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.
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Friday, October 11 | |||
8:00 a.m. + Registration | $50 registration fee payable at registration or to Eric Carter during the conference (fee waived for undergraduate students). | ||
Coral Reef | Aquamarine I | Aquamarine 2 | |
8:30-9:10 a.m. Session 1 | Jason Cruze (Biola U.) I Too Am a Potential Sinner: Humility and Moral Standing to Blame | Matt Frise (Rochester U.) Preservationism Destroyed | Aaron Yarmel (LSE) Mechanistic Explanations in Music Theory: Lessons from Biology and Physical Geography |
9:20-10:00 a.m. Session 2 | Travis Rodgers (U. Central Florida) Is an Aristotelian Plan of Moral Education Still Credible? | Jon Matheson (U. North Florida) A Defense of the Principle of Inferential Justification | Oisín Deery (U. Montreal) and Joshua Johnston (Auburn U.) Free Will and Aesthetic Judgment: A Defense of the Agency View |
10:10-10:50 a.m. Session 3 | Howard Hewitt (Auburn U.) Constructivism and Ideal Response Reduction | William Roche (Texas Christian U.) Evidence of Evidence is Evidence Under Screening Off | Stefan Forrester (Texas Christian U.) Thomas Reid on Metaphor |
11:00-11:40 a.m. Session 4 | David Merli (Franklin & Marshall) Another Look at Moral Twin Earth: Semantic and Epistemic Constraints on Moral Discourse | Guy Rohrbaugh (Auburn U.) Inner Achievement | Luke Phillips (Auburn U.) The New Aesthetic Attitude |
11:40 a.m.-1:00 p.m. | Break for Lunch (on your own) | ||
1:00-1:40 p.m. Session 5 | Daniel Massey (Spring Hill College) Irresolvable Moral Disagreement: An Overlooked Option | Matthew Miller (Western Michigan U.) Safety, Sensitivity, and the Problem of Necessary Truth | Michael Watkins (Auburn U.) Humes Problems |
1:50-2:30 p.m. Session 6 | Antonio Capuano (Auburn U.) Justice as Fairness: Model Theory or Theory of Justice? | Adam Podlaskowski (Fairmont State U.) and Joshua Smith (Central Michigan U.) On the Limited Value of Mathematical Models for Infinitists | John Coker (U. South Alabama) Some Heretical Remarks on the Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein |
2:40-3:20 p.m. Session 7 | Matthew Jordan (Auburn U. Montgomery) Evolution and Moral Knowledge | Kevin McCain (U. Alabama Birmingham) Evidentialism and Forgotten Evidence | Eric Carter (North Carolina State U.) Explanative Expressions |
3:30-4:10 p.m. Session 8 | Mark Anderson (Tarrant County College) Resultant Luck, History, and Moral Responsibility | William Melanson (U. Nebraska Omaha) Rethinking the Grounds of Belief | Brandon Carey (U. Rochester) Epistemic Possibility and Evidence of Counterfactuals |
4:20-5:00 p.m. Session 9 | Allan Hillman (U. South Alabama) and Tully Borland (Ouachita Baptist U.) Philosophy and a Liberal Arts Education | Tom Lockhart (Auburn U.) and Jennifer Lockhart (Auburn U.) Action Skepticism and Disjunctivism | Aaron Cobb (Auburn U. Montgomery) Justifying and Epistemic Justification in Experimental Inquiry |
Reception 7:00-10:00 p.m. | Reception (Alabama Philosophical Society Suite, location TBA) |
Saturday, October 12 | Coral Reef | Aquamarine 1 | Aquamarine 2 |
8:00-8:40 a.m. Session 10 | Nate Zuckerman (Spring Hill College) Heidegger on Daseins Ways of Being | Morgan Rempel (U. Southern Mississippi) Stoic Philosophy and Alcoholics Anonymous: The Enduring Wisdom of the Serenity Prayer | |
8:50-9:30 a.m. Session 11 | Nicholas Tebben (Towson U.) Deontology and Freedom of Belief: A Reply to Steup | Mirja Pérez de Calleja
(Florida State U.) Cross-World Luck at the Time of Decision is a Problem for Compatibilists as Well | Chad Kidd (Auburn U.) The Height of Argument: On the Devolutionary Narrative of Republic Book VIII |
9:40-10:20 a.m. Session 12 | Franklin D. Worrell (Tulane U.) The Harm of Paraphilic Disorders | Joseph Baltimore (West Virginia U.) Heils Two-Category Ontology and Causation | Richard Fry (Georgetown U.) Problems in Lockes Account of Animal Inference |
10:30-11:10 a.m. Session 13 |
Daniel Pearlberg (Ohio State U.) Brains Without Parts | Kevin Morris (Tulane U.) The Exclusion Problem and the Exclusion Principle | Nicholaos Jones (U. Alabama Huntsville) Reconstructing Fazangs Identities |
11:20 a.m.-12:05 p.m. Session 14 |
Andrei Marasoui (U. Virginia Charlottesville) Visual Experience of Kinds | Roderick T. Long (Auburn U.) Why Character Traits Are Not Dispositions | 2013 Undergraduate Essay Prize Winner
Matthew OBrien (U. Alabama) Coherence as a Theory of Truth: A Response to Russells Alternate Systems Objection |
12:15-1:15 p.m. Session 15 (Plenary) | Keynote Address
Richard Richards (U. Alabama) Are Species Real? | ||
1:30-2:30 p.m. | Business Lunch, Location: Flounders |