Philosophy in the Contemporary WorldSociety for Philosophy in the Contemporary World 7th Annual Conference - July21-27, 2000 YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park, Colorado FRIDAY, JULY 21: Registration & Reception 7pm

SATURDAY, JULY 22: METAPHYSICS

Session I: Chair Jeff Jordan

8:30 - Robin Podolsky Essence or Perspective? The Beloved in Levinas.

9:30- Laura Duhan Kaplan Body, Mind, and Breath: a mystical perspective.

10:30- Ralph D. Ellis Heidegger and Marcel on Self-deception and the Elasticity of Hope.

11:30- Marie Fleming Gadamers Instrumentalist View of the Other.

Session II: Chair Stiv Fleishman

1:30- Patricia J. Thompson Feminism and Perspectivism: Dual Domains in Everyday Life.

2:20- Ellen C. Landers

Maintaining Awe and Managing Terror: Assessing Philosophys Role as a Cultural Worldview in Soloman, Greenberg, andPyszczynskis Terror Management Theory. 3:30- Brooks S.H. Siegal The Choices of a Character.

4:30- Jeff Jordan God and Pointless Evil.

SUNDAY, JULY 23: SOCIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Session III: Chair: Andreea Deciu

8:30- Dennis Miller Philosophy and Everyday Life.

9:30- A. Chadwick Ray Contractualsim and Reasonable Rejectability.

10:30- Susan Youngblood Perceptual Hierarchies: an Interpretation of  Alienation.

11:30- James Stacy Taylor Surveillance, Privacy, and Autonomy.

Session IV: Chair: Carmela Epright

1:30- Alex Moseley The Ethics of Military Intervention.

2:30- Ronald Sandler Against an Obligation of Humanitarian Military Intervention.

3:30- Ashley K. Fernandes Hegel on Capital Punishment: a critical analysis.

4:30- Raymond Kolcaba. Human Obsolescence: a dialog. With: Katharine Kolcaba as  The Narrator Raymond Kolcaba as  Becket Geist Richard VanDerveer as  Fortran McCyborg Jill VanDerveer as  Nonette Naturski

BUSINESS MEETING  7:30-9:00

Open to all members.

MONDAY, JULY 24: Day in the Park

Session V: Chair: Laura Duhan Kaplan

8:00 pm- Paul Churchill - A Defense of Toleration as a Virtue.

TUESDAY, JULY 25: Epistemology and Ethics

Session VI: Chair: Stiv Fleishman

8:30- Houghton Dalrymple Perception, Consciousness, and Objective Knowledge.

9:30- Michael Ming Yang Reference, Translation and Ontological Relativity.

10:30- Herman Stark Logic and Social Criticism.

11:30- Noel Boulting The Reification Problem: One Conception or Three?

Session VII: Chair: Chang-Seong Hong

1:30- Anita Ho Ethical Issues of Unequal Access to Health Care Services.

2:30- Nance Cunningham Infants Right to Withdraw Remains Even When Parents Have Given Consent to Research.

3:30- Mary Lyn Stoll Re-evaluating Illness: a Heideggarian Approach.

4:30- Simon Glynn Why Brain Physiology and behaviorism are Inadequate to Psychology.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 26: ETHICS

Session VIII: Chair: Ed Grippe

9:30- William B. Griffith Public Lands, Property Rights, and Intergenerational Justice.

10:30- Scott Friskics Reflections on a Life of Dialogue with Nature.

11:30- Francis E. Gill Moral Reasons and Sympathy.

Session IX: Chair: Jeff Jordan

1:30- Ellen M. Maccrone Interpersonal Trust and Its Ethical Significance.

2:30- Krassimir Stojanov Post-traditional Community and Global Education.

3:30- Anja-Silvia Goenig An Idea for Humanistic Research 2000 in Educational Philosophy.

4:30- Neil Cooney Pleasure in Aristotle