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APA Eastern Division 2018 Meeting Program The American Philosophical Association EASTERN DIVISION ONE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM SAVANNAH CONVENTION CENTER SAVANNAH, GEORGIA JANUARY 3 – 6, 2018 Visit our table at APA Eastern. Offering a 20% pb / 40% hc discount with free shipping to the contiguous U.S. for orders www.sunypress.edu placed at the conference. Lessing and the Enlightenment Failing Desire His Philosophy of Religion Karmen MacKendrick and Its Relation to Eighteenth- Century Thought Unmaking The Making of Americans Henry E. Allison Toward an Aesthetic Ontology E. L. McCallum Satan and Apocalypse And Other Essays in Political The Symbolic Order of the Mother Theology Luisa Muraro Thomas J. J. Altizer Translated by Francesca Novello Edited and with an Introduction Aristotle on God’s Life-Generating by Timothy S. Murphy Power and on Pneuma as Its Vehicle Foreword by Alison Stone Abraham P. Bos Defining Religion Having a Word with Angus Graham Essays in Philosophy of Religion At Twenty-Five Years into His Robert Cummings Neville Immortality The Last Fortress of Metaphysics Carine Defoort and Roger T. Ames, Jacques Derrida and the editors Deconstruction of Architecture March 2018 Francesco Vitale Inheritance in Psychoanalysis Translated by Mauro Senatore Joel Goldbach and James A. Godley, editors Author Meets Critics Session Mystery 101 Friday, January 8th, An Introduction to the 7:00 – 10:00 pm Big Questions and the Limits The Good Is One, of Human Knowledge Its Manifestations Many Richard H. Jones Confucian Essays on Metaphysics, Morals, For Foucault Rituals, Institutions, Against Normative and Genders Political Theory Robert Cummings Neville Mark G. E. Kelly IMPORTANT NOTICES FOR MEETING ATTENDEES SESSION LOCATIONS Please note: this online version of the program does not include session locations. The locations of all individual sessions will be included in the paper program that you will receive when you pick up your registration materials at the meeting (if you opted to receive a paper program) as well as in the meeting app beginning the first day of the meeting. IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT REGISTRATION Please note: it costs $50 less to register in advance than to register at the meeting. Early bird registration at www.apaonline.org is available until December 20 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. Online registration will be closed from December 21 until January 2. Beginning on January 3, registration will reopen, and you may register online or at the meeting registration desk. PRONOUN STICKERS Beginning this year, as a show of the APA’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, we are introducing pronoun stickers for your name badge, including blank stickers that will allow you to use a pronoun of your own choosing. Stickers will be available for pickup at registration and can easily be worn as a show of solidarity, and a means of making our annual conference a friendly and safe environment for all. GENDER-NEUTRAL BATHROOMS AND QUIET ROOM Gender-neutral bathrooms and a quiet room will be available at the Convention Center. A key for the quiet room is available at the registration desk. 1 Special Events EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING Wednesday, January 3, 1:00–6:00 p.m. AAPT/APA TEACHING HUB Thursday, January 4, Noon–10:30 p.m. Friday, January 5, 9:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m. DIVERSITY INSTITUTE ALUMNI NETWORKING LUNCHEON Invited participants only. Thursday, January 4, Noon–2:00 p.m. PRIZE RECEPTION Thursday, January 4, 5:00–6:00 p.m. RECEPTION Thursday, January 4, 8:00 p.m.–Midnight BUSINESS MEETING Friday, January 5, 11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. RECEPTION Friday, January 5, 9:00 p.m.–Midnight MENTORING THE MENTORS WORKSHOP Invited participants only. Saturday, January 6, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. 2018 Program Committee Susanne Sreedhar, chair Brian McLaughlin Ted Sider Luvell Anderson Rebecca Kukla Brad Cokelet Neil Feit Max Pensky Valerie Hardcastle Antonia LoLordo 2 AAPT/APA Mini-Conference on Teaching Philosophy: The Teaching Hub The American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) and the American Philosophical Association Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy (CTP) have co- organized a two-day conference on teaching for the 2018 Eastern Division meeting. We are aiming to bring the collegial and supportive culture of the AAPT to the APA; highlight teaching within the context of an APA meeting; stretch beyond the traditional APA session format to offer sessions that model active learning; and attract a broader range of philosophers to the divisional meetings. THURSDAY, JANUARY 4 Welcome, by Rebecca Scott, Chair, 2018 AAPT/APA Teaching Hub Noon M1 Inclusive Pedagogies Noon–2:00 p.m. Chair: Rebecca Scott (Loyola University Chicago) Presenters: Kevin Jobe (Our Lady of the Lake University (San Antonio)) “Global Philosophy at Hispanic-Serving Institutions: A Data-Driven, Community Cultural Wealth (CCW) Approach” W. John Koolage (Eastern Michigan University) and Danielle Clevenger (Eastern Michigan University) “Who Put the Students in Charge!?! The Sophia Project” Shoshana Brassfield (Frostburg State University) “Plato, DuBois, and the Examined Life” M2 AAPT Workshop: Innovative Methods in Philosophical Pedagogy 2:00–5:00 p.m. Chair: Zachary Barnett (Brown University) Presenters: Ann Cahill (Elon University) “Teaching Discussion Skills: A Metacognitive Approach” 3 AAPT-APA Mini-Conference on Teaching Philosophy Scott Tanona (Kansas State University) and Joshua DiPaolo (Kansas State University) “Behind the Veil: Teaching Rawls through Digital Gaming” Zoë Johnson King (University of Michigan) “Interactive Formative Assessment” Graham Leach-Krouse (Kansas State University) “Introducing Formal Reasoning with Carnap” Coffee and light refreshments will be served. M3 Public School Certification for Philosophy Graduate Students 5:15–7:15 p.m. Co-sponsored by PLATO and the APA Committee on Pre-College Instruction Chair: Alexandra Bradner (Kenyon College) Presenters: George Rainbolt (University of North Florida) Eddy Nahmias (Georgia State University) Ben Lukey (University of Hawaii) Chad Miller (University of Hawaii) Wendy Turgeon (St. Joseph’s College of New York) FRIDAY, JANUARY 5 M4 Designing a New Course: Strategies for Philosophy Teachers 9:00–11:00 a.m. Chair: Alexandra Bradner (Kenyon College) Presenters: Zoë Johnson King (University of Michigan) “Backwards Planning and Differentiated Course Design” Austin Rooney (Temple University) “Designing a New Course: Outcomes and Experience” Steven Hymowech (Fulton-Montgomery Community College) “Something Old, Something New: Creating a Web- Based Introductory Philosophy Course from an Established Traditional One” Daniel Massey (Spring Hill College) “Designing a Service-Learning Course in Philosophy” Continental breakfast will be served. 4 AAPT-APA Mini-Conference on Teaching Philosophy M5 Walk-In Teaching Consultations: One-on-One Sessions with Expert Teachers 11:15 a.m.–1:15 p.m. Sign up or walk in to get help diversifying your syllabus, increasing student participation and engagement, teaching online, starting as a new teacher, or promoting active learning. Consultants: Stephen Bloch-Schulman (Elon University) Alexandra Bradner (Kenyon College) David W. Concepción (Ball State University) Renee Smith (Coastal Carolina University) Wendy Turgeon (St. Joseph’s College of New York) Sarah Vitale (Ball State University) Organizer: David W. Concepción (Ball State University) M6 Using Vocabulary from Non-Western Languages in Teaching Philosophy 1:30–3:30 p.m. Co-Sponsored by the Society for Teaching Comparative Philosophy Chair: Sarah Mattice (University of North Florida) Presenters: Leah Kalmanson (Drake University) “What Does it Mean to ‘Do’ Philosophy? Using Literati (ru 儒) Methodologies in Undergraduate Coursework” Amy Donahue (Kennesaw University) “Using Pāli and Sanskrit to Ease Undergraduates’ Grasp of the Four Noble Truths” Aaron Creller (University of North Florida) “Arabic Vocabulary in Undergraduate Philosophy” M7 Closing Reception and Poster Session 7:00–9:00 p.m. Organizer: Christina Hendricks SoTL Research by Philosophy Teachers Posters: Charles Dalrymple-Fraser (University of Toronto) and Mark Fortney (University of Toronto) “Epistemic Exploitation of Students in Accommodation Policies and Practices” Yesenia Gonzalez (Texas A&M University) “Pre-College Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Social Problem Solving” Megan Malone (Georgia State University) and Peter Nenning (Georgia State University) “Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Flipped Model in a Critical Thinking Classroom” 5 AAPT-APA Mini-Conference on Teaching Philosophy Michael McGowan (Florida Southwestern State College) “How (and When) to Walk the Line: The Pedagogy of Contemporary Controversies” Alexandra Pelaez (Florida State University) “An Inclusive Approach to the Study of Virtues” Ann T. 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