Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary WorldPreliminary Program Schedule

31 March 2005  

 

Wednesday, July 13 6:30 p.m.

 

Welcome and Opening Remarks (Joe Jones)

 

 

Thursday, July 14 9:00-10:30

 

Ed Grippe

“Plato on Helping Friends and Harming Enemies”

 

Noel Boulting

“Aristotle’s Account of Virtue’s Acquisition: An Implication”

 

10:45-12:15

 

Sharon Kaye

“Playing Along: Ockham, Kierkegaard and the Demands of True Friendship”

 

John Scott Gray

“Same-Sex Marriage in Hegel’s Philosophy”

 

LUNCH 2:00-2:45

 

P. Eddy Wilson

“Talented Moral Monsters”

 

3:00-5:00

 

Panel Discussion (?)

 

 

 

Friday, July 15

 

9:00-10:30

 

David Chan

“Falling from Virtue: Natural Goodness and Human Nature”

 

Ralph Ellis

“Conscious Will, Moral Agency and Some Contemporary Psychological Accounts: A Reply to Dennett and Wegner with Help from Jeannerod”

 

10:45-12:15

 

Paul Haught

“Toward a Humean Environmental Virtue Ethic: An Explication of Humility”

 

Brian Ribiero

“Hume’s Mitigated Skepticism and Intellectual Humility”

 

LUNCH 2:00-2:45

 

Roger Paden

“Wittgenstein on Ethics and Architecture”

 

3:00-5:00

 

Business Meeting

 

 

 

 

Saturday, July 16 9:00-10:30

 

Mark Sanders

“The Practical-Ambiguous Subject: Coping in and with the World”

 

Iddo Landau

“Values, Interests, and Androcentricity”

 

10:45-12:15

 

Jeffrey Fry

“Faith, Hope and Love in Sports”

 

Open slot

 

Afternoon Trip  

Sunday, July 17 9:00-10:30

 

Paul Churchill

“On Being Virtuously Loyal or Admirably Disloyal”

 

Jill Hernandez

“On the Impossibility of Morally (vicious) Worthy Actions”

 

10:45-12:15

 

Joe Jones

“Animism and the Ancients”

 

Andy Brown

“The Evolving World Crisis and the Contemporary Worldview in Flux”

 

LUNCH  

 

2:00-3:30

 

Jose-Antonio Orosco

“Defending the Great Community: Royce’s Concept of Humanitarian Intervention”

 

Ramona Ilea

“Capabilities Approach and Non-human Animals”

 

 

Monday, July 18 9:00-10:30

 

Barbara La Bossiere

“The Limits of Tort Liability in the United States and Class Action Justice”

 

Chris Chapman

“Neglected Aspects of Writing”