Annual Philosophy Conference

2024 - Problems with Love

February 10, 2024

Time	Agenda
8:30	Registration
9:00	Ellie Anderson (Pomona College) “On the Possiblity of Unrequited Love: Limerence, Infatuation, and Crushes”
10:00	Anika Simpson (Morgan State University) “Marriage Abolition and the Politics of Single Black Motherhood”
11:00	Break
11:15	Ray Briggs (Stanford University), “Should Non-Monogamy be Consensual?”
12:15	Elizabeth Brake (Rice University), “Intimate Partner Violence and the Carceral State”
1:15	Lunch
2:30	Tera Hunter (Princeton University) “What's Love Got To Do With It? Black Family, Marriage, and Slavery in the 19th Century”
3:30	Panel Discussion
4:50	Conclusion

2023 - Philosophy as a Way of Life

March 4, 2023

Time	Agenda
8:30	Registration
9:00	Jennifer Frey (University of South Carolina) “On Art and Virtue”
10:15	Break
10:30	Meghan Sullivan (University of Notre Dame), ”Applying, Interpreting, and Developing Tradition: A 21st Century Guide”
11:45	Lunch
1:00	Stephan Angle (Wesleyan University) “Confucianism as a Way of Life In and Out of the Classroom”
2:15	Break
2:30	Keya Maitra (University of North Carolina, Asheville), “From Mindfulness to Well-Being: A Philosophical Blueprint”
3:45	Panel Discussion with Q&A

2020 - Identity, Politics, and Justice

February 21-22, 2020

Friday, February 21

Time	Agenda
8:00	Registration
8:30	Coffee/Tea & pastries
9:00	Kristie Dotson (Michigan State University)
10:15	Break
10:30	Perspectives Session: "Intersectionality and Politics" Jose Jorge Mendoza (UM Lowell) Michael Huemer (CU Boulder) Corwin Aragon (Cal Poly Pomona)
12:15	Lunch
2:00	Roundtable Discussion: "#Activism: BlackLivesMatter, MeToo, SayHerName" Kristie Dotson (Michigan State University) Walter Benn Michaels (University of Illinois, Chicago) Kyle Whyte (Michigan State University) Veronica Terriquez (UC Santa Cruz)
3:45	Kyle Whyte (Michigan State University)

Saturday, February 22

Time	Agenda
8:30	Coffee/Tea & pastries
9:00	Veronica Terriquez (UC Santa Cruz)
10:15	Break
10:30	"Contrasting Views: Identity, Politics, and Justice" Corwin Aragon (Cal Poly Pomona) Walter Benn Michaels (University of Illinois, Chicago)
12:15	Lunch
2:00	Roundtable: "Immigration and the Border" Michael Huemer (CU Boulder) Kristie Dotson (Michigan State University) Jose Jorge Mendoza (UM Lowell) Veronica Terriquez (UC Santa Cruz)
3:30	Break
3:45	Roundtable of all participants: Cory Aragon Walter Benn Michaels Kristie Dotson Michael Huemer Jose Jorge Mendoza Veronica Terriquez Kyle Whyte

2019 - Aesthetics, Art, and Life

February 9, 2019

Time	Agenda
8:30	Registration
9:00	Gregg Horowitz (Pratt Institute), "The Aesthetics of Hoarding"
10:15	Break
10:30	Sondra Bacharach (Victoria University of Wellington), "Finding Your Voice in the Streets: Street Art and Epistemic Justice"
11:45	Lunch
1:00	Shen-yi Liao (University of Puget Sound), "Bittersweet Food"
2:15	Break
2:30	Julianne Chung (University of Louisville), "Exemplars, Personal Ideals, and the Epistemic Value of Art"
3:45	Panel Discussion with Q&A

2018 - Value: East & West

February 10, 2018

Time	Agenda
8:30	Registration
9:00	David Wong (Duke University), "Soup, Harmony, and Disagreement"
10:15	Break
10:30	Leah Kalmanson (Drake University), "The Value of Reading: A Study Guide to the Meaningful Universe of Song-Dynasty Confucianism"
11:45	Lunch
1:00	P.J. Ivanhoe (City University of Hong Kong), "The Values of Spontaneity"
2:15	Break
2:30	Vrinda Dalmiya (University of Hawai’i at Manoa), "Weeping Wisdoms: Deriving Moral Metaphysics from the Mahabharata’s The Book of the Women"
3:45	Panel Discussion with Q&A

2017 - Race and Philosophy

January 28, 2017

Time	Agenda
8:30	Registration
9:00	Kathryn T. Gines (Pennsylvania State University). "Simone de Beauvoir and the Race/Gender Analogy in The Second Sex Revisited"
10:15	Break
10:30	Charles W. Mills (CUNY Graduate Center), "Rawls and Racial Justice"
11:45	Lunch
1:00	Linda Martin Alcoff (Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center), "American Exceptionalism as White Exceptionalism"
2:15	Robert Bernasconi (Pennsylvania State University), "Toward a Genealogy of the Concept of Racism"
3:30	Break
3:45	Panel Discussion with Q&A

2016 - Global Human Rights

January 30, 2016

Time	Agenda
8:30	Registration
9:00	Samantha Besson (University of Fribourg), "Sharing Duties and Responsibilities for Human Rights"
10:15	Break
10:30	Gopal Sreenivasan (Duke University), "Human Rights and Public Goods: Problems from Health and Beyond"
11:45	Lunch
1:00	Carol Gould (CUNY), "Reconceiving Human Dignity as Relational and Embodied"
2:15	Allen Buchanan (Duke University), "Human Rights and Moral Progress"
3:30	Break
3:45	Panel Discussion with Q&A

2015 - The Promise of Experimental Philosophy

January 24, 2015

Time	Agenda
8:30	Registration
9:00	Manuel Vargas (University of San Francisco), "The Circumstances of Responsibility"
10:30	Break
10:45	Adina Roskies (Dartmouth College), "Animal Models and Freedom of the Will"
12:15	Lunch
2:00	John Doris (Washington University in St. Louis), "Talking to Ourselves"
3:30	Break
3:45	Valerie Tiberius (University of Minnesota), "Desiring, Deciding, and the Fact Value Gap"

2014 - 21st Century Virtue: Cultivating Character with New Technologies

January 11, 2014

Time	Agenda
8:30	Registration
9:00	Charles Ess (University of Oslo), "Cultivating Selfhood and Democracy in a Mediated Age: Plato, McLuhan, and the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns"
10:30	Break
10:45	Judith Simon (University of Vienna, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), "Trustworthiness and Responsibility: Socio-Epistemic Virtues in A Digital Age"
12:15	Lunch
2:00	John Sullins (Sonoma State University), "Humanity Out of the Loop: Autonomous Warfare and the Diminishing Role of Character"
3:30	Break
3:45	Evan Selinger (Rochester Institute of Technology), "The Ethical Implications of Detonating a Digital Etiquette Bomb"

2013 - Plato the Republic

March 2, 2013

Time	Agenda
8:30	Registration
9:00	John Ferrari (University of California, Berkeley), "Plato's Writerly Utopianism"
10:30	Break
10:45	Eric Brown (Washington University, St. Louis), "Eudaimonia in Plato's Republic"
12:15	Lunch
2:00	C.D.C. Reeve (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "Souls and Soul-Parts in Plato"
3:30	Break
3:45	Richard Kraut (Northwestern University), "Against Democracy: Plato's Argument Revived"

2012 - Kierkegaard New Perspectives

February 4, 2012

Time	Agenda
8:30	Registration
9:00	Hubert Dreyfus (University of California, Berkeley), "Kierkegaard's Monotheism Without God"
10:30	Break
10:45	David Wood (Vanderbilt University), "Kierkegaard Vivant"
12:15	Lunch
2:00	Vanessa Rumble (Boston College), "'When the Child is to be Weaned'; Kierkegaard and the Trauma of Transcendence"
3:30	Break
3:45	Johnathan Lear (The University of Chicago), "Irony and Erotic Anxiety"

2011 - The Philosophy of Socrates

February 12, 2011

Time	Agenda
8:15	Registration
9:00	Nicholas D. Smith (Lewis and Clark College), "Obey or Persuade"
10:15	Break
10:30	Mark McPherran (Simon Fraser University), "Socrates and Callicles in Hell: the Myth of the Gorgias"
11:45	Lunch
1:30	Paul B. Woodruff (The University of Texas at Austin), "Eros Philosophos"
2:45	Hugh H. Benson (The University of Oklahoma), "Learning from Others in the Socratic Dialogues"
4:00	Break
4:15	Debra Nails (Michigan State University), "More to Method than Maieusis"

2010 - The Philosophy of John Searle

January 23, 2010

Time	Agenda
8:15	Registration
9:00	Patricia Churchland (University of California, San Diego), "Inference to the Best Decision"
10:15	Break
10:30	Tyler Burge (University of California, Los Angeles), "Some Thoughts on Perception"
11:45	Lunch
1:15	Ned Block (New York University), "Consciousness and Attention"
2:30	Break
2:45	Daniel Dennett (Tufts University), "Turing's Strange Inversion and Searle's Failure of Imagination"
4:00	Break
4:15	John Searle (University of California, Berkeley), "The Conscious Mind: Facts vs. Philosophical Tradition"

2008 - Themes in Descartes

October 4, 2008

Time	Agenda
8:15	Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00	John Carriero (University of California, Los Angeles), "Skepticism and Sensation in the Meditations: What skeptical doubt does (and does not) show about the senses"
10:15	Break
10:30	Marleen Rozemond (University of Toronto), "Descartes and the Simplicity of the Soul"
11:45	Lunch
1:00	Alan Nelson (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "The Unity of Cartesian Knowledge"
2:15	Lisa Shapiro (Simon Fraser University), "How We Experience the World: Descartes and Spinoza on Passionate Perception"
3:30	Break
3:45	Daniel Garber (Princeton University), "Descartes against the Materialists"

2007 - Heidegger and Death

April 28, 2007

Time	Agenda
8:15	Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00	Daniel Dahlstrom (Boston University), "The Absence of Death"
10:15	Break
10:30	Hubert Dreyfus (University of California, Berkeley), "From Death as a Way of Life to Death and Cultural Configuration"
11:45	Lunch
1:00	John Haugeland (University of Chicago), "Why Does Heidegger Talk About Death"
2:15	Charles Guignon (University of South Florida), "Being Toward Death and the Wholeness of Life"
3:30	Break
3:45	Iain Thomson (University of New Mexico), "On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Reading Heidegger Backward: White's Time and Death"

2006 - The Metaphysics of Physics

May 13, 2006

Time	Agenda
8:15	Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00	Shimon Malin (Colgate University), "Whitehead's Philosophy and Quantum Mechanics"
10:15	Break
10:30	Katherine Brading (University of Notre Dame), "Objects of Physics"
11:45	Lunch
1:00	Richard Healey (University of Arizona), "Expanding the Circle"
2:15	Margaret Morrison (University of Toronto), "Reduction and Emergence: Physics and Metaphysics"
3:30	Break
3:45	Craig Callender (University of California, San Diego), "What Makes Time Different from Space?"

2005 - The Philosophy of Robert Nozick

May 7, 2005

Time	Agenda
8:30	Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00	David Schmidtz (University of Arizona), "Separate Persons and the Limits of Justice"
10:30	Break
11:00	Gerald Gaus (Tulane University), "Thinking Outside the Box: Nozick on the Prisoner's Dilemma"
12:30	Lunch
1:30	Michael DePaul (Notre Dame University), "Nozick on Rationality"
3:00	Break
3:30	Michael Bratman (Stanford University), "Nozick on Free Will"
5:00	Conclusion

2004 - Contemporary Work on Aristotle

May 1, 2004

Time	Agenda
8:30	Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00	Alan Code (University of California, Berkeley), "Definitions and Syllogistic Argument in Aristotle"
10:15	Break
10:30	Victor Caston (University of California, Davis), "Aristotle on Perception: Receiving From Without the Matter"
10:45	Lunch
1:00	John Cooper (Princeton University), "Aristotle on Potentiality and Activity: Metaphysics Theta 6"
2:15	Richard McKirahan (Pomona College), "Aristotle on Our Knowledge of Mathematical Objects"
3:30	Break
3:45	Richard Kraut (Northwestern University), "Doing Without Morality: Reflections on Anscombe's Aristotle"
5:00	Conclusion

2003 - Philosophy and the Emotions

April 12, 2003

Time	Agenda
8:30	Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00	Jerome Neu (University of California, Santa Cruz), "On Feeling Insulted"
10:15	Break
10:30	Ronald de Sousa (University of Toronto), "Emotional Consistency"
10:45	Lunch
1:00	Richard Sorabji (Oxford University), "What Emotions Really Are"
2:15	Robert Solomon (University of Texas at Austin), "What Emotions Really Aren't"
3:30	Break
3:45	Nancy Sherman (Georgetown University), "Stoicism and a Warrior's Anger"
5:00	Conclusion

2002 - Moral Status

May 4, 2002

Time	Agenda
8:00	Registration and Coffee
9:00	Bonnie Steinbock (State University of New York, Albany), "Moral Status, Moral Value, and Human Embryos"
10:15	Break
10:30	Daniel Dombrowski (Seattle University), "The Argument from Marginal Cases"
11:45	Lunch
1:00	Frances M. Kamm (New York University), "Moral Status: Rights Beyond Interests"
2:15	Mary Anne Warren (San Francisco State University), "Moral Status: A Multicriterial Account"
3:30	Break
3:45	J. Baird Callicott (University of North Texas), "The Pragmatic Power and Promise of Theoretical Environmental Philosophy: Forging a New Discourse"
5:00	Conclusion

2001 - Moral Cultivation

April 14, 2001

Time	Agenda
8:00	Registration and Coffee
9:00	Stephen Darwall (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), "Cultivating Accountability"
9:40	David Wong (Duke University), "Cultivating Moral Judgment"
10:20	Break
10:40	Rosalind Hursthouse (The Open University), "Title To Be Announced"
11:20	Marilyn Friedman (Washington University), "Diversity and Moral Character: Cultivation or Suffocation?"
12:00	Lunch
1:40	Nancy Sherman (Georgetown University), "Of Manners and Morals"
2:20	Joel Kupperman (University of Connecticut), "The Ethics of Style"
3:00	Break
3:20	General Discussion

2000 - Nietzsche and Transvaluation

February 25-26, 2000

Friday, February 25

Time	Agenda
2:00	Registration
3:00	John Richardson (New York University), "Nietzsche's Value-Critique of Darwinism"
4:15	Break
4:30	Maudemarie Clark (Colgate University), "The Role of Nietzsche's 'New Philosophers' in his Revaluation of Values"

Saturday, February 26

Time	Agenda
8:30	Coffee
9:00	Peter Berkowitz (George Mason School of Law), "Nietzsche's Critique of Democracy"
10:15	Break
10:30	Kathleen Higgins (University of Texas at Austin), "Rebaptizing Our Evil"
11:45	Lunch
1:00	Bernd Magnus (University of California, Riverside), "Coins and Coral Reefs" Some Remarks on Nietzsche's Philosophy of Language"
2:15	Break
2:30	Robert Pippin (University of Chicago), "Gay Science and Corporeal Knowledge"
3:45	Break
4:00	Robert Solomon (University of Texas at Austin), "Nietzsche's Revaluation: A Re-evaluation"

1999 - Kant's Ethics

April 16-17, 1999

Friday, April 16

Time	Agenda
1:00	Registration
2:00	Jerome Schneewind (Johns Hopkins University), "Kant on the Will"
3:30	Break
3:45	Barbara Herman (University of California, Los Angeles), "Transforming Incentives: The Practical Role of Moral Feeling"

Saturday, April 17

Time	Agenda
8:30	Coffee
9:00	Paul Guyer (University of Pennsylvania), "Kant on Moral Worth, Merit and Virtue"
10:30	Break
10:45	Onora O'Neill (Cambridge University), "Kant on the Social Contract Tradition"
12:15	Lunch
1:45	Henry Allison (Boston University) "Aesthetic Disinterest, Moral Interest, and the Purity of Taste"
3:15	Break
3:30	Thomas E. Hill Jr. (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "Wrongdoing, Desert, and Punishment"

1998 - Truth

February 27-28, 1998

Friday, February 27

Time	Agenda
1:00	Registration
2:00	Cripsin Wright (University of St. Andrews), "Truth: One Thing or Many?"
3:30	Break
3:45	Susan Haack (University of Miami), "Confessions of an Old-Fashioned Prig"

Saturday, February 28

Time	Agenda
10:00	Coffee
10:30	Tyler Burge (University of California, Los Angeles), "Truth, Charity, and Anti-Individualism"
12:00	Lunch
2:00	Christopher Peacocke (University of Oxford), "Integrating Metaphysics with Epistemology"
3:30	Break
3:45	John Searle (University of California, Berkeley), "In Defense of the Correspondence Theory of Truth

1997 - Moral Responsibility

February 28 - March 1, 1997

Friday, February 28

Time	Agenda

1:00	Registration
2:00	John Martin Fischer (University of California, Riverside) and Mark Ravizza (Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley), "Taking Responsibility"
3:30	Break
3:45	Susan Wolf (Johns Hopkins University), "The Moral or Moral Luck"

Saturday, March 1

Time	Agenda
8:30	Coffee
9:00	Gary Watson (University of California, Irvine), "Assertion and Responsibility"
10:30	Break
10:45	Thomas Scanlon (Harvard University), "Questions of Responsibility"
11:45	Lunch
2:30	Eleonore Stump (Saint Louis University), "Persons: Identification and Freedom"
3:15	Break
3:30	Harry Frankfurt (Princeton University), "Concluding Commentary"

1995 - The Philosophy of John Rawls

October 20-21, 1995

Friday, October 20

Time	Agenda
12:00	Registration
1:00	Bernard Williams (University of California, Berkeley/Oxford University), "Justice as Fairness: Ethical Not Political"
2:15	Break
2:30	Michael Sandel (Harvard University), "The Limits of Liberal Public Reason"
3:45	Break
4:00	Jürgen Habermas (University of Frankfurt/Northwestern University), "The Public Use of Reason"

Saturday, October 21

Time	Agenda
8:30	Registration, coffee, and doughnuts
9:00	Thomas Nagel (New York University), "The Idea of Fairness"
10:15	Break
10:30	Amy Gutmann (Princeton University), "Rawlsian Justice and Deliberative Democracy"
11:45	Lunch
2:30	Ronald Dworkin (New York University/Oxford University), "Liberal Justice and Liberal Ethics"
3:45	Break
4:00	John Rawls (Harvard University), "Relations Between A Theory of Justice and Political Liberalism and earlier and Later Pieces"

1993 - The Philosophy of David Hume

February 26-27, 1993

Featured Speakers:

Annette Baier, University of Pittsburgh
Simon Blackburn, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Christine Korsgaard, Harvard University
David Pears, Oxford University and UCLA
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Barry Stroud, University of California, Berkeley

1992 - The Implications of Realism and Antirealism for Epistemology

April 28-29, 1992

Friday, February 28

Time	Agenda
2:00	John Searle (University of California, Berkeley), "Is there a Problem About Realism?"
3:30	Coffee break
3:45	Donald Davidson (University of California, Berkeley), "Indeterminacy and the Reality of Mental States"
5:15	Reception and Dinner

Saturday, February 29

Time	Agenda
8:30	Continental breakfast
9:00	William P. Alston (Syracuse University), "Realism and the Task of Epistemology"
10:30	Coffee break
10:45	Gilbert Harman (Princeton University), "Reasons for Belief"
12:15	Lunch
2:00	Roderick Chisholm (Brown University), "Why Antirealism?"
2:20	Break
2:45	Richard Rorty (University of Virginia), Commentary on the Conference Papers
5:15	Social Hour, Dinner, and Discussion

1991 - The Epistemology of Religious Belief

April 19-20, 1991

Friday, April 19

Time	Agenda
2:15	Reception
2:45	Joshua Golding (Bellarmine College), "On the Rationality of Being Religion"
4:00	Coffee Break
4:15	John Zeis (Canisius College), "Manifestation Beliefs, Proper Basicality, and Natural Theology"
5:30	Reception and Dinner
7:30	William Alston (Syracuse University), "The Autonomy of Religious Belief" Respondent: Joseph Runzo (Chapman College)

Saturday, April 20

Time	Agenda
8:45	Continental breakfast
9:15	Linda Zagzebski (Loyola Marymount University), "Epistemic Virtue"
10:30	Coffee break
10:45	Stephen Grover (Oxford Universirty), "Religious Experiences: Skepticism, Gullibility, or Credulity"
12:00	Lunch
2:00	Alvin Plantinga (University of Notre Dame), "An Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism" Respondent: Richard Otte (University of California, Santa Cruz)
3:30	Coffee break
3:45	Michael Brown (Creighton University), "Idolatry, Skepticism, and the Extent of Doxastic Reliability Respondent: Stephen Maitzen (Cornell University)
5:15	Social hour, dinner, and discussion

1990 - Personal Identity

April 20-21, 1990

Featured speakers:

Alan Donagan, California Institute of Technology
John Perry, Stanford University

1989 - Reason and Moral Judgment

April 7-8, 1989

Friday Afternoon, Session I:

Time	Agenda
2:00	Lynne Arnault (Le Moyne College), "Talking 'Bout a Revolution: Feminism, Historicism, and the Anomalies of Liberal Moral Theory"
3:00	Robert Louden (University of Southern Maine), "Through Thick and Thin: Moral Knowledge in Skeptical Times"
4:00	Coffee Break
4:15	Invited Paper: Bernard Williams (University of California, Berkeley), "Internal Reasons and the Obscurity of Blame"
5:45	Reception and Dinner

Friday Evening, Session II:

Time	Agenda
7:30	Rosalind Hursthouse (The Open University), "Arational Actions and the Perfect Agent"
8:30	Gerald Paske (Wichita State University), "Rationality, Reasonableness, and Morality"

Saturday Morning, Session III:

Time	Agenda
8:45	Continental Breakfast
9:15	Kevin Lavelle (University of New Mexico), "Davidson, Irrationality, and Weakness of Will"
10:15	John Robertson (Syracuse University), "Hume and the Limitations of Reason"
11:15	Coffee Break
11:30	Neera Badhwar (University of Oklahoma), "The Rejection of Ethical Rationalism"
12:30	Lunch

Saturday Afternoon, Session IV:

Time	Agenda
2:00	Invited Paper: Robert Audi (University of Nebraska), "Externalism and Internalism in Moral Epistemology"
3:30	Coffee Break
3:45	Paul Hurley (Pomona College), "Where the Traditional Accounts of Practical Reason Go Wrong"
5:30	Social Hour and Dinner

1988 - Manufactured Motherhood: The Ethics of New Reproductive Techniques

April 22-23, 1988