Eastern APA Ethics-Related Sessions

Below the fold are most of the ethics-related sessions at the upcoming Eastern Division APA.  If I've missed any session that you think should be added to the list, please feel free to add it in the comment section. 

Click here for the list in .doc format.

Click here for the full-program.

It looks like PEA Soup is well-represented.  Among those on the program in the ethics-related sessions are at least Campbell Brown, Josh Glasgow, Kyle Swan, Matt Zwolinski, Michael Huemer, and Robert Johnson, as are Mark van Roojen and Mark Shroeder, two of our regular commentators.  If I've missed anyone, including anyone who is on the program in a  non-ethics-related" sessions, please feel free to let everyone know by adding the names and session information to the comment section.  It's amazing how many group sessions are on the program, especially ethics-related group sessions.

Below the fold are most of the ethics-related sessions at the upcoming Eastern Division APA.  If I've missed any session that you think should be added to the list, please feel free to add it in the comment section. 

Click here for the list in .doc format.

Click here for the full-program.

It looks like PEA Soup is well-represented.  Among those on the program in the ethics-related sessions are at least Campbell Brown, Josh Glasgow, Kyle Swan, Matt Zwolinski, Michael Huemer, and Robert Johnson, as are Mark van Roojen and Mark Shroeder, two of our regular commentators.  If I've missed anyone, including anyone who is on the program in a  non-ethics-related" sessions, please feel free to let everyone know by adding the names and session information to the comment section.  It's amazing how many group sessions are on the program, especially ethics-related group sessions.

Below the fold are most of the ethics-related sessions at the upcoming Eastern Division APA.  If I've missed any session that you think should be added to the list, please feel free to add it in the comment section. 

Click here for the list in .doc format.

Click here for the full-program.

It looks like PEA Soup is well-represented.  Among those on the program in the ethics-related sessions are at least Campbell Brown, Josh Glasgow, Kyle Swan, Matt Zwolinski, Michael Huemer, and Robert Johnson, as are Mark van Roojen and Mark Shroeder, two of our regular commentators.  If I've missed anyone, including anyone who is on the program in a  non-ethics-related" sessions, please feel free to let everyone know by adding the names and session information to the comment section.  It's amazing how many group sessions are on the program, especially ethics-related group sessions.

Wednesday Evening, December 27

Session I – 6:30-9:30 p.m.

I-A. Symposium: Racial and Ethnic Profiling

6:30-9:30 p.m.

Chair: Bernard Boxill (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)

Speakers: Annabelle Lever (University College London and University of Reading)

Mathias Risse (Harvard University)

Commentator: Michael Levin (City University of New York–City College)

 

GI-3. Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion

6:30-9:30 p.m.

Topic: Major Ethical Theories: East and West

Chair: Chandana Chakrabarti (Elon University)

Speakers: Thom Brooks (University of Newcastle–United Kingdom)

“Punishment and Reincarnation: Does One Affect the Other?”

Kisor K. Chakrabarti (Ferris State University)

“Analysis of Ought: The Nyaya Perspective”

T. Storm Heter (East Stroudsburg University)

“New Nationalism? Group Rights in Israel, France, and the USA”

T. Raghu (Community College of Southern Nevada)

“Ramalingam’s Ethical Theories: East and West”

John Kernodle (Harvard University)

“Buddhism and Neuro Ethics”

Daina Crafa (New College of Florida)

“Judeo-Christian Themes in the Selfish Gene and a Reinterpretation of Human Morality”

Shyam Ranganathan (York University)

“Major Indian Moral Theories”

Chandana Chakrabarti (Elon University)

“Transcending Ethical Duality”

Benjamin Vilhauer (William Paterson University)

“Consciousness, Desire and Enlightenment”

 

GI-5. Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals

6:30-9:30 p.m.

Chair: Mylan Engel, Jr. (Northern Illinois University)

Speaker: Robert Bass (Coastal Carolina University)

“Indirect Duty Theories: Even if They’re Right, They’re Wrong”

Commentators: Rhiannon Boyd (John Tyler Community College)

Brian G. Henning (Mount St. Mary’s University)

Speaker: Garret Merriam (Rice University)

“Vice, Virtue, and Vivisection”

Commentators: Marc R. Fellenz (Suffolk County Community College)

Bertha Alvarez Manninen (Purdue University)

 

 

Thursday Morning, December 28

 

Session II – 9:00 a.m.-Noon

II-A. Symposium: The Other Side of Agency: Needs and Dependency

9:00 a.m.-Noon

Chair: Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University)

Speakers: Eva Feder Kittay (Stony Brook University)

Soran Reader (University of Durham–England)

Commentator: Marilyn Friedman (Washington University in St. Louis)

 

GII-1. American Association for the Philosophic Study of Society

9:00-11:00 a.m.

Topic: Author Meets Critics: Jan Narveson’s Respecting Persons in Theory and Practice

Chair: Tibor R. Machan (Chapman University)

Critics: Irfan Khawaja (City University of New York–John Jay College of Criminal Justice)

Carrie-Ann Biondi (City University of New York–John Jay College of Criminal Justice)

Matt Zwolinski (University of San Diego)

Author: Jan Narveson (University of Waterloo)

 

GII-2. Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry

9:00-11:00 a.m.

Topic: The Moral Emotions

Chair: Jennifer Radden (University of Massachusetts–Boston)

Speaker: Ronald de Sousa (University of Toronto)

“Will a Stroke of Neuroscience Abolish Good and Evil?”

Commentator: Douglas Heinrichs (Independent Scholar)

 

GII-4. International Society for Environmental Ethics

9:00-11:00 a.m.

Chair: Wendy Donner (Carleton University)

Speakers: Keith Bustos (University of Tennessee)

“Kantian Corporate Environmental Responsibility”

Craig Delancey (State University of New York–Oswego)

“The Concept of Wilderness”

Sarah Kenehan (University of Tennessee)

“Empirical Adequacy, Inductive Risk, and Choosing to Act on Model-Generated Climate Predictions”

Rob Loftis (St. Lawrence University)

“A Buddhist Defense of a Disinterested Model of the Aesthetic Appreciation of Natural Environments”

 

GII-7. Society for Business Ethics

9:00-11:00 a.m.

Topic: Google, Human Rights, and China

Chair: Nien-hê Hsieh (University of Pennsylvania)

Speakers: George Brenkert (Georgetown University)

Jeffrey Smith (University of Redlands)

Commentator: Michael Boylan (Marymount University)

 

GIII-5. International Society for Environmental Ethics

11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.

Topic: Philosophical Responses to Environmental Atrocity

Chair: James Sheppard (University of Missouri–Kansas City)

Speakers: Victoria Davion (University of Georgia)

“Ecofeminist Responses to Unrecognized Evils”

Roger S. Gottlieb (Worchester Polytechnic University)

“The Holocaust and Environmental Atrocity”

Bill Lawson (University of Memphis)

“Environmental Racism as a Paradigm of Atrocity”

Kathryn Norlock (St. Mary’s College of Maryland)

“The Impossibility of Responding Ethically to Environmental Atrocity”

 

GIII-10. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Law

11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.

Topic: War and Legality

Chair: Pat Smith (City University of New York)

Speaker: Marcia Baron (Indiana University)

“Imminence and Self-Defense”

Commentator: Sarah Buss (University of Iowa)

Speaker: Larry May (Washington University in St. Louis)

“Just Cause and the Crime of Aggression”

Commentator: Bruce Landesman (University of Utah)

 

 

Thursday Afternoon, December 28

 

Session III – 2:00-5:00 p.m.

 

III-E. Author Meets Critics: John Broome, Weighing Lives

2:00-5:00 p.m.

Chair: Campbell Brown (Bowling Green State University)

Critics: Peter Vallentyne (University of Missouri–Columbia)

Wlodek Rabinovich (University of Lund–Sweden)

Author: John Broome (Oxford University)

 

III-G. Colloquium: Metaphysics

3:00-4:00 p.m.

Speaker: Joshua Glasgow (Victoria University of Wellington–New Zealand)

“Three Things Constructionism about Race Can Do”

Commentator: Ron Mallon (University of Utah)

 

III-H. Colloquium: Plato and Aristotle

4:00-5:00 p.m.

Speaker: Thornton Lockwood (Fordham University)

“Is Virtue a logos, kata ton orthon logon, or meta tou orthou logou? The Disputants of Ethics VI.13”

Commentator: Howard Curzer (Texas Tech University)

 

III-I. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Hispanics

2:00-5:00 p.m.

Topic: Author Meets Critics: Jorge Gracia: Surviving Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century

Chair: Elizabeth Millán-Zaibert (DePaul University)

Critics: Linda Martín Alcoff (Syracuse University)

Lucius Outlaw (Vanderbilt University)

Author: Jorge Gracia (University at Buffalo–State University of New York)

 

GIV-1. Association for Philosophy of Education

2:00-5:00 p.m.

Topic: Moral Reasoning

Chair: Julia Driver (Dartmouth College)

Speakers: John Doris (Washington University in St. Louis)

Gilbert Harman (Princeton University), Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Dartmouth College), and Liane Young (Harvard University)

Michael Slote (University of Miami)

Commentator: Pamela Hieronymi (University of California–Los Angeles)

 

GV-3. Concerned Philosophers for Peace

5:15-7:15 p.m.

Topic: Global Citizenship

Chair: Gail Presbey (University of Detroit Mercy)

Speakers: Eric Smaw (Rollins College)

“With Liberty and Justice for All: The Current U.S. Administration and the International Criminal Court”

Gregory Sumner (University of Detroit Mercy)

“Kurt Vonnegut on Planetary Citizenship”

R. Paul Churchill (George Washington University)

“United We Stand? Global Citizenship vs. the Demands of Affluence and Status”

 

GV-5. International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy

5:15-7:15 p.m.

Topic: Comparative Perspectives on Gender Equality and Autonomy: Confucian and Liberal Feminist Theories

Chair: Manyul Im (California State University–Los Angeles)

Speakers: Jinfen Yan (University of Toronto)

“Neo-Confucian Feminist Consciousness: Zhu Xi’s Moral Reform and Women of His Time”

Pauline Lee (Washington University in St. Louis)

“Chinese Indigenous Feminism: A Study of Li Zhi”

Annette Dufner (University of Toronto)

“Feminism and Autonomy: Mill’s Utilitarian Reasons for Liberal Feminism”

Commentator: Lynda Lange (University of Toronto)

 

GV-9. Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs

5:15-7:15 p.m.

Topic: Environmental Justice

Chair: Carol Gould (Temple University)

Speakers: Randall Curren (University of Rochester)

“Disaster Prevention and Global Population Policy”

Christian Barry (Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs)

“Is the World Trade Organization a Threat to Public Health and the Environment?”

 

GV-11. Society for the Philosophy of Human Life Issues

5:15-7:15 p.m.

Topic: The Moral Permissibility of Surrogate Parenting: A Dispute

Chair: Joseph Koterski (Fordham University)

Speakers: John Danisi (Wagner College)

Celia Wolf-Devine (Stonehill College)

 

Group Session VI – 7:30-10:30 p.m.

GVI-1. Academy for Jewish Philosophy

7:30-10:30 p.m.

Topic: Ethics and Jewish Philosophy

Chair: Edward Halper (University of Georgia)

Speakers: Ronna Burger (Tulane University)

“Maimonides’ Eight Chapters and Aristotle’s Ethics”

Heidi M. Ravven (Hamilton College)

“How Jewish Philosophy Could Help Standard Philosophical Ethics Out of its Dead End”

Martin Yaffe (University of North Texas)

“Interpreting Spinoza’s Ethics as a ‘System’: Moses Mendelssohn’s Morning Hours”

(Papers will be available at www.phil.uga.edu/faculty/halper/ajp/)

 

GVI-5. International Association for the Philosophy of Sport

7:30-10:30 p.m.

Topic: Papers in the Philosophy of Sport

Speakers: Paul Gaffney (St. John’s University)

“In the Zone: How the Confident Athlete Exemplifies Aristotelian Virtue”

Joseph D. Lewandowski (Central Missouri State University)

“Boxing: The Sweet Science of Constraints”

 

GVI-6. International Society for Buddhist Philosophy

7:30-10:30 p.m.

Topic: Reflections on Zen Buddhist Ethics, Past and Present

Chair: Jin Y. Park (American University)

Speakers: Steven Heine (Florida International University)

“Zen Buddhist Rights and Wrongs”

Eric Sean Nelson (University of Massachusetts–Lowell)

“Zen Buddhism, Ethics, and the Environment”

Victor Forte (Albright College)

“Traditional Influences on Zen Ethics in Dogen’s Shoaku Makusa”

Michiko Yusa (Western Washington University)

“Zen and Ethics: ‘Mindlessness’ Does Not Mean Irrationality”

Gereon Kopf (Luther College)

“Zen Ethics: Philosophy à la Kyoto”

 

GVI-11. Radical Philosophy Association

7:30-10:30 p.m.

Topic: The End of Tolerance?

Chair: Stephen Gallagher (Independent Scholar)

Speakers: Daniel Malloy (Appalachian State University)

“The Dialectic of Tolerance: Repressive Tolerance Revisited”

David Detmer (Purdue University)

“Intolerance in Public Discourse: The Campaign Against the Left”

Richard Jones (Howard University)

“Radical Authenticity, Sincerity, and Kantian Hospitality”

Stephen Gallagher (Independent Scholar)

“From Tolerance to Hospitality”

Commentator: Stephen Gallagher (Independent Scholar)

 

GVI-13. Society for Realist/Anti-Realist Discussion

7:30-10:30 p.m.

Topic: Realism, Relativism and Ethics

Chair: Otávio Bueno (University of Miami)

Speakers: Michael Pendlebury (North Carolina State University)

“How to Be a Normative Expressivist”

Kevin Gray (Laval University)

“Is Davidson’s Principle of Charity Ethically Significant?”

Julien Murzi (University of Rome)

“MacFarlane, Kölbel, and Wright on Realism and Relativism”

 

 

Friday Morning, December 29

 

Session IV – 9:00-11:00 a.m.

 

IV-B. Invited Paper: Moral Psychology of Vengeance

9:00-11:00 a.m.

Chair: Joel Kupperman (University of Connecticut)

Speaker: Arindam Chakrabarti (University of Hawaii)

Commentator: Robert Solomon (University of Texas–Austin)

 

IV-G. Colloquium: Moral Theory

9:00-11:00 a.m.

Chair: Vaughn Huckfeldt (University of Tennessee)

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Speaker: Josef Simpson (Fordham University)

“Intuitions and Moral Philosophy”

Commentator: Mark Van Roojen (University of Nebraska)

 

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Speaker: Benjamin Vilhauer (William Paterson University)

“Moral Responsibility and Personhood as a Desert Base”

Commentator: Robert Johnson (University of Missouri–Columbia)

 

IV-L. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Medicine

9:00-11:00 a.m.

Topic: Ethics During Epidemics: Bioterrorism and Natural Disasters

Chair: Robert Baker (Alden March Bioethics Institute and Union College)

Speakers: Dan Brock (Harvard University)

Ezikiel Emanuel (National Institutes of Health)

Bonnie Steinbock (University at Albany–State University of New York)

(This session will continue past 11:00 a.m.)

 

GVII-2. International Adam Smith Society

9:00-11:00 a.m.

Chair: Sam Fleischacker (University of Illinois–Chicago)

Speaker: Patrick Frierson (Whitman College)

“Environmental Ethics, Intrinsic Value and Adam Smith”

Commentator: Thomas Hill (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)

 

 

Friday Afternoon, December 29

 

Session V – 1:30-4:30 p.m.

 

V-B. Symposium: Repairing Wrongs: Moral, Legal, and Political Contexts

1:30-4:30 p.m.

Chair: Alisa Carse (Georgetown University)

Speakers: Elizabeth V. Spelman (Smith College)

Margaret Urban Walker (Arizona State University)

Commentator: Susan Dwyer (University of Maryland–Baltimore County)

 

V-G. Colloquium: Metaethics

1:30-4:30 p.m.

Chair: Iskra Fileva (Boston University)

 

1:30-2:30 p.m.

Speaker: Kyle Swan (National University of Singapore)

“Poverty of the Moral Stimulus”

Commentator: John Mikhail (Georgetown University)

 

2:30-3:30 p.m.

Speaker: Michael Pendlebury (North Carolina State University)

“How to Be a Normative Expressivist”

Commentator: Mark Schroeder (University of Southern California)

 

3:30-4:30 p.m.

Speaker: Leonard Kahn (Oxford University)

“One Reason Too Many”

Commentator: Jon Tresan (University of Florida)

 

Presidential Address

4:45 p.m.

Introduction: Kwame Anthony Appiah (Princeton University)

Speaker: Seyla Benhabib (Yale University)

“Another Universalism: On the Unity and Diversity of Human Rights”

 

GIX-1. Ayn Rand Society

1:30-4:30 p.m.

Topic: Author Meets Critics: Tara Smith’s Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist

Chair: Allan Gotthelf (University of Pittsburgh)

Critics: Helen Cullyer (University of Pittsburgh)

Lester Hunt (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

Christine Swanton (University of Auckland–New Zealand)

Author: Tara Smith (University of Texas–Austin)

 

GX-5. International Society for Universal Dialogue

7:00-10:00 p.m.

Topic: Collective Memory, Philosophical Reflection, and World Peace

Chair: Werner Krieglstein (College of DuPage)

Speakers: Hyun Höchsmann (New Jersey City University)

“Philosophical Perspectives on Peace: Augustine, Kant, and Kang Youwei”

Alyssa R. Bernstein (Ohio University)

“Nussbaum versus Rawls on Human Rights and Global Justice”

Justin Good (University of Hartford)

“Love as Revolution: Towards an Eco-Anarcho-Feminist Concept of Love”

Eric Thomas Weber (Southern Illinois University–Carbondale)

“Worlds Apart: On Realism and Constructivism in Political Theory”

Francis Conroy (Burlington County College)

“Contested Geographies: Diplomacy, Migration, and Peacemaking in the 20th Century Pacific”

Werner Krieglstein (College of DuPage)

“Compassion and the Rejection of Pity: Can Nietzsche’s Concept of the Overman be a Useful Tool for Empowerment and Peace?”

 

 

Saturday Morning, December 30

 

Session VI – 9:00-11:00 a.m.

 

VI-D. Invited Papers: Moral Phenomenology

9:00-11:00 a.m.

Chair: Sarah Miller (University of Memphis)

Speakers: John Drummond (Fordham University)

Mark Timmons and Terry Horgan (University of Arizona)

 

Session VII – 11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.

 

VII-C. Invited Papers: Moral Epistemology

11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.

Chair: Andrew Cullison (West Virginia University)

Speakers: Michael Huemer (University of Colorado)

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Dartmouth College)

 

VII-I. Colloquium: Philosophy of Religion

11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.

Chair: Michael Murray (Franklin and Marshall College)

 

11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Speaker: Eric Silverman (Saint Louis University)

“John Hick’s Soul Making Theodicy and the Virtue of Love”

Commentator: Jeffrey Jordan (University of Delaware)

 

12:15-1:15 p.m.

Speaker: Stephen Maitzen (Acadia University)

“Ordinary Morality Implies Atheism”

Commentator: Charles Taliaferro (St. Olaf College)

 

VII-K. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Academic Career Opportunities and Placement

11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.

Topic: Ethics and Technology Project

Chair: TBA

Speakers: TBA

 

GXI-1. American Society for Value Inquiry

9:00-11:00 a.m.

Topic: Cartesian Value Theory

Chair: John M. Abbarno (D’Youville College)

Speakers: Kimberly Blessing (Buffalo State College)

“Resoluteness and Reasonable Regret in Descartes: Thinking about Ethics”

Shoshana Smith (Colgate University)

“Descartes’s Knowledge of the Good”

 

GXI-2. Association of Chinese Philosophers in America and the International Society for Chinese Philosophy

9:00-11:00 a.m.

Topic: Ontology and Morality: Chinese and Western

Chair: Chung-ying Cheng (University of Hawaii–Manoa)

Speakers: Chung-ying Cheng (University of Hawaii–Manoa)

“Benti-ontology and Onto-ethics: In Reference to Mencius”

Vincent Shen (University of Toronto)

“Buddhist Ethics of Generosity: With the Illustration of the Awakening Faith”

Xuanmeng Yu (Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences)

“Ontology or Non-ontology? A Sign for Distinguishing Traditional from Contemporary Philosophy?”

Shenchon Lai (National Taipei University)

“Onto-Hermeneutical Approach to Buddhist Ontology and Morality”

(This session will continue past 11:00 a.m.)

 

GXII-1. Hume Society

11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.

Chair: TBA

Speakers: Ira J. Singer (Hofstra University)

“Hume’s Moral Critique of Religion”

Kenneth Winkler (Wellesley College and Yale University)

“Causal Realism and Hume’s Revisions of the Enquiry”

 

 

Saturday Afternoon, December 30

 

Session VIII, 1:30-4:30 p.m.

 

VIII-D. Author Meets Critics: Margaret Little, Intimate Duties: Rethinking Abortion, the Law, & Morality

1:30-4:30 p.m.

Chair: Sarah Buss (University of Iowa)

Critics: Debra Satz (Stanford University)

Reva Siegel (Yale University)

Author: Margaret Little (Georgetown University)

 

VIII-I. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers

1:30-4:30 p.m.

Topic: Machine Ethics

Chair: Christopher Grau (Florida International University)

Speaker: James Moor (Dartmouth College)

“Is the Intentional Stance a Good Enough Stance for Machine Ethics?”

Commentator: Selmer Bringsjord (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

Speaker: J. Storrs Hall (Institute for Molecular Manufacturing)

“On Machine Ethics”

Commentator: Colin Allen (Indiana University)

Speakers: Michael Anderson (University of Hartford) and Susan Anderson (University of Connecticut–Stamford)

“Computing Ethics”

Commentator: Andrew Light (University of Washington)

 

VIII-J. Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on Inclusiveness

1:30-4:30 p.m.

Topic: Islam and Modern Philosophy

Speaker: Omar Edward Moad (National University of Singapore)

“Islam and Moral Epistemology”

Commentator: Omar Mirza (St. Cloud State University)

 

Comments

[Dan Boisvert]

Oops, I of course meant 'Schroeder'. Sorry Mark!