Atlantic Region Philosophical Association
2009 Annual Meeting
Program

 

	Friday October 16
	Session 1 CE320	Session 2 CE323	Session 3 CE325	Session 4 CE326
1:00	Registration begins (Great Hall)
2:00	Friendship in Plato's Lysis Doug Al-Maini, St.FX	Hatred and Liberal Justice Nathan Brett, Dalhousie		Moral Progress Sylvia Burrow, CBU
3:00	What Sort of ‘Cognitivist’ was Robert C. Solomon? The Development of Solomon’s Emotion Theory Michael D. Doan, Dalhousie	Is-Is Reductions Malcolm Murray, UPEI	John Stuart Mill, the Marketplace of Ideas, and Survival of the Fittest Kathleen Okruhlik, Western Ontario	The Tree of Death Ken Bryson, CBU
4:00	Break
5:00	Toward a 21st Century Philosophical Toolbox Keynote Speaker: Dr. Anthony Weston, Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies, Elon University
7:00	Banquet

	Saturday October 17
	Session 1 CE320	Session 2 CE323	Session 3 CE325	Session 4 CE326
9:00	Parts of the Word or Parts of the Machine Mark Sentesy, Boston College	A Block to Progress: Dewey and Russell on Immediate Knowledge Robbie Moser, Mount Allison	How Reasons Explain Actions Mark Mercer, Saint Mary’s	The Ecology of Metaphor Mike Targett, CBU
9:45	Break
10:00	Contextualism in Evolution: Code’s Ecological Thinking Meets Williams’s Conversational Contextualism Hilary Martin, York	The Evolution of Internet Dating: A Philosophical Analysis of Technology Wedded To Subjectivity Arthur Labenek, Saint Paul	The Polarizing Essence of Technology Neb Kujundzic, UPEI	What is Modal Logic? Peter K. Schotch, Dalhousie
11:00	Morality and the Rule of Law in Aristotle's Ethics R. Majithia, Mount Allison	Clod Love and Pebble Love: The Evolution of Concern Glen Koehn, Huron Univ. Coll.	The Unnoticed Prima Facie Duty Darren Domsky, Texas A&M	The Need For Evil Todd Calder, St Mary’s
12:00	Lunch
1:00	The Evolution of Western Theories of the Self and Personal Identity Raymond Martin, Union College John Barresi, Dalhousie	Kaplan’s Damn Puzzle John Cook, St FX	Management of Logicians and Philosophers Robert Ansell, Saint Mary's	Making Progress in Understanding Prediction Martin Capstick, Durham University
2:00	Be-coming: Embodied Time and the Phenomenology of Otherness Taine Duncan, Duquesne Harry A. Nethery, Duquesne	Negotiating the “Call of Duty”:  The impact of video-gaming on human evolution and on parent-child relationships Pamela Courtenay-Hall, Heather Tasker and Eric Horne, UPEI	Is the Buddhist Theory of Non-Self Conceptually Incoherent? Paul Bernier, Université de Moncton	The Evolution of Wittgenstein’s Conception of Normativity (or Facts, Facts and Facts—and Ethics) Emily Bingeman, Dalhousie
2:45	Break
3:00	The Evolution of Experiments and Experimental Philosophy Carl M. Johnson, University of Hawaii at Manoa		The Paradoxes of Proslogion 6-13 Michael Fournier, Dalhousie	Spinoza and Ecological Integrity Warren Heiti, Dalhousie

(Sessions are 45 minutes--30 minutes for presentation--15 minutes for questions)
(CE = Campus Extention/Great Hall Building)