Friday, October 30

1:00-3:00 Concurrent Paper Sessions

Ethics: Gerlinger 302
1. Frances and Daniel Howard-Snyder: "Is Theism Compatible With Gratuitous Evil?"
2. Phillip Goggans: "Ethical Individualism and the Natural Law"
3. Kenneth Himma: "Thompson‰s Violinist and Conjoined Twins"
CHAIR: Neil Feit, Washington State

Epistemology: Gerlinger 248
1. H. Benjamin Schaeffer: "Epistemic Pluralism and the Threat to Epistemic Consequentialism"
2. Michael O‰Rourke: "Content and Communication"
3. Robert Paul: "What Does Observation Change?"
CHAIR: Juan Feret, Oregon

History: Gerlinger 246
1. Tangren Alexander: "Winter Term Musings on the History/Herstory of Western Philosophy"
2. Glen Cosby: "Kierkegaard on Hegel and Socrates"
3. A. P. Roark: "The Correct Constitution and Aristotle‰s Concept of Distributive Justice"
CHAIR: Will Davie, Oregon

Panel Discussion: Native American Philosophy Gerlinger Lounge
1. V. F. Cordova: "Exploring the Sources of Western Thought"
2. Lorraine Brundige: "Feminism and Native American Identity"
3. Scott Pratt, Shari Huhndorf: "Russell‰s Paradox and Native Cultural Survival in Wind From an Enemy Sky."
CHAIR: Beth Hege Piatote, Oregon

Philosophy of Psychology: TBA
1. Norah Martin: "The Feminine Subject of Prozac"
2. David Mitsuo Nixon: "Another Look at Logical Behaviorism"
3. Richard Schubert: "Pro Tanto Reason Judgments and the Motivation of the Practically Rational"
CHAIR: Andrew Cortens, Boise State

20TH Century Philosophy: TBA
1. Travis Anderson: "Heidegger and the Problem of Architecture"
2. Prakash Chenjeri: "Seeing is Acting: The Basis for Right Action in Buddha and Wittgenstein"
3. Tim Adamson: "The Story of the Body: Paul Ricouer and Embodied Narratives"
CHAIR: Ajit Maan, Oregon

Webster Hood: "A Reexamination of Dewey‰s The Public and its Problems"

Saturday, October 31

9:00-10:30 Invited Address

Arthur Cody: "The Computational Theory of the Mind and Evolution" Gerlinger Lounge

Panel Discussion: Philosophy of Science Gerlinger Lounge
1. David Boersema: "What is Natural About Naturalizing Philosophy?"
2. Steve Downes: "Why Not Naturalism?"
3. Jeff Ramsey: "Naturalism and The Variety of Science"
4. Bill Rottschaefer: "The Scientific Naturalization of Ethics"
5. Nancy Tuana: "Approaches to Naturalized Epistemologies in Feminist Science Studies"
CHAIR: William Cowling, Oregon

Social and Political Philosophy: Gerlinger 302
1. Michael Sullivan: "Constitutional Progress and Self-Knowledge"
2. Clayton Morgareidge: "Imposing One‰s Values on Others: What is the Force of Moral Judgments?"
3. Phil Smith: "Civil Speech, the Right and the Good"
CHAIR: Lani Roberts, Oregon State

Ethics: Gerlinger 246
1. Tom Davis: "Thoughtful Violence and Exemplary Inquiry: Reconceiving Provocation"
2. Jeffrey Stolle: "Evaluating Immediacy: An Encounter in the Street"
3. Robert Gould: "The Problem of Forgiveness"
CHAIR: David Carey, Whitman

2:15-4:15 Concurrent Paper Sessions

Feminism: Gerlinger 302
1. Mary Bloodsworth: "Irigaray‰s (Re-)Figuring of Place"
2. Jamie Ross: "Feminist Pedagogy and Technology"
3. Lori Alword: "Internalization of Oppression"
CHAIR: Alex Stotts, Oregon

Philosophy of Science: Gerlinger 246
1. J. K. Derden, Jr.: "A Different Conception of Scientific Realism"
2. M. A. Norton: "Hume‰s Mathematics"
3. M. Gregory Oakes: "Time-Extended Objects"
CHAIR: Joseph Keim Cambell, Washington State

Rhetoric and Philosophy: Gerlinger 248
1. James Risser: "The Function of Rhetoric in Gadamer‰s Hermeneutics"
2. James Crosswhite: "What is it over which Philosophy and Rhetoric are Divided?"
3. Bryan D. Yorton: "The Role of Irony in the Right to Believe: Socrates‰ Infeasible Epistemic Principle"
CHAIR: John Capaccio, Oregon