Each of the non-plenary sessions offers three (or in some cases two) concurrent papers in different meeting rooms.
Unlike APA sessions, APS sessions do not have commentators.
So to accommodate the larger number of papers in a reasonable amount of time,
we have scheduled 40-minute sessions with a 10-minute break between sessions.
Presenters should do their best to finish within 25 minutes to allow time for discussion.
Paper titles are linked to abstracts.
Friday, October 2 | Outside Island Bay I | ||
11:00 Registration | $40 registration fee payable at registration or to Adam Podlaskowski during the conference (fee waived for emeriti and students). | ||
Island Bay I | Island Bay II | Suite 221 | |
12:10-12:50 Session 1 | Erik Baldwin (Purdue) On the Possibility of Antithetical Reasonable Disagreement | John Coker (U. South Alabama) Critical Legal Studies vs. Dworkin | Anthony W. Shiver (W. Michigan U.) Temporal Versions of the Consequence and Mind Arguments |
1:00-1:40 Session 2 | Adam Podlaskowski (Fairmont State U.) Semantic Pluralism and Semantic Functionalism | Charles Johnson (Molinari Institute) Can Anyone Ever Consent to the State? | Josh Watson (Purdue) On Virtue and Flourishing |
1:50-2:30 Session 3 | Eric Carter (Ohio State) Constraint and Neutrality | Bob Robinson (Purdue) The Paradox of Self-Legislation and the Requirements of the Rational Will | Morgan Rempel (U. Southern Mississippi) The Genocidal Morality of Heinrich Himmler: A Reply to Bennett |
2:40-3:20 Session 4 | David Anderson (Purdue) Knowledge and Conviction | Andrew Choi (Ohio State) When Does Someone Act Against Their Best Judgment? | Chase Wrenn (U. Alabama) Truth Is Not Instrumentally Valuable |
3:30-4:10 Session 5 | William Melanson (U. Nebraska at Omaha) You Cant Buy Much With Intellectual Credit | Roderick T. Long (Auburn) Left-Libertarianism, Class Conflict, and Historical Theories of Distributive Justice | Eric Loomis (U. South Alabama) and Cory Juhl (U. Texas at Austin) Analyticity |
4:20-5:00 Session 6 | Jeffrey Roland (LSU) and Jon Cogburn (LSU) Anti-Luck Epistemologies and Necessary Truths | John Houston (Purdue) Aristotle on Friendship and Justice | Marcus Rossberg (U. Connecticut) Inferentialism and Conservativeness |
5:10-5:50 Session 7 | Jeremy Cushing (U. Massachusetts) Transparency as a Model for Self-Knowledge | David Merli (Franklin & Marshall) and Joshua Smith (Central Michigan U.) Some Reflections on the Therapeutic Obligation | Mylan Engel (N. Illinois U.) The Darwinian Problem of Evil: Theism and the Problem of Animal Suffering |
9:00 | Reception and Cash Bar, Location TBA |
Saturday, October 3 | Island Bay I | Island Bay II | Suite 221 |
8:30-9:10 Session 8 | Kaplan Hasanoglu (U. Iowa) On the Inadequacy of the Contextualist Answer to Skepticism | Nicholas Baima (Washington U. St. Louis) The Ideal Epistemic Agent: The Autonomous Knower | Nick Jones (U. Alabama Huntsville) Cartwrights Capacities, Coulombs Law, and Hydrogen Bonds |
9:20-10:00 Session 9 |
2009 Undergraduate Essay Prize Winner Jonathan Cobb (U. Alabama) Time and Qualia | Daniel Ansted (Florida State U.) The Youth and Immorality of Eros in the Symposium | Jason Berntsen (Xavier U. of Louisiana) Internalism and Not Practicing What You Preach |
10:10-10:50 Session 10 (Plenary) |
Presidential Address Ted Poston (U. South Alabama) Is There an I in Epistemology? (Island Bay I) | ||
11:00-12:00 Session 11 (Plenary) | Keynote Address
David Christensen (Brown U.) Disagreement, Question-Begging and Epistemic Self-Doubt (Island Bay I) | ||
12:00-2:00 | Business Lunch, Location TBA | ||
2:30-3:10 Session 12 | Andrew Moon (U. Missouri) Knowledge Without Evidence | James Rocha (LSU) Autonomy Within Hierarchical Jobs | |
3:20-4:10 Session 13 | Alden Stout (Purdue) A Wittgensteinian Critique of Perfect Being Theology | Chris Meyers (U. Southern Mississippi) Egoism, Competition, and Fairness |