WCPA 2008 Western Canadian Philosophical Association University of Alberta 45Th Annual Meeting

WCPA 2008 Western Canadian Philosophical Association University of Alberta 45th Annual Meeting

Friday, Oct. 24 S = Speaker R = Respondent C = Chair Registration: 5:15 – 8:30 pm, Business Building (Floor 1). Book exhibit: 6:00 – 8:30 pm, Room B-12

Business B-5 Business B-9 Business 1-6 Business 1-10 Business 1-5 Business 1-9 The Craft Model of Virtue in The Baby, the Bathwater, and Contrastivism and Sleep Bad? Plato's Euthydemus and Stoicism Some Truly Social Kinds Self-Knowledge Symposium S: Bryan Wiebe (Saskatchewan) S: Dimitrios Dentsoras 6:00 – 6:50 S: Manuela Ungureanu (UBC) S: Darren Bradley (UBC) Explanation and Conceptual R: Bart Lenart (Alberta) (Manitoba) R: Georg Theiner (Alberta) R: Esa Diaz-Leon (Manitoba) Symposium Change in Biology C: Ami Harbin R: John Harris (Alberta) C: Derek Brown C: Christopher Lepock Lies and Deceit C: Christopher Cohoon S: Alan Love (Minnesota, US) A Problem for Fitting Attitudes Do Natural Kinds Knowledge Ascriptions, Inside the Outside: The Hold S: Jack MacIntosh (Calgary) S: Mohan Matthen (Toronto) Accounts of Intrinsic Value Violate Naturalism? Thoughts of Error, and of Aristotelian Topos S: Mark Migotti (Calgary) S: Frédéric Bouchard (Montréal) Cognitive Bias 7:00 – 7:50 S: Ryan Tanner (Calgary) S: Mary Butterfield (Vanderbilt, S: Christopher Cohoon (Stony S: Tim Kenyon (Waterloo) R: Jonathan Matheson US) S: Jennifer Nagel (Toronto) Brook, US) C: Jeremy Wideman (Rochester, US) R: Jenna Woodrow (Alberta) R: Bruce Hunter (Alberta) R: Paul Beach (Alberta) C: Béla Szabados C: Brooke Roberts C: Georg Theiner C: Myron A. Penner C: Dimitrios Dentsoras

Opacity and Reciprocity Learning That We See the Light: The Theory of Correspondence Knowledge and Credit Fodor’s “Against Darwinism” in Character Ethics Colour Constancy and and Aristotle’s Syllogistic S: Christopher Lepock (Toronto) S: Taylor Murphy (Alberta) S: Ami Harbin (Dalhousie) Illumination-Dependent Colour S: Richard Bosley (Alberta) 8:00 – 8:50 R: Myron A. Penner (Trinity R: Jillian McIntosh (Simon R: Robert Epperson (Mount S: Derek Brown (Brandon) R: Dwayne Raymond (Texas Western) Fraser) Royal; Calgary) R: Dimitria Gatzia (Akron, US) A&M, US) C: Leah Spencer C: Jeremy Wideman C: Elizabeth Panasiuk C: John Kardosh C: Philip Corkum

Reception: 9:00 – midnight, Timms Centre for the Arts (112 Street and 87 Ave, no 92 on the campus map) Registration moves to the Timms Centre at 8:30 pm We thank the University of Alberta Conference Fund for its generous financial support.

Book exhibit: Business Building, Room B-12. Publishers: Broadview Press, Cornell University Press, Harvard University Press, McGill-Queen’s University Press, MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Peter Lang Publishing, University of Alberta Press

S = Speaker Saturday, Oct. 25 R = Respondent C = Chair Registration: 8:30 am – 2:00 pm, Business Building (Floor 1). Book exhibit: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm, Room B-12

Business B-5 Business B-9 Business 1-6 Business 1-10 Business 1-5 Business 1-9 The Riddle of Ambiguity: Moderate Composition The Conceivability Argument Desert versus Entitlement Normativity and Correctness Existential Ethic or Without Vague Existence Against Behaviourism and the S: Brooke Roberts (UC Davis, S: Andrei Buleandra (Alberta) Ontological Catch-22? S: Chad Carmicheal (Stanford, Phenomenal Concept Strategy Symposium 9:00 – 9:50 US) R: James Connelly (Trent; S: Christinia Landry (W. Laurier) US) S: Esa Diaz-Leon (Manitoba) R: Allen Habib (Calgary) York) Natural Kinds in Biology R: Kristin Rodier (Alberta) R: Bernard Linsky (Alberta) R: Octavian Ion (Alberta) C: Wei Wang C: Anna Bergqvist C: Elizabeth Panasiuk C: David McElhoes C: Paul Raymont S: Paul Thompson (Toronto)

Personal Autonomy and Meaning is Normative: S: Marc Ereshefsky (Calgary) On Being an Individual: Is Pouring Cold Water Prudential Value: The Author-Meets-Critics A Reply to Hattiangadi Bundle Theory Still Alive? on HOT-Theory S: Ingo Brigandt (Alberta) 10:00 – 10:50 Inherency Thesis Cressida Heyes, S: James Connelly (Trent; S: Andrew Stumpf (Waterloo) S: Paul Raymont (Ryerson) C: Gabriel Hill S: Mark Piper (St. Louis, US) Self-Transformations York) R: Seyed Mousavian (Alberta) R: Lee-Anna Sangster (UWO) R: Scott Woodcock (Victoria) R: Andrei Buleandra (Alberta) S: Catherine Kellogg (Alberta) C: Shaheen Islam C: Esa Diaz-Leon C: Allen Habib C: Gemma Celestino S: Kimberly Leighton (George Mason, US) Counting the Consequences: Particularism and The Mysterious μ: n Argument Student Prize Essay: Autism and S: Dianna Taylor (John Carroll, A Taking Symbiosis Seriously Examining the Impersonal Semantic Normativity Against Epistemic Vagueness Rosenthal’s Higher-Order Thought US) S: Kent Peacock (Lethbridge) Standpoint of Consequentialism S: Anna Bergqvist (Reading, Theory of Consciousness 11:00 – 11:50 R: Cressida Heyes (Alberta) S: David McElhoes (Maryland, R: Frédéric Bouchard S: Jonathan Matheson (Rochester) UK) S: Lee-Anna Sangster (UWO) US) (Montréal) R: Mark Piper (St. Louis, US) C: Christinia Landry R: Richard Bosley (Alberta) R: Paul Raymont (Ryerson) R: Philip Hanson (Simon Fraser) C: Gabriel Hill C: Scott Woodcock C: Jillian Isenberg C: Chad Carmicheal C: Ulla Schmid

Lunch break until 1:30 pm

S = Speaker Saturday, Oct. 25 R = Respondent C = Chair

Business B-5 Business B-9 Business 1-6 Business 1-10 Business 1-5 Business 1-9 The Case for a Sum Res Volans: The Centrality Non-Essential Necessary Was “Pluto is a Planet” Two Dimensional Time New Contractualism of Willing for Descartes Connections Ever True? and Positive Freedom Symposium S: Travis Rieder (South Carolina, S: Andreea Mihali (Wilfrid S: Roberta Ballarin (UBC) 1:30 – 2:20 S: Peter Alward (Lethbridge) S: Bryson Brown (Lethbridge) US) Laurier) R: Patrick McGivern Philosophy, Eugenics, and R: Seyed Mousavian (Alberta) R: Adam Morton (Alberta) R: Ryan Tanner (Calgary) R: Charles Rodger (Alberta) (Alberta) Disability in Alberta and C: Bernie Linsky C: William Dunaway C: Bryan Wiebe C: Christinia Landry C: Philip Corkum Places North

A Simple Account of the The Normativity of Freedom Contesting Reductionist S: Dick Sobsey (Alberta) Dis-Unified Pluralist Permissibility of Following in Kant’s Ethics: A Problem Fictional Contingencies Accounts of Personhood Accounts of Causation S: Simo Vehmas (Jyväskylä, Orders in an Unjust War from Kant’s Nachlass S: Gemma Celestino (UBC) and Personal Identity Finland) 2:30 – 3:20 S: Jason Taylor (Alberta) S: Marcus Arvan (UBC) S: Gordon Davis (Carleton) R: Nicole Wyatt (Calgary) S: Ulla Schmid (Edinburgh, UK) R: Roberta Ballarin (UBC) S: Martin Tweedale (Alberta) R: Iskra Fileva (Nevada-Reno, US) R: Robert Burch (Alberta) C: Bernie Linsky R: Octavian Ion (Alberta) C: Patrick McGivern C: Jenny Woo C: Charles Rodger C: Lee-Anna Sangster S: Rob Wilson (Alberta)

Towards a Kantian Fiction, Truth, and Inference: Fundamental Laws and Minimalist Semantics and the Consensus and Social Stability C: Kathleen Lowrey Anthropology: The A Critique of Woods’s Account Counterfactual Stability Problem of Creeping Minimalism S: Mark Capustin (Manitoba; Question of Being in Kant S: Jillian Isenberg (UBC) S: Patrick McGivern (Alberta) S: William Dunaway (Southern In collaboration with 3:30 – 4:20 Winnipeg) S: Alan McLuckie (Stanford) R: Sarah Hoffman R: Bryson Brown California, US) www.whatsorts.net R: Jason West (Newman College) R: Mark Migotti (Calgary) (Saskatchewan) (Lethbridge) R: John Baker (Calgary) C: Travis Rieder C: Mary Butterfield C: Kristin Rodier C: Brent Vizeau C: Glen Hoffmann

H. M. Tory Building (no 34 on the campus map), Room B-95 4:30 – 6:00 Keynote address: But It Would Be Wrong Stephen Darwall (Yale University)

Banquet: 6:30 – 10:00 pm, Timms Centre for the Arts (112 Street and 87 Ave, no 92 on the campus map). Dinner served at 7:00 pm S = Speaker Sunday, Oct. 26 R = Respondent Book exhibit: 9:00 am – 1:00 pm, Room B-12 C = Chair

Business B-5 Business B-9 Business 1-6 Business 1-10 Business 1-5 Business 1-9 On the Concept of A Defence of AI-Functionalism Luck, Modality, and The Ontology of Music: A Raz on Authority Translations between Logics Against Brandom’s Arguments from Practical Interests Pseudo-Problem in Philosophy and Democracy S: Giovanni Queiroz (Paraiba, Holism and the Frame Problem 9:00 – 9:50 S: Kenneth Boyd (Toronto) S: James Young (Victoria) S: David Rondel (McMaster) Symposium Brazil; Siena, Italy) S: Reiner Schaefer (Guelph) R: Jenna Woodrow R: Laurel Ralston (Alberta) R: Edwin Etieyibo (Alberta) R: Gillman Payette (Calgary) R: Glen Hoffmann (Ryerson) Philosophy and C: Adam Morton C: Marie-Eve Morin C: Mary Butterfield C: Herbert Korté C: Steve McKay Climate Change

How to Exorcize the Appropriate Anthropocentrism: Permutation Invariance and Guantanamo and Moral Nativism and Poverty S: Thomas Heyd (Victoria) Cartesian Demons from Your The Role of Place in the Epistemology of Logic the Rule of Law of Stimulus Conditions S: Kent Peacock (Lethbridge) 10:00 – 10:50 Intellectual Character Environmental Aesthetics S: David Boutillier (Calgary) S: Arthur Yates (Western S: Steve McKay (Cégep de S: Mark Young (Ottawa) S: Nola Semczyszyn (UBC) R: Giovanni Queiroz (Paraiba, Ontario) Sherbrooke) S: Bruce Morito (Athabasca) R: Eric Dayton (Saskatchewan) R: Xue Fuxing (Nankai, China) Brazil; Siena, Italy) R: Jayson MacLean (Alberta) R: James Ralston C: Sean Hartford C: James Young C: Katalin Bimbó C: Wei Wang C: Reiner Schaefer S: Martin Schönfeld (South Florida, USA) S knows p rather than q Naturalizing Natural Sentiments and Standards in Nativism: In Defense of the S knows p rather than not-p Deduction Life, Liberty, and Leisure C: Donald Ipperciel Hume’s Judgment of Taste Representational Interpretation S knows p S: Herbert Korté (Regina) S: Alex Sager (Calgary) 11:00 – 11:50 S: Amy Schmitter (Alberta) S: Glen Hoffmann (Ryerson) S: Joel Buenting (Alberta) R: Jeffry Pelletier (Simon R: David Elliott (Regina) R: Alexander Rueger (Alberta) R: Rob Wilson (Alberta) R: Darren Bradley (UBC) Fraser; Alberta) C: Hande Tuna C: Leah Spencer C: James Ralston C: Jenna Woodrow C: Adam Morton

Assessing Priest's Dialethic Hume and the Prince of Thieves Response to the Paradoxes 12:00 – 12:50 S: Jennifer Welchman (Alberta) of Self-Reference R: Ann Levey (Calgary) S: Gareth Reeves (Victoria) C: Amy Schmitter R: Katalin Bimbó (Alberta) C: Jeffry Pelletier

We are grateful to those who spent their time and effort to referee submitted papers: Scott Anderson, Roberta Ballarin, Matthew J. Barker, Paul W. Beach, Anna Bergqvist, Katalin Bimbó, Samuel Black, Richard Bosley, Frédéric Bouchard, Bryson Brown, Deborah Brown, Derek Brown, Jeff Buechner, Andrei Buleandra, Robert Burch, William Buschert, Allen Carlson, Don Carmichael, Jason Carter, James Connelly, Wesley Cooper, Philip Corkum, Eric Dayton, Dimitrios Dentsoras, Esa Diaz-Leon, Shadia B. Drury, William Dunaway, J. Michael Dunn, Phil Dwyer, Corey Dyck, Frances Egan, Olaf Ellefson, David Elliot, Marc Ereshefsky, Jeremy Fantl, Joanne Faulkner, Christopher Framarin, Dimitria Electra Gatzia, Trudy Govier, Allen Habib, Jean Harvey, Jesse Hendrikse, Brian Hepburn, Cressida J. Heyes, Glen A. Hoffmann, Howard L. Hopkins, Robert Hudson, Bruce Hunter, Elisa Hurley, Jillian Isenberg, Joyce Jenkins, Rahul Kumar, Noa Latham, Christopher Lepock, Ann Levey, Bernard Linsky, Alan Love, Iain Macdonald, Jack MacIntosh, Jayson MacLean, Colin MacLeod, Neil McArthur, Patrick McGivern, Christine McKinnon, Gordon McOuat, Mark Migotti, Dwayne Moore, Marie-Eve Morin, Bruce Morito, Adam Morton, Seyed N. Mousavian, Robert Myers, Michael Neumann, Emer O’Hagan, Glenn Parsons, Kent Peacock, Jeffry Pelletier, Giovanni da Silva de Queiroz, Laurel Ralston, Andrew Roche, Kristin A. Rodier, Patrick Rysiew, Jeffrey Sabine, Corey Sawkins, David Scott, Robert Shaver, Eldon Soifer, Chris Stephens, Andrew Stumpf, Béla Szabados, Jacqueline Taylor, Jason Taylor, Valerie Tiberius, Evan Tiffany, Chris Tillman, Sergio Tenenbaum, Martin M. Tweedale, Alasdair Urquhart, Jennifer Welchman, Andrea Westlund, Rob Wilson, Jenna Woodrow, James O. Young