1998 APA Central Division Program



MAIN SESSION II: Friday, May 8, 9:00 A.M. - noon

 
II-A. 9:00 - noon,
Wabash Parlor
SYMPOSIUM: Practical Reason 
  Chair: Robert Audi (University of Nebraska) 
  Speakers: Henry Richardson (Georgetown University)
David Schmidtz (University of Arizona) 
Elijah Millgram (Vanderbilt University) 
 
II-B. 9:00 - noon,
Crystal Room
INVITED SESSION: Logical Form 
  Chair: Robert May (Linguistics, University of California, Irvine) 
  Title: "Conceptions of Logical Form" 
  Speaker: Ernest LePore (Rutgers University)
Kirk Ludwig (University of Florida) 
  Commentator: Peter Ludlow (SUNY at Stony Brook) 
  Title: "Coloring and Composition" 
  Speaker: Stephen Neale (University of California, Berkeley) 
  Commentator: Robert Stainton (Carleton University, Ottawa) 
 
II-C. 9:00 - noon,
PDR 17
SYMPOSIUM: Peter Winch Memorial 
  Chair: Timothy McCarthy (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 
  Speakers: James Conant (University of Pittsburgh
Lars Hertzberg (Åbo Academy, Finland)
Meredith Williams (Northwestern University) 
 
II-D. 9:00 - noon,
PDR 4
COLLOQUIUM: Pragmatism 
  9:00 - 10:00 "Can a Pragmatist Teach Philosophy? Some Problems with Problems" 
  Chair: Vincent Colapietro (Pennsylvania State University) 
  Speaker: Scot D. Yoder (Michigan State University) 
  Commentator: Paul Thompson (Purdue University) 
  10:00 - 11:00 "Relativism in Pragmatic Epistemology" 
  Chair: Andrew Ward (San Jose State University) 
  Speaker: Paul Saka (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign) 
  Commentator: Jayne Tristan (Auburn University) 
  11:00 - noon "William James, Chaos Theory, and Conscious Experience" 
  Chair: John Capps (College of Charleston) 
  Speaker: Andrew Bailey (University of Calgary) 
  Commentator: Stephen H. Kellert (Hamline University) 
 
II-E. 9:00 - noon,
PDR 5
COLLOQUIUM: Philosophy of Science II 
  9:00 - 10:00 "Descartes, Newton and Huygens's Center of Mass Frame: Or, How to Build Your Own Cartesian Dynamics" 
  Chair: Harold Brown (Northern Illinois University) 
  Speaker: Edward Slowik (University of Alaska, Fairbanks) Program Change
  Commentator: Daniel Garber (University of Chicago) 
  10:00 - 11:00 "Relativistic Objects" 
  Chair: T. A. Ryckman (University of Illinois at Chicago and Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science, University of Chicago) 
  Speaker: Yuri Balashov (University of Notre Dame) 
  Commentator: Robert Rynasiewicz (Johns Hopkins University) 
  11:00 - noon "Scientific Observation: Image and Reality" 
  Chair: J.D. Trout (Loyola University of Chicago) 
  Speaker: Sara Vollmer (University of Maryland) 
  Commentator: Bonnie Paller (California State University, Northridge) 
 
II-F. 9:00 - noon,
PDR 6
COLLOQUIUM: Philosophy of Mind I 
  9:00 - 10:00 "What Am I?" 
  Chair: Robert Grimm (Oberlin College) 
  Speaker: Lynne Rudder Baker (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) 
  Commentator: William R. Carter (North Carolina State University) 
  10:00 - 11:00 "Must the Reductionist be a Punctualist?" 
  Chair: Marvin Belzer (Bowling Green State University) 
  Speaker: Mark Siderits (Illinois State University) 
  Commentator: Marya Schechtman (University of Illinois, Chicago) 
  11:00 - noon "Reconstructive Theories of Memory and the Justification of Self-Concern" 
  Chair: Robert Kraut (Ohio State University) 
  Speaker: Mark T. Brown (University of Wisconsin) 
  Commentator: Raymond Martin (University of Maryland, College Park) 
 
II-G. 9:00 - noon,
PDR 8
COLLOQUIUM: Philosophy of Law 
  9:00 - 10:00 "Hate Speech on Campus: Exploring the Limits of Free Speech" 
  Chair: Kevin Graham (Creighton University) 
  Speaker: Thomas W. Peard (Baker University) 
  Commentator: Steven Kershnar (Wayne State University) 
  10:00 - 11:00 "Context Sensitivity and Legal Reasoning" 
  Chair: Brie Gertler (College of William and Mary) 
  Speaker: Maureen Linker (University of Michigan, Dearborn) 
  Commentator: Richard Nunan (College of Charleston) 
  11:00 - noon "Cohen on Incentives, Inequality and Egalitarianism" 
  Chair: Michael Byron (Kent State University) 
  Speaker: Thomas Christiano (University of Arizona) 
  Commentator: Richard Arneson (University of California, San Diego) 
 
II-H. 9:00 - noon,
PDR 9
COLLOQUIUM: Socrates and Plato 
  9:00 - 10:00 "Esse is Percipi and the Levels Analogy: Republic 583b-585a" 
  Chair: Hugh Benson (University of Oklahoma) 
  Speaker: James Butler (Texas Christian University) 
  Commentator: Gareth Matthews (University of Massachusetts) 
  10:00 - 11:00 "Causation in Plato's Phaedo" 
  Chair: A. P. D. Mourelatos (The University of Texas at Austin) 
  Speaker: Sean Kelsey (Iowa State University) 
  Commentator: Patricia Curd (Purdue University) 
  11:00 - noon "Socrates and the Oracle" 
  Chair: C. D. C. Reeve (Reed College) 
  Speaker: James Doyle (Kansas State University) 
  Commentator: Nicholas D. Smith (Michigan State University) 
 
II-J. 9:00 - noon,
Parlor A
SPECIAL SESSION Organized by the APA Committee on Blacks, Session I: "Charles Mills's The Racial Contract"
  Chair: Jesse Taylor (Appalachian State University) 
  Speakers: Howard McGary (Rutgers University)
Linda Alcoff (Syracuse University) 
  Commentator: Bernard Boxill (University of North Carolina) 
 
II-K. 9:00 - noon,
PDR 7
GROUP SESSION: Society for Business Ethics
  Chair: John W. Dienhart (St. Cloud State University) 
  Title: "A South African Case Study: Can Ethical Values Combat Systemic Fraud?" 
  Speaker: Gideon J. Rossouw (Rand Afrikaans University) 
  Commentator: Patricia H. Werhane (University of Virginia) 
  Title: "Coming to Terms with Consequentialism: Stakeholder Theory and its Conceptual Roots" 
  Speaker: Alexei Marcoux (Bowling Green State University) 
  Commentator: John Boatright (Loyola University of Chicago) 
  Title: "The Proper Role of Virtue in Business Ethics" 
  Speaker: John R. Rowan (Purdue University Calumet) 
  Commentator: George Brenkert (Georgetown University) 
 
II-L. 9:00 - noon,
Parlor D
GROUP SESSION: North American Nietzsche Society
  Chair: Richard Schacht (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 
  Title: "Empedoclean Nature: Nietzsche's Critique of Teleology and the Organism through Goethe and Kant" 
  Speaker: Elaine Miller (DePaul University) 
  Title: "The Horizon of History and the Production of the 'Strong Personality'" 
  Speaker: Daniel Gold (University of New Mexico) 
  Title: "Nietzsche and the Dionysian Ideal" 
  Speaker: Nikolas Kompridis (Wilfrid Laurier University) 
 
II-M. 9:00 - noon,
Parlor B
GROUP SESSION: Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy, Session II
  Topic: Telling Identities 
  Chair: Timothy F. Murphy (University of Illinois, Chicago) 
  Title: Virtue Ethics and Outing 
  Speaker: Raja Halwani (Liberal Arts Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago) 
  Title: "How Do We Know What We Know? Coming Out and Problems of Self-Knowledge and Knowledge of Others" 
  Speaker: William Wilkerson (University of Alabama, Huntsville) 
 
II-N. 9:00 - noon,
Parlor C
GROUP SESSION: Society for Philosophy of Creativity/Foundation for Philosophy of Creativity
  Topic: Business Meeting