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The 2007 Annual Meeting, October 5-6

Des Moines, Iowa

Hotel Fort Des Moines

Hosted by Iowa State University

 

Friday, October 5, 1:00-5:00 PM

 

Governor Room

Capital Room

From Intuitive Unreason to Controlled Moral Deliberation

Speaker: Charles Wright

Commentator: Johanna Meehan, Grinnell College

Chair: John Lemos

Unrestricted Composition and Restricted Quantifiers

Speaker: Dan Korman, University of Texas

Commentator: David Taylor, University of Iowa

Chair: David Henderson, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Deliberative Agent Causation and the Luck Argument

Speaker: John Lemos, Coe College

Commentator: Eric Kraemer, University of Wisconsin La Crosse

Chair: Kenton Machina, Illinois State University

Metaphysical Assumptions of Methodological Naturalism

Speaker: Edward Cox, Murray State University

Commentator: David Henderson, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Chair: Kenneth Williford, University of Iowa, SCSU

Omissions as Causes

Speaker: Michael Hartsock, U of  Missouri, Columbia

Commentator: Alicia Finch, Northern Illinois University

Chair: Timothy Knepper, Drake University

The Logic of Phenomenal Transparency

Speaker: Kenneth Williford, University of Iowa, SCSU

Commentator: Evan Fales, University of Iowa

Chair: Edward Cox, Murray State University

The Experience of Authorship and Automatic Action

Speaker: Tracie Mahaffey, Florida State University

Commentator: Tomis Kapitan, Northern Illionois

Chair: Alicia Finch, Northern Illinois University

A Logical Hole in the Chinese Room

Speaker: Mike Shaffer

Commentator: Chang-Seong Hong, Moorhead State

Chair: Eric Kraemer, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse

 

5:15 PM

 Keynote Address (Governor Room)

 

Scott Soames

University of Southern California

 

“What Are Natural Kinds?”

 

6:45

Cash Bar

 

7:30

Banquet and Business Meeting (State Room)

 

Presidential Address:

Heimir Geirsson

Iowa State University

 

Saturday, October 6,

Morning Session

9:00-12:00 AM

 

Governor Room

Capital Room

Essentialism and the Necessity of Identity

Speaker: Craig Warmke, Northern Illinois University

Commentator: Andrew Melnyk, University of Missouri, Columbia

Chair: Patrick Arens, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Cancelability and Semantic Entailment

Speaker: Sruthi Rothenfluch, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Commentator: Peter Markie, U of Missouri, Columbia

Chair: Al Casullo, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

An Account of Non-Autonomous Levels

Speaker: Patrick Arens, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Commentator: William S. Robinson, Iowa State University

Chair:

Warranted Assertability Maneuvers and the Rules of Assertion

Speaker: Leo Iacono, University of Nebraska

Commentator: Stephen Luper, Trinity University

Chair: Brian Hutchinson, MSC Denver

Intrinsically/Extrinsically

Speaker: Carrie Figdor, University of Iowa

Commentator: Eric Hiddleston, Wayne State University

Chair:Annemarie Butler, Iowa State University

SSI and the Knowledge View of Assertion

Speaker: Mylan Engel, Northern Illinois University

Commentator: Christopher McCammon, University of Nebraska,Lincoln

Chair: John Turri, Huron University College

 

 

12:00-1:00

Lunch Break

 

Afternoon Session

1:00-5:00 AM

 

Governor Room

Capital Room

Teaching the Euthyphro

Speaker: Harry Brod, University of Northern Iowa

Commentator: Travis Butler, Iowa State University

Chair: Joseph Cummins, Grinnell College

Rational Unity and the Discursive Dilemma

Speaker: Mark Jensen, Hope College

Commentator: James Hudson, Northern Illinois University

Chair: Omar Mirza, St Cloud State Univerity

Rehabilitating Plato’s Agathon

Speaker: Joseph Cummins, Grinnell College

Commentator: Adam Beresford, UMASS Boston

Chair: Antonio Chu, Metro State College Denver

The Causal Impotency Objection to Vegetarianism

Speakers: Aaron Champene and Don Merrel, University of Arkansas and Arkansas State

Commentator: Adam Shriver, Washington University, St. Louis

Chair: Gordon Hull, Iowa State University

On the General Argument Against Internalism

Speaker: John Turri, Huron University College

Commentator: Casey Swank, St. Cloud State University

Chair: John DePoe, University of Iowa

Liberty, Disabilities, and Justice in the Workplace

Speakers: Andrew Ward and Paul Baker, Minnesota Population Center and Georgia Tech University

Commentator: Kristen Hessler, SUNY Albany

Chair: Rodney Cup, Wayne State College

Error-Avoidance Reliabilism

Speaker: Mark Wunderlich, SUNY Albany

Commentator: Richard Fumerton, University of Iowa

Chair: Reza Lahroodi, University of Northern Iowa

 

Cognitive Emotivism

Speaker: David Hill, Augustana College

Commentator: John Pauley, Simpson College

Chair: Kristen Hessler, SUNY Albany

 

 

 

Questions regarding the program? Contact Matthias Steup
Questions regarding local arrangements? Contact Heimir Geirsson

Contact Michael Shaffer for information on membership and mailing list


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