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 Iowa Philosophical Society

66th Annual Conference

 

Program of the 2009 Iowa Philosophical Society Conference

Saturday November 14, 2009

 

Note: All sessions are in the Adler Journalism Building (AJB), right across from the Main Library, and parking is available in nearby Lot 3 (the charge is 80 cents per hour upon exiting, exact change not required, attendant present, no pass required on Saturdays). Dinner will be at 6:30 at the Brown Bottle (within walking distance of AJB). The banquet menu is available at http://www.iowacitybrownbottle.com/banquet_css.htm . There is no need to send money for the dinner; individuals will pay by separate checks.

 

Time

Room AJB, E126

Room AJB, E132

Room AJB, E138

Room AJB, E146

8:00-8:30 AM

Coffee and bagels

 

Registration

($5 students, $20 faculty)

 

 

 

 

8:30-9:20

 

Annemarie Butler

Iowa State University

 

Hume on Believing the Vulgar Fiction of Continued Existence

 

 

Joe Neisser

Grinnell College

 

Rethinking the NCC

 

Danielle Wylie

UW Madison

 

What’s Luck Got to Do with it?: A Dilemma Facing the Opponents of Moral Luck

 

Nathaniel Blower

University of Iowa

 

A New Problem for Expressivism about Self-Knowledge

9:30-10:20

 

Mavis Biss

UW Wisconsin

 

Kant’s Critique of rational psychology: the first paralogism

 

 

Christopher Gibilisco

Independent scholar

 

Towards an Adequate Theory of Properties

 

Steven E. Swartzer

UN Lincoln

 

Skepticism About Desert

 

David Alexander

Iowa State University

 

Basic Justification and Reflective Defeat

10:30-11:20

 

Geoffrey Gorham

Macalaster College

 

Mind-Body Interaction: Newton vs Descartes

 

Chris Hendrickson

University of Illinois

 

Truthmaker Constraints

 

Paul Neiman

St. Cloud State University

 

A Social Contract for International Business Ethics

 

Matthew C. Kopec

UW Madison

 

The Epistemology of Self-Fulfilling Beliefs

11:30-12:20 PM

 

Mark Collier

U. Minnesota – Morris

 

Hume and the Cognitive Science of Religion

 

 

Tim Bloser

Augustana College

 

Emotional Feelings: A Sketch of a Neo-Jamesian Theory of Emotions

 

 

Heidi Chamberlin

Baylor University

 

Korsgaard and Vogler on the Irrationality of Vice

 

Irem Steen

U. Missouri – St. Louis

 

Epistemicism and the Argument from Vagueness

12:20-1:45

LUNCH

 

 

 

1:45-2:35 PM

 

Henry Southgate

Northwestern U.

 

Kant’s Critique of the Identity of Indiscernables

 

Eric Kraemer

UW La Crosse

 

Free-Will Revisionism Reconsidered

 

Marty Henn

UW Whitewater

 

Do Specific Intent and Necessity Defense Arguments Justify the Use of Interrogational Coercion and Torture in the War on Terror?: The Bybee-Gonzales Torture Memo

 

 

Travis Dickinson

University of Iowa

 

Bergmann, Concept Application, and the Awareness of Fit

2:45-3:35 PM

 

Laura Bernhardt

Buena Vista University

 

Relationship and Theodicy in the City of God

 

P. X. Monaghan

University of Iowa

 

The Largest Proper Parts of a Whole: a mereological reason why the thesis of composition as identity is false

 

Ching-E Nobel Ang

Marquette University

An Aristotelian Dilemma: An Assessment of the Difficulties Confronting Recent Aristotelian Naturalistic Accounts of Goodness

 

Mark Criley

Illinois Wesleyan U.

 

Haslanger on the Varieties of ‘Conceptual Analysis’

3:45-4:35 PM

 

Tina Baceski

Rockhurst University

 

Hume on Art Critics, Philosophers, and the Virtues of Taste

 

 

Josh DiPaolo

UW Madison

 

Simple Self-Visitation

 

Tim Dunn

UW Waukesha

 

The Presumption of Egoism

 

I. MacMillan & J. DePoe

University of Iowa

 

Against Particularism

 

4:40-4:55 PM

AJB, E105

Iowa Philosophical Society Business Meeting

 

 

 

5:00-6:15 PM

AJB, E105

 

Keynote Address

Laird Addis

Professor Emeritus, University of Iowa

“Nietzsche’s Ontology”

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