1998 APA Central Division Program

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MAIN SESSION I: Thursday, May 7, 1:45 - 4:45 P.M.

 

• I-A. 1:45 - 4:45,
  Wabash Parlor AUTHOR MEETS CRITICS: Kwame Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, The Political Morality of Race
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  skip Chair: Martha Nussbaum (Law and Philosophy, University of Chicago) 
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  skip Speakers: Philip Kitcher (University of California, San Diego)
  Michele Moody-Adams (Indiana University) 
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  skip Responding: Kwame Anthony Appiah (Harvard University)
  Amy Gutmann (Princeton University) 

 

• I-B. 1:45 - 4:45,
  PDR 17 SYMPOSIUM: Feminist Approaches to Knowledge 
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  skip Chair: Susan Babbitt (Queen's University at Kingston) 
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  skip Speakers: Sally Haslanger (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
  Louise Antony (University of North Carolina) 
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  skip Commentator: Karen Jones (Cornell University) 

 

• I-C. 1:45 - 4:45,
  Crystal Room AUTHOR MEETS CRITICS: Stephen Stich, Deconstructing the Mind
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  skip Chair: Michael Devitt (University of Maryland) 
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  skip Speakers: Daniel Dennett (Tufts University)
  David Papineau (King's College, University of London) 
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  skip Responding: Stephen Stich (Rutgers University) 

 

• I-D. 1:45 - 4:45,
  PDR 4 COLLOQUIUM: Philosophy of Science I 
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  skip 1:45 - 2:45 "Why Evolutionary Functions Are Causal Role Functions" 
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  skip Chair: David Buller (Northern Illinois University) 
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  skip Speaker: Paul Sheldon Davies (College of William and Mary) 
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  skip Commentator: Richard N. Manning (Ohio University) 
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  skip 2:45 - 3:45 "The Organism as Servant of Many Masters" 
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  skip Chair: Ken Waters (University of Minnesota) 
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  skip Speaker: William Cornwell (University of Connecticut) 
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  skip Commentator: Christopher D. Horvath (Illinois State University) 
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  skip 3:45 - 4:45 "Objectivity and Value-Laden Inference" 
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  skip Chair: Philip Ehrlich (Ohio University) 
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  skip Speaker: Mark Risjord (Emory University) 
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  skip Commentator: Rebecca Kukla (University of New Mexico) 

 

• I-E. 1:45 - 4:45,
  PDR 5 COLLOQUIUM: History of Ethics 
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  skip 1:45 - 2:45 "A Human Conception of Kantian Freedom" 
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  skip Chair: Marcia Baron (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 
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  skip Speaker: Jeanine M. Grenberg (St. Olaf College) 
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  skip Commentator: Ed McNair (Education, Illinois State University) 
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  skip 2:45 - 3:45 "Not by Reason Alone: Hume's Reply to Wollaston and Clarke in Treatise III.i.1" 
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  skip Chair: Michael Gill (Purdue University) 
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  skip Speaker: John Corvino (University of Texas, Austin) 
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  skip Commentator: Erin Kelly (Tufts University) 
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  skip 3:45 - 4:45 "Egoism and Formalism in Kant's Account of Practical Laws" 
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  skip Chair: David Denz (St. Meinrad College) 
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  skip Speaker: Jeffrey Edwards (SUNY Stony Brook) 
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  skip Commentator: Tamar Schapiro (Harvard University) 

 

• I-F. 1:45 - 4:45,
  PDR 6 COLLOQUIUM: Social Philosophy 
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  skip 1:45 - 2:45 "Social Privilege and Basic Rights" 
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  skip Chair: Thomas Carson (Loyola University of Chicago) 
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  skip Speaker: J. Harvey (University of Guelph) 
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  skip Commentator: Margaret Walker (Ethics Center, University of South Florida/Fordham University) 
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  skip 2:45 - 3:45 "Transformative Communication Toward Democratic Communities: Pragmatism or Critical Theory?" 
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  skip Chair: John J. Stuhr (Pennsylvania State University) 
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  skip Speaker: Judith Green (Fordham University) 
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  skip Commentator: Larry Hickman (Southern Illinois University) 
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  skip 3:45 - 4:45 "The Liberties of the Ancients and Moderns in Rawls and Habermas" 
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  skip Chair: Norman Care (Oberlin College) 
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  skip Speaker: Steven Hendley (Birmingham-Southern College) 
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  skip Commentator: William Rehg (Saint Louis University) 

 

• I-G. 1:45 - 4:45,
  PDR 7 COLLOQUIUM: Aesthetics 
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  skip 1:45 - 2:45 "How We Can Be Moved by Anna Karenina - And Green Slime" 
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  skip Chair: Kendall L. Walton (University of Michigan) 
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  skip Speaker: Glenn Hartz (Ohio State University) 
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  skip Commentator: Jenefer Robinson (University of Cincinnati) 
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  skip 2:45 - 3:45 "Empathy for Fictions" (Winner of 1998 Graduate Student Travel Stipend) 
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  skip Chair: Sally Markowitz (Willamette University) 
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  skip Speaker: James Harold (University of Minnesota) 
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  skip Commentator: Susan Feagin (University of Missouri, Kansas City) 
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  skip 3:45 - 4:45 "Aesthetics and Feminism" 
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  skip Chair: Erin McKenna (Pacific Lutheran University) 
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  skip Speaker: Deborah J. Fitzgerald (Furman University) 
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  skip Commentator: Carolyn Korsmeyer (State University of New York at Buffalo) 

 

• I-H. 1:45 - 4:45,
  PDR 8 COLLOQUIUM: Philosophy of Language I 
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  skip 1:45 - 2:45 "Towards an Unhappy-Face Solution to the Sorites Paradox" (Winner of 1998 Graduate Student Travel Stipend) 
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  skip Chair: Timothy McCarthy (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 
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  skip Speaker: Margaret A. Cuonzo (CUNY Graduate Center) 
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  skip Commentator: Marjorie Hass (Muhlenburg College) 
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  skip 2:45 - 3:45 "Classical Propositionalism, Generation Gaps, and the Diagonal Argument" 
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  skip Chair: Joshua Finkler (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 
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  skip Speaker: Philip Robbins (University of Chicago) 
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  skip Commentator: Patrick Hayes (University of West Florida) 
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  skip 3:45 - 4:45 "Moderate Holism and the Instability Assumption" 
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  skip Chair: Dorothy Grover (University of Illinois, Chicago)
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  skip Speaker: Henry Jackman (University of Toledo) 
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  skip Commentator: Gerald Vision (Temple University) 

 

• I-J. 1:45 - 4:45,
  PDR 9 SPECIAL SESSION Organized by the APA Board of Officers: "Talk with the APA -- Philosophy at Two Year Colleges"
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  skip Speakers: Eric Hoffman (Executive Director, American Philosophical Association)
  Philip Quinn (University of Notre Dame; Chair, APA Board of Officers)
  Kenneth Cooley (University of Wisconsin, Waukesha)
  Louisa Moon (Chair, APA Committee on Philosophy at Two-Year Colleges, 1998-2001) 

 

• I-K. 1:45 - 4:45,
  Parlor B SPECIAL SESSION Organized by the APA Committee on International Cooperation, Session I: "Toleration in Historical Perspective"
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  skip Chair: Daniel Garber (University of Chicago) 
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  skip Title: "Montaigne on Toleration" 
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  skip Speaker: Edwin Curley (University of Michigan) 
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  skip Title: "How Much Toleration Can We Bear? Spinoza on the Paradoxes of a Reasonable Polity" 
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  skip Speaker: Piet Steenbakkers (University of Utrecht) 
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  skip Commentator: Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin, Madison) 

 

• I-L. 1:45 - 4:45,
  Parlor C SPECIAL SESSION Organized by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Medicine: "Priority-Setting in Health Care Today: From Managed Care to Moral Mayhem"
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  skip Chair: Leonard M. Fleck (Michigan State University)
  Daniel Wikler (University of Wisconsin, Madison) 
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  skip Speakers: Norman Daniels (Tufts University)
  Leonard M. Fleck (Michigan State University)