PDR 8
| GIV-1. |
7:00 - 10:00, Wabash Parlor |
GROUP SESSION: Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy |
| Topic: | Plato and Aristotle on Desire | |
| Chair: | Anthony Preus (Binghamton University) | |
| Title: | "Body, Soul, and Desire in the Phaedo" | |
| Speaker: | Colin Anderson (Loyola University of Chicago) | |
| Title: | "Aristotle on Akratic Action: How Rational Is It?" | |
| Speaker: | Patrick Mooney (John Carroll University) |
| GIV-2. |
7:00 - 10:00, Parlor C |
GROUP SESSION: North American Spinoza Society, Session II |
| Topic: | Steven B. Smith's Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity | |
| Speaker: | Steven B. Smith (Yale University) |
| GIV-3. |
7:00 - 10:00, PDR 5 |
GROUP SESSION: Leibniz Society of North America |
| Chair: | Daniel Garber (University of Chicago) | |
| Title: | "Infinite Accumulations and Pantheistic Implications: Leibniz and the Anima Mundi" (Winner of the 1997 Leibniz Society Essay Competition) | |
| Speaker: | Laurence Carlin (Rice University) | |
| Commentator: | Gregory Brown (University of Houston) |
| GIV-4. |
7:00 - 10:00, PDR 6 |
GROUP SESSION: Society for the Study of Husserl's Philosophy |
| Topic: | Husserl and the Postmodern | |
| Chair: | M. J. Larrabee (DePaul University) | |
| Title: | "'In the Beginning Was the Deed': Phenomenology without Logocentricity" | |
| Speaker: | Lenore Langsdorf (University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale) |
| GIV-5. |
7:00 - 10:00, Parlor D |
GROUP SESSION: Søren Kierkegaard Society |
| Topic: | Kierkegaard and Literature | |
| Chair: | George Connell (Concordia College) | |
| Title: | "Stavrogin - Repenting Demon or Demonic Penitent? A Kierkegaardian Interpretation" | |
| Speaker: | Gita Wernaa Butin (University of Virginia) | |
| Title: | "Faith in the Heart of Darkness: An Intended Caprice" | |
| Speaker: | David L. Rozema (University of Nebraska, Kearney) | |
| Title: | "Kierkegaard, Parzival and the Triadic Template of Existence" | |
| Speaker: | Eric Ziolkowksi (Lafayette College) |
| GIV-6. |
7:00 - 10:00, PDR 7 |
GROUP SESSION: Simone de Beauvoir Circle (Sponsored by the Conference of Philosophical Societies) |
| Topic: | Simone de Beauvoir: Sex and Psychology | |
| Chair: | Barbara S. Andrew (University of Montana) | |
| Title: | "Making a Meaningful Life: Reading Beauvoir as a Moral Psychologist" | |
| Speaker: | William C. Pamerleau (University of Pittsburg at Greenburg) | |
| Title: | "Coupling as Ambiguity and Anonymity in Beauvoir's She Came to Stay" | |
| Speaker: | Laura Hengehold (Loyola University of Chicago) | |
| Title: | "Simone de Beauvoir, Bad Sex, and Bad Sexology" | |
| Speaker: | Meryl Altman (DePauw University) |
| GIV-7. |
7:00 - 10:00, PDR 8 |
GROUP SESSION: Society for Analytical Feminism, Session II | |
| Chair: | Ann Cudd (University of Kansas)
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| Title: | "Intersectional Identity and the Authentic Self? Opposites Attract" | ||
| Speaker: | Diana Tietjens Meyers (University of Connecticut) | ||
| Respondent: | Julie E. Maybee (University of Kansas)
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| Title: | "Rationality and Participation in Benhabib's Communicative Ethics" | ||
| Speaker: | Tanya Glaser (University of Colorado) | ||
| Respondent: | Audrey Brokes (St. Joseph's University)
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| A Business Meeting will take place during this session | |||
| GIV-8. |
7:00 - 10:00, Crystal Room |
GROUP SESSION: Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs |
| Topic: | Compatriots, Friends and Political Obligation | |
| Chair: | Marilyn Friedman (Washington University) | |
| Speakers: | Diane Jeske (University of Iowa) Carl P. Wellman (Washington University) Christopher H. Wellman (Guilford College) |
| GIV-9. |
7:00 - 10:00, Parlor A |
GROUP SESSION: Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy |
| Topic: | Native American Philosophy | |
| Title: | "Ceremonial Worlds" | |
| Speaker: | James Cheney (University of Wisconsin, Waukesha) | |
| Speaker: | Marilyn Holly (University of Florida, Gainesville) | |
| Title: | "Learning from Experience: Native American Thought and the History of Philosophy" | |
| Speaker: | Scott Pratt (University of Oregon) | |
| Commentator: | Lee Hester (Oklahoma City University)
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| GIV-10. |
7:00 - 10:00, Parlor B |
GROUP SESSION: Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts |
| Topic: | Acknowledging Self and Others | |
| Chair: | Tom Magnell (Drew University) | |
| Title: | "Oedipus Techs: Time Travel as Redemption in The Terminator and 12 Monkeys" | |
| Speaker: | Richard A. Gilmore (Concordia College) | |
| Title: | "Reading Women Reading: Reflections on Male Artists' Imaging of Women Readers" | |
| Speaker: | James Conlon (Mount Mary College) | |
| Title: | "Writing the Other Otherwise: Lulu as a Canadian Example"
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| Speaker: | Erin Manning (Carleton University) | |
| Commentator: | Dan Flory (Montana State University) |
| GIV-11. |
7:00 - 10:00, PDR 9 |
GROUP SESSION: North American Kant Society, Session II |
| Chair: | Richard Aquila (University of Tennessee) | |
| Title: | "New Sources in Kant Scholarship: Course Announcements at Königsberg, 1720-1804" | |
| Speaker: | Michael Oberhausen (Universität Trier) | |
| Speaker: | Riccardo Pozzo (The Catholic University of America) | |
| Speaker: | Eric Watkins (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
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