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