Central States Philosophical Association Program November 6-7, 2015
the Hilton in downtown Lexington, Kentucky (369 West Vine St.)
hosted by the University of Kentucky
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6
Friday, Session A, Ethics 1, Room: Bluegrass A
9:00 Joshua DiPaolo (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Jeff Behrends (Illionois
State University), Reason to Promotion Inferences
Commentator: Aaron Elliott (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
Chair: Caroline Buchanan (University of Kentucky)
10:00 Gina, Schouten
(Illinois State University), Fetuses, Violinists, and Social Obligations to Care
Commentator: Caroline Buchanan (University of Kentucky)
Chair: Aaron Elliott (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
11:00 Christa Hodapp (University of Massachusetts, Lowell), Virtual Backlash: Online
Communication and the Men’s Rights Movement
Commentator: Gina, Schouten (Illinois State University)
Chair: Aaron Elliott (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
Friday, Session B, Epistemology 1 Room: Bluegrass B
9:00 Stephen Herman (University of Missouri), Sosa's Dreaming
Commentator: Andrew Spear (Grand Valley State University)
Chair: Ben Henke (Washington University in St Louis)
10:00 Katerina Psaroudaki (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), Defending Conciliationism
from Self-Defeat
Commentator: Gregory Stoutenburg (University of Iowa)
Chair: Ben Henke (Washington University in St Louis)
11:00 Joshua Smart (University of Missouri, Columbia), Dialecticism About Philosophical
Appeals to Intuition
Commentator: Ben Henke (Washington University in St Louis)
Chair: Gregory Stoutenburg (University of Iowa)
Friday, Session C, Political Philosophy and Ethics and Metaphysics! (oh no!)
Room: Triple Crown
9:00 Jessica Wielgus (Binghamton University) Responsibility for Justice as Strict Liability
Commentator: Nikolaos Maggos (University of Iowa)
Chair: Paul Martin (Ohio University)
10:00 Nikolaos Maggos (University of Iowa), Political Autonomy Requires Comprehensive
Autonomy: A Problem for Rawls’ Political Liberalism
Commentator: Paul Martin (Ohio University)
Chair: Joel Archer (Saint Louis University)
11:00 Joel Archer (Saint Louis University), Why Agent-Causal Libertarians Should Not Be
Physicalists
Commentator: Jessica Wielgus (Binghamton University)
Chair: Nikolaos Maggos (University of Iowa)
LUNCH: 12-1:30 PM
Friday, Session D, Ethics 2, Room: Bluegrass A
1:30 Aaron Elliott (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), Reasons, Dispositions, and Value
Commentator: Teresa Bruno (Syracuse University),
Chair: Stephen John White (Northwestern University)
2:30 Kimberly M Goard (University of Kentucky), The Angry Forgiver
Commentator: Stephen John White (Northwestern University)
Chair: Teresa Bruno (Syracuse University),
3:30 Joseph Kupfer (Iowa State University), The Pervasive Power of Humility
Commentator: David Henderson (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
Chair: Teresa Bruno (Syracuse University)
Friday, Session E, Epistemology 2, Room: Bluegrass B
1:30 Andrew Spear (Grand Valley State University), Dogmatism, Access Internalism, and
Agency
Commentator: Andrew Moon (Rutgers University)
Chair: David Sackris (John A. Logan College)
2:30 Chris Richards (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), Grounding and the Problem of
Entry
Commentator: Ken Aizawa (Rutgers)
Chair: Andrew Moon (Rutgers University)
3:30 Jon Burmeister (University of Missouri, Columbia), Why Arguing for the Value of
Truth by Using the Cognitive Ideal of Omniscience is Misguided
Commentator: David Sackris (John A. Logan College)
Chair: Andrew Moon (Rutgers University)
Friday, Session F, Metaphysics and some history, Room: Triple Crown
1:30 Eric Stencil (Utah Valley University), Elisabeth of Bohemia on the Problem of
Interaction and the Nature of the Soul
Commentator: Kevin Morris (Tulane University)
Chair: Landon D. C. Elkind
2:30 David Sackris (John A. Logan College), Relativism and Assertion
Commentator: Christopher Shrock (Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics)
Chair: Landon D. C. Elkind
3:30 Jeremy Skrzypek (Saint Louis University), Koslicki's Overdetermination Problem
Commentator: Meg Wallace (University of Kentucky)
Chair: Landon D. C. Elkind
Friday, 5-6 PM, Bluegrass Combined A/B:
Keynote Address by Professor Ann Cudd (The University of Kansas)
Friday, 6:30 PM: Reception
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7:
Saturday, Session A, Ethics 3, Room: Bluegrass A
9:00 Stephen John White (Northwestern University), Intention, Prediction, and MeansEnd Reasoning
Commentator: Rick Shang (Washington University in St Louis)
Chair: Tailer Ransom (University of Memphis)
10:00 Teresa Bruno (Syracuse University), Externalism and Alienation
Commentator: Tailer Ransom (University of Memphis)
Chair: Rick Shang (Washington University in St Louis)
11:00 James William Lincoln (University of Kentucky), Integrity and Moral Knowledge
Commentator: Joseph Kupfer (Iowa State University)
Chair: Tailer Ransom (University of Memphis)
Saturday, Session B, Epistemology 3, Room: Bluegrass B
9:00 Christopher Shrock (Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics), Reid on All
Things Considered Duties to Believe
Commentator: David Henderson (University of Nebraska)
Chair: Dylan Doherty (Washington University in St Louis)
10:00 T Raja Rosenhagen (University of Pittsburgh), Seeing as and seeing that--A Fresh
Look at Hanson’s Dually Representationalist Account of Seeing
Commentator: Dylan Doherty (Washington University in St Louis)
Chair: David Henderson (University of Nebraska)
11:00 Gregory Stoutenburg (University of Iowa), Skepticism and Semantic Competence
Commentator: Landon Elkind (University of Iowa)
Chair: David Henderson (University of Nebraska)
Saturday, Session C, Mind and Language, Room: Triple Crown
9:00 Andrew Moon (Rutgers University), A Dilemma for Credal Expressivism
Commentator:
Chair: James Butler (Berea College)
10:00 Martha Gibson (University of Wisconsin, Madison), A Problem for First Order
Theories of Consciousness
Commentator: Derek Lam (University of Virginia)
Chair: James Butler (Berea College)
11:00 Christopher Gibilisco (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), Barker and Dowe: No
paradox for Multi-Located Universals
Commentator: Jeremy Skrzypek (Saint Louis University)
Chair: Derek Lam (University of Virginia)
LUNCH: 12-1:30 PM
Saturday, Session D, Ethics 4, Room: Bluegrass A
1:30 Katrina England (Binghamton University), Case Study: The Jeju Controversy as
Cultural Structural Injustice
Commentator: Lauren Sweetland (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
Chair: Adam Thompson (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
2:30 Christina Warne-Friedlaender (The University of Memphis), On Microaggressions:
Cumulative Harm and Individual Responsibility
Commentator: Adam Thompson (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
Chair: Lauren Sweetland (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
3:30 Andrew Spaid (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), Goldman on Depression and
Irrationality
Commentator: James William Lincoln (University of Kentucky)
Chair: Adam Thompson (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
Saturday, Session E, Philosophy of Science and more! Room: Bluegrass B
1:30 Ken Aizawa (Rutgers) and Carl Gillett (Northern Illinois University), The Ontology
and Methodology of Mechanistic Explanation
Commentator: Alexandra Bradner (Eastern Kentucky University)
Chair: Kevin Ryan (University of Memphis)
2:30 Tomasz Wysocki (Washington University in Saint Louis), Measuring evidence with
p-values: a paradox and how to solve it
Commentator: Suraj Chaudhary (University of Kentucky)
Chair: Alexandra Bradner (Eastern Kentucky University)
3:30 Lauren Sweetland (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), Is Sensory Phenomenology
Rich?
Commentator: Kevin Ryan (University of Memphis)
Chair: Alexandra Bradner (Eastern Kentucky University)
Saturday, Session F, Metaphysics 2, Room Triple Crown
1:30 Michael Shaffer (St Cloud State University), Might/Would Duality, Imaging and the
Probabilities of Counterfactuals
Commentator: Christopher Gibilisco (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
Chair: Brian Carlson (University of Kentucky)
2:30 Landon Elkind (University of Iowa), On the Analysis of Soritical Predicates
Commentator: Michael Shaffer (St Cloud State University)
Chair: Christopher Gibilisco (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
3:30 Kevin Morris (Tulane University), Russellian Physicalism, Bare Structure, and
Swapped Inscrutables
Commentator: Brian Carlson (University of Kentucky)
Chair: Christopher Gibilisco (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
Saturday, November 7, 5 PM, Bluegrass Combined A/B: Business Meeting and
Presidential Address by Anita Superson (University of Kentucky)