1998 APA Central Division Program



MAIN SESSION V: Saturday, May 9, 2:00 - 5:00 P.M.

 
V-A. 2:00 - 5:00,
Parlor A
AUTHOR MEETS CRITICS: Christine Korsgaard, Sources of Normativity
  Chair: Andy Reath (University of California, Riverside) 
  Speakers: Rachel Cohon (Stanford University)
Carol Voeller (Illinois Wesleyan University) 
  Responding: Christine Korsgaard (Harvard University) 
 
V-B. 2:00 - 5:00,
Wabash Parlor
INVITED SESSION: Russellian Theories of Cognition 
  Chair: David Shier (Washington State University) 
  Title: "The Semantics of Belief Ascriptions" 
  Speaker: Michael McKinsey (Wayne State University) 
  Commentator: Scott Soames (Princeton University) 
  Title: "Belief Attributions: Context and Content" 
  Speaker: Thomas McKay (Syracuse University) 
  Commentator: Stephen Schiffer (New York University) 
 
V-C. 2:00 - 5:00,
Crystal Room
INVITED SESSION: Philosophy and Society 
  Chair: Richard Schacht (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 
  Title: "Hegel, Nietzsche, and the Philosophical Foundations of New Work" 
  Speaker: Frithjof Bergmann (University of Michigan) 
  Commentator: William Schroeder (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 
  Title: "American Philosophy and the McCarthy Era" Program Change
  Speaker: John McCumber (Northwestern University) 
  Commentator: Laurie Shrage (California State Polytechnic, Pomona) 
 
V-D. 2:00 - 5:00,
PDR 4
COLLOQUIUM: Philosophy of Science III 
  2:00 - 3:00 "Can the Dutch Book Argument Really Be Depragmatized?" 
  Chair: Paul Moser (Loyola University of Chicago) 
  Speaker: Susan Vineberg (Wayne State University) 
  Commentator: Mark Kaplan (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) 
  3:00 - 4:00 "Inductive Logic and the Ravens Paradox" 
  Chair: Robert J. Richards (University of Chicago) 
  Speaker: Patrick Maher (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 
  Commentator: Branden Fitelson (University of Wisconsin, Madison) 
  4:00 - 5:00 "Are Forster and Sober Bayesian?" 
  Chair: William Wimsatt (University of Chicago) 
  Speaker: Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay (Montana State University)
Robert J. Boik (Statistics, Montana State University) 
  Commentator: Malcolm Forster (University of Wisconsin, Madison) 
 
V-E. 2:00 - 5:00,
PDR 5
COLLOQUIUM: Philosophy of Mind IV 
  2:00 - 3:00 "Jealousy and Envy" 
  Chair: Daniel Jacobson (College of Charleston) 
  Speaker: Robert C. Roberts (Wheaton College) 
  Commentator: Daniel M. Farrell (Ohio State University) 
  3:00 - 4:00 "Simulation or Interpretation: Is the Simulation Theory Philosophically Tenable?" 
  Chair: Justin D'Arms (Ohio State University) 
  Speaker: Karsten R. Stueber (College of the Holy Cross) 
  Commentator: Dona Warren (University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point) 
  4:00 - 5:00 "A Critique of Martin Davies on Rules" Program Change
  Chair: Diana Raffman (Ohio State University) 
  Speaker: Marcello Guarini (University of Western Ontario) 
  Commentator: John Tienson (University of Memphis) 
 
V-F. 2:00 - 5:00,
PDR 6
COLLOQUIUM: History of Modern Philosophy 
  2:00 - 3:00 "The 'Question of Fact' in Kant's Deduction of the Categories" 
  Chair: Kent Baldner (Western Michigan University) 
  Speaker: Ian Proops (Harvard University) 
  Commentator: Günter Zöller (University of Iowa) 
  3:00 - 4:00 "Hume's Metaphysical Argument Against Real Powers" 
  Chair: John Bricke (University of Kansas) 
  Speaker: D. Tycerium Lightner (Columbus College of Art and Design) 
  Commentator: William Morris (University of Cincinnati) 
  4:00 - 5:00 "Descartes on Indifference and Alternatives" 
  Chair: Peter Markie (University of Missouri, Columbia) 
  Speaker: Joseph Keim Campbell (Washington State University)  Program Change
  Commentator: Laurie Pieper (Kansas State University) 
 
V-G. 2:00 - 5:00,
PDR 7
COLLOQUIUM: Metaphysics I 
  2:00 - 3:00 "Negative Causes and Determinism" 
  Chair: Dean Zimmerman (University of Notre Dame) 
  Speaker: Mariam Thalos (SUNY Buffalo) 
  Commentator: Christopher Hitchcock (Rice University) 
  3:00 - 4:00 "Persistence, Parts, and Presentism" 
  Chair: Michael Burke (Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis) 
  Speaker: Trenton Merricks (Virginia Commonwealth University) 
  Commentator: Ted Sider (University of Rochester) 
  4:00 - 5:00 "Aristotelian Actualism without Property Actualism" 
  Chair: Lawrence B. Lombard (Wayne State University) 
  Speaker: Christine Weigel (Temple University) 
  Commentator: G. W. Fitch (Arizona State University) 
 
V-H. 2:00 - 5:00,
Parlor C
COLLOQUIUM: Applied Ethics 
  2:00 - 3:00 "Can Nonsentient Fetuses Have Interests?" 
  Chair: John Deigh (Northwestern University) Program Change
  Speaker: Don Marquis (University of Kansas) 
  Commentator: Heidi Malm (Loyola University, Chicago) 
  3:00 - 4:00 "Confucian Filial Obligation and Care for Aged Parents" 
  Chair: Christopher Gowans (Fordham University) 
  Speaker: Qingjie Wang (Oklahoma State University) 
  Commentator: Sue Martinelli-Fernandez (Western Illinois University) 
  4:00 - 5:00 "Second Best" 
  Chair: Eugenie Gatens-Robinson (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale) 
  Speaker: Dennis R. Cooley (East Carolina University) 
  Commentator: Judith Andre (Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, Michigan State University) Program Change
 
V-J. 2:00 - 5:00,
PDR 8
SPECIAL SESSION Organized by the Central Consortium on Teaching Philosophy: "Discussing Race and Gender in Philosophy Classes"
  Chair: Hugh LaFollette (East Tennessee State University) 
  Speakers: Charles Mills (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Ann Cudd (University of Kansas)
David Archard (University of St. Andrews, Scotland) 
  Commentator: Jeffrey Gold (East Tennessee State University) 
 
V-K. 2:00 - 5:00,
Parlor B
SPECIAL SESSION Organized by the APA Committee on International Cooperation, Session II: "Tests of Tolerance: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict"
  Chair: Tomis Kapitan (Northern Illinois University) 
  Title: "Zionism, Liberalism, and the State" 
  Speaker: Milton Fisk (Indiana University) 
  Title: "State Terrorism and Its Sponsors" 
  Speaker: Robert Ashmore (Marquette University) 
  Title: "Religious Claims and Religious Intransigence in Relation to the Conflict" 
  Speaker: David B. Burrell (University of Notre Dame) 
 
V-L. 2:00 - 5:00,
PDR 9
SPECIAL SESSION Organized by the APA Committee on Hispanics: "The Social Responsibilities of Philosophers: Latin American and US Perspectives"
  Chair: Jacqueline Mariña (Purdue University) 
  Speakers: Marcelo H. Sabates (Kansas State University)
Jorge M. Valadez (Marquette University)
George Trey (St. Mary's College) 
 
V-M. 2:00 - 5:00,
Parlor D
SPECIAL SESSION Organized by the APA Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession: "Family and Medical Leave Policies: Are They Helping Us or Hurting Us?"
  Chair: Eva Feder Kittay (SUNY at Stony Brook) 
  Speakers: Nora Kizer Bell (President, Wesleyan College)
Emily Buss (Law, University of Chicago) Program Change
Lynne Tirrell (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
Sally Haslanger (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)