For those of you who have been dying to know what I've been doing for the last five months when I haven't been blogging, this conference program represents the fruits of (much of) that activity.
Central States Philosophical Association 2012 Conference
September 21-22, University of Missouri, Columbia
Memorial Union, South Wing
(Parking available at University Avenue Parking Garage; fee/permit required on 21st only)
Note: Sessions end five minutes before the hour to allow for a short break between sessions.
Friday Morning, Sept. 21—Epistemology (Memorial Union S107)
9:00 Kyle Ray (Oklahoma State), “False Affirmation and Testimony”
Commentator: John Camacho (UMSL)
Chair: Bob Fischer (Texas State)
10:00 Richard Fry (Georgetown), “The Epistemological and Psychological Status of Proofs in Hume”
Commentator: Mary Gwin (Oklahoma State)
Chair: John Matheson (North Florida)
11:00 Bob Fischer (Texas State), “TRUE is False and Why it Matters”
Commentator: Joshua DiPaolo (Massachusetts-Amherst)
Chair: Eric Reitan (Oklahoma State)
12:00 Michael Shaffer (St Cloud State), “Doxastic Voluntarism, Epistemic Deontology and Belief-contravening Commitments”
Commentator: Christopher Gadsden (Missouri)
Chair: Brendan Murday (Ithaca)
Friday Morning, Sept 21—Ethics (Memorial Union S207)
9:00 Eric Wiland (Missouri-St. Louis), “Williams on Thick Ethical Concepts and Reasons for Action”
Commentator: Robert Johnson (Missouri)
Chair: Thomas Reynolds (Missouri)
10:00 Adam Thompson (Nebraska-Lincoln), “Optimism and Resentment”
Commentator: MaryEllen VanDerHeyden (Washington University)
Chair: John Camacho (UMSL)
11:00 Jeff Behrends (Wisconsin-Madison), “Parfit’s All or None Argument and the Development of Normative Hybridism”
Commentator: Joel Dittmer (MU of Sci & Tech)
Chair: Thomas Reynolds (Missouri)
12:00 Bekka Williams (Wisconsin-Madison), “What Does Subjective ‘Ought’ Imply?”
Commentator: Joshua Smart (Missouri)
Chair: Bryan Stegner (Washington University)
Friday Morning, Sept. 21—Free Will & Philosophy of Mind (Memorial Union S110)
9:00 Philip Swenson (UC-Riverside), “What Can We Learn from Deterministic Frankfurt-Style Cases?”
Commentator: David Palmer (Tennessee-Knoxville)
Chair: Kevin McCain (Alabama-Birmingham)
10:00 Open (Session Cancelled)
11:00 Dennis Trinkle (Wisconsin-Madison), “Delusions and Downstream Effects”
Commentator: Krista Wiley (UMSL)
Chair: Bradley Rettler (Notre Dame)
12:00 Matthew Cook (Oklahoma), “Extended Perception”
Commentator: Lynn Chien-Hui Chiu (Missouri)
Chair: Bryan Weaver
LUNCH: 1-2 PM
Friday Afternoon, Sept 21—The Philosophy of Allan Gibbard (MU S107)
2:00 Tyler Paytas (Washington U), “How Should We Feel about Nursing Homes and Camel Thefts?”
Commentator: Phil Zema (Missouri)
Chair: : Thomas Reynolds (Missouri)
3:00 Louis Gularte (Northern Illinois), “On the Possibility of Compatibility Between Moral Objectivity and Plan-based Expressivism”
Commentator: Jeff Behrends, Wisconsin-Madison)
Chair: Joshua DiPaoulo
4:00 Bruce Russell (Wayne State), “Parfit and Gibbard on Intuitions”
Commentator: Allan Gibbard (Michigan)
Chair: Eric Reitan
Friday Afternoon, Sept 21—Values & Ethics (MU S207)
2:00 Andrew Ward (Minnesota), “A Pragmatic Rapproachment of Facts and Values”
Commentator: Don Morse (Webster)
Chair: Christopher Gadsden (Missouri)
3:00 Antony Aumann (Northern Michigan), “The Relationship Between Aesthetic Value and Cognitive Value”
Commentator: Allison Merrick (Arkansas-Little Rock)
Chair: Dennis Trinkle (Wisconsin-Madison)
4:00 Donald Wilson (Kansas State), “Herman on Beneficence”
Commentator: Everett Fulmer (St. Louis)
Chair: Kyle Ray (Oklahoma State)
Friday Afternoon, Sept. 21—Metaphysics (MU S110)
2:00 Maxwell Suffis (Northern Illinois), “Why We Shouldn’t Think of Souls as Meriological Simples: A Negative Assessment of the Paradox of Increase”
Commentator: Kevin Sharpe (St. Could State)
Chair: Bradley Rettler (Notre Dame)
3:00 Bradley Rettler (Notre Dame), “How to Think About Grounding”
Commentator: Andrew Melnyk (Missouri)
Chair: Richard Fry (Georgetown)
Friday, 5-6 PM: Keynote by Allan Gibbard: “Meaning and Normativity.” Introduction by Paul Weirich (MU S107)
Banquet: 7 PM, Reynolds Alumni Center
Saturday Morning, Sept. 22—Political Philosophy (MU S207)
9:00 Joshua Anderson (St. Louis), “What is to be Done About the Rabble?”
Commentator: Roxy Green (Arkansas-Little Rock)
Chair: Bekka Williams (Wisconsin-Madison)
10:00 Christopher McCammon (Drake), “How to be an Instrumentalist about Political Legitimacy”
Commentator: Peter Vallentyne (Missouri)
Chair: Regina Schouten (Wisconsin Madison)
11:00 Regina Schouten (Wisconsin-Madison), “Citizenship, Reciprocity, and the Gendered Division of Labor.”
Commentator: Stephanie Hull (Missouri)
Chair: Joshua DiPaoulo (Massachusetts-Amherst)
12:00 Dustin Nelson (Tennessee), “(Mis)Understanding Rawls’ Wide View of Public Political Culture”
Commentator: Sheng Zhang (Missouri)
Chair: Tyler Paytas (Washington University-St. Louis)
Saturday Morning, Sept. 22—Decision Theory and Epistemology (MU S203)
9:00 Ashton Sperry (Missouri), “On Defining Strategy”
Commentator: Seth Kurtenbach (Missouri)
Chair: Andrew Spear (Grand Valley State)
10:00 Tanya Kostochka (Northern Illinois), “Intention and Resolution in a Two-Stage Newcomb’s Problem”
Commentator: Ashton Sperry (Missouri)
Chair: Andrew Spear (Grand Valley State)
11:00 James Beebe (SUNY Buffalo), “Gettierized Knobe Effects”
Commentator: Kevin McCain (Alabama-Birmingham)
Chair: Mary Gwin (Oklahoma State)
12:00 Brendan Murday (Ithaca College), “Dissolving the Problem of the Criterion”
Commentator: Andrew Spear (Grand Valley State)
Chair: Mary Gwin (Oklahoma State)
Saturday Morning, Sept. 22—Metaphysics (MU S206)
9:00 Kenneth Boyce (Notre Dame), “On Believing in Neutrons but not Numbers”
Commentator: Eric Hiddleston (Wayne State)
Chair: Andrew Melnyk (Missouri)
10:00 Justin Remhof (Illinois-Urbana Champaign), “Object Constructivism and Unconstructed Objects”
Commentator: Kenneth Boyce (Notre Dame)
Chair: Jonah Goldwater (Missouri)
11:00 Eric Hiddleston (Wayne State), “Semantic Ineliminabilty, Fictionalism, and Ontology”
Commentator: John Collins (East Carolina)
Chair: Richard Fry (Georgetown)
LUNCH: 1-2
Saturday Afternoon, Sept. 22—Moral Problems (MU S207)
2:00 Philip Mouch (Minnesota State-Moorhead), “Self-Defense and the Castle Doctrine”
Commentator: Crystal Allen (Principia College)
Chair: Phillip Zema (Missouri)
3:00 Crystal Allen (Principia College), “Justifying War and the Boundaries of Territorial Defense”
Commentator: Isaac Wagner (Missouri)
Chair: Philip Swenson (UC-Riverside)
4:00 Owen Shaefer (Oxford), “Moral Disagreement and Moral Enhancement”
Commentator: Wenwen Fan (Missouri)
Chair: Ron Glass (Wisconsin-LaCross)
Saturday Afternoon, Sept. 22—Epistemology (MU S203)
2:00 Jonathan Matheson (North Florida), “Is there a Well-Founded Solution to the Generality Problem?”
Commentator: Casey Swank (St. Cloud State)
Chair: Mary Gwin (Oklahoma State)
3:00 Ted Poston (South Alabama), “Coherence, A Priority, and Logic”
Commentator: David Henderson (Nebraska-Lincoln)
Chair: Jonathan Matheson (North Florida)
4:00 Kevin McCain (Alabama-Birmingham), “In Defense of the Explanationist Response to Skepticism”
Commentator: Ali Hasan (Iowa)
Chair: Ted Poston (South Alabama)
Saturday Afternoon, Sept. 22—Philosophy of Religion (MU S206)
2:00 Andrew Moon (Kansas State), “Religious Disagreement, Epistemic Circularity, and the Cognitive Science of Religion”
Commentator: David Alexander (Iowa State)
Chair: Dennis Trinkle (Wisconsin-Madison)
3:00 Billy Ramey (Missouri), “Why We Cannot Go On to Infinity: A Hybrid Cosmological Argument”
Commentator: Eric Reitan (Oklahoma State)
Chair: Antony Aumann (Northern Michigan)
4:00 Open (Session cancelled)
Saturday Sept. 22, 5 PM: Business Meeting (chaired by Eric Reitan) followed by Presidential Address by Paul Weirich: “Simplifying Choices” (MU S203)
Saturday, Sept 22, 6-7 PM: Closing Reception (MU S206)
