Crystal Room
Robyn Carston (Linguistics, University of London)
| IV-A. |
9:00 - noon, PDR 17 |
SYMPOSIUM: Ethical Criticism: For and Against |
| Chair: | Patricia Herzog (Brandeis University) | |
| Speakers: | Martha Nussbaum (Law and Philosophy, University of Chicago) Wayne Booth (English, University of Chicago) Richard Posner (Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit) |
| IV-B. |
9:00 - noon, Crystal Room |
SYMPOSIUM: Semantics vs. Pragmatics |
| Chair: | Leonard J. Clapp (Illinois Wesleyan University)
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| Speakers: | Kent Bach (San Francisco State University) Robyn Carston (Linguistics, University of London) | |
| Commentator: | William Lycan (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) |
| IV-C. |
9:00 - noon, Wabash Parlor |
SYMPOSIUM: Science Wars |
| Chair: | Arthur Fine (Northwestern University) | |
| Speakers: | Lisa Lloyd (University of California, Berkeley) Mara Beller (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) | |
| Commentator: | Stephen H. Kellert (Hamline University) |
| IV-D. |
9:00 - noon, PDR 4 |
COLLOQUIUM: Continental Philosophy |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | "The Graft of the Ordinary" | |
| Chair: | Arthur Melnick (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) | |
| Speaker: | John C. Coker (University of South Alabama) | |
| Commentator: | Ed Witherspoon (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | "How Freedom Requires Welfare: Hegel's Argument against Libertarianism and for a Welfare State" | |
| Chair: | Kevin Hill (Northwestern University) | |
| Speaker: | Robert M. Wallace (Independent Scholar) | |
| Commentator: | Richard Schacht (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) | |
| 11:00 - noon | "The Tone of the Epoch: Heidegger's Grundstimmungen" | |
| Chair: | Theodore J. Kisiel (Northern Illinois University)
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| Speaker: | Pierre Lamarche (University of Texas, Austin) | |
| Commentator: | William McNeill (DePaul University) |
| IV-E. |
9:00 - noon, PDR 5 |
COLLOQUIUM: Philosophy of Mind III |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | "Chalmers's Argument for Dualism about Phenomenal Properties" | |
| Chair: | Daniel Stoljar (University of Colorado, Boulder) | |
| Speaker: | Andrew Melnyk (University of Missouri, Columbia) | |
| Commentator: | Terry Horgan (University of Memphis) | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | "Physicalism without Token Identity: The Ubiquity of Real Coincidence" | |
| Chair: | Michael Silberstein (Elizabethtown College) | |
| Speaker: | James Taggart (Brown University) | |
| Commentator: | Ed Cox (University of Oklahoma) | |
| 11:00 - noon | "The Rational Character of Belief and the Argument for Mental Anomalism" (Winner of 1998 Graduate Student Travel Stipend) | |
| Chair: | Sanford Goldberg (Grinnell College) | |
| Speaker: | Evan Tiffany (University of California, San Diego) | |
| Commentator: | Carl Gillett (Illinois Wesleyan University) |
| IV-F. |
9:00 - noon, PDR 6 |
COLLOQUIUM: Metaethics |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | "Ethical Naturalism Meets the New Open Question Argument" | |
| Chair: | Michael DePaul (University of Notre Dame) | |
| Speaker: | Thomas D. Bontly (University of Wisconsin, Madison) | |
| Commentator: | Mark Timmons (University of Memphis) | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | "A Defense of Expressivism (Against an Illuminating Objection)" | |
| Chair: | David Copp (University of California, Davis) | |
| Speaker: | James Dreier (Brown University) | |
| Commentator: | Mark van Roojen (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) | |
| 11:00 - noon | "A More Wittgensteinian Moral Realism"
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| Chair: | William Tolhurst (Northern Illinois University) | |
| Speaker: | Jeffrey D. Smith (University of Minnesota) | |
| Commentator: | George Harris (College of William and Mary) |
| IV-G. |
9:00 - noon, PDR 8 |
COLLOQUIUM: Epistemology |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | "An Internalist Rejoinder to Skepticism" | |
| Chair: | Matthias Steup (St. Cloud State University) | |
| Speaker: | Gregg Ten Elshof (University of Southern California)
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| Commentator: | Michael Bergmann (Purdue University) | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | "Transferring Knowledge" | |
| Chair: | Marian David (University of Notre Dame) | |
| Speaker: | Peter J. Graham (Stanford University) | |
| Commentator: | Ted A. Warfield (University of Notre Dame) | |
| 11:00 - noon | "The Knower Paradox and Epistemic Closure" | |
| Chair: | Patrick Grim (SUNY Stony Brook) | |
| Speaker: | Stephen Maitzen (Dalhousie University) | |
| Commentator: | C. Anthony Anderson (University of California, Santa Barbara) |
| IV-H. |
9:00 - noon, PDR 9 |
COLLOQUIUM: Philosophy of Language II |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | "Vagueness, Context and Analysis" | |
| Chair: | Paul Roth (University of Missouri, St. Louis) | |
| Speaker: | Newton Garver (SUNY Buffalo) | |
| Commentator: | Delia Graff (Princeton University) | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | "James and Wittgenstein on Language" | |
| Chair: | David Stern (University of Iowa) | |
| Speaker: | Russell B. Goodman (University of New Mexico) | |
| Commentator: | Ken Stikkers (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale) | |
| 11:00 - noon | "Truth in the Best of Circumstances" | |
| Chair: | Frederick Schmitt (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) | |
| Speaker: | David B. Martens (University of Guelph) | |
| Commentator: | Jonathan Kvanvig (Texas A&M University) |
| IV-J. |
9:00 - noon, Parlor B |
SPECIAL SESSION Organized by the APA Committee on Computers and Philosophy: "The Future of Computing in Philosophy and Logic" |
| Title: | "Computers and the Visualization of Logic" (The EDUCOM Medal Lecture) | |
| Speaker: | Jon Barwise (Indiana University) John Etchemendy (Stanford University) | |
| Title: | "Broadcasting Your Conferences, Colloquia, and Lectures Live Over the World Wide Web" | |
| Speaker: | Lawrence Hinman (University of San Diego) | |
| Title: | "Teaching Research: Using the WWW in Philosophy" | |
| Speaker: | Valerie Gray Hardcastle (Virginia Tech) |
| IV-K. |
9:00 - noon, PDR 7 |
SPECIAL SESSION Organized by the APA Committee on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy: "The Early Formation of Some Famous Philosophers" |
| Chair: | Juliette Christie (Central Michigan University) | |
| Title: | "Kant's Bildung" | |
| Speaker: | Arnulf Zweig (University of Oregon) | |
| Title: | "The Young Charles Peirce: Aspirations and Achievements" | |
| Speaker: | Charles Seibert (University of Cincinnati) | |
| Title: | "Fostering a Love of Wisdom: The Childhood of Simone de Beauvoir" | |
| Speaker: | Juliette Christie (Central Michigan University) |
| IV-L. |
9:00 - noon, Parlor A |
SPECIAL SESSION Organized by the APA Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Philosophers: "Genetics, Homosexuality, and the Law" |
| Chair: | Richard Mohr (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) | |
| Speakers: | Christopher D. Horvath (Illinois State University) Timothy F. Murphy (University of Illinois, Chicago) Noretta Koertge (Indiana University) Andrew Kopelmann (Northwestern University Law School) |