APA Eastern Division 2016 Meeting Program

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The American Philosophical Association
EASTERN DIVISION
O N E H U N D R E D T W E L F T H
A N N UA L M E E T I N G
P RO G R A M
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JANUARY 6 – 9, 2016
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Wednesday Afternoon, January 6: 12:30–2:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING
12:30–6:00 p.m., Board Room (lobby level)
REGISTRATION
11:30 a.m.–6:30 p.m., registration desk (lobby level)
PLACEMENT INFORMATION
Service desk: 11:30 a.m.–6:30 p.m., Room 8228 (lobby level)
Interview rooms: TBA
WEDNESDAY EARLY AFTERNOON, 12:30–2:30 P.M.
MAIN PROGRAM SESSIONS
Invited Paper: Learning from Chinese Political Philosophy
Chair: Huaiyu Wang (Georgia College & State University)
Speakers: Erin Cline (Georgetown University)
Bryan Van Norden (Vassar College)
Colloquium: Applied Ethics 1
Chair: Katy Fulfer (Hood College)
Speaker: Jason Brennan (Georgetown University)
“A Libertarian Case for Mandatory Vaccination”
Commentator: Justin Bernstein (University of Pennsylvania)
Speaker: John Powers (University of Minnesota)
“Criteria of Characterizational Adequacy and
Atrazine Research”
**Graduate student travel stipend recipient**
Commentator: Lindsay Brainard (University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill)
Colloquium: Intuition and Perception
Chair: Catherine Sutton (Virginia Commonwealth
University)
Speaker: Cameron Buckner (University of Houston)
“The Rationality of Intuitive Judgment”
Commentator: Elanor Taylor (Iowa State University)
Speaker: Patrick Denehy (Temple University)
“McDowell on Annexing Perceptual Content”
Commentator: Andrei Marasoiu (University of Virginia)
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Wednesday Early Afternoon, January 6: 12:30–2:30 p.m. (cont.)
Colloquium: Philosophy of Language
Chair: Anna Bjurman Pautz (University of Texas at Austin)
Speaker: Andres Colapinto (Borough of Manhattan
Community College)
“What Jones Didn’t Do: Rethinking Some Linguistic
Evidence for Davidsonian Event Semantics”
Commentator: Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini (Rutgers
University)
Speaker: Silver Bronzo (University of Chicago)
“Frege and Propositional Unity”

Commentator: Thomas Scott Dixon (Ashoka University)
Author Meets Critics: Bonnie Mann, Sovereign Masculinity: Gender
Lessons from the War on Terror
Chair: Diane Perpich (Clemson University)
Critics: Shari Stone-Mediatore (Ohio Wesleyan University)
Shannon Musset (Utah Valley University)
Author: Bonnie Mann (University of Oregon)
Invited Paper: Social Construction and Social Ontology
Chair: Jonathan Simon (New York University)
Speakers: Asta Sveinsdottir (San Francisco State University)
Jennifer McKitrick (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)
Commentator: TBA
Submitted Symposium: Personhood
Chair: Steve Viner (Middlebury College)
Speaker: Jon Garthoff (University of Tennessee)
“Group Agents, Non-Rational Animals, and Legal
Personhood”
Commentators: Jake Earl (Georgetown University)
Brad Cokelet (University of Miami)
Amanda Greene
Submitted Symposium: Kant, Consent, and the Politics of Food
Chair: Steven Starke (University of South Florida)
Speaker: Yi Deng (University of North Georgia)
“Kant’s Publicity Principle As Dynamic Consent”
Commentators: Kate Padgett Walsh (Iowa State University)
Jeff Sebo (University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill)
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Wednesday Early Afternoon, January 6: 12:30–2:30 p.m. (cont.)
Submitted Symposium: Reason and Rationalization
Chair: J. A. Smart (University of Missouri)
Speaker: Jesse Summers (Duke University)
“Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc: Some Benefits of
Rationalization”
Commentators: Daniel Immerman (University of Notre Dame)
Adam Tiller (University of Virginia)
North American Korean Philosophy Association Session 1
Topic: Feminist Philosophy in Asian and Korean Traditions
Chair: Bongrae Seok (Alvernia University)
Speakers: Leah Kalmanson (Drake University)
“Be the Change You Want to See? Feminism,
Qi-Cosmology, and Structural Change”
Ann Pang-White (University of Scranton)
“Rereading the Canon: The Book of Mencius and
the Dynamic of Power”
Jin Y. Park (American University)
“Doing Philosophy from the Margin: Women and
Buddhist Philosophy”
Hwa Yeong Wang (Binghamton University–SUNY)
“Korean Tradition and Confucian Rituals for Women”
GROUP PROGRAM SESSIONS
Soren Kierkegaard Society
Topic: Volition, Exception, and Obligation
Chair: Jeffrey Hanson (Soren Kierkegaard Society)
Speakers: Antony Aumann (Northern Michigan University)
“On Kierkegaard, Art, and Autonomy”
Jerome Gellman (Ben-Gurion University)
“Volition and the Leap of Faith”
Birte Loschenkohl (University of Chicago)
“Exception, Suspension, and Resistance in
Kierkegaard (and Schmitt)”
Anthony Rudd (St. Olaf College)
“Was Kierkegaard a Divine Command Theorist?
Should He Have Been?”
International Society for Environmental Ethics
Topic: The Turbulent Ethics of Water
Chair: Trevor Hedberg (University of Tennessee)
Speakers: Rebekah Spera (Emory University)
“A History of California’s Water Politics”
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Wednesday Late Afternoon, January 6: 3:00–6:00 p.m.
David M. Pena Guzman (Emory University)
“The Ethical Challenges Posed by the Crisis Today”
Jessica Locke (Emory University)
“The Crisis in a Global Context”
Roundtable discussion.
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
Topic: Pragmatism, Political Liberalism, and Human Rights
Chair: Tess Varner (University of Georgia)
Speakers: Michael Sullivan (Emory University)
“Legal Pragmatism, Rights, and Democratic
Community”
Nick Sagos (Rutgers University)
“Pragmatism, Non-Domination, and Freedom:
Rights as Prospects”
Brian Butler (University of North Carolina at
Asheville)
“Pragmatism, Liberalism, and the Virtues of
Democratic Experimentalism for Constitutional
Interpretation”
WEDNESDAY LATE AFTERNOON, 3:00–6:00 P.M.
MAIN PROGRAM SESSIONS
Colloquium: Moral Responsibility
Chair: Holly Smith (Rutgers University–New Brunswick)
Speaker: Bryan Chambliss (University of Arizona)
“Control for Embedded Agents”
**Graduate student travel stipend recipient**
Commentator: Mark Rosner (University of Manitoba)
Speaker: Robert Charles Bingle (Georgia State University)
“Blaming the Buddha: Buddhism and Moral
Responsibility”
**Graduate student travel stipend recipient**
Commentator: Ricki Bliss (Lehigh University)
Speaker: Burkay Ozturk (Texas State University–San Marcos)
“Ethical First-Person Authority and the Moral Status
of Rejecting”
Commentator: Wenwen Fan (University of Missouri)
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Wednesday Late Afternoon, January 6: 3:00–6:00 p.m. (cont.)
Colloquium: Philosophy of Religion
Chair: Jason Smith (Fairfield University)
Speaker: Kristen Irwin (Loyola University Chicago)
“Bayle on Religious Toleration: Whence and Why?”
Commentator: Jean-Luc Solère (Boston College)
Chair: Rob Lovering (College of Staten Island–CUNY)
Speaker: Daniel Rubio (Rutgers University)
“God Meets Satan’s Apple”
**Graduate student travel stipend recipient**
Commentator: John Barker (University of Illinois–Springfield)
Chair: M. G. Piety (Drexel University)
Speaker: Michael Schrynemakers (East Carolina University)
“The No Gratuitous Evil Thesis Is Overly
Anthropomorphic”
Commentator: John Collins (East Carolina University)
Colloquium: Logic and Modality
Chair: John Mackay (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Speaker: Shay Logan (University of Minnesota)
“Unnamable Objects and Universal Quantification”
**Graduate student travel stipend recipient**
Commentator: Nathan Kellen (University of Connecticut)
Speaker: Kok Yong Lee (National Chung Cheng University)
“Causal Models and the Ambiguity of
Counterfactuals”
Commentator: Charles Cross (University of Georgia)
Speaker: Una Stojnic (Rutgers University)
“One’s Modus Ponens: Classical Logic and Modality”
**Graduate student travel stipend recipient**
Commentator: Justin Bledin (Johns Hopkins University)
Colloquium: Ethics, Truth, and Objectivity
Chair: Kelly Epley (Oklahoma University)
Speaker: Chris Howard (University of Arizona)
“Wrong Kind of Reason Skepticism and the
Transmission of Reasons”
**Graduate student travel stipend recipient**
Commentator: Christopher Caldwell (Virginia State University)
Speaker: Adam Kovach (Marymount University)
“Emotional Labor and Emotional Authenticity”
Commentator: Cecilea Mun (Arizona State University)
Speaker: Howard Nye (University of Alberta)
“Objective Goods, Beneficial Lives, and Morality”
Commentator: Noell Birondo (Wichita State University)
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Wednesday Late Afternoon, January 6: 3:00–6:00 p.m. (cont.)
Author Meets Critic: Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever, The Inessential
Indexical
Chair: Mark Richard (Harvard University)
Critics: Andy Egan (Rutgers University)
L. A. Paul (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Authors: Herman Cappelen (University of Oslo and
University of St. Andrews)
Josh Dever (University of Texas at Austin)
Symposium: Heidegger and Levinas: The War Years
Chair: Peter Caws (George Washington University)
Speakers: Richard Polt (Xavier University)
Sarah Hammerschlag (The University of Chicago
Divinity School)
Commentator: Bettina Bergo (University of Montreal)
Symposium: Contemporary Critical Race Theory: Race, Sexuality, and
Cultural Practices
Chair: Eduardo Mendieta (Pennsylvania State University)
Speakers: Jose Medina (Vanderbilt University)
Mariana Ortega (John Carroll University)
Commentator: Ronald R. Sundstrom (University of San Francisco)
Symposium: Epistemic Expressivism
Chair: Susanna Schellenberg (Rutgers University)
Speakers: Terence Cuneo (University of Vermont)
Klemens Kappel (University of Copenhagen)
Lisa Warenski (CUNY–City College of New York)
GROUP PROGRAM SESSIONS
APA Committee Session: The Analytic Tradition and Chinese Philosophy
Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian-American
Philosophers and Philosophies
Chair and Co-Chair: Linyu Gu (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)
Chung-Ying Cheng (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)
Speakers: Michael Beaney (University of York, UK)
“Chinese Challenges to Analytic Philosophy”
Chung-ying Cheng (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)
“Analytical Challenges and Chinese Philosophy”
Rainer Schaefer (Peking University, China, and
University of Heidelberg, Germany)
“Things in Themselves and the New Realism”
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Wednesday Late Afternoon, January 6: 3:00–6:00 p.m. (cont.)
Chen Bo (Peking University, China)
“Referential and Attributive Uses of Names and
Descriptions”
Xinzhong Yao (Renmin University of China and
King’s College London)
“Russell and Chinese Ethics”
Susan Haack (University of Miami)
“Is Philosophy Culture-Bound?”
Commentators: Chung-Ying Cheng (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)
Michael Beaney (University of York, UK)
Gary Mar (Stony Brook University)
International Hobbes Association
Topic: Thomas Hobbes and Science
Chair: Shane D. Courtland (University of Minnesota Duluth)
Speakers: Marcus P. Adams (University at Albany–SUNY)
“Hobbes on the Laws of Nature”
Meghan Robison (The New School for Social
Research)
“Hobbes and the New Science”
Emilio Sergio (Università della Calabria)
“A Struggling Decade (1655–1665): Hobbes and
the New Language of Physics”
José Médina (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
“How to Give Sense to Hobbes’s Claim that ‘Civil
Philosophy is Demonstrable’?”
Society for the Study of Process Philosophies (SSPP)
Topic: On the Trail of Whitehead
Chair: Jude Jones (Fordham University)
Speakers: George R. Lucas (U.S. Naval Academy & Naval
Postgraduate School)
“The Spy Who Came in to Take Notes: Winthrop
Bell and Whitehead’s Metaphysics”
Commentator: Paul Bogaard (Mount Allison University)
International Association of Japanese Philosophy
Topic: Nishida and Watsuji
Chair: John Krummel (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
Speakers: Yingjin Xu (Fudan University, China)
“What If Wittgenstein Could Speak Japanese or
Even Read Nishida?”
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