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61st annual Northwest Philosophy Conference
October 23-24, 2009
Schedule Overview:
Friday, October 23 (Registration and Conference Social will be in the MPR, in the lower level of the University Center, also called Washburn Hall)
- 4:00-6:00pm Registration
- 6:00-8:00pm Conference Social
- 8:00-9:30pm Taping of "Philosophy Talk" (McCready Hall)
Saturday, October 24 (Registration is in Marsh Hall, 2nd floor lobby; meals are in the MPR, in the University Center)
- 8:00-1:00am Registration (Marsh Hall second floor lobby)
- 8:00-11:00am Paper Session #1
- 1:00am-2:00pm Lunch (MPR, in University Center)
- 2:00-5:00pm Paper Session #2
- 5:00-7:00pm Keynote Session
- 7:00-9:00pm Conference Banquet
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Detailed schedule:
Saturday, October 24 (Registration is in Marsh Hall, 2nd floor lobby; meals are in the MPR, in the University Center)
- 8:00-8:55
- EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY(Marsh LL5)
- J.J. Thompson/R.E. Jennings (Simon Fraser University), "Biology and Linguistics: Whence Hierarchy?"
- Commentator:
- ETHICS (Marsh 101)
- Jennifer Kling (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill), "Becoming Fully Virtuous: A How-To Guide"
- Commentator: Bertha Alvarez Manninen (Arizona State University - West Campus)
- PHYSICALISM (Marsh 106)
- James Blackmon (San Fransico State University), "Physical Realizations of the Mental"
- Commentator: Kevin Morris (Brown University)
- CONSCIOUSNESS & EXPERIENCE (Marsh 201)
- Gary Bartlett (Central Washington University), "Activity and Experience"
- Commentator: Colin Patrick (University of Portland)
- ART/AESTHETICS (Marsh 206)
- Stacey Jean Barron (University of Idaho), "The Moralism/Formalism Intersection in Kantian Aesthetics"
- Commentator: Diane Williamson (Le Moyne College)
- RORTY (Marsh 207)
- Aurora Hudson (University of Oregon), "How Can Language Do Work?: The Problem in Rorty's 'Feminism and Pragmatism'"
- Commentator:
- PLATO (Marsh 213)
- Yancy Hughes Dominick (Seattle University), "Images for the Sake of the Truth in Plato's Symposium"
- Commentator: Nathan Carson (Baylor University)
- EPISTEMOLOGY (Marsh 214)
- Basil Smith (Saddleback College), "The Incoherence of Social Externalism"
- Commentator:
- FREEDOM/DETERMINISM (CARNEGIE 205)
- Oisin Deery (University of British Columbia), "How Our Experience As Agents is Mistaken if Determinism is True"
- Commentator: John Bailar (University of Idaho)
- PHILOSOPHY OF ACTION (CARNEGIE 306)
- Rebekah Rice (Seattle Pacific University), "Reasons, Agency, and Alienation: A Critique of Reason Extermalism"
- Commentator: Katie Padgett Walsh (Iowa State University)
- MODALITY (CARNEGIE 311)
- Richard Gawne (Western Michigan University), "Indexical Multiplicity and Possible Worlds"
- Commentator:
- PHILOSOPHY OF MIND (WARNER 22)
- Vincent Picciuto (University of Maryland), "Phenomenal Concepts and the Nature of Phenomenal Consciousness"
- Commentator:
- LANGUAGE (WARNER 28)
- Derek Moyer (University of Oregon), "Searle's Sincerity Condition and the Role of Psychological States in Speech Act Theory"
- Commentator:
- EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY(Marsh LL5)
- 9:00 - 9:55
- EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY(Marsh LL5)
- J.W. Braithwaite/R.E. Jennings (Simon Fraser University), "Why is Human Morality"
- Commentator: J.J. Thompson (Simon Fraser University)
- ETHICS (Marsh 101)
- Reshef Agam-Segal (Auburn University), "A Splitting Mind-Ache: The Case of Self-Legislation"
- Commentator: Jason Benchimol (University of Washington)
- PHYSICALISM (Marsh 106)
- Kevin Morris (Brown University), "What's Wrong With 'Brute' Supervenience?"
- Commentator: Justin Tiehen (University of Puget Sound)
- CONSCIOUSNESS & EXPERIENCE (Marsh 201)
- Michael Bruno (Lewis & Clark College), "Minimal Enactivism"
- Commentator: David DeMoss (Pacific University)
- ART/AESTHETICS (Marsh 206)
- Jessica Logue (University of Portland), "Cinematic Distractions"
- Commentator: Stacey Jean Barron (University of Idaho)
- RORTY (Marsh 207)
- Emma Jones (University of Oregon), "'The Private Poem of the Pervert,' or, Rorty Creates Freud Ex Nihilo"
- Commentator: Roger Hunt (Boston University)
- NIETZSCHE (Marsh 212)
- Al Frankowski (University of Oregon), "The Nietzschean Sublime and the Political: A Contribution to Rethinking the Relation of Nietzsche's Aesthetics to Political Ontology"
- Commentator: Eli Ashe (University of Washington)
- PLATO (Marsh 213)
- Rod Jenks (University of Portland), "Fire in the Cave"
- Commentator: William Uzgalis (Oregon State University)
- EPISTEMOLOGY (Marsh 214)
- Alex von Stein (Lewis & Clark College), "A Survey of Doxastic Voluntarism"
- Commentator:
- FREEDOM/DETERMINISM (CARNEGIE 205)
- Charles T. Vachapittack (Oklahoma State University), "Negotiating Influences"
- Commentator: Oisin Deery (Unniversity of British Columbia)
- PHILOSOPHY OF ACTION (CARNEGIE 306)
- Ileana Szymanski (University of Scranton), "Philosophy of Food: How our choices with respect to food create habits that can be mirrored in the choices we make to find happiness in every-day life"
- Commentator: Emrys Westacott (Alfred University)
- MODALITY (CARNEGIE 311)
- Chad Vance (University of Colorado at Boulder), "Conceivability Is Not a Guide to Metaphysical Possibility"
- Commentator: Hope Sample (Northern Illinois University)
- PHILOSOPHY OF MIND (WARNER 22)
- Jennifer Matey (Florida International University), "Can Blue Mean Four?: What Synaesthesia Tell Us About Perceptual Content"
- Commentator: Gary Bartlett (Central Washington University)
- LANGUAGE (WARNER 28)
- Pamela Robinson (University of British Columbia), "The Negation Problem for Expressivism: Solutions and Implications"
- Commentator:
- EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY(Marsh LL5)
- 10:00 - 10:55
- EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY(Marsh LL5)
- Yue Chen/R.E. Jennings (Simon Fraser University), "Articular Models for First Degree Entailment"
- Commentator:
- ETHICS (Marsh 101)
- David Kaspar (University of Nevada, Reno), "If I Don't Do It, Somebody Else Will"
- Commentator: Reshef Agam-Segal (Auburn University)
- PHYSICALISM (Marsh 106)
- Justin Tiehen (University of Puget Sound), "Explaining Causal Closure"
- Commentator: Sara Bernstein (University of Arizona)
- HEGEL (Marsh 201)
- J.M. Fritzman/Kristin Thornburg (Lewis & Clark College), "How Analytic Philosophy Resurrects the Metaphysical Hegel"
- Commentator: Joshua Wretzel (Washington State University - Tri-Cities)
- ART/AESTHETICS (Marsh 206)
- Emrys Westacott (Alfred University), "Must Good Art be Edifying"
- Commentator: John Rowell (Selkirk College)
- RORTY (Marsh 207)
- Elena Cuffari (Univeristy of Oregon), "Come On, Rorty (Don't Fear the Reaper): Why Rorty Should Ditch Davidson"
- Commentator: Eli Ashe (University of Washington)
- BENJAMIN (Marsh 212)
- Brian Elliott (University of Oregon), "Law, Violence, and Dissent in Benjamin and Agamben"
- Commentator:
- PLATO (Marsh 213)
- Sarah Raskoff (Lewis & Clark College), "Socrates on the Unity or Disunity of Desire"
- Commentator: Daniel Bradley (Gonzaga University)
- EPISTEMOLOGY (Marsh 214)
- David Alexander (Iowa State University), "Basic Justification and Reflective Defeat"
- Commentator: Thomas Metcalf (University of Colorado at Boulder)
- FREEDOM/DETERMINISM (CARNEGIE 205)
- Tony Pierce (University of Idaho), "Dewey's Denial of Determinism"
- Commentator: Anthony Cashio (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)
- PHILOSOPHY OF ACTION (CARNEGIE 306)
- Brooke Roberts (University of Idaho), "Apologizing Without Regret"
- Commentator: Leonard Kahn (United States Air Force Academy)
- PHILOSOPHY OF MIND (WARNER 22)
- Amanda Marshall (Western Michigan University), "The Intuitive Appeal of Multiple Realization"
- Commentator: Sruthi Rothefluch (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)
- LANGUAGE (WARNER 28)
- Steven Gamboa (California State University, Bakersfield), "Neo-Empiricism and Intenationality: From co-variance to interactionism"
- Commentator: Alex von Stein (Lewis & Clark College)
- EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY(Marsh LL5)
- 11:00 - 11:55
- EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY(Marsh LL5)
- R.E. Jennings (Simon Fraser University)/Robert Warner (SUNY Health Sciences Center/Duke University Medical Center), "Knowledge and Understanding"
- Commentator: Randy Mayes (Sacramento State University)
- EPISTEMOLOGY (Marsh 101)
- Jason Baehr (Loyola Marymount University), "Credit Theories and the Value of Knowledge"
- Commentator: Alexander Arnold (University of Notre Dame)
- Joshua Wretzel (Washington State University - Tri-Cities), "Concepts and Correspondence in Kant's Metaphysics of Intentionality"
- Commentator:
- HEGEL (Marsh 201)
- Kate Padgett Walsh (Iowa State University), "Intersubjective Critical Distance"
- Commentator: J.M. Fritzman (Lewis & Clark College)
- ART/AESTHETICS (Marsh 206)
- Eli Ashe (University of Washington), "Epiaesthogo"
- Commentator:
- DESCARTES (Marsh 207)
- John Rowell (Selkirk College), "Descartes' Challenge to the Atheists"
- Commentator: Roger Hunt (Boston University)
- ARISTOTLE (Marsh 213)
- Krisanna Scheiter (University of Pennsylvania), "Aristotle on Pleasure, Pain and Emotion"
- Commentator: Mary Katrina Krizan (University of Colorado)
- VIRTUAL REALITY (Marsh 214)
- Tad Bratkowski (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale), "Pragmatist vs. Neo-Heideggerian Views on Technology: Applying the Debate to Virtual Reality and Computer Simulations"
- Commentator: Matthew Stockton (Portland Community College)
- FREEDOM/DETERMINISM (CARNEGIE 205)
- Zachary Goldberg (Arizona State University), "Van Inwagen's Two Failed Arguments for the Belief in Freedom"
- Commentator: Kristin Thornburg (Lewis & Clark College)
- PHILOSOPHY OF ACTION (CARNEGIE 306)
- Erica Lucast Stonestreet (College of St. Benedict/St. John's University), "Being in Charge: The Moral Significance of Choice"
- Commentator: Jeff Brand-Ballard (George Washington University)
- ANIMALS (CARNEGIE 311)
- George Backen (Adams State College), "Animal Lovers"
- Commentator: Geoffrey Frasz (College of Southern Nevada)
- EPISTEMOLOGY (WARNER 22)
- Jonathan Spelman (University of Missouri - St. Louis), "Knowledge As Cognitive Achievement"
- Commentator:
- EPISTEMOLOGY (WARNER 28)
- Ali Hasan (University of Iowa), "Skepticism and Spatial Objects"
- Commentator: James Blackmon (San Francisco State University)
- EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY(Marsh LL5)
- 12:00 - 12:55
- EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY(Marsh LL5)
- Matthew Braddock (Duke University), " Constructivist Experimental Philosophy Vindicates an Ancient View of Well-Being"
- Commentator: Elena Cuffari (University of Oregon)
- EPISTEMOLOGY (Marsh 101)
- Noa Latham (University of Calgary), "Scepticism and A Prior Probability Principles"
- Commentator: Anthony Coleman (Willamette University)
- KANT (Marsh 106)
- Aaron Bunch (Washington State University), "The Body as Instrument and as 'Person' in Kant's Moral Philosophy"
- Commentator: Alonso Villaran (Loyola University Chicago)
- IDENTITY (Marsh 201)
- Stephanie Adair (Duquesne University), "Unity and Difference: A Critical Appraisal of Polarizing Gender Identities"
- Commentator:
- HUME (Marsh 206)
- Hope Sample (Northern Illinois University), "Responses to Hume's Missing Shade of Blue"
- Commentator: Steven Gamboa (California State University, Bakersfield)
- KIERKEGAARD (Marsh 207)
- Nathan Carson (Baylor University), "The Extent of Kierkegaard's Skepticism"
- Commentator: Jason Lopez (Indiana University)
- GADAMER (Marsh 212)
- Peter Fristedt (Hood College), "Understanding across Contexts: A Gadamerian Approach"
- Commentator: Serge Grigoriev (University of Hawaii at Hilo)
- ARISTOTLE (Marsh 213)
- Mary Katrina Krizan (University of Colorado at Boulder), "That-en: A case for restricting potentiality in Aristotle's Metaphysics Theta.7"
- Commentator: Yancy Hughes Dominick (Seattle University)
- VIRTUAL REALITY (Marsh 214)
- Matthew S. Stockton (Portland Community College), "Ethically Defensible Acts of Immorality: Rethinking Ethics in Virutal Realms"
- Commentator: Tad Bratkowski (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)
- AGENCY (CARNEGIE 205)
- Jennifer Zamzow (University of Arizona), "Advantages of Taking a First Person Perspective When Making Moral Judgments"
- Commentator: Avram Hiller (Portland State University)
- IDEOLOGY (CARNEGIE 306)
- Walter Lammi (American Univeristy in Cairo), "Thinking Anew About Ideology"
- Commentator: Alex Sager (Portland State University)
- ANIMALS (CARNEGIE 311)
- Camille Atkinson (Oregon State University), "Are Animals People, Too?"
- Commentator: Brooke Roberts (University of Idaho)
- EPISTEMOLOGY (WARNER 22)
- Sruthi Rothenfluch (University of Nebraska - Lincoln), "'Knows' and Adjectives"
- Commentator:
- METAPHYSICS (WARNER 28)
- Chelsea Haramia (University of Colorado at Boulder), "A De Dicto Solution to the Non-Identity Problem"
- Commentator:
- EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY(Marsh LL5)
- 1:00 - 1:55 LUNCH
- 2:00 - 2:55
- EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY(Marsh LL5)
- Christopher Zarpentine (Florida State Univeristy), "Taking Diversity Seriously: Experimental Philosophy, synchronic and diachronic approaches to the study of concepts"
- Commentator: Adam Feltz (Schreiner University)
- MEREOLOGY (Marsh 101)
- Sara Bernstein (University of Arizona), "The Social Composition Question"
- Commentator: Jay Odenbaugh (Lewis & Clark College)
- KANT (Marsh 106)
- Diane Williamson (Le Moyne College), " Is 'the Guise of the Good' the Achilles Heel of Rationalism?"
- Commentator: J.M. Fritzman (Lewis & Clark College)
- FOUCAULT (Marsh 201)
- Saladdin Ahmed (University of Ottawa), "Foucault, Truth, Genealogy"
- Commentator: Dan Johnson (University of Idaho)
- RUSSELL (Marsh 206)
- Russell Wahl (Idaho State University), "Analysis and Acquaintance"
- Commentator: W. Russ Payne (Bellevue College)
- PHILOSOPHY OF MATH (Marsh 207)
- Sharon Berry (Harvard University), "A Posteriori Mathematics?"
- Commentator: Mark C R Smith (Queen's University)
- PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION (Marsh 212)
- James Baillie (University of Portland), "New Problems for Religious Pluralism"
- Commentator: William Rottschaefer (Lewis & Clark College)
- LOCKE (Marsh 214)
- William Uzgalis (Oregon State University), "'Did I Do That?' Lock, The Circularity Objection and Q-Memory"
- Commentator: Basil Smith (Saddleback College)
- POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY (CARNEGIE 205)
- Nina Brewer-Davis (University of California, San Diego), "Political Obligation through Conversation"
- Commentator: Jennifer Kling (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill)
- CULTURE & IDENTITY (CARNEGIE 306)
- Daniel Bradley (Gonzaga University)/Felix Ó. Murchadha (National University of Ireland, Galway), "Commenoration as Pharmakon: The ambiguous relation between commemoration, historical distance, and the establishment of authority"
- Commentator: Ileana Szymanski (University of Stockton)
- DAVIDSON (CARNEGIE 311)
- Serge Grigoriev (University of Hawaii at Hilo), "Some Noteworthy Problems in Davidson's Treatment of the Notion of Evidence"
- Commentator: Peter Fristedt (Hood College)
- EPISTEMOLOGY (WARNER 22)
- Joshua Rasmussen (University of Notre Dame), "What We See In Dreams"
- Commentator: Ali Hasan (University of Iowa)
- SELF-DECEPTION (WARNER 28)
- Jason Lopez (Indiana University), "The Pluralist View of Self-Deception"
- Commentator: George Backen (Adams State College)
- EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY(Marsh LL5)
- 3:00 - 3:55
- EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY(Marsh LL5)
- Adam Feltz (Schreiner University)/Edward T. Cokely (Max Planck Institute for Human Develpment), "The Philosophical Heritability Argument"
- Commentator: Jennifer Zamzow (University of Arizona)
- MEREOLOGY (Marsh 101)
- Andrew Bailey (University of Notre Dame), "What's Wrong with the Philosophy of Mind?"
- Commentator: Jason Decker (Carleton College)
- KANT (Marsh 106)
- Alonso Villaran (Loyola University Chicago), "Overcoming the Problems of Heteronomy and Deduction in Kant's Idea of the Highest Good"
- Commentator: Aaron Bunch (Washington State University)
- TEMPORALITY (Marsh 206)
- Roger Hunt (Boston University), "The Development and Defense of Kant's Ideality of Time"
- Commentator:
- PHILOSOPHY OF MATH (Marsh 207)
- Mark C R Smith (Queen's University), "Conceptual Practice and Objective Constraints in Mathematics"
- Commentator: Sharon Berry (Harvard University)
- PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION (Marsh 212)
- Thomas Metcalf (University of Colorado at Boulder), "Omnipotence, Moral Reasons, and the Logical Problem of Evil"
- Commentator: Jonathan Spelman (University of Missouri - St. Louis)
- AKRASIA (Marsh 213)
- Nicole Brunson (Washington State University), "Ignorance and Akratic Vice"
- Commentator: Krisanna Scheiter (University of Pennsylvania)
- MENTAL STATES (Marsh 214)
- Alexander Arnold (University of Notre Dame), "On Mental Statism"
- Commentator: Elijah Chudnoff (University of Miami)
- POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY (CARNEGIE 205)
- Julian Roel Gonzalez (Colorado State University), "Exploration of the Capabilities Approach and Its Accessibility"
- Commentator:
- CULTURE & IDENTITY (CARNEGIE 306)
- Rhea Muchalla (University of Oregon), "A Bin/ary Culture: Interrogating the Way Culture Functions in Everyday Life"
- Commentator: Brian Elliott (University of Oregon)
- EXPLANATION (WARNER 22)
- Todd Jones (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), "Are Customs and Conditioning Competitors?"
- Commentator: Gregory Janssen (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
- ABORTION (WARNER 28)
- Bertha Alvarez Manninen (Arizona State University - West Campus), "The Pro-Life Pro-Choicer: Battling the False Dichotomy"
- Commentator: Camille Atkinson (Oregon State University)
- EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY(Marsh LL5)
- 4:00 - 4:55
- EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY(Marsh LL5)
- Colin Koopman (Univesity of Oregon), "Pragmatist Resources for Experimental Philosophy"
- Commentator: Tony Pierce (University of Idaho)
- METAPHYSICS (Marsh 101)
- Badley Rettler (University of Notre Dame), "Presentism and Fatalism Revisted"
- Commentator: Rebekah Rice (Seattle Pacific University)
- WISDOM (Marsh 106)
- Mark Alfino (Gonzaga University), "Do Philosophers Have Anything to Say about Wisdom?"
- Commentator: Ramona Ilea (Pacific University)
- EMERSON (Marsh 201)
- Aaron Pratt (University of Oregon), "Emerson and Eckhart: A Unified View of the Moral Life"
- Commentator: Nina Brewer-Davis (University of California, San Diego)
- TEMPORALITY (Marsh 206)
- Anthony L. Cashio (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale), "Image, Time, and Freedom: Cassier's Encounter with Bergson's Metaphysics of Matter and Memory"
- Commentator: Roger Hunt (Boston University)
- LOGIC (Marsh 207)
- Jason Decker (Carleton College), "The (in)Validity of Modus Ponens"
- Commentator: Ivan Welty (Willamette University)
- AL-GHAZALI (Marsh 212)
- Aladdin Yaqub (Lehigh University), "Divine Unity in al-Ghazali's Incoherence of the Philosophers"
- Commentator: Adam Arola (Pacific University)
- IGNORANCE & ETHICS (Marsh 213)
- Jason Benchimol (University of Washington), "Voluntariness, Evaluative Judgment and Morally Culpable Ignorance"
- Commentator: Nicole Brunson (Washington State University)
- MENTAL STATES (Marsh 214)
- Elijah Chudnoff (University of Miami), "Intuition and Inference"
- Commentator: Jennifer Matey (Florida International University)
- POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY (CARNEGIE 205)
- Alex Sager (Portland State University), "Part Time and Temporary Work: Exploitation, Injustice, and Autonomy"
- Commentator: Lisa Blasch (Oregon State University)
- ETHICS (CARNEGIE 306)
- Jeff Brand-Ballard (George Washington University), "Moral Constructivism and Evolutionary Psychology"
- Commentator: Matthew Braddock (Duke University)
- NATURALISM (CARNEGIE 311)
- William Rottschaefer (Lewis & Clark College), "Second Philosophy and the Explanatory Power of Truth"
- Commentator: Eddie Cushman (Lewis & Clark College)
- EXPLANATION (WARNER 22)
- David James Frost (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill), "Empirical Moral Psychology and the Remains of Justification"
- Commentator:
- EPISTEMOLOGY (WARNER 28)
- Leonard Kahn (United States Air Force Academy), "The Valence of Reasons and the Thick/Thin Distinction"
- Commentator: Noa Latham (University of Calgary)
- EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY(Marsh LL5)
- 5:00 - 6:55 KEYNOTE SESSION
- EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY (Jefferson 223/224)
- Shaun Nichols (University of Arizona), "On the Psychological Origins of Dualism: Dual-Process Cognition and the Explanatory Gap"
- Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University), "Armchair Philosophy"
- 7:00-9:00 CONFERENCE BANQUET
