1998 APA Central Division Program



MAIN SESSION III: Friday, May 8, 1:45 - 4:45 P.M.

 
III-A. 1:45 - 4:45,
Crystal Room
SYMPOSIUM: Habermas's Political Theory 
  Chair: Peter McInerney (Oberlin College) 
  Speakers: Thomas McCarthy (Northwestern University) 
James Bohman (St. Louis University) 
  Commentator: David Ingram (Loyola University, Chicago) 
 
III-B. 1:45 - 4:45,
Wabash Parlor
SYMPOSIUM: Mental Properties 
  Chair: William Taschek (Ohio State University 
  Speakers: Jaegwon Kim (Brown University)
Ned Block (New York University) 
  Commentator: Alex Byrne (MIT) 
 
III-C. 1:45 - 4:45,
PDR 17
INVITED SESSION: Philosophy of Mathematics 
  Chair: Michael Detlefsen (University of Notre Dame) 
  Title: "Cantor's Grundlagen and the Paradoxes of Set Theory " 
  Speaker: W. W. Tait (University of Chicago) 
  Commentator: Patricia Blanchette (University of Notre Dame) 
  Title: "The Euclidean Diagram" 
  Speaker: Kenneth Manders (University of Pittsburgh) 
  Commentator: Colin McLarty (Case Western Reserve) 
 
III-D. 1:45 - 4:45,
PDR 4
COLLOQUIUM: Ethics 
  1:45 - 2:45 "Act Utilitarianism and Cooperative Utilitarianism" 
  Chair: Michael Gorr (Illinois State University) 
  Speaker: R. Eric Barnes (University of Illinois) 
  Commentator: Bill Haines (University of Central Arkansas) 
  2:45 - 3:45 "Ethical Dilemmas: A Game-Theoretical Model with Economic and Ethical Interpretations" 
  Chair: David Fletcher (Wheaton College) 
  Speaker: Louis Corriveau (Université de Moncton)  Program Change
  Commentator: Ann Cudd (University of Kansas) 
  3:45 - 4:45 "Constructivist Moral Realism" 
  Chair: Alison Bailey (Illinois State University) 
  Speaker: J. K. Swindler (Wittenberg University) 
  Commentator: Larry May (Washington University) 
 
III-E. 1:45 - 4:45,
PDR 5
COLLOQUIUM: Philosophy of Mind II 
  1:45 - 2:45 "The Problematic Appeal to an External Perspective in Discussions of Personal Autonomy"  Program Change
  Chair: Hibi Pendleton (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 
  Speaker: Joel Anderson (Washington University, St. Louis) 
  Commentator: Hilary Bok (Pomona College) 
  2:45 - 3:45 "A Not-So-Simple View of Intentional Action" 
  Chair: Joseph Bessie (University of Central Oklahoma) 
  Speaker: David K. Chan (National University of Singapore) 
  Commentator: Frederick R. Adams (University of Delaware) 
  3:45 - 4:45 "'Intentional Death': Accounts of Suicide and the Problem of Accidental Self-Killing" 
  Chair: Laurie Calhoun (St. Cloud State University) 
  Speaker: Stefan Sencerz (Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi) 
  Commentator: Steven Wagner (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 
 
III-F. 1:45 - 4:45,
PDR 6
COLLOQUIUM: Moral Psychology 
  1:45 - 2:45 "Are Continence and Prudence Related?" 
  Chair: Richard Kraut (Northwestern University) 
  Speaker: Deborah DeChiara-Quenzer (St. John's Seminary) 
  Commentator: Kenneth D. Alpern (DePaul University) 
  2:45 - 3:45 "Emotions and Deliberation about Value" 
  Chair: Lawrence Becker (College of William and Mary) 
  Speaker: Bennett W. Helm (Franklin & Marshall College) 
  Commentator: Anthony Laden (University of Illinois, Chicago) 
  3:45 - 4:45 "Free Agency and Self-Esteem: What Gaslighting Cases Show" 
  Chair: Tom Wren (Loyola University of Chicago) 
  Speaker: Robert F. Allen (Independent Scholar) 
  Commentator: Marina Oshana (California State University, Sacramento) 
 
III-G. 1:45 - 4:45,
PDR 8
COLLOQUIUM: Ancient Philosophy 
  1:45 - 2:45 "Was Aristotle an Emergentist?" 
  Chair: Deborah Modrak (University of Rochester) 
  Speaker: David Newman (Western Michigan University) 
  Commentator: Herbert Granger (Wayne State University) 
  2:45 - 3:45 "Aristotle Against the Hippocratics on the Principles of Sexual Generation" 
  Chair: Anthony Preus (Binghamton University) 
  Speaker: Daryl M. Tress (Fordham University) 
  Commentator: Marguerite Deslauriers (McGill University) 
  3:45 - 4:45 "Alexander of Aphrodisias on Soul as Form" 
  Chair: John Ellis (University of Memphis) 
  Speaker: Inna Kupreeva (University of Toronto) 
  Commentator: Steven K. Strange (Emory University) 
 
III-H. 1:45 - 4:45,
PDR 9
COLLOQUIUM: Metaphysics II 
  1:45 - 2:45 "The Self-Knowledge That Externalists Leave Out" 
  Chair: John Heil (Davidson College) 
  Speaker: Lisa L. Hall (John Carroll University) 
  Commentator: Gary Ebbs (unaffiliated) 
  2:45 - 3:45 "Platonism in the Means of Construction" 
  Chair:
  Speaker: C. Wesley DeMarco (Oklahoma City University) 
  Commentator: Samuel Wheeler III (University of Connecticut) 
  3:45 - 4:45 "Don't Eat the Water" 
  Chair: Berent Enc (University of Wisconsin, Madison) 
  Speaker: David Barnett (New York University) 
  Commentator: Anthony Brueckner (University of California, Santa Barbara) 
 
III-J. 1:45 - 4:45,
Parlor A
SPECIAL SESSION Organized by the APA Committee on Blacks, Session II: "Michelle Moody-Adams's Fieldwork in Familiar Places: Morality, Culture and Philosophy"
  Chair: Blanche Radford-Curry (University of North Carolina, Fayetteville) 
  Speakers: Lawrence Blum (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
Laurence Thomas (Syracuse University) 
 
III-K. 1:45 - 4:45,
Parlor D
GROUP SESSION: International Society for Environmental Ethics, Session II
  Topic: Eric Katz's Nature as Subject: Human Obligation and Natural Community 
  Chair: Andrew Light (University of Montana) 
  Speakers: Ned Hettinger (College of Charleston)
Wayne Ouderkirk (SUNY College at Empire) 
  Responding: Eric Katz (New Jersey Institute of Technology) 
 
III-L. 1:45 - 4:45,
Parlor B
GROUP SESSION: Joint Session of the Society for Women in Philosophy and the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
  Topic: Pragmatism and Feminism: Reweaving The Social Fabric, by Charlene Haddock Seigfried 
  Speakers: Marilyn Fischer (University of Dayton)
Eugenie Gatens-Robinson (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)
Lisa M. Heldke (Gustavus Adolphus College)
Patricia Huntington (American University) 
  Responding: Charlene Haddock Seigfried (Purdue University) 
 
III-M. 1:45 - 4:45,
PDR 7
GROUP SESSION: Philosophy of Time Society, Session II
  Title: "The Detenser's Predicament" 
  Chair: Thomas Foster (Ball State University)
Richard Hughen (Fort Hays State University) 
  Speaker: George Schlesinger (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) 
  Commentator: Clifford Williams (Trinity International University) 
  A Business Meeting will take place during this session
 
III-N. 1:45 - 4:45,
Parlor C
GROUP SESSION: Association of Philosophy Journal Editors
  Topic: Update on Electronic Journal Publishing 
  Speaker: George Leaman (Philosophy Documentation Center)