52ND ANNUAL WESTERN CANADIAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE Friday, October 2 On‐site Registration 4:30 – 7:00 pm ESB 3 ESB 12 S: S. Clairmont (New School) S: B. Brown (Lethbridge)
5‐6pm “A Harsh Reality for Photography” C: E. Dayton (Sask.) Ch: J. Dawson (Ryerson) 6‐6:15 6:15‐7:15 S: J. Dawson (Ryerson)
“Transparency and the Slippery Slope Argument” C: S. Clairmont (New School) Ch: P. Alward (Sask.) Reception 7:30‐10:00 pm Marquis Hall ESB 16 S: D. Postnikoff (Sask.)
“Induction Reconceived” “Parallel Lines: Flaws in the Traditional Theories of C: R. Meneses (Sask.) Mathematics” Ch: S. Dieleman (Sask.) C: S. Hoffman (Sask.) Ch: P. Simard‐Smith (Connecticut) Coffee Break S: P. Simard‐Smith
S: S. Tomsons (Winnipeg)
(Connecticut) “Does Political Liberalism “The Logical Basis of Some Have Room for Environmental Ethics?” Reasonable Peer Disagreements” C: J. Breen (Sask.) C: A. Jenkins (STM) Ch: A. Ghadyani (Sask.) Ch: S. Dieleman (Sask.) ESB 112 S: R. Doran (Regina)
“Demonstratives, Uniqueness, and Definiteness” C: D. Johnston (Victoria) Ch: P. Alward (Sask.) S: D. Johnston (Victoria)
“The first Word” C: R. Doran (Regina) Ch: R. Jennings (SFU) Saturday, October 3 Morning Sessions 9‐10 10‐10:15 10:15‐11:15 11:15‐11:30 11:30‐12:30 Lunch 12:30‐2:OO pm ESB 12 ESB 16 ESB 112 ESB 116 Colloquium on the Philosophy of Art and Literature in Canada Jane Forsey (Winnipeg) James Young (Victoria) James Mock (Central Oklahoma) Ben Caplan (Ohio State) and Carl Matheson (Manitoba) Ch: P. Alward (Sask.) S: S. Tomsons (Winnipeg) and R. Hamilton (Winnipeg) “The land: a Human Being or a Commodity?” C: E. Lee (Sask.) Ch: S. Dieleman (Sask.) S: J. MacIntosh (Calgary)
“Is Mathematics a science?” C: D. Postnikoff (Sask.) Ch: S. Hoffman (Sask.) S: B. Morito (Athabasca)
“Music and the Practice of Ethics” C: D. Regnier (Sask.) Ch: L. Helfrich (Sask.) S: K. Peacock (Lethbridge)
“Reticence, Responsibility, and Climate Science” C: W. Buschert (Sask.) Ch: S. Dieleman (Sask.) S: J. Welchman (Alberta)
“Are Environments Irreplaceable for Narrative Self‐identity?” C: A. Habib (Calgary) Ch: W. Buschert (Sask.) Coffee Break
S: M. Migotti (Calgary)
“Why Study Logic?” C: I. MacDonald (Waterloo) Ch: S. Hoffman (Sask.) Coffee Break
S: K. Kraay (Ryerson)
“Community‐Oriented Anti‐
Revisionism” C: J. Zylstra (Alberta) Ch: M. Eskandari (Sask.) S: H. Nye (Alberta)
“Objective Goods, Beneficial Lives, and Morality” C: D. Elliot (Regina) Ch: E. O’Hagan (Sask.) S: B. Rossi (Notre Dame)
“Moral Excuses and Blame‐
Based Theories of Moral Wrongness” C: J Caouette (Calgary) Ch: O’Hagan (Sask.) Afternoon Sessions 2‐3 3‐3:15 3:15‐4:15 4:15‐4:30 4:30‐6 ESB 12 ESB 16 S: B. Fehr (Alberta)
“The Role of Culture in Art Criticism” C: B. Fullerton (Guelph) Ch: L. Helfrich (Sask.) S: I. Macdonald (Waterloo)
“Controversies Over Bullshit” C: L. Howe (Sask.) Ch: O’Hagan (Sask.) S: B. Fullerton (Guelph)
“Towards a Cultural Evolutionary Account of an Aesthetics of Problem Solving” C: E. Soifer (Regina) Ch: B. Fehr (Alberta) ESB 112 S: L. Zhou (Alberta)
“In defense of Existence” C: P. Monaghan (Doane College) Ch: A. Ghadyani (Sask.) Coffee Break S: J. Moreno (KPU)
S: J. Zylstra (Alberta)
“The Phenomenology of “What Necessity Is” Enquiry and Disagreement” C: B. Brown (Lethbridge) C: M. Migotti (Calgary) Ch: L. Zhou (Alberta) Ch: M. Eskandari (Sask.) ESB 116 S: D. Ohreen (Mount Royal)
“Mirror Neurons, Empathy, and Action Understanding” C: D. Ludwig (Regina) Ch: D. Moore (Sask.) S: P. Monaghan
“On the Incoherence of David Lewis’s Plurality of Possible Worlds” C: A. Thomas‐Bolduc (Calgary) Ch: D. Moore (Sask.) Coffee Break Keynote Address Eva Dadlez (Central Oklahoma) “Rough Heroes and Immoderate Moralists: On Fiction and Moral Criticism” Banquet 7:00 – 9:00 pm Marquis Hall Pub Outing 9:30 – Winston’s Pub and Grill, 243 21st St E (Downtown) Sunday, October 4 9‐10 10‐10:15 10:15‐11:15 11:15‐11:30 11:30‐12:30 ESB 12 ESB 16 S: T. Mathieu (Alberta)
“Cognitive Merits and Aesthetic Value” C: K. Yui (UBC) Ch: R. Piercey (Regina) S: A. Akkerman (Sask.)
S: D. Lalonde (Western)
“Flemish painting and French “The Idea Space and the urban design of the Little Ice Thought Police” Age” C: S. Dieleman (Sask.) C: D. Dentsoras (Manitoba) Ch: N. Campbell (WLU) Ch: K. Laderoute (Lethbridge) Coffee Break S: D. Dentsoras (Manitoba)
S: D. Moore (Sask.)
“Did the Stoics Commit the “Causal Exclusion, Naturalistic Fallacy?” Compatibilism, Counterfactuals” C: A. Akkerman (Sask.) C: N. Campbell (WLU) Ch: P. F. Noppen (STM) Ch: E. O’Hagan (Sask.) Coffee Break S: K. Laderoute (Lethbridge)
S: A. Thomas‐Bolduc
(Calgary) “Nietzsche On Causation” “Are There Uninstantiated C: P. F. Noppen (STM) Universals” Ch: G. Ferdinand (Sask.) C: L. Zhou (Alberta) Ch: D. Moore (Sask.) S: N. Van de Mosselaer
(Antwerp) “A Hermeneutic Ethical Reading of the Novel” C: R. Piercey (Regina) Ch: T. Mathieu (Alberta) S: K. Yui (UBC)
“Art is Sensory Cognitive Sport” C: T. Mathieu (Alberta) Ch: S. Hoffman (Sask.) ESB 112 ESB 116 S: A. Bryant (CUNY)
“Theory‐ladenness of Self‐
experience” C: R. Jennings (SFU) Ch: D. McIntyre (SFU) S: R. Jennings (SFU) and D. McIntyre (SFU) “The linguistic Bounds of Personhood” C: A. Bryant (CUNY) Ch: G. Ferdinand (Sask.) S: L. McNulty (Alberta)
“Wittgenstein, Humility, and the Other” C: J. Moreno (KPU) Ch: M. Eskandari (Sask.)