The American Philosophical Association PACIFIC DIVISION NINETIETH ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM THE WESTIN ST. FRANCIS SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA MARCH 30 – APRIL 3, 2016 new in paperback COMPLICATED PRESENCE Heidegger and the Postmetaphysical Unity of Being Jussi Backman new for spring TOWARDS A RELATIONAL IN HIS VOICE ONTOLOGY Maurice Blanchot’s Affair Philosophy’s Other Possibility with the Neuter Andrew Benjamin David Appelbaum SPARKS WILL FLY POWER Benjamin and Heidegger Oppression, Subservience, Andrew Benjamin and and Resistance Dimitris Vardoulakis, editors Raymond Angelo Belliotti LEO STRAUSS ON THE BORDERS OUT OF CONTROL OF JUDAISM, PHILOSOPHY, Confrontations between AND HISTORY Spinoza and Levinas Jeffrey A. Bernstein Richard A. Cohen THE SOPHISTS IN PLATo’s RATIONAL SPIRITUALITY DIALOGUES AND DIVINE VIRTUE IN PLATO David D. Corey A Modern Interpretation and Philosophical Defense of Platonism THE PHILOSOPHER-LOBBYIST Michael LaFargue John Dewey and the People’s Lobby, 1928–1940 LEO STRAUSS, PHILOSOPHER Mordecai Lee European Vistas Antonio Lastra and THE ORIGIN OF TIME Josep Monserrat-Molas, editors Heidegger and Bergson Heath Massey FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPARATIVE AND WHOSE TRADITION? WHICH DAO? INTERCULTURAL PHILOSOPHY Confucius and Wittgenstein Lin Ma and Jaap van Brakel on Moral Learning and Reflection James F. Peterman ENGAGING THE WORLD Thinking after Irigaray NATURALIZING HEIDEGGER Mary C. Rawlinson, editor His Confrontation with Nietzsche, His Contributions to Environmental THE DEEP ECOLOGY OF RHETORIC Philosophy IN MENCIUS AND ARISTOTLE David E. Storey A Somatic Guide Douglas Robinson THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF FRANCIS BACON WITHOUT THE LEAST TREMOR On the Unity of Knowledge The Sacrifice of Socrates Tom van Malssen in Plato’s Phaedo M. Ross Romero, SJ WONDER A Grammar BETWEEN FAITH AND BELIEF Sophia Vasalou Toward a Contemporary Phenomenology of Religious Life for more information: www.sunypress.edu Joeri Schrijvers 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. Online registration at www.apaonline.org will be available up to and including the time of the meeting itself, but please note that the advance registration rates end on March 16. 3 SPECIAL EVENTS SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY PUBLIC RECEPTION Wednesday, March 30, 6:00–7:00 p.m. COFFEE BREAK Thursday, March 31, 11:00 a.m.–Noon Thursday, March 31, 4:00–5:00 p.m. BUSINESS MEETING Thursday, March 31, Noon–1:00 p.m. BAY AREA FEMINISM AND PHILOSOPHY RECEPTION Thursday, March 31, 4:00–5:00 p.m. ANNUAL RECEPTION Thursday, March 31, 10:00 p.m.–Midnight COFFEE BREAK Friday, April 1, 11:00 a.m.–Noon POSTER PRESENTATIONS Friday, April 1, 11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. AD HOC COMMITTEE ON SEXUAL HARASSMENT INFORMATION SESSION Friday, April 1, Noon–1:00 p.m. DEWEY LECTURE RECEPTION Friday, April 1, 5:30–6:00 p.m. PRESIDENTIAL RECEPTION Friday, April 1, 7:00–8:00 p.m. 4 Wednesday Morning, March 30: 9:00 a.m.–Noon WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30 REGISTRATION 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m., registration desk (mezzanine) PLACEMENT SERVICE Information desk: 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m., registration desk (mezzanine) Interview tables: location to be announced WEDNESDAY MORNING, 9:00 A.M.–NOON DIVISIONAL PROGRAM SESSIONS 1A Book Symposium: Sanford Goldberg, Assertion: On the Philosophical Significance of Assertoric Speech Chair: Dave Beisecker (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) Speakers: Matthew Benton (University of Notre Dame) Clayton Littlejohn (King’s College London) Rachel McKinnon (College of Charleston) Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern University) 1B Book Symposium: Lori Gruen, Entangled Empathy Chair: Shelley Wilcox (San Francisco State University) Speakers: Myisha Cherry (University of Illinois at Chicago) Remy Debes (University of Memphis) Diana Tietjens Meyers (University of Connecticut) Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University) 1C Book Symposium: Katherine Withy, Heidegger on Being Uncanny Chair: Michael Hardimon (University of California, San Diego) Speakers: Lauren Freeman (University of Louisville) Leslie MacAvoy (East Tennessee State University) Matthew Shockey (Indiana University South Bend) Katherine Withy (Georgetown University) 1D Invited Symposium: Chinese Philosophy and Language Chair: Xinyan Jiang (University of Redlands) Speakers: Yang Xiao (Kenyon College) “Natural Meaning and Metaphor: A Comparative Perspective” Steven Geisz (University of Tampa) “Daoism, Body Practice, and Philosophy Beyond Language” 5 Wednesday Morning, March 30: 9:00 a.m.–Noon (cont.) JeeLoo Liu (California State University, Fullerton) “Name and Reality: A Comparative Study” 1E Invited Symposium: Contractarianism as a Solution to Moral Diversity Chair: Piper Bringhurst (University of Arizona) Speakers: John Thrasher (Monash University) “Agreeing to Disagree: The Promise of Contractual Liberalism” Peter Vanderschraaf (University of California, Merced) “Authority and Diversity” Ryan Mudoon (University at Buffalo) “Exploring Tradeoffs in Accommodating Moral Diversity” Commentator: Michael Moehler (Virginia Tech) 1F Invited Symposium: The Philosophy of Deception THIS SESSION HAS BEEN CANCELED. Chair: James Mahon (Washington and Lee University) Speakers: Clancy Martin (University of Missouri–Kansas City) “Insincerity and Inauthenticity” Alan Strudler (University of Pennsylvania) “Lying and Context” Gerald Dworkin (University of California, Davis) “The Care and Management of Lies” Dallas Denery (Bowdoin College) “What Does the History of Lying Have to Do with Lying?” 1G Colloquium: Art, Method, and Form in Hegel’s Idealism 9:00-10:00 a.m. Chair: Nastassja Pugliese (University of Georgia) Speaker: Gerad Gentry (University of South Carolina) “Hegel’s Idealism and the Imagination as the ‘End of Art’” Commentator: Lydia Moland (Colby College) 10:00-11:00 a.m. Chair: Meghant Sudan (Concordia University) Speaker: Peter Yong (University of California, San Diego) “Cognitive Phenomenology in the Opening Arguments of The Science of Logic” Commentator: Henry Southgate (University of Wisconsin–Madison) 6 Wednesday Morning, March 30: 9:00 a.m.–Noon (cont.) 11:00 a.m.-Noon Chair: Rafeeq Hasan (University of Chicago) Speaker: Manish Oza (University of Toronto) “Hegel and Formal Idealism” Commentator: Dai Heide (Simon Fraser University) 1H Colloquium: Perceptual Justification 9:00-10:00 a.m. Chair: Matthew Babb (University of Southern California) Speaker: Lu Teng (Cornell University) “Is Phenomenal Force Sufficient for Immediate Perceptual Justification?” Commentator: Elijah Chudnoff (University of Miami) 10:00-11:00 a.m. Chair: Brian McLaughlin (Rutgers University) Speaker: Adrienne Prettyman (Bryn Mawr College) “Attention and Perceptual Justification” Commentator: Carolyn Jennings (University of California, Merced) 11:00 a.m.-Noon Chair: Anna-Sara Malmgren (Stanford University) Speaker: Julia Smith (University of Toronto) “Bootstrapping, Easy Knowledge, and Perceptual Justification” Commentator: Otávio Bueno (University of Miami) 1I Colloquium: The Nature of Moral Responsibility 9:00-10:00 a.m. Chair: Lucia Schwarz (University of Arizona) Speaker: Heather Gert (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) “Awareness Luck” Commentator: Hannah Tierney (University of Arizona) 10:00-11:00 a.m. Chair: Prakash Chenjeri (Southern Oregon University) Speaker: Taylor Cyr (University of California, Riverside) “Semicompatibilism: No Ability to Do Otherwise Required” Commentator: Christopher Evan Franklin (Grove City College) 11:00 a.m.-Noon Chair: Jeremy Carey (University of California, Berkeley) Speaker: Kyle Fritz (Florida State University) “Responsibility, Voluntary Control, and Intentional Action” Commentator: George Stamets (Florida State University) 7 Wednesday Morning, March 30: 9:00 a.m.–Noon (cont.) 1J Colloquium: The Problem of Evil and Its Implications 9:00-10:00 a.m. Chair: Kimberly Dill (University of Texas at Austin) Speaker: John Pittard (Yale University) “Evil and God’s Toxin Puzzle” Commentator: David Vander Laan (Westmont College) 10:00-11:00 a.m. Chair: Justin Capes (East Tennessee State University) Speakers: Benjamin H. Arbour (University of Bristol) Myron A. Penner (Trinity Western University and Ryerson University) “Arguments from Evil and Evidence for Pro-Theism” Commentator: Gerard Rothfus (University of California, Irvine) 11:00 a.m.-Noon Chair: Marilyn Piety (Drexel University) Speaker: Jonathan Rutledge (University of Oklahoma) “Commonsense, Skeptical Theism, and Closure of Inquiry” Commentator: Glenn Ross (Franklin and Marshall College) 1K APA Committee Session: Contemporary Latin American Philosophy Arranged by the APA Committee on Hispanics Chair: José Jorge Mendoza (University of Massachusetts Lowell) Speakers: Grant J. Silva (Marquette University) “On Nation Building with White Minorities and ‘Multiethnic’ Majorities: Lessons from Latin America to the United States” Lori Gallegos (Stony Brook University) “Skillful Coping and the Routine of Surviving: Isasi- Diaz on the Importance of Identity to Everyday Knowledge” Philip Mack (Marquette University) “The Meaning and Morality of Borders” 1L APA Committee Session: Romanell Lecture Arranged by the