The American Philosophical Association PACIFIC DIVISION EIGHTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM
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The American Philosophical Association PACIFIC DIVISION EIGHTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM WESTIN BAYSHORE, VANCOUVER VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA APRIL 1 – 4, 2015 new for spring COMPLICATED PRESENCE THE PHILOSOPHER-LOBBYIST Heidegger and the John Dewey and the People’s Postmetaphysical Unity of Being Lobby, 1928–1940 Jussi Backman Mordecai Lee AVAILABLE JUNE THE ORIGIN OF TIME TOWARDS A RELATIONAL Heidegger and Bergson ONTOLOGY Heath Massey Philosophy’s Other Possibility AVAILABLE APRIL Andrew Benjamin AVAILABLE JUNE WHOSE TRADITION? WHICH DAO? SPARKS WILL FLY Confucius and Wittgenstein Benjamin and Heidegger on Moral Learning and Reflection Andrew Benjamin and James F. Peterman Dimitris Vardoulakis, editors AVAILABLE APRIL Klee’s MIRROR John Sallis LEO STRAUSS ON THE BORDERS OF JUDAISM, NATURALIZING HEIDEGGER PHILOSOPHY, AND HISTORY His Confrontation with Nietzsche, Jeffrey A. Bernstein His Contributions to AVAILABLE JUNE Environmental Philosophy David E. Storey THE SOPHISTS IN PLATo’s DIALOGUES THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY David D. Corey OF FRANCIS BACON AVAILABLE JUNE On the Unity of Knowledge Tom van Malssen PHANTOMS OF THE OTHER Four Generations of WONDER Derrida’s Geschlecht A Grammar David Farrell Krell Sophia Vasalou AVAILABLE MAY IMPORTANT NOTICES FOR MEETING ATTENDEES SESSION LOCATIONS Please note: 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. To save on printing costs, the program will be available only online prior to the meeting; with the exception of plenary sessions, the online version does not include session locations. In addition, locations for sessions on the first morning (April 1) will be posted in the registration area. IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT REGISTRATION Please note: the advance registration rates are $50 less than the regular registration rates. Online advance registration is available at www.apaonline.org until March 16. Please note: there is a $5 charge for replacement name badges and meeting programs. 1 Special Events Only registrants are entitled to attend the reception on April 2 at no additional charge. Non-registrants, such as spouses, partners, or family members of meeting attendees, who wish to accompany a registrant to this reception must purchase a $10 guest ticket; guest tickets are available at the reception door. ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING Thursday, April 2, noon–1:00 p.m., Coquitlam (Second Floor) ANNUAL RECEPTION Thursday, April 2, 10:00 p.m.–midnight, Bayshore Ballroom Foyer (Lobby Level) POSTER PRESENTATIONS Friday, April 3, 11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m., Bayshore Grand Ballroom, Salons D, E, and F (Lobby Level) CODE OF ETHICS TASK FORCE INPUT SESSION Friday, April 3, noon–1:00 p.m., Seymour (Lobby Level) PRIZE RECEPTION Friday, April 3, 2:00–3:00 p.m., Bayshore Grand Ballroom, Salons D, E, and F (Lobby Level) DEWEY LECTURE RECEPTION Friday, April 3, 5:30–6:00 p.m., Bayshore Ballroom Foyer (Lobby Level) PRESIDENTIAL RECEPTION Friday, April 3, 7:00–8:00 p.m., Bayshore Ballroom Foyer (Lobby Level) DIVERSITY INSTITUTE NETWORKING RECEPTION Saturday, April 4, 1:30–3:00 p.m. Marine Room (Lobby Level) 2 Wednesday Morning, April 1: 9:00 a.m.–noon WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1 REGISTRATION 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. PLACEMENT SERVICE Information: 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Interview tables: TBA WEDNESDAY MORNING, 9:00 A.M.–NOON MAIN PROGRAM SESSIONS 1A Book Symposium: Shaun Nichols, Bound Chair: Garrett Pendergraft (Pepperdine University) Speakers: Robert Kane (University of Texas at Austin) Kelly McCormick (Texas Christian University) Manuel Vargas (University of San Francisco) Shaun Nichols (University of Arizona) 1B Book Symposium: Christopher Hill, Meaning, Mind, and Knowledge Chair: Tomás Bogardus (Pepperdine University) Speakers: Alex Byrne (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Vann McGee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Brian McLaughlin (Rutgers University) Christopher Hill (Brown University) 1C Book Symposium: Neera Badhwar, Well-Being: Happiness in a Worthwhile Life Chair: Claudia Leeb (Washington State University) Speakers: Dan Haybron (Saint Louis University) Nancy E. Snow (Marquette University) Valerie Tiberius (University of Minnesota) Neera Badhwar (University of Oklahoma and George Mason University) 1D Invited Symposium: Eugenics and Philosophy Chair: Robert A. Wilson (University of Alberta) Speakers: Leslie Pickering Francis (University of Utah) “Bioethics and Eugenics” Matt Haber (University of Utah) “Normal Variation, Normal, and Variation” Adam Cureton (University of Tennessee) “Parents with Disabilities” 3 Wednesday Morning, April 1: 9:00 a.m.–noon (cont.) 1E Invited Symposium: Kant on Ideas Chair: Yoon Choi (Marquette University) Speakers: Andrew Chignell (Cornell University) “Ideas, Discipline, and Hope in the Doctrine of Method” Angela Breitenbach (University of Cambridge) “Representing Ideas in Science and Art” Pierre Keller (University of California, Riverside) “Transforming Metaphysics into a Science: Kant’s Experimental Method and the Idea of a Cosmopolitan Philosophy” 1F Invited Symposium: Love and Relationships Chair: Aida Roige Mas (University of British Columbia) Speakers: Maren Behrensen (Linköpings Universitet) “‘Paradise by the Dashboard Light’: Romantic and Patriotic Ideologies” Patricia Marino (University of Waterloo) “Love and Economics: The Problem of Altruistic Preferences” Justin Leonard Clardy (University of Arkansas) “Love, Obligation, and Contracts” 1G Colloquium: Descartes and Malebranche 9:00-10:00 a.m. Chair: Kristopher Phillips (Southern Utah University) Speaker: Julie Walsh (Université du Québec, Montréal) “Love Thy Neighbor: Malebranche on Social Responsibility” Commentator: Walter Ott (University of Virginia) 10:00-11:00 a.m. Chair: Kristin Primus (New York University) Speaker: Andrew Platt (Stony Brook University) “Free Agents and the ‘Realm of Nature’ in Descartes’s Physics” Commentator: Susan Mills (Grant MacEwan University) 11:00 a.m.-noon Chair: Boris Hennig (Ryerson University) Speaker: Daniel Collette (University of South Florida) “Passions Embodied: Descartes’s Ethics in the Letters to Elizabeth Revisited” Commentator: Matthew J. Kisner (University of South Carolina) 4 Wednesday Morning, April 1: 9:00 a.m.–noon (cont.) 1H Colloquium: Emotion and Empathy 9:00-10:00 a.m. Chair: Stephen Scholz (St. Augustine’s College North Carolina) Speaker: Jeffrey Seidman (Vassar College) “The Unity of Caring and the Rationality of Emotion” Commentator: Julie Tannenbaum (Pomona College) 10:00-11:00 a.m. Chair: Daniel Haas (Red Deer College) Speaker: Daniel Shargel (Lawrence Technological University) “Emotions Without Objects” Commentator: Jason D’Cruz (University at Albany) 11:00 a.m.-noon Chair: Michael Milona (University of Southern California) Speaker: Jonathan Vanderhoek (University of Texas at Austin) “The Necessity of Empathy” Commentator: Eva-Maria Engelen (Universität Konstanz) 1I Colloquium: Locke, Berkeley, and Hume 9:00-10:00 a.m. Chair: Michael Goodman (Humboldt State University) Speaker: Anna Vaughn (University of Utah) “Perception, Judgment, and Locke’s Answer to Molyneux’s Question: A Critical Response to Bolton” Commentator: William Edward Morris (Illinois Wesleyan University) 10:00-11:00 a.m. Chair: Rebecca Copenhaver (Lewis & Clark College) Speaker: David Hilbert (University of Illinois at Chicago) “Central Banking and the Divine Language: Visual Signs and Paper Currency in Berkeley’s Economic Theory” Commentator: Brian Glenney (Gordon College) 11:00 a.m.-noon Chair: Paul Russell (University of Gothenburg and University of British Columbia) Speaker: Lisa Doerksen (University of Toronto) “The Role of the System of Double Existence in Hume’s Account of Identity” Commentator: Christina Chuang (Nanyang Technological University) 5 Wednesday Morning, April 1: 9:00 a.m.–noon (cont.) 1J Colloquium: Logic and Modality 9:00-10:00 a.m. Chair: Gillman Payette (University of British Columbia) Speaker: Teresa Kouri (Ohio State University) “Restall’s Proof-theoretic and Model-theoretic Pluralisms” Commentator: Marcus Rossberg (University of Connecticut) 10:00-11:00 a.m. Chair: Ceth Lightfield (University of California, Davis) Speaker: Martin Glazier (New York University) “Explanation, Actualist Possibility, and Tomorrow’s Sea Battle” Commentator: Kris McDaniel (Syracuse University) 11:00 a.m.-noon Chair: Darin Dockstader (College of Southern Nevada) Speaker: Kelly Weirich (University of Colorado Boulder) “Conditional Flexibility” Commentator: Koji Tanaka (Australian National University) 1K Colloquium: Peirce 9:00-10:00 a.m. Chair: Sharyn Clough (Oregon State University) Speaker: Frederic R. Kellogg (George Washington University) “The Social Dimension of Logical Induction: Law and Science in the Formative Years of Pragmatism” Commentator: J. M. Fritzman (Lewis & Clark College) 10:00-11:00 a.m. Chair: Robert Brain (University of British Columbia) Speaker: Bernard Linsky (University of Alberta) “Peirce’s Law from The Principles of Mathematics to Principia Mathematica” Commentator: Owen Anderson (Arizona State University) 11:00 a.m.-noon Chair: William Barry (Notre Dame de Namur University) Speaker: Catherine Legg (University of Waikato) “What Achilles Did and the Tortoise Wouldn’t: Peirce on the Irreducible Iconicity of Logical From” Commentator: Elizabeth Sperry (William Jewell College) 6 Wednesday Morning, April 1: 9:00 a.m.–noon (cont.) 1L Colloquium: Perception in Philosophy of Mind 9:00-10:00 a.m. Chair: Michelle Pham (University of Washington) Speaker: