PDR 6
Hud Hudson (Western Washington University)
Loretta Kopelman (East Carolina University)
Jeffry Murphey (Arizona State University)
Jane Kneller (Colorado State University)
| GIII-1. |
7:30 - 10:30, Wabash Parlor |
GROUP SESSION: American Association of Philosophy Teachers |
| Topic: | Discussion Panel, "Teaching Gender, Racial, and Multi-cultural Issues" | |
| Chair: | Debra Penna-Fredericks (Saint Louis University) | |
| Speaker: | Leamon Bazil (Saint Louis University) Claudia Card (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Lisa M. Heldke (Gustavus Adolphus College) Margaret O'Conner (Gustavus Adolphus College) Richard Schmitt (Brown University) |
| GIII-2. |
7:30 - 10:30, Crystal Room |
GROUP SESSION: Society of Christian Philosophers |
| Title: | "What Christian Philosophers Can Learn from Contemporary Continental Philosophy" | |
| Chair: | W. Jay Wood (Wheaton College) | |
| Speakers: | Gary Gutting (University of Notre Dame) Adriaan Peperzak (Loyola University of Chicago) Lee Hardy (Calvin College) Scott Moore (Baylor University) |
| GIII-3. |
7:30 - 10:30, Parlor A |
GROUP SESSION: Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism |
| Topic: | The Communist Manifesto: 150 Years Ago, and Today | |
| Title: | "150 Years of the Communist Manifesto: The Question of 'Mutant Socialism'" | |
| Speaker: | Alexander Buzgalin (Moscow State University) Andre Kolganov (Moscow State University) | |
| Title: | "Utopian Socialism in the Communist Manifesto, and a Non-utopian Program" | |
| Speaker: | Richard H. Hudelson (University of Wisconsin, Superior) | |
| Title: | "Historical Progress and the Communist Manifesto" | |
| Speaker: | Jeffrey Vogel (Iowa State University) |
| GIII-4. |
7:30 - 10:30, Parlor B |
GROUP SESSION: Society for Philosophy and Geography |
| Chair: | Andrew Light (University of Montana) | |
| Title: | "Ideal Cities in Ancient Greek Political Philosophy and Urban Planning" | |
| Speaker: | Roger K. Paden (George Mason University) | |
| Title: | "On the Possibility of a Practical Aesthetic Sensibility" | |
| Speaker: | Michael Jenson (Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado, Boulder) | |
| Title: | The Public and Technological Construction of Geographic Information Systems | |
| Speaker: | Peter A. Kwaku Kyem (Geography, Central Connecticut State University) Brian M. O'Connell (Computer Science, Central Connecticut State University) | |
| Commentator: | Jonathan Maskit (Denison University) |
| GIII-5. |
7:30 - 10:30, PDR 4 |
GROUP SESSION: Philosophy of Time Society, Session I |
| Topic: | Michael Tooley's Time, Tense and Causation | |
| Chair: | Ronald C. Hoy (California University of Pennsylvania) | |
| Speakers: | L. Nathan Oaklander (University of Michigan, Flint) Quentin Smith (Western Michigan University) Storrs McCall (McGill University) | |
| Responding: | Michael Tooley (University of Colorado, Boulder) |
| GIII-6. |
7:30 - 10:30, Parlor C |
GROUP SESSION: Society for Philosophy of Creativity |
| Title: | "Education for Creativity" | |
| Speaker: | Ann Margaret Sharp (Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children, Montclair State University) |
| GIII-7. |
7:30 - 10:30, PDR 5 |
GROUP SESSION: Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy |
| Topic: | Asian Ethical Theories | |
| Title: | "Ethics and Ethical Skepticism in Eastern Enlightenment Theories" | |
| Speaker: | Stephen Phillips (University of Texas, Austin) | |
| Title: | "Foundationalism in Hindu and Buddhist Ethical Perspectives" | |
| Speaker: | B. David Burke (Elgin Community College) |
| GIII-8. |
7:30 - 10:30, PDR 6 |
GROUP SESSION: North American Kant Society, Session I | |
| Topic: | Memorial Session for Lewis White Beck | ||
| Chair: | Ralf Meerbote (University of Rochester) | ||
| Speakers: | Arnulf Zweig (University of Oregon)
Hud Hudson (Western Washington University) Loretta Kopelman (East Carolina University) Jeffry Murphey (Arizona State University)
Jane Kneller (Colorado State University) | ||
| A Business Meeting will take place from 7:30 to 8:00 | |||
| GIII-9. |
7:30 - 10:30, PDR 8 |
GROUP SESSION: International Society for Environmental Ethics, Session I |
| Topic: | Recent Work in Environmental Ethics | |
| Chair: | Laura Westra (University of Windsor) | |
| Title: | "Environmentalism with a Liberal Face" | |
| Speaker: | Mark Michael (Austin Peay State University) | |
| Title: | "Thoreau on Science and System" | |
| Speaker: | Philip Cafaro (Southwestern State University, Minnesota) | |
| Title: | "Examining Ecosystem Integrity as a Primary Mode of Recognizing the Autonomy of Nature" | |
| Speaker: | Bruce Morito (University of Guelph) | |
| Title: | "The Ethics of Integrity: A Response to Bruce Morito" | |
| Speaker: | Laura Westra (University of Windsor) |
| GIII-10. |
7:30 - 10:30, PDR 7 |
GROUP SESSION: North American Division of the Schopenhauer Society |
| Chair: | David E. Cartwright (University of Wisconsin, Whitewater) | |
| Title: | "Schopenhauer's Metaphysics as a Foundation for the Moral Consideration of Animals" | |
| Speaker: | Timothy Menta (St. Francis College) | |
| Title: | "Schopenhauer on the Ethics of Suicide" | |
| Speaker: | Dale Jacquette (Pennsylvania State University) | |
| Title: | "Schopenhauer and Rand on Legal Morality" | |
| Speaker: | Jamal 'Jim' Hattab (Temple University) |
| GIII-11. |
7:30 - 10:30, PDR 9 |
GROUP SESSION: Association for the Development of Philosophy Teaching |
| Topic: | Beyond Selfishness toward Freedom: Teaching Ethics on Computers | |
| Chair: | Bob Lichtenbert (Editor, The Meaning of Life) | |
| Title: | "Why Are We Having This Session on Ethics and the Internet?" | |
| Speaker: | Herman Start (South Suburban College) | |
| Title: | "Educating the Public to Make Correct Moral Decision on Social Policy" | |
| Speaker: | Margaret Goldstein (author, The Selfishness System) | |
| Title: | "Computers and Subjectivity: Toward an Ergonomic Ethics" | |
| Speaker: | Michael Kazanjian (DePaul University) | |
| Title: | "How May the Internet Be Used to Educate and Interest the Public in Ethics?" | |
| Speaker: | Douglas Binkley (playwright and author) |
| GIII-12. |
7:30 - 10:30, Parlor D |
GROUP SESSION: Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion, Session I |
| Chair: | Ron Wilburn (University of Nevada, Los Vegas) | |
| Title: | "Externalism, Skepticism, and the Pragmatics of Justification" | |
| Speaker: | Henry Jackman (University of Toledo) | |
| Title: | "Russell, Strawson, and William of Ockham" | |
| Speaker: | Sharon Kaye (Dalhousie University) |