65TH ANNUAL MEETING OF
Nov. 14 - 16, 2003
THE SOUTHWESTERN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
Radisson Hotel
Memphis, TN
| Friday, November 14 | |||
| 10:00 - 4:00 | Registration | ||
| 12:30 - 3:00 | CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY | ||
| Chair: Phillip Maloney, Christian Brothers University | |||
| "Certainty of Oneself: On Fichte's Conception of Faith as Non-epistemic Consciousness", Christian Lotz, University of Kansas | |||
| Commentator: Kristen Brown, Millsaps College | |||
| "Hegel's Historical Appropriation of Luther and the Reformation", Eric Berg, University of Kansas | |||
| Commentator: Sangki Kim, University of Southern Illinois, Edwardsville | |||
| "Merleau-Ponty on Embodied Freedom and History", Joseph Bien, University of Missouri, Columbia | |||
| Commentator: Len Lawlor, University of Memphis | |||
| 3:15 - 4:45 | EPISTEMOLOGY | ||
| Chair: Jim Swindler, Illinois State | |||
| "Collective Epistemic Agency", Deborah Tollefsen, University of Memphis | |||
| Commentator: Heimer Geirsson, Iowa State | |||
| "Inconsistentism About Knowledge", Aaron Konopasky, Princeton University | |||
| Commentator: Jim Page, University of Maine | |||
| 8:00 - 11:00 | Reception | ||
| Saturday, November 15 | |||
| 8:00 - 12:00 | Registration | ||
| 8:00 - 10:30 | KANT | ||
| Chair: Thomas Nenon, Memphis University | |||
| "The Unity of Kant's Categorical Imperative", Halla Kim, University of Nebraska, Omaha | |||
| Commentator: Richard Lee, University of Arkansas | |||
| "Motives & Incorporation", John Elia, University of Texas, Austin | |||
| Commentator: Jack Weir, Morehead State University | |||
| "Interpretations of Kantian Idealism", Ken Rogerson, Florida International University | |||
| Commentator: Hoke Robinson, University of Memphis | |||
| 8:00 - 10:30 | APPLIED ETHICS | ||
| Chair: Sheila Hollander, Memphis | |||
| "Date Rape and Seduction: Towards a Defense of Pineau's Definition of 'Date Rape'", Eric Reitan, Oklahoma State University | |||
| Commentator: Jeffrey Hershfield, Wichita State University | |||
| "Liberals and Environmentalists: Reflections on a Conflict in Political Ideology", Hamner Hill, Southeast Missouri State University | |||
| Commentator: Patrick Hopkins, Millsaps University | |||
| "Torturing Puppies and Eating meat: It's All in Good Taste", Alastair Norcross, Rice University | |||
| Commentator: Dale Miller, Old Dominion University | |||
| 10:40 - 12:20 | ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY | ||
| Chair: Wes DeMarco, Stillwater | |||
| "The Divided Line and the United Psyche in Plato's Republic", May Sim, Oklahoma State | |||
| Commentator: Robert Colter, Centre College | |||
| "Stoic Value Theory", Daniel Russell, Wichita State University | |||
| Commentator: Daniel Farnham, University of Oklahoma | |||
| 10:40 - 12:20 | SEMANTICS | ||
| Chair: Eric Reitan, Oklahoma State | |||
| "Frege's 'Bedeutung' and Mill's 'Denotation'", Michael Losonsky, Colorado State | |||
| Commentator: Claire Horisk, University of Missouri, Columbia | |||
| "On Properties", Art Skidmore, University of Kansas | |||
| Commentator: Reinaldo Elugardo, University of Oklahoma | |||
| 12:30 - 2:10 | PRAGMATISM | ||
| Chair: Douglass Browning, University of Texas, Austin | |||
| "Fallibilism, Progress, and the Long Run in Peirce's Philosophy of Science", Elizabeth F. Cooke, Creighton University | |||
| Commentator: Mary Magada-Ward, Middle Tennessee State University | |||
| "Pragmatism's Deliberation", Stuart Rosenbaum, Baylor | |||
| Commentator: David Hildebrand, University of Colorado at Denver | |||
| 12:30 - 2:10 | EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY | ||
| Chair: David Soles, Wichita State | |||
| "Locke's Modes: Ideas as Properties", Benjamin Hill, Illinois Wesleyan | |||
| Commentator: Donald Seivert, University of Missouri, Columbia | |||
| "Leibniz's Attractive Trilemma", Arthur Morton, University of Cincinnati | |||
| Commentator: Monte Cook, University of Oklahoma | |||
| 2:20 - 4:00 | PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE | ||
| Chair: Brendon O'Sullivan, Rhodes College-Memphis | |||
| "Value-Freedom and Confirmation in the Social Sciences", Robert Feleppa, Wichita State | |||
| Commentator: David Henderson, University of Memphis | |||
| "Dretsky and Armstrong on Regularity Analyses and Explanation", Barry Ward, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville | |||
| Commentator: Marcello Sabates, Kansas State University | |||
| 2:20 - 4:00 | PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION | ||
| Chair: Jim Jones, Memphis University | |||
| "The Possibility of Transworld Depravity", Zachary Manis, Baylor | |||
| Commentator: Richard Gale, University of Pittsburgh & the University of Tennessee | |||
| "Machine Metaphors and Design Arguments", Doren Recker, Oklahoma State | |||
| Commentator: Gene James, University of Memphis | |||
| 4:00 | Business Meeting | ||
| 5:00 | Presidential Address | ||
| "Error", Deborah Soles, Wichita State | |||
| 7:00 | Banquet | ||
| 9:00 | President's Reception | ||
| Sunday, November 16 | |||
| 9:00 - 11:30 | POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY | ||
| Chair: David Scott, Memphis | |||
| "Problems With Galston's Pluralist Liberalism", Robert Talisse, Vanderbilt | |||
| Commentator: Brad Wilburn, Washington University, St Louis | |||
| "The Notion of Sovereign Exclusive Dominion for Global Political Justice", Christopher Robertson, Washington University, St Louis | |||
| Commentator: Rhonda Smith, Rice | |||
| "Justice and the Global Economy in Rawls' The Law of Peoples", David Reidy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville | |||
| Commentator: Michael Clifford, Mississippi State University | |||
The meeting will be held at the Radisson Hotel, Memphis, 1845 Union Avenue, Memphis TN, 38103, Tel 901-528-1800, FAX 901-525-8509. Convention rates are:
Valet parking is $7 a day for cars and $15 a day for buses.
To assure the above rates, reservations must be made before Oct 15, 2003. A credit card is needed to secure reservations. Reservations may be made by calling 1-800-333-3333 or 901-528-1800.
The hotel is located in downtown Memphis, next to the Peabody Hotel and across the street from Redbird Stadium. It is two blocks north of the Beale Street entertainment district and five blocks east of the Mississippi River.