Each of the non-plenary sessions offers three 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, September 24 | |||
8:00 a.m. + Registration | $40 registration fee payable at registration or to Allan Hillman during the conference (fee waived for emeriti and undergraduate students). | ||
Coral Reef | Aquamarine I | Aquamarine 2 | |
8:30-9:10 a.m. Session 1 | Enrico Zoffoli (U. Arizona) A Critique of Scanlons Non-Rejectability Requirement | Joseph Long (Florida State U.) Why Not Non-Naturalism? | Kraig Martin (Baylor U.) Epistemic Possibility and Closure of Inquiry |
9:20-10:00 a.m. Session 2 | John Park (Duke U.) The Principle of Abstract Concepts | Kenneth Boyce (Notre Dame) Aristotles Presentist Account of Change and the Charge of Circularity | Troy Nunley (Denver Seminary) A Critique of Cartesian Knowability |
10:10-10:50 a.m. Session 3 | Dennis Sansom (Samford U.) Truth and the World: Why Davidson is Right and Rorty is Wrong | Tully Borland (Ouachita Baptist U.) Lebnizs Criticism of Voluntarism: The Case Against Hobbes | Bob Fischer (U. Illinois - Chicago) A Better Basis for Modal Skepticism |
11:00-11:40 a.m. Session 4 | Adam Podlaskowski (Fairmont State U.) Phenomenal Intentionality and Thoughts about Logic | Allan Hillman (U. South Alabama) Leibniz & Luther: the Non-Cognitive Aspect of Faith | Justin Matchulat (Purdue) Degreed Virtue: A Defense of Virtue Ethics against the Situationist Challenge |
11:40 a.m.-1:00 p.m. | Break for Lunch | ||
1:00-1:40 p.m. Session 5 | Kevin Sharpe (Saint Cloud State U.) Persons, Animals, and Persistence Conditions | Joshua Horn (U. Kentucky) Optimization and Maximization: A Leibnizian Response to Rowe | Aaron Champene (Northeast Lakeview College) Testimony as a Transmissive Source of Epistemic Justification |
1:50-2:30 p.m. Session 6 | Joseph Baltimore (West Virginia U.) Careful, Physicalists: Mind-Body Supervenience Can Be Too Superduper | William Melanson (U. Nebraska - Omaha) Locke on the Knowledge of Real Existence | Joshua Smith (Central Michigan U.) Elimination and Closure |
2:40-3:20 p.m. Session 7 | Reshef Agam-Segal (Auburn U.) Self-Legislation and Other Figurative Dramas | Thomas Metcalf (U. Colorado - Boulder) Must Hypothetical Counterexamples be Possible? | Matthew Clemens (U. Connecticut) Fictionalism and Mathematics |
3:30-4:10 p.m. Session 8 | Robert Schroer (Arkansas State U.) Dispositional Properties and the Too Little Actuality Objection: A Response to Birds One-Two Punch | David Anderson and Joshua Watson (Purdue) Appreciating the Mystery of Divine Foreknowledge | Eric Carter (North Carolina State U.) Subjective Attitudes, Judge-Dependence, and Vagueness |
4:20-5:00 p.m. Session 9 | Roderick T. Long (Auburn U.) No Matter, No Master: Godwins Humean Anarchism | Adam Murray (U. Toronto) Essence, Individuation, and Infinite Mode in the Ethics | Patrick Todd (U. California Riverside) Soft Facts and Ontological Dependence |
6:00-11:00 p.m. | Reception (White Sands Room) |
Saturday, September 25 | Coral Reef | Aquamarine 1 | Aquamarine 2 |
8:30-9:10 a.m. Session 10 | J. Alden Stout (Utah Valley U.) Hegelian Freedom and the Dichotomy between the Right and the Good | Andrew Bailey (Notre Dame) A Priority Problem for the Constituent Solution | Nathaniel Coleman (U. Michigan) The Political Power of Sexual Preference |
9:20-10:00 a.m. Session 11 | 2010 Undergraduate Essay Prize Winner
Alex Whalen (U. South Alabama) Luck and Intuition | Matt Jordan (Auburn - Montgomery) Theistic Metaethics and the Art of Making Moral Judgments | Morgan Rempel (U. Southern Mississippi) Nietzsche, Epicurus, and Suffering |
10:10-10:50 a.m. Session 10 (Plenary) |
Presidential Address Nick Jones (U. Alabama Huntsville) Approximate Truth and Self-Inconsistent Theories | ||
11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon Session 11 (Plenary) | Keynote Address
John Heil (Washington U. St. Louis) | ||
Business Lunch, Location TBA |