Mid-South schedule
John M Fritzman
tg0jmf1 at corn.cso.niu.edu
Sun, 19 Feb 1995 08:22:47 -0600 (CST)
MID-SOUTH PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE
The University of Memphis
February 24-25, 1995
Sponsored by The University of Memphis, Department of
Philosophy & The Center for the Humanities; and by
Oklahoma City University, Department of Philosophy
& The Institute of Liberal Arts
FRIDAY KEYNOTE ADDRESS 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Loyalty, Isolation and Rage: A Philosophical
Probe Into the Present Situation
John J. McDermott
Texas A & M University
FRIDAY SESSION 1 3:10-4:00 p.m.
ROOM A: FRIDAY, SESSION 1, 3:10-4:00 p.m.
Micro-Phenomenology: Towards a Hypothetico-Inductive
Science of the Phenomena
Richard Lind
The University of Tulsa
Comment: Thomas J. Nenon
The University of Memphis
ROOM B: FRIDAY, SESSION 1, 3:10-4:00 p.m.
Whither Distributed Representations?
Robert S. Stufflebeam
Washington University
Comment: Norman R. Gall
The University of Manitoba
ROOM C: FRIDAY, SESSION 1, 3:10-4:00 p.m.
Husserl's "Idea of a Grammer of Pure Logic"
Bill Scott
The John Hopkins University
Comment: Stephen Pluhacek
Purdue University
ROOM D: FRIDAY, SESSION 1, 3:10-4:00 p.m.
Associative Obligations and Legitimacy
James Janowski
The University of Illinois
Comment: Aeon Skoble
The University of Central Arkansas
ROOM E: FRIDAY, SESSION 1, 3:10-4:00 p.m.
A Paradoxical Relation between History and Philosophy
George Gale
The University of Missouri-Kansas City
Cassandra Pinnick
Western Kentucky University
Comment: Eric Palmer
Allegheny College
ROOM F: FRIDAY, SESSION 1, 3:10-4:00 p.m.
Teaching Students with Disabilities: A Logic Student with Dyslexia
H. Hamner Hill
Southeast Missouri State University
Comment: Sheila Hollander
University of Memphis
ROOM G: FRIDAY, SESSION 1, 3:10-4:00 p.m.
Definitions for Three Proof-Theoretic Processes
in Aristotle's Prior Analytics
George Boger
Canisius College
Comment: James W. Jobes
Rhodes College
ROOM H: FRIDAY, SESSION 1, 3:10-4:00 p.m.
Goodness, Obligation and Intrinsic Value
Grant C. Sterling
Eastern Illinois University
Comment: Ralph D. Ellis
Clark Atlanta University
FRIDAY SESSION 2 4:10-5:00 p.m.
ROOM A: FRIDAY, SESSION 2, 4:10-5:00 p.m.
A Defense of Paul Feyerabend's Scientific Anarchism
Anthony Crifasi
The University of Dallas
Comment: Norman Lillegard
The University of Tennessee-Martin
ROOM B: FRIDAY, SESSION 2, 4:10-5:00 p.m.
Identity and the Information Theory of the Mental
Jim Shelton
The University of Central Arkansas
Comment: Joseph C. Totherow
Michigan State University
ROOM C: FRIDAY, SESSION 2, 4:10-5:00 p.m.
The Law for Adorno
Robert Russell
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Comment: Adam Thurschwell
Oklahoma City University
ROOM D: FRIDAY, SESSION 2, 4:10-5:00 p.m.
The Moral Limits of the Use of Handguns
in Defense of Self and Property
Nicholas Dixon
Alma College
Comment: Ronald J. Broach
Washington University
ROOM E: FRIDAY, SESSION 2, 4:10-5:00 p.m.
Divine Ideas in the Philosophy of George Berkeley
Bruce Freeberg
Emory University
Comment: Mark Wimer
Emory University
ROOM F: FRIDAY, SESSION 2, 4:10-5:00 p.m.
The Use of Provocative Techniques in
Teaching Introductory Philosophy
Jon K. Mills
Vanderbilt University
Comment: H. Peter Steeves
Indiana University
ROOM G: FRIDAY, SESSION 2, 4:10-5:00 p.m.
Friendship and the Dialectic of (Non-)Self-Identity
Andrew Fiala
Vanderbilt University
Comment: Leighton Moore
Emory University
ROOM H: FRIDAY, SESSION 2, 4:10-5:00 p.m.
FRIDAY SESSION 3 5:10-6:00 p.m.
ROOM A: FRIDAY, SESSION 3, 5:10-6:00 p.m.
Paradigms, Individuals, and Collectives:
Popper and Kuhn on Normal Science
Rick Varco
Emory University
Comment: David Henderson
The University of Memphis
ROOM B: FRIDAY, SESSION 3, 5:10-6:00 p.m.
Quine on Scepticism
Robert L. Higgerson Jr.
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Comment: Anthony Crifasi
The University of Dallas
ROOM C: FRIDAY, SESSION 3, 5:10-6:00 p.m.
Private Self-Creation and Public Solidarity:
A Critique of Rorty's Vision of Human Life
William J. Garland
The University of the South
Comment: Randall E. Auxier
Oklahoma City University
ROOM D: FRIDAY, SESSION 3, 5:10-6:00 p.m.
Symbolic Utility and Rationality in Nozick's State of Nature
John R. Danley
Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
Comment: Daniel Cullen
Rhodes College
ROOM E: FRIDAY, SESSION 3, 5:10-6:00 p.m.
Schopenhauer and Kieregaard on Humor as Aesthetic Experience
Marty Miller Maddox
Moraine Valley Community College
Comment: Dan Fernald
Emory University
ROOM F: FRIDAY, SESSION 3, 5:10-6:00 p.m.
On Progress, Work, and the Intellectual Activity
Thomas P. Kling
Loyola University-New Orleans
Comment: Andrew Fiala
Vanderbilt University
ROOM G: FRIDAY, SESSION 3, 5:10-6:00 p.m.
Does Socrates Show that He Does Not Corrupt
the Youth by Showing that He Is Not Impious?
Scott Calef
The University of Central Arkansas
Comment: Kelly D. Jolley
Auburn University
ROOM H: FRIDAY, SESSION 3, 5:10-6:00 p.m.
The Morality and Constitutionality of Secession
J. Angelo Corlett
Georgia State University
Comment: Steven J. Heikkila
The University of Georgia
SATURDAY SESSION 4 9:00-9:50 a.m.
ROOM A: SATURDAY, SESSION 4, 9:00-9:50 a.m.
Movements in Time
Gabriel Rockhill
Grinnell College
Comment: Bill Scott
The John Hopkins University
ROOM B: SATURDAY, SESSION 4, 9:00-9:50 a.m.
What Does the Appeal to Empirical Descriptions as
Definitional Descriptions Do for the Theory of Meaning?
Rod Swearengin
Claremont Graduate School
Comment: Daniel Barwick
SUNY-Buffalo
ROOM C: SATURDAY, SESSION 4, 9:00-9:50 a.m.
Bodies May Matter, But We Should Still Dream
Terrence Kelly
Saint Louis University
Comment: Margaret A. McLaren
Rollins College
ROOM D: SATURDAY, SESSION 4, 9:00-9:50 a.m.
Philosophy of Law
John D. White
Talladega College
Comment: Randall E. Auxier
Oklahoma City University
ROOM E: SATURDAY, SESSION 4, 9:00-9:50 a.m.
The Nature of Locke's Moral Laws: From _An_Essay_Concerning_
_Human_Understanding_ to _Two_Treatises_of_Government_
Edward L. Conner
The University of Georgia
Comment: David J. Boerwinkle
Loyola University-New Orleans
ROOM F: SATURDAY, SESSION 4, 9:00-9:50 a.m.
Addiction and Knowledge: Epistemic
Disease and the Hegemonic Family
Judith Bradford
Fordham University
Crispin Sartwell
The University of Alabama
Comment: Joanna Crosby
Vanderbilt University
ROOM G: SATURDAY, SESSION 4, 9:00-9:50 a.m.
The Good, the Just, and the City: The
Basis for Plato's Critique of Democracy
David Wayne Loy
Saint Louis University
Comment: Johann A. Klaassen
Washington University
ROOM H: SATURDAY, SESSION 4, 9:00-9:50 a.m.
Consistency as a Moral Virtue
Jason Holt
The University of Western Ontario
Comment: Doug Cooper
The University of Western Ontario
SATURDAY SESSION 5 10:00-10:50 a.m.
ROOM A: SATURDAY, SESSION 5, 10:00-10:50 a.m.
Representing Past Time
Deborah K. Heikes
The University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
Comment: Gabriel Rockhill
Grinnell College
ROOM B: SATURDAY, SESSION 5, 10:00-10:50 a.m.
Representationalism and the Relativity of Representations
Andrew Ward
San Jose State University
Comment: Kam-Yuen Cheng
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
ROOM C: SATURDAY, SESSION 5, 10:00-10:50 a.m.
The Concept of Rights and the Gift in
Sartre's _Notebooks_for_an_Ethics_
Thomas B. Spademan
Purdue University
Comment: Daniel Price
Loyola University-Chicago
ROOM D: SATURDAY, SESSION 5, 10:00-10:50 a.m.
Anticipated War, Inevitable Peace
Christopher Adair-Toteff
American University-Bulgaria
Comment: Kevin E. Dodson
Lamar University
ROOM E: SATURDAY, SESSION 5, 10:00-10:50 a.m.
Schopenhauer's and Cassirer's Shared Theories of Consciousness
Doug Coulson
Oklahoma City University
Comment: Donald P. Verene
Emory University
ROOM F: SATURDAY, SESSION 5, 10:00-10:50 a.m.
The Internet, Ethics, and the Determination of Legal Principles
Brian M. O'Connell
Farmington, CT
Comment: Jonelle DePetro
Eastern Illinois University
ROOM G: SATURDAY, SESSION 5, 10:00-10:50 a.m.
Plato's Two Immortalities
William Irwin
SUNY-Buffalo
Comment: Nancy DuBois
Emory University
ROOM H: SATURDAY, SESSION 5, 10:00-10:50 a.m.
Being Moral: Categoriality and Human Action
H. Peter Steeves
Indiana University
Comment: Steven J. Ingeman
Indiana University
SATURDAY SESSION 6 11:00-11:50 a.m.
ROOM A: SATURDAY, SESSION 6, 11:00-11:50 a.m.
Spatialized Time? Temporalized Space!
David Zacker
Michigan State University
Comment: Keith Abney
The University of Notre Dame
ROOM B: SATURDAY, SESSION 6, 11:00-11:50 a.m.
Davidson's Causal Theory of Action
Kam-Yuen Cheng
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Comment: Robert Epperson
Auburn University
ROOM C: SATURDAY, SESSION 6, 11:00-11:50 a.m.
Expenditure and the Gift
Stephen Pluhacek
Purdue University
Comment: Albert Crim
Vanderbilt University
ROOM D: SATURDAY, SESSION 6, 11:00-11:50 a.m.
Noncausal Determinism in Human Action
Ralph D. Ellis
Clark Atlanta University
Comment: George Gale
The University of Missouri-Kansas City
ROOM E: SATURDAY, SESSION 6, 11:00-11:50 a.m.
The Christian Religion as Basis of Freedom: On
Positivity in Hegel's Text "Neufassung des Anfangs"
Timothy C. Huson
Tulane University
Comment: Dan Harrell
Emory University
ROOM F: SATURDAY, SESSION 6, 11:00-11:50 a.m.
Futilitarianism, Exoticare, and Coerced
Altruism: The ADA Meets Its Limits
E. Haavi Morreim
University of Tennessee-Memphis
Comment: Brian M. O'Connell
Farmington, CT
ROOM G: SATURDAY, SESSION 6, 11:00-11:50 a.m.
The Relation between Plato's Good and the "Human Good"
David J. Yount
The University of Wisconsin-Madison
Comment: David M. Parry
Penn State University-Altoona
ROOM H: SATURDAY, SESSION 6, 11:00-11:50 a.m.
The Psychological Versus the Logical: Objectivity in Frege
Jeffrey Denson
The University of Toronto
Comment: Erich H. Reck
The University of Chicago
SATURDAY LUNCH BREAK 12:00-1:20 p.m.
SATURDAY SESSION 7 1:30-2:20 p.m.
ROOM A: SATURDAY, SESSION 7, 1:30-2:20 p.m.
Subjective and Objective Statements
H. B. Dalrymple
The University of Texas-Arlington
Comment: Robert J. Levy
Wittenberg University
ROOM B: SATURDAY, SESSION 7, 1:30-2:20 p.m.
Dennett, Abstracta, and Beliefs
Tim Ketcher
The University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
Comment: Jeffrey Denson
The University of Toronto
ROOM C: SATURDAY, SESSION 7, 1:30-2:20 p.m.
Foucault, Critical Theory, Rationality
David Hodges
The University of Illinois
Comment: Emrys Westacott
The University of Texas-Austin
ROOM D: SATURDAY, SESSION 7, 1:30-2:20 p.m.
Economies of AIDS
John Protevi
Louisiana State University
Comment: Toby Sarrge
Oklahoma City University
ROOM E: SATURDAY, SESSION 7, 1:30-2:20 p.m.
The Influences of Montaigne's Logic on Emerson's Logic
Bert P. Helm
Southwest Missouri State University
Comment: William J. Garland
The University of the South
ROOM F: SATURDAY, SESSION 7, 1:30-2:20 p.m.
Learning to See (Well): "Justice" and "Care"
in the Photography of Dorothea Lange
Mitchell Aliva
California State University-Fresno
Comment: Catherine Robertson
Oklahoma City University
ROOM G: SATURDAY, SESSION 7, 1:30-2:20 p.m.
Sympathetic Vibrations and Plato's Ethno-ethical
Modes: The Psychological Prosuppositions
Heidi Northwood
The University of Alberta
Comment: David J. Yount
The University of Wisconsin-Madison
ROOM H: SATURDAY, SESSION 7, 1:30-2:20 p.m.
Is the Morning Star Really Identical to the Evening Star?
Leonard Schulte
Arkansas State University
Comment: Joseph Sartorelli
Arkansas State University
SATURDAY SESSION 8 2:30-3:20 p.m.
ROOM A: SATURDAY, SESSION 8, 2:30-3:20 p.m.
Scepticism, Theory Choice, and Induction
Robert J. Levy
Wittenberg University
Comment: Lee Hester
Oklahoma City University
ROOM B: SATURDAY, SESSION 8, 2:30-3:20 p.m.
How Dennett Can Carry a Tune
Timothy Kenyon
The University of Western Ontario
Comment: Andrew Ward
San Jose State University
ROOM C: SATURDAY, SESSION 8, 2:30-3:20 p.m.
Metaphysical Help: A Nietzschean Reading of Foucault
J. Russell Couch
Oklahoma City University
Comment: Daniel Tkachyk
Tulane University
ROOM D: SATURDAY, SESSION 8, 2:30-3:20 p.m.
Instrumental Rationality and Evaluating Ends
Jonelle DePetro
Eastern Illinois University
Comment: John E. Clifford
The University of Missouri-Saint Louis
ROOM E: SATURDAY, SESSION 8, 2:30-3:20 p.m.
The Necessity of Knowledge: A Defense
of Peirce's Thoroughgoing Realism
C. Anthony Earls
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Comment: Mary Magada-Ward
Middle Tennessee State University
ROOM F: SATURDAY, SESSION 8, 2:30-3:20 p.m.
Marcellian Space: Walker Percy's Statial
Imagery and _Homo_Viator_
Michael Paul Jones
Western Carolina University
Comment: Jack Purcell
Middle Tennessee State University
ROOM G: SATURDAY, SESSION 8, 2:30-3:20 p.m.
Procedural or Contextual Justification:
On Grounding Moral Consensus
James B. Sauer
Saint Mary's University
Comment: J. Craig Hanks
The University of Alabama-Hunstsville
ROOM H: SATURDAY, SESSION 8, 2:30-3:20 p.m.
Did Wittgenstein Espouse Complete Silence?
James Peterman
The University of the South
Comment: Caleb Thompson
SUNY-Buffalo
SATURDAY SESSION 9 3:30-4:20 p.m.
ROOM A: SATURDAY, SESSION 9, 3:30-4:20 p.m.
Argument Analysis and Enumerative Induction
Robert Boyd
Texas Christian University
Comment: Mitch Haney
The University of Memphis
ROOM B: SATURDAY, SESSION 9, 3:30-4:20 p.m.
Moral Patterns
Johann A. Klaassen
Washington University
Comment: Tim Ketcher
The University of Illinois-Urbana
ROOM C: SATURDAY, SESSION 9, 3:30-4:20 p.m.
Foucault on the Subject of Feminism
Margaret A. McLaren
Rollins College
Comment: Ellen Armour
Rhodes College
ROOM D: SATURDAY, SESSION 9, 3:30-4:20 p.m.
Relativists Have Rights Too
Emrys Westacott
The University of Texas-Austin
Comment: David Drebushenko
The University of Southern Indiana
ROOM E: SATURDAY, SESSION 9, 3:30-4:20 p.m.
Necessity Naturalized: Dewey's Theory
of Universal Propositions
Terry Moseley
Purdue University
Comment: Jayne Tristan
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
ROOM F: SATURDAY, SESSION 9, 3:30-4:20 p.m.
Catharine Macaulay's _Letters_on_
_Education_: Odd but Equal
Catherine Gardner
The University of Virginia
Comment: H. Hamner Hill
Southeast Missouri State University
ROOM G: SATURDAY, SESSION 9, 3:30-4:20 p.m.
Descartes on Thought and Language
Gordon Dabbs
Oklahoma University
Comment: Gareth B. Matthews
The University of Massachusetts
ROOM H: SATURDAY, SESSION 9, 3:30-4:20 p.m.
"My Propositions are Elucidatory in this Way":
Wittgenstein on Reading the Tractatus
David Olson Pook
Indiana University
Comment: Michael Hodges
Vanderbilt University
SATURDAY SESSION 10 4:30-5:20 p.m.
ROOM A: SATURDAY, SESSION 10, 4:30-5:20 p.m.
Incomplete Theories
Paul Pojman
The University of Mississippi
Comment: Heidi Northwood
The University of Alberta
ROOM B: SATURDAY, SESSION 10, 4:30-5:20 p.m.
The Difficulty Defending Deep Ecology
Daniel Tkachyk
Tulane University
Comment: Scott Warren Calef
The University of Central Arkansas
ROOM C: SATURDAY, SESSION 10, 4:30-5:20 p.m.
The Body, Consciousness, and Intersubjectivity
Philip Thompson
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Comment: Duane H. Davis
Wabash College
ROOM D: SATURDAY, SESSION 10, 4:30-5:20 p.m.
Value and Desire
Desheng Zong
Tulane University
Comment: Grant C. Sterling
Eastern Illinois University
ROOM E: SATURDAY, SESSION 10, 4:30-5:20 p.m.
ROOM F: SATURDAY, SESSION 10, 4:30-5:20 p.m.
Transcendental Philosophy, Plurality, and Respect for the Real
Charles W. Harvey
The University of Central Arkansas
Comment: Crispin Sartwell
The University of Alabama
ROOM G: SATURDAY, SESSION 10, 4:30-5:20 p.m.
Leibnizian and Spinozistic Necessity
Norman Lillegard
The University of Tennessee-Martin
Comment: Steven Parchment
Emory University
ROOM H: SATURDAY, SESSION 10, 4:30-5:20 p.m.
Wittgenstein's Investigations by Way of Examples
Ben Pryor
Pennsylvania State University
Comment: Frederick R. Adams
Central Michigan University
SATURDAY SESSION 11 5:30-6:20 p.m.
ROOM A: SATURDAY, SESSION 11, 5:30-6:20 p.m.
The Demarcation Problem in Science and
Religion: _McLean_v._Arkansas_
Keith Abney
The University of Notre Dame
Comment: Paul Pojman
The University of Mississippi
ROOM B: SATURDAY, SESSION 11, 5:30-6:20 p.m.
The Rule of Least Agency
J. K. Swindler
Westminster College
Comment: Lynn Holt
Mississippi State University
ROOM C: SATURDAY, SESSION 11, 5:30-6:20 p.m.
Derrida and the Public Sphere of Intelligibility
Daniel Price
Loyola University-Chicago
Comment: Judith Bradford
Fordham University
ROOM D: SATURDAY, SESSION 11, 5:30-6:20 p.m.
The Liberal Rule of Law as Conservative Political
Power: A Critical Look at Free Speech
John D. Musselman
Indiana University
Comment: James B. Sauer
Saint Mary's University
ROOM E: SATURDAY, SESSION 11, 5:30-6:20 p.m.
ROOM F: SATURDAY, SESSION 11, 5:30-6:20 p.m.
ROOM G: SATURDAY, SESSION 11, 5:30-6:20 p.m.
The God/Attribute Distinction in Spinoza's
Metaphysics: A Defense of Causal Objectivism
Steven Parchment
Emory University
Comment: Claire Katz
The University of Memphis
ROOM H: SATURDAY, SESSION 11, 5:30-6:20 p.m.
Wittgenstein, "Inverting Necessity," and the Child's "Why?"
Jeffrey Bernstein
Vanderbilt University
Comment: Matthew Ostrow
Boston University