci (City College of New York)
“Modern Stoicism and the Resurgence of Applied Virtue Ethics”
Commentators: Brian E. Johnson (Fordham University) Christian Coseru (College of Charleston)
G4B Society of Christian PhilosophersTopic: Epistemology
Chair: Jon Matheson (University of North Florida) Speakers: Stephen Grimm (Fordham University) “Know How and Testimony” Laura Frances Callahan (Rutgers University) “Making Our Epistemic Way” Andrew Moon (Virginia Commonwealth University) “Are Circular Arguments in Response to Religious
Disagreement and Debunking Arguments Permissible?”
G4C Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT)Topic: Philosophy of Technology
Chair: Ashley Shew (Virginia Tech) Speakers: MaryCatherine McDonald (Old Dominion University) “More Machine Than Man: Military Training, Mental
Health and Turning Men Into Machines” Damien Williams (Virginia Tech) “The Minds of Others: Implications for Human and
Nonhuman Persons” Ashley Shew (Virginia Tech) “This Mind Is Body: Disability in Emerging Tech” Robert Rosenberger (Georgia Institute of
Technology) “The Philosophy of Hostile Architecture: Spiked
Ledges, Bench Armrests, Hydrant Locks, Restroom Stall Design, Etc.”
Andrew Wells Garnar (Clemson University) “Local Realism: How to Use Technology to Create
Alternate Universes”
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Wednesday Evening, 6:30–9:30 p.m. (cont.)
Joseph C. Pitt (Virginia Tech) “What Are We Going to Do When AI Takes Over?” D. E. Wittkower (Old Dominion University) “Alexa and the Internet of Caring Things”
G4D International Society for Environmental EthicsTopic: Animals, Axiology, Autonomy, and Automata
Speakers: Anna Peterson (University of Florida) “Problem Animals: Abundant Deer and Feral Cats” David Frank (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) “Radical Pluralism in Environmental Ethics” Zahra Meghani (University of Rhode Island) “Genetically Engineered Animals, Drugs, and Risk
Assessment” Tony Chackal (University of Georgia) “Community Autonomy for Ecological Individuals” Justin Donhauser (University of Western Ontario)
and Aimee van Wynsberghe (Delft University) “Environmental Robot Ethics”
G4E Society for Applied PhilosophyTopic: Feasibility in Political Philosophy
Chair: James W. Nickel (University of Miami) Speakers: David Estlund (Brown University) “Social Justice as Plural Requirement” Nicole Hassoun (Binghamton University) “Realism and Idealism in International Affairs:
Hope and the Virtue of Creative Resolve” David Wiens (University of California, San Diego) “From Saints to Scoundrels: How Motivations Might
Matter for Ideal Justice”
G4F Society for LGBTQ PhilosophyTopic: (Out)Rage: Trans and Queer Practices of Resistance
Chair: Amy Billingsley (University of Oregon) Speakers: Ash Williams (Independent Scholar) “Building a World with Rage” Fiona Maeve Geist (Hampshire College) “An Orgy of Violence: Alternative Queer Political
Forms” Chris Ma (Villanova University) “Silent Rage: Queer Self-Harm as a Protest”
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Wednesday Evening, 6:30–9:30 p.m. (cont.)
Elisabeth Paquette (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
“Queer Militancy and ‘The Days of Rage’”
G4G International Berkeley Society Chair: Nancy Kendrick (Wheaton College, MA) Speakers: Melissa Frankel (Carleton University) “Berkeley, Descartes, and the Veracity of God” Dick Brook (Bloomsburg University) “Does Berkeley Need a Transcendental Concept of
Space?”
G4H Association for Symbolic LogicTopic: Modal Logic
Speakers: Adam Bjorndahl (Carnegie Mellon University) Guram Bezhanishvili (New Mexico State University) Philip Kremer (University of Toronto)
G4I Philosophy of Time Society Chair: Sayid Bnefsi (Northern Illinois University) Speakers: Gerardo Viera (University of Antwerp) “The Perceived Unity of Time and Temporal Feature
Placing” Katarina Perovic (The University of Iowa) “Three Varieties of Growing Block Theory” Sayid Bnefsi (Northern Illinois University) “Future Bias and Presentism”
G4J Association for Informal Logic and Critical ThinkingTopic: Four Decades of Informal Logic and Critical Thinking
Chair: Benjamin Hamby (Coastal Carolina University) Panelists: Dennis Earl (Coastal Carolina University) Gilbert Plumer (Law School Admissions Council) Harvey Siegel (University of Miami) David Wright (Sam Houston State University)
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Wednesday Evening, 6:30–9:30 p.m. (cont.)
G4K National Philosophical Counseling Association Chair: TBA Speakers: Ross Reed (Missouri University of Science and
Technology) “Philosophical and Logistical Reflections on Twenty
Years as a Philosophical Counselor” Matthew M. Daude (Austin Community College) “Untelling the Story: Practical Philosophy and
Student Success” Bill Knaus (Founder, The Association of
Procrastination Counselors and Educators) “How to Protect Yourself from Neighbors from Hell”
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Thursday Morning, 9:00–11:00 a.m.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 4
REGISTRATION8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m., registration desk (first floor)
EXHIBITSNoon–6:30 p.m., River Concourse (first floor)
DIVERSITY INSTITUTE ALUMNI NETWORKING LUNCHEONNoon–2:00 p.m., by invitation only
PRIZE RECEPTION5:00–6:00 p.m., River Concourse (first floor)
AAPT/APA TEACHING HUB5:15–10:30 p.m., location TBA
RECEPTION8:00 p.m.–Midnight, location TBA
THURSDAY MORNING, 9:00–11:00 A.M.
DIVISIONAL PROGRAM
5A Colloquium: Malebranche and More Chair: Benjamin Cordry (Lorain County Community
College) Speaker: Daniel Simpson (Saint Louis University) “Henry More, Holenmeric Souls, and the Unity of
Consciousness Argument” Commentator: Chris Meyns (Utrecht University) Speaker: Torrance Fung (University of Virginia) “Is Malebranche’s God in Time?” Commentator: Susan Peppers-Bates (Stetson University)
5B Symposium: The Threefold Function of the Imagination in the Critique of Pure Reason
Chair: Nabeel Hamid (University of Pennsylvania) Speaker: Gerad Gentry (University of South Carolina and Yale
University) Commentators: Nathan Bauer (Rowan University) Jessica Williams (University of South Florida)
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Thursday Morning, 9:00–11:00 a.m. (cont.)
5C Colloquium: Aesthetics Chair: Corey Reed (University of Memphis) Speaker: Jonathan Gingerich (University of California, Los
Angeles) “Freedom and the Value of Games” Commentator: Luke Cuddy (Southwestern College) Speaker: John Dyck (The Graduate Center, CUNY) “Spatial Music” Commentator: Kevin Ryan (University of Memphis)
THURSDAY MORNING, 9:00 A.M.–NOON
DIVISIONAL PROGRAM
5D Colloquium: Grounding Chair: Bo Mou (San Jose State University) Speaker: Hao Hong (Indiana University Bloomington) “Grounding Truth and Making True” Commentator: Nicholas Tourville (Rutgers University) Speaker: Jon Litland (University of Texas at Austin) “In Defense of Moderate Pluralism About Ground” Commentator: Christopher Fruge (Rutgers University) Speaker: Justin Zylstra (University of Alberta) “Essence and Grounding Connections” Commentator: Alex Skiles (New York University)
5E Colloquium: Epistemology Chair: Andy Cullison (DePauw University) Speaker: Walker Page (Saint Louis University) “Yes, We Are Luminous” Commentator: Chris Tweedt (Baylor University) Speaker: Ioan Dragos (University of Toronto) “Group Know-How” Commentator: Max Lewis (University of Pennsylvania) Speakers: Han Li (Brown University) and Bradford Saad
(University of Texas) “Why Is Rationality Morally but Not Epistemically
Permissive?” Commentator: Earl Conee (University of Rochester)
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Thursday Morning, 9:00 a.m.–Noon
5F Colloquium: Cassirer and Merleau-Ponty Chair: Pierre Lamarche (Utah Valley University) Speaker: David Pena Guzman (Johns Hopkins University) “The Material vs. Formal A Priori: Kant, Cassirer,
and Merleau-Ponty” Commentator: Murray Skees (University of South Carolina
Beaufort) Speaker: Simon Truwant (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) “Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms as
Antidote to the ‘Post-Truth Era’” Commentator: Eric Walker (University of California, Riverside) Speaker: Bryan Smyth (University of Mississippi) “Plasticity, Not Pathology: Merleau-Ponty and the
Case of ‘Schn.’” Commentator: Ted Toadvine (Pennsylvania State University)
5G Colloquium: Philosophy of Language Chair: Michael O’Rourke (Michigan State University) Speaker: Ethan Nowak (University College London) “Language Loss and Illocutionary Silencing” Commentator: Rebecca Harrison (University of Michigan) Speaker: Rohan Sud (Bates College) “Supersententialism and the Problem of the Many
Sentences” Commentator: Catarina Dutilh Novaes (University of Groningen) Speaker: Paolo Bonardi (Université de Genève, University of
California, Los Angeles, and University of Southern California)
“Proper Names and ‘That’-Clauses: A Dilemma for Millians”
Commentator: Brian Montgomery (University of Texas at El Paso)
5H Colloquium: Moral Psychology Chair: Arina Pismenny (The Graduate Center, CUNY) Speaker: Samuel Reis-Dennis (Johns Hopkins University) “Anger: Scary Good” Commentator: Vasfi Özen (University of Kansas) Speaker: Christa Johnson (Ohio State University) “Resolutions, Salient Reasons, and Weakness of
Will” Commentator: Ryan Lake (Georgia State University Perimeter
College)
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Thursday Morning, 9:00 a.m.–Noon (cont.)
Speaker: Brendan Cline (University at Buffalo, SUNY) “Cognitivism, Motivation, and Dual-Process
Approaches to Normative Judgment” Commentator: Max Parish (University of Oklahoma)
5I Colloquium: Philosophy of Race and Identity Chair: John Torrey (University of Memphis) Speaker: Timothy Fuller (Yonsei University) “The Challenge to Race Eliminativism from Implicit
Bias Research” Commentator: Lacey Davidson (Purdue University) Speaker: William Paris (Pennsylvania State University) “‘We Know Nothing About Her’: Hortense Spillers’s
‘Ungendering’ and Frantz Fanon’s Unfinished Argument in Black Skin, White Masks”
Commentator: Olúfemi O. Táíwò (University of California, Los Angeles)
Speaker: Vita Emery (Fordham University) “Thinning the Veil: Mills, Rawls, and Identity” Commentator: Darien Pollock (Harvard University)
5J Colloquium: Ricoeur, Husserl, Phenomenology Chair: Andrew Fuyarchuk (Yorkville University) Speaker: Stefano Vincini (Universidad Nacional Autónoma
de México) “The Phenomenal I and the Phenomenological
Contrast between Affection and Volition” Commentator: Rebecca Harrison (University of California,
Riverside) Speaker: Majid Amini (Virginia State University) “Atheism à la Ricoeur” Commentator: Gordon Knight (Iowa State University) Speaker: Sean Petranovich (Loyola University Chicago) “Husserl on Parts, Wholes, and Community
Membership” Commentator: Joshua Tepley (Saint Anselm College)
5K Colloquium: Action Chair: Paul Schofield (Bates College) Speaker: Garrett Pendergraft (Pepperdine University) “The Austerity Argument for Compatibilism” Commentator: Justin Capes (Flagler College)
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Thursday Morning, 9:00 a.m.–Noon (cont.)
Speaker: Juan Piñeros Glasscock (Yale University) “Action and Luminosity” Commentator: Antonia Peacocke (University of California,
Berkeley) Speaker: Paul Boswell (Université de Montréal) “Intelligibility and the Guise of the Good” Commentator: Roman Altshuler (Kutztown University)
5L Colloquium: Perception Chair: Brannon McDaniel (University of Richmond) Speaker: Brian Cutter (University of Notre Dame) “Indeterminate Perception and Color Relationism” Commentator: G. Watkins (Auburn University) Speaker: Jason Leddington (Bucknell University) “Bearable Noise” Commentator: John Kulvicki (Dartmouth College) Speaker: Alison Springle (University of Pittsburgh) “Practical Perceptual Representation” Commentator: Edwin Green (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology)
5M Invited Symposium: Locke, God, and the Natural World Chair: Antonia LoLordo (University of Virginia) Speakers: Stewart Duncan (University of Florida) Geoffrey Gorham (Macalester College) Commentator: Jessica Gordon-Roth (University of Minnesota)
5N Invited Symposium: Discourse and Power Under Oppression Chair: Serena Parekh (Northeastern University) Speakers: Alice MacLachlan (York University (Canada)) Regina Rini (New York University) Clifton Granby (Yale University)
5O Author Meets Critics: Karen Bennett, Making Things Up Chair: Sam Johnson (University of Arkansas) Critics: Maureen Donnelly (University at Buffalo, SUNY) Jason Turner (University of Arizona) Author: Karen Bennett (Cornell University)
5P Invited Symposium: Evolution and Morality Chair: Sahar Heydari Fard (University in Cincinnati) Speakers: Victor Kumar (Boston University) Daniel Kelly (Purdue University) Kristen Andrews (York University)
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Thursday Morning, 9:00 a.m.–Noon (cont.)
5Q Invited Symposium: Democratic Constitutional Change Chair: TBA Speaker: Christopher Zurn (University of Massachusetts
Boston) Commentators: Cristina Lafont (Northwestern University) Jeffrey Lenowitz (Brandeis University)
5R Invited Symposium: Continental Feminism and Trans Studies: Queer Curiosity
Chair: Ofelia Schutte (University of South Florida) Speakers: Grayson Hunt (Western Kentucky University) Perry Zurn (American University) Amy Billingsley (University of Oregon)
5S Invited Symposium: Stereotyping and Stereotype Threat Chair: Richard Christopher McCammon (Tidewater
Community College) Speakers: Erin Beeghly (University of Utah) Stacey Goguen (Northeastern Illinois University) Nathifa Greene (Gettysburg College)
AFFILIATED GROUP PROGRAM
G5A National Philosophical Counseling Association Chair: TBA Speakers: Laura Newhart (Eastern Kentucky University) “Logic-Based Therapy and Civil Discourse in
Fractious Times” Elliot D. Cohen (Indian River State College) “Narcissistic Personality Disorder: An
Epistemological Analysis” William Ferraiolo (San Joaquin Delta College) “Stoicism, Suicide, and Survivors”
THURSDAY LATE MORNING, 11:00 A.M.–1:30 P.M.
POSTER SESSION Presenters: Dane Muckler (Saint Louis University) “The Irrelevance of Harm for Disease” Daniel Munoz (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology) “Grounding Nonexistence”
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Thursday Late Morning, 11:00 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Ioan Muntean (University of North Carolina at Asheville)
“Mapping the Future: Fictions, Predictions, and Forecast Models”
Ariane Nomikos (University at Buffalo, SUNY) “Ambiguous Places: A Case for the Everyday
Sublime” Joshua O’Rourke (Princeton University) “The Phenomenal Sharpness Argument” Zach Peck (Georgia State University) “On the Irrelevance of Indeterminism in Peter Tse’s
Theory of Free Will” Collin Rice (Bryn Mawr College) and Yasha Rohwer
(Oregon Institute of Technology) “Explanation as a Cluster Concept” Catherine Rioux (University of Toronto) “Easy Knowledge of Our Own Intentions” Paul Tubig (University of Washington) “Is a Deaf Future an Open Future?” Sungwoo Um (Duke University) “What Is a Relational Virtue?” Preston Werner (Hebrew University) “An Epistemic Argument for Liberalism about
Perceptual Content” Daniel Wilkenfeld (University of Pittsburgh) “Evidence and Accuracy in Transformative
Decisions” Yuna Won (Cornell University) “Deontic Puzzles and Semantics for Ought-
Statements” Ava Thomas Wright (University of Georgia) “The Duty of Veracity and Possible Universal
Consent”
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Thursday Early Afternoon, Noon–2:00 p.m.
THURSDAY EARLY AFTERNOON, NOON–2:00 P.M.
DIVISIONAL PROGRAM
6A Author Meets Critics: Walter Ott, Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception
Chair: Stephen Puryear (North Carolina State University) Critics: Alison Simmons (Harvard University) Sean Greenberg (University of California, Irvine) Author: Walter Ott (University of Virginia)
6B Invited Symposium: Transcendental Idealism Today Chair: Christopher Tomaszewski (Baylor University) Speaker: Nick Stang (University of Toronto) Commentator: Michaela McSweeney (Boston University)
6C Invited Symposium: Grief Chair: Mara Bollard (University of Michigan) Speaker: Michael Cholbi (California State Polytechnic
University, Pomona) Commentator: Dan Moller (University of Maryland)
6D Author Meets Critics: Brad Skow, Reasons Why Chair: Cameron Gibbs (University of Massachusetts
Amherst) Critics: Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers University) Brad Weslake (New York University–Shanghai) Author: Brad Skow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
6E APA Committee Session: 2018 Arthur Danto/American Society for Aesthetics Prize: Kenneth Walden’s “Art and Moral Revolution”Arranged by the APA Committee on Lectures, Publications, and Research
Chair: Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia)
Speaker: Kenneth Walden (Dartmouth College) Commentators: John Gibson (University of Louisville) Lydia Goehr (Columbia University)
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Thursday Early Afternoon, Noon–2:00 p.m. (cont.)
AFFILIATED GROUP PROGRAM
G6A Society for Analytical Feminism Chair: Ann Cahill (Elon University) Speakers: Brian Montgomery (University of Texas at El Paso) “You Don’t Really Mean That: Anti-Pornography
Strategies and Epistemic Injustices” Samia Hesni (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology) “Leave-Taking and Illocutionary Frustration” Sara Kolmes (Georgetown University) “Smothering and Epistemological Excess”
G6B Hume SocietyTopic: Hume on Politeness and Passions
Chair: Allison Kuklok (Saint Michael’s College) Speakers: Alison McIntyre (Wellesley College) “Hume vs. Malebranche (and Hutcheson) on
Whether Passions Represent Their Objects” Jason Fisette (University of Nevada, Reno) “Politeness and the Common Good in Hume’s
Political Philosophy”
G6C Society for Philosophy of CreativityTopic: Creating Openings: Irony, Poetry, and the Body
Speakers: Karolin Mirzakhan (DePaul University) “Creativity at Its Limits: Romantic Irony and the
Striving for the Absolute in Schlegel and Novalis” Catherine Homan (Mount Mary University) “Play and the Creativity of Limits: Poetry and World-
Formation” Rebecca Longtin (SUNY New Paltz) “Strange Interfaces: the Ambiguity of the Body and
Its Ethical Meaning”
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Thursday Early Afternoon, Noon–2:00 p.m. (cont.)
G6D The Society for German Idealism and RomanticismTopic: Systematicity in German Idealism
Chair: Gerad Gentry (University of South Carolina and Yale University)
Speakers: Melissa Zinkin (Binghamton University) “Reason, Systematicity, and Judgment” Jere Surber (University of Denver) “Kant’s German Idealist Legacy: Philosophy as
Systematic Theory of Science” Commentator: Janum Sethi (University of Michigan)
G6E The Society of Philosophers in America (SOPHIA)Topic: Establishing Conditions for Community Building and Philosophical Dialogue
Chair: Daniel Brunson (Morgan State University) Speakers: Jacquelyn Ann Kegley (California State University,
Bakersfield) “Establishing Conditions for Community Building
and Philosophical Dialogue” James William Lincoln (University of Kentucky) “Fellowship: An Epistemological Analysis” Eric Thomas Weber (University of Kentucky) “Cosmopolitanism Online: Philosophical
Community-Building in the Internet Age”
G6F Society for Asian and Comparative PhilosophyTopic: Stoic and Non-Western Philosophies
Speakers: Ethan Mills (University of Tennessee, Chattanooga) “The Truth Shall Set You Free?: Naiyāyikas, Stoics,
and Skeptics on Philosophy and the Good Life” Paul Carelli (University of North Florida) “Stoic and Confucian Role Ethics” Michael Goerger (Central Washington University) “The Moral Self in Buddhism and Late Stoicism” Sanjay Lal (Clayton State University) “Gandhi, Epictetus, and Political Resistance”
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Thursday Early Afternoon, Noon–2:00 p.m. (cont.)
G6G Concerned Philosophers for Peace Chair: Brian C. Barnett (St. John Fisher College) Speakers: Duane L. Cady (Hamline University) “Environmentalists Must Be Pacifists” Jeanine Diller (University of Toledo) “Intrafaith Resistance” Joshua Hall (CUNY Queensborough) “Just War Contra Drone Warfare”
G6H Society for Mexican American PhilosophyTopic: Resistance, Identity, and Justice
Chair: Jose Jorge Mendoza (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
Speakers: Denise Meda (Texas A&M University) “Latin American Feminist Philosophy: Distinct
Voices on Cultural Identity and Social Justice” Ernesto Rosen Velasquez (University of Dayton) “Criminalization and Undocumented Migrant
Laborer Identities in the Zone of Nonbeing” Amy Reed-Sandoval (University of Texas at El Paso) “Reproduction as Resistance at the Mexico-U.S.
Border”
G6I John Dewey SocietyTopic: Panel Discussion: Pittsburgh, Not Paris: Populism, Nationalism, and Democracy in a Time of Perpetual War
Panelists: Vincent Colapietro (Pennsylvania State University) Jennifer Hansen (St. Lawrence University) John Stuhr (Emory University)
G6J Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary WorldTopic: Author Meets Critics: Michael Moehler, Minimal Morality: A Multilevel Social Contract Theory
Chair: Lindsay Whittaker (Virginia Tech) Critics: Dominick Cooper (University of Virginia) Chad Van Schoelandt (Tulane University) Jerry Gaus (University of Arizona) Author: Michael Moehler (Virginia Tech)
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Thursday Early Afternoon, Noon–2:00 p.m. (cont.)
G6K International Ernst Cassirer SocietyTopic: Cassirer in the 21st Century
Chair: Simon Truwant (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Speakers: Olga Knizhnik (The New School For Social
Research) “Finding a Way Out of Partisan Thinking with Ernst
Cassirer” Evan Clarke (Northeastern University) “Cassirer on Darwin and Darwinism” Thomas Ryckman (Stanford University) “Cassirer and Dirac on the Symbolic Method: An
Unexpected Convergence”
G6L Society for Medieval and Renaissance PhilosophyTopic: Medieval Theories of Perception
Chair: Luis X. López-Farjeat (Universidad Panamericana) Speakers: Deni Gamboa (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma
de Puebla, Mexico) “The Intension and Remission of Visions According
to William of Ockham and Adam of Wodeham” Therese Cory (University of Notre Dame) “The Origin of the (Intelligible) Species? Cognitive
Assimilation in Aquinas” Peter King (University of Toronto) “Perception in Action: Medieval Problems with
Attention”
G6M International Society for Buddhist PhilosophyTopic: Book Symposium: Rick Repetti: Buddhist Perspectives on Free Will
Chair: Christian Coseru (College of Charleston) Critics: Marie Friquegnon (William Paterson University) Karin Meyers (Kathmandu University) Michael Brent (University of Denver) Author: Rick Repetti (Kingsborough College)
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Thursday Afternoon, 2:00–4:00 p.m.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 2:00–4:00 P.M.
DIVISIONAL PROGRAM
7A APA Committee Session: 2018 Sanders LectureArranged by the APA Committee on Lectures, Publications, and Research
Chair: Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto) Speaker: David Christensen (Brown University) “On Acting as Judge in One’s Own (Epistemic)
Case”
7B Symposium: From Nature to Second Nature: The Evolution of Bergson’s Conception of Habit
Chair: Benjamin Davis (Emory University) Speaker: Olivia Brown (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Commentators: Daniel Rodriguez-Navas (Middlebury College) Brian Tracz (University of California, San Diego)
7C Symposium: What Must We Know to Benefit from Aristotle’s Ethics? Chair: Dhananjay Jagannathan (Columbia University) Speaker: Carlo DaVia (Fordham University) Commentators: Rebecca Stangl (University of Virginia) Lynn Holt (Mississippi State University)
7D Symposium: The Problem of Unwelcome Epistemic Company Chair: Daniel Shartin (Worcester State University) Speaker: Joshua Blanchard (University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill) Commentators: Kay Mathiesen (University of Arizona) Daniel Brunson (Morgan State University)
7E Symposium: Reacting to Moral Ignorance: A Discussion of Shame, Blame, and Culpability
Chair: Joshua Felix (Binghamton University) Speaker: Mariam Kazanjian (Indiana University Bloomington) Commentators: Seth Robertson (University of Oklahoma) Timothy Kwiatek (Cornell University)
7F Colloquium: Bioethics Chair: Joe Stramondo (San Diego State University) Speaker: Olivia Schuman (York University) “Knowing a Genetic Donor: Rights and Interests” Commentator: Rachel Levit Ades (Arizona State)
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Thursday Afternoon, 2:00–4:00 p.m. (cont.)
Speaker: Allison Massof (Ohio State University) “The Patient’s Duty to Disclose” Commentator: Maeve O’Donovan (Notre Dame of Maryland)
7G Symposium: Harming as Difference-Making Chair: Rebecca Chan (San Jose State University) Speaker: Thomas Bontly (University of Connecticut) Commentators: Daniel Star (Boston University) Gerard Vong (Emory University)
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 2:00–5:00 P.M.
DIVISIONAL PROGRAM
7H Colloquium: Perception and Justification Chair: Laura Weed (The College of Saint Rose) Speaker: Daniel Munro (University of Toronto) “Bodily Perceptual Justification” Commentator: Gerardo Viera (University of Antwerp) Speaker: Rami Ali (Lebanese American University) “Do Visual Hallucinations Involve Perception?” Commentator: Aleksandra Mroczko-Wasowicz (National Yang-Ming
University) Speaker: Justin Humphreys (University of Pittsburgh) “Disjunctivism and the Stream of Consciousness” Commentator: Kim Frost (Syracuse University)
7I Colloquium: Psychology and Neuroscience Chair: Nada Gligorov (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount
Sinai) Speaker: John Bickle (Mississippi State University and
University of Mississippi Medical Center) “Laser Lights and Designer Drugs: The New Face of
Ruthlessly Reductive Neuroscience” Commentator: Samuel Murray (University of Notre Dame) Speaker: David Barack (Columbia University) “Mental Machines” Commentator: Min Tang (University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill) Speaker: Evan Westra (University of Rochester) “Character, Mindreading, and the Action-Prediction
Hierarchy” Commentator: Mike Bruno (Mississippi State University)
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Thursday Afternoon, 2:00–5:00 p.m.
7J Colloquium: Locke and Spinoza Chair: Chris Johns (American University of Beirut) Speaker: Ronald Claypool (University of Florida) “Lockean Responses to the Problem of Perceptual
Error” Commentator: Nathan Rockwood (Virginia Tech) Speaker: Patrick Connolly (Lehigh University) “Locke on the Difficulty of Demonstration” Commentator: Lex Newman (University of Utah) Speaker: Stephen Daniel (Texas A&M University) “Spinoza on the Being-Thing Distinction” Commentator: Galen Barry (Iona College)
7K Invited Symposium: Time and Modality Parallels Chair: Joanna Lawson (University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill) Speakers: Martin Glazier (University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill) Olla Solomyak (The Polonsky Academy for
Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences)
Commentator: Jeffrey Sanford Russell (University of Southern California)
7L Invited Symposium: Eating and Agency Chair: Heather Stewart (University of Western Ontario) Speakers: Talia Welsh (University of Tennessee, Chattanooga) Catherine Womack (Bridgewater State University) Andrew Chignell (Univesity of Pennsylvania) Alison Reiheld (Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville)
7M Invited Symposium: Emotions, Morality, and Personal Relationships Chair: Macalester Bell (Bryn Mawr College) Speakers: Seth Shabo (University of Delaware) Julie Tannenbaum (Pomona College) Ben Callard (University of Chicago) Commentator: Charles Goodman (Binghamton University)
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7N Invited Symposium: Sex, Marriage, and Family in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy
Chair: Mary Ellen Waithe (Cleveland State University) Speakers: Colin Heydt (University of South Florida) Jackie Taylor (University of San Francisco) Christina van Dyke (Calvin College)
7O Invited Symposium: Black Feminism in the Age of Trump Chair: Ayanna Spencer (Michigan State University) Speakers: Axelle Karera (Wesleyan University) Tempest Henning (Vanderbilt University) Camisha Russell (University of Oregon)
7P APA Committee Session: ReparationsArranged by the APA Committee on Public Philosophy
Speakers: Stephen Darwall (Yale University) Alissa Bierria (Stanford University) Howard McGary (Rutgers University)
7Q APA Committee Session: Diversity in PhilosophyArranged by the APA Committee on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies
Chair: Yong Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Speakers: B. Tamsin Kimoto (Emory University) “Skin in the Game: Diversity in (Spite of)
Professional Philosophy” Amy Donahue (Kennesaw State University) “Nyāya as Therapy for Collective Gaslighting (AKA,
Philosophy Is Feeble When It Isn’t Diverse)” Julianne Chung (University of Louisville) “Style, Substance, Methodology, and Diversity: A
Cross-Cultural Case Study” Brian Bruya (Eastern Michigan University) “Multiculturalism as Diversity” Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach (University of Konstanz) “Situating (Cross-Cultural) Philosophy”
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AFFILIATED GROUP PROGRAM
G7A Society for Ancient Greek PhilosophyTopic: Aristotle
Chair: Anthony Preus (Binghamton University) Speakers: David J. Redmond (University of Iowa) “Aristotle on the Organ and Medium of Touch” Justin R. Allison (Durham University) “Philodemus: Friend of the Many, or Friend of the
Δεκτικοί?” Jay Elliott (Bard College) “Aristotle on the Voluntariness of Vice”
G7B Society for Philosophy of AgencyTopic: Book Symposium: Alfred R. Mele, Aspects of Agency
Chair: Justin Capes (Flagler College) Author: Alfred R. Mele (Florida State University) Commentators: Meghan Griffith (Davidson College) E. J. Coffman (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
THURSDAY EVENING, 5:00–6:00 P.M.
APA PRIZE RECEPTION (open to all: wine and cheese served)5:00–6:00 p.m., location TBA
APA NATIONAL PRIZESAPA/PDC Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs 2017
Society of Philosophers in America (SOPHIA), University of Kentucky
Barwise Prize 2016Edward Zalta (Stanford University)
Baumgardt Memorial Fellowship 2017Joshua Glasgow (Sonoma State University)
Book Prize 2017Gwen Bradford (Rice University), for AchievementHonorable Mention: Berislav Marušić (Brandeis University) for Evidence and Agency: Norms of Belief for Promising and Resolving
Danto/American Society for Aesthetics Prize 2018Kenneth Walden (Dartmouth College) for “Art and Moral Revolution”
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Edinburgh Fellowship 2017–2018Marina Folescu (University of Missouri)
Essay Prize in Latin American Thought 2017Francisco Gallegos (Georgetown University) for “Surviving Social Disintegration: Jorge Portilla on the Phenomenology of Zozobra”
Gittler Prize 2017Ronald Mallon (Washington University in St. Louis) for The Construction of Human Kinds
William James Prize 2018Justin Humphreys (University of Pittsburgh for “Disjunctivism and the Stream of Consciousness”
Journal of Value Inquiry Prize 2017Alberto Urquidez (Purdue University) for “What Accounts of Racism Do”Honorable Mention: Anthony Manela (Georgetown University) for “The Nature and Value of Imperfect Rights”
Lebowitz Prizes 2017Nancy Cartwright (Durham University) and Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin–Madison) for “Is There Such a Thing As the Scientific Method?”
Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest 2017Katalin Balog (Rutgers University–Newark) for “‘Son of Saul,’ Kierkegaard and the Holocaust”Andrew Fiala (California State University, Fresno) for “Without Faith in Humanity, Cynicism Grows and Democracy Becomes Mob-Rule”David V. Johnson (Stanford University) for “A Democracy Deficit Plagues the U.S. and the European Union”Ian Olasov (Graduate Center, CUNY) for “How Did ‘All Lives Matter’ Come to Oppose ‘Black Lives Matter’? A Philosopher of Language Weighs In”Michael Robillard (University of Oxford) and Bradley Strawser (U.S. Naval Postgraduate School) for “Are Soldiers Morally Exploited?”
Quinn Prize 2017Peggy DesAutels (University of Dayton)
Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching 2017Stephen Bloch-Schulman (Elon University)
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize 2017Michael Milona (Cornell University) for “Taking the Perceptual Analogy Seriously”Ian Stoner (University of Minnesota) for “Ways To Be Worse Off”
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Sanders Book Prize 2017Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth College) for Ontology Made EasyHonorable Mention: Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin–Madison) for Ockham’s Razors: A User’s Manual
Sanders Lecture 2017–2018David Christensen (Brown University)
Scheffler Prize 2017Jennifer Morton (City College of New York) for “The Non-Cognitive Challenge to a Liberal Egalitarian Education,” “Cultural Code-Switching: Straddling the Achievement Gap,” “Molding Conscientious, Hard-Working, and Perseverant Students,” Unequal Classrooms: Higher Education and Online Learning,” and “The Educator’s Dual Role: Expressing Ideals While Educating in Non-Ideal Conditions”
Sharp Prize 2017Jonathan Parry (Birmingham University) for “Consent and the Justification of Defending Others”Honorable Mention: Massimo Renzo (King’s College London) for “Duties of Citizenship and Just War”
EASTERN DIVISION PRIZESGraduate Student Travel Stipend Winners
Amanda Askell (New York University) for “Spatiotemporal Betterness and Pareto in Infinite Worlds”Rima Basu (University of Southern California) for “Moral Encroachment”David Beglin (University of California, Riverside) for “Two Strawsonian Strategies for Accounting for Morally Responsible Agency”Zach Blaesi (University of Texas at Austin) for “Grounding, Physicalism, and the Explanatory Gap”Joshua Blanchard (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) for “The Problem of Unwelcome Epistemic Company”Christopher Bobier (University of California, Irvine) for “Hobbes on Hope and Deliberation”Tyler Brooke-Wilson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for “Visual and Motor Imagery”Olivia Brown (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) for “From Nature to Second Nature: The Evolution of Bergson’s Conception of Habit”Alessandra Buccella (University of Pittsburgh) for “How Should We Think about Perceptual Presence?”Spencer Case (University of Colorado Boulder) for “Is Nihilism Self-Defeating?”
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Bowen Chan (University of Toronto) for “Humanity As an End in Itself: Respect for Humanity Refers to Respect for Personality”David Colaco (University of Pittsburgh) for “Mechanist Explanation and the Characterization of Phenomena”Devin Sanchez Curry (University of Pennsylvania) for “Interpretivism and Norms”Emmalon Davis (Indiana University Bloomington) for “Testimonial Injustice in Philosophical Discourse”Kevin Dorst (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for “Two Cheers for Akrasia”Christopher Dorst (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) for “Laws of Nature, Prediction, and Reductionism”Ioan Dragos (University of Toronto) for “Group Know-How”John Dyck (The Graduate Center, CUNY) for “Spatial Music”Vita Emery (Fordham University) for “Thinning the Veil: Mills, Rawls, and Identity”Emma Esmaili (University of British Columbia) for “Origins of Attention to Objects and Mental Oil”Megan Feeney (Rutgers University) for “On the Scope of Immediate Perceptual Justification”Vera Flocke (New York University) for “The Birth of Carnap’s Internal/External Distinction”Christina Friedlaender (University of Memphis) for “Resisting Oppression Together: Participatory Intentions and Unequal Agents”Tobias A. Fuchs (Brown University) for “A Working Test for Well-Being”Torrance Fung (University of Virginia) for “Is Malebranche’s God in Time?”Georgi Gardiner (Rutgers University) for “Understanding and Emulation”Gerad Gentry (Yale University) for “The Threefold Function of the Imagination in the Critique of Pure Reason”Cameron Gibbs (University of Massachusetts Amherst) for “Counterfactuals and Laws with Violations”Jonathan Gingerich (University of California, Los Angeles) for “Freedom and the Value of Games”Javier Gomez-Lavin (The Graduate Center, CUNY) for “Disbelief as Mere Belief”August Gorman (University of Southern California) for “How Should Deep Self Theorists Account for Weakness of Will?”Sebastian Greve (Oxford University) for “Complex Thought and Private Language”
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Yongming Han (Brown University) for “Desire and Loving for Properties”Blake Hereth (University of Washington) for “Animal Rights Terrorism and Pacifism”Hao Hong (Indiana University Bloomington) for “Grounding Truth and Making True”Ethan Jerzak (University of California, Berkeley) for “Two Ways to Want?”Christa Johnson (Ohio State University) for “Resolutions, Salient Reasons, and Weakness of Will”Jeffrey Kaplan (University of California, Berkeley) for “How to Make a Rule: A Defense of an Old and Discredited Theory”Mariam Kazanjian (Indiana University Bloomington) for “Reacting to Moral Ignorance: A Discussion of Shame, Blame, and Culpability”Jinsook Kim (Seoul National University) for “The Epistemic Structure of Economic Models and the Problem of Confirmation”James Kinkaid (Boston University) for “Phenomenology and Metaphysics in Being and Time”James Kintz (Saint Louis University) for “Social Interactions, Aristotelian Powers, and the Ontology of the I-You Relation”Youjin Kong (Michigan State University) for “‘Non-Idealizing Abstraction’ as Ideology: Nonideal Theory and the Power Dynamics of Oppression”Jonathan Kwan (The Graduate Center, CUNY) for “A People’s Legitimacy and the Qualified Right to Exclude”Jingjing Li (McGill University) for “Through the Mirror: The Account of Other Minds in Chinese Yogacara Buddhism”Michael Longenecker (University of Notre Dame) for “Imprints in Time: A Moderately Robust Past”Bradley Loveall (Georgia State University) for “Indexical Relativism Reconsidered”Getty Lustila (Boston University) for “‘The Sovereigns of the Empire of Conversation’: Hume on Women”Andrei Marasoiu (University of Virginia) for “Intellectual Virtues and Biased Understanding”Alex Marmor (Harvard University) for “The Nature of Reasons: Alienation and the Wrong Kind of Reason”Allison Massof (Ohio State University) for “The Patient’s Duty to Disclose”Laura Matthews (University of Georgia) for “Mental Illness as Inadaptivity”
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Daniel Mendez (Boston University) for “Talking Ourselves Senseless”Parisa Moosavi (University of Toronto) for “Natural Goodness and Biological Goodness”Dane Muckler (Saint Louis University) for “The Irrelevance of Harm for Disease”Daniel Munro (University of Toronto) for “Bodily Perceptual Justification”Jonah Nagashima (University of California, Riverside) for “Control and Contrastive Explanations”Ariane Nomikos (University at Buffalo, SUNY) for “Ambiguous Places: A Case for the Everyday Sublime”Jordan Ochs (University of Connecticut) for “Epistemic Asymmetry and the Role of Inner Speech in Self-Knowledge”Walker Page (Saint Louis University) for “Yes, We Are Luminous”Sean Petranovich (Loyola University Chicago) for “Husserl on Parts, Wholes, and Community Membership”Owen Pikkert (University of Toronto) for “The Modal Status of Leibniz’s Principle of Sufficient Reason”Allison Piñeros Glasscock (Yale University) for “Expertise and Educating for Excellence: Socrates on Soul Care as Techne in the Laches”Juan Piñeros Glasscock (Yale University) for “Action and Luminosity”John Proios (Cornell University) for “The House of the Good: A Special Kind of Cause in the Philebus”Catherine Rioux (University of Toronto) for “Easy Knowledge of Our Own Intentions”Nicholas Sars (Tulane University of New Orleans) for “Non-Identity and Reactive Attitudes”Olivia Schuman (York University) for “Knowing a Genetic Donor: Rights and Interests”Lucia Schwarz (University of Arizona) for “A (Partial) Possible Worlds Semantics for Reasons”Matthew Shea (Saint Louis University) for “Natural Goodness Is Good for You: Well-Being and the Rational Authority of Human Nature”Adam Shmidt (Boston University) for “Freedom and Responsibility in Kant”Daniel Simpson (Saint Louis University) for “Henry More, Holenmeric Souls, and the Unity of Consciousness Argument”Robert Siscoe (University of Arizona) for “Sui Generis Linguistic Norms”
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Van Tu (University of Michigan) for “Mill on Ideological Conversion and Social Reform: An Interpretation of Mill’s Argumentative Strategy in The Subjection of Women”Sungwoo Um (Duke University) for “What Is a Relational Virtue?”Evan Westra (University of Rochester) for “Character, Mindreading, and the Action-Prediction Hierarchy”Yuna Won (Cornell University) for “Deontic Puzzles and Semantics for Ought-Statements”Nathan Wood (University of Georgia) for “Deontology Revived”Ava Thomas Wright (University of Georgia) for “The Duty of Veracity and Possible Universal Consent”Leo Yan (Brown University) for “Parity, Incomparability, and Categorical Judgments”
Marc Sanders Graduate Student Paper AwardsEthan Jerzak (University of California, Berkeley) for “Two Ways to Want?”Rima Basu (University of Southern California) for “Moral Encroachment”James Kintz (Saint Louis University) for “Social Interactions, Aristotelian Powers, and the Ontology of the I-You Relation”
William James PrizeJustin Humphreys (University of Pittsburgh) for “Disjunctivismand the Stream of Consciousness”
THURSDAY EVENING, 5:15–7:15 P.M.
DIVISIONAL PROGRAM
8A APA Committee Session: Philosophy and ComputersArranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and ComputersSession details TBA
8B APA Committee Session: How to Address AuthoritarianismArranged by the APA Committee on Public Philosophy
Chair: TBA Speakers: David Livingstone Smith (University of New
England) Lynne Tirrell (University of Connecticut)
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8C Memorial Session for Delia Graff Fara Chair: Jeffrey King (Rutgers University) Speakers: Robin Jeshion (University of Southern California) Karen Lewis (Columbia University) Robert Stalnaker (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology)This session will begin at 5:30 p.m. A reception will follow.
AFFILIATED GROUP PROGRAM
G8A Society for Phenomenology and Existential PhilosophyTopic: Foucault and Psychoanalysis
Chair: Gail Weiss (George Washington University) Speaker: Amy Allen (Pennsylvania State University) “Foucault and the Problem of Psychoanalysis” Commentator: Noëlle McAfee (Emory University)
G8B Florida Philosophical Association Chair: Joshua Rust (Stetson University) Speaker: Randolph Clarke (Florida State University) “Absence Causation for Causal Dispositionalists” Commentator: Samuel Murray (University of Notre Dame) Speaker: Elizabeth Amber Cantalamessa (University of
Miami) “Perverts and Degenerates: Copyright, Ontology,
and Metalinguistic Negotiation” Commentator: John Poland (University of Wyoming)
G8C Descartes SocietyTopic: Descartes’ Meditations
Speaker: Jeremy Hyman (University of Arkansas) “On a Recently Discovered Manuscript of
Descartes’ Meditations” Commentator: Peter King (University of Toronto)
G8D Conference on Philosophical SocietiesTopic: Challenges to the Value of Altruism
Chair: G. John M. Abbarno (D’Youville College) Speakers: Julia J. Aaron (Clarion University) “Recognizing and Overcoming Some Challenges to
Altruism” Kate Wininger (University of Southern Maine) “Altruism as a Generosity”
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G8E International Society for Chinese PhilosophyTopic: Chinese-Western Comparative Philosophical Themes
Chair: Chung-ying Cheng (University of Hawaii at Manoa) Speakers: Paul Boshears (Georgia State University) “Medical Models of Reality Are Metaphysical
Models: Opium Use in Early Modern China” T. K. Chu (Princeton University) “Spontaneous Action as a Basis to Align the
Kantian Free Will and the Mencian Four Sprouts” Andrew Fuyarchuk (Yorkville University) “Gadamer’s Linguistic Turn Revisited in Dialogue
with Cheng’s Critique” Commentator: Chung-ying Cheng (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
G8F International Association of Japanese PhilosophyTopic: Comparative East Asian Philosophy: Philosophical Dialogues between East Asian Traditions
Chair: John W. M. Krummel (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
Speakers: Andrew Lambert (CUNY College of Staten Island) “Japan from the Viewpoint of Contemporary
Chinese Scholars: Li Zehou on the Japanese Tradition”
Jin Y. Park (American University) “Philosophy in a Time of Action: Miki Kiyoshi and
Pak Ch’iu” Sarah Mattice (University of North Florida) “Re-Presenting the Canons: Chinese and Japanese
Women in the Story of Philosophical Traditions”
G8G International Association for Environmental PhilosophyTopic: International Association for Environmental Philosophy: Place, Priority, Politics, and the Polis
Chair: Bryan Bannon (Merrimack College) Speakers: Brooke Schueneman (University of Georgia) “Focal Places and the Technological Enclave of
Home” Shane Epting (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) “On Moral Prioritization in Environmental Ethics:
Weak Anthropocentrism for the City”
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Razvan Amironesei (University of California, San Diego)
“Vegetative Life and the Politics of Visceral Promises in Nietzsche and Aristotle”
Chaone Mallory (University of Southern California) “Between the Oikos and the Polis: Ecofeminism,
Earth Bodies, and the Green Public Sphere”
G8H Society for Systematic PhilosophyTopic: Hegel on Cognition and Will
Speakers: Graham Schuster (University of Georgia) Michael Yudanin (University of Georgia)
G8I Society for Medieval and Renaissance PhilosophyTopic: The Origin of Language in Islamic and Jewish Traditions
Chair: Luis X. López-Farjeat (Universidad Panamericana) Speakers: Thérèse-Anne Druart (The Catholic University of
America) “The Origin of Language in the Islamic Tradition” Yehuda Halper (Bar-Ilan University) “The Divine Origins of Hebrew vs. the Aristotelian
Origins of Logic: Creating a Hebrew Logical Language in Commentaries on the Organon”
Stephen Ogden (Johns Hopkins University) “The Unity Argument in Averroes” Winner of the SMRP Founder’s Award
G8J Society for the Philosophy of Human RightsTopic: A Discussion of James W. Nickel’s Work on Human Rights
Speakers: Nicole Hassoun (Binghamton University) “Human Rights and ‘The Minimally Good Life’”? Carol C. Gould (The Graduate Center, CUNY) “From International to Global Human Rights:
Confronting the Problem of Universalization” James W. Nickel (University of Miami) “Problems in Assigning Functions to International
Human Rights” Jiewuh Song (Seoul National University) “Human Rights, Progress, and Feasibility”
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G8K North American Korean Philosophical AssociationTopic: Moral, Aesthetic, and Psychological Dimensions of Korean Philosophy
Chair: Jea Sophia Oh (West Chester University of Pennsylvania)
Speakers: Jea Sophia Oh (West Chester University of Pennsylvania)
“Jeong (情, Qing), Vulnerable Virtue of Compassion with the Suffered: An Ethic of Affection and Movements”
Suk Choi (Towson University) “Dasan (茶山) and Adorno on the Value of Music” Bongrae Seok (Alvernia University) “Misunderstandings of Li-Qi (理氣) Moral
Psychology in the Four Seven Debate (四七 論爭) and the Horak Debate (湖洛論爭) of Korean Neo-Confucianism”
G8L Leibniz Society of North AmericaTopic: Phenomenalism and Monadic Aggregation
Chair: Owen Pikkert (University of Toronto) Speakers: Shane Duarte (University of Notre Dame) “Bodies, Aggregates, and Well-Founded
Phenomena in Leibniz” Adam Harmer (University of California, Riverside) “Leibniz on Discrete Quantity and Actual Parts” Stephen Puryear (North Carolina State University) “The Being of Leibnizian Aggregates” Commentator: Donald Rutherford (University of California, San
Diego)
G8M North American Kant SocietyTopic: Kant on the Sources of Moral Obligation
Chair: Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern University) Speakers: Katerina Deligiorgi (University of Sussex) “Kant and the Idea of a Source of Moral
Obligation” Patrick Kain (Purdue University) “Obligation and the Nature of Things” Paul Schofield (Bates College) “Kantian Constructivism and Bootstrapping”
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G8N Association for Philosophy of the UnconsciousTopic: Trauma and Death Drive
Chair: Wilfried Ver Eecke (Georgetown University) Speakers: Allen Jones (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) “The Unconscious and the Hidden Forces of the
Death Drive” Jennifer Gammage (DePaul University) “Trauma and Translation: Nachträglichkeit and
Ekstatic Temporality”
G8O The Association for Philosophy of EducationTopic: Education, Disability, and Well-Being
Panelists: Andree-Anne Cormier (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Jaime Ahlberg (University of Florida)
G8P Philosophy of Religion GroupTopic: What if God Is Not a Moral Agent
Chair: Lisa Yount (Savannah State University) Speaker: James P. Sterba (University of Notre Dame) Commentator: Brian Davies (Fordham University)
Note: This is a three-hour session that will end at 8:15 p.m.
THURSDAY EVENING, 7:30–10:30 P.M.
DIVISIONAL PROGRAM
9A APA Committee Session: Inclusivity in the Teaching and the Practice of PhilosophyArranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women
Chair: Charlotte Witt (University of New Hampshire) Speaker: Alison Bailey (Illinois State University) “How Might We Respond to the Weaponization of
Critical Thinking and Skepticism?” Tina Botts (California State University, Fresno) “Thoughts on the Correlation Between Problem
and Method in Responsible Philosophical Scholarship”
Vanessa Wills (George Washington University) “Ruthless Criticism in Safe Spaces: Philosophical
Pedagogies for Sensitive Classroom Discussions”
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Yolonda Wilson (Howard University) “Teaching Philosophy: Not Every Important
Thought Comes from Bearded Old White Men”
9B APA Committee Session: Academic Freedom and Race Under TrumpArranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Blacks in Philosophy and Philosophy Born of Struggle
Chair: Julie E. Maybee (Lehman College) Speakers: George Yancy (Emory University) “I Am a Dangerous Professor” Tommy J. Curry (Texas A&M University) “Attacked from Both Sides: Blackened, Maled, and
the Dilemma of Anti-Black Misandry” Naomi Zack (University of Oregon) “The Black Feminist Trolls: How Their Censorship
Has Brought Down Hypatia and Philosop-her and What To