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”