Schedule
2013 Midwinter Meeting
Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
(Div. 24 of the American Psychological Association)
February 21-23, 2013
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21
9:00Registration (ongoing)
10:00
10:00- Paper Session: Moral Psychology—Cellar
Discussion Session (10:00-11:15)—Bouquets
10:50
Room
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 Towards a Unified Moral Psychology:
 A “Case Study” about the Challenges
An Aristotelian Answer to the
of Finding a Sound Philosophical
Definitional Disagreement – G. Tyler
Basis for a Human Sciences
Lefevor & Blaine J. Fowers
Approach to Psychology: Arguments
Against Quantitative Research that
 Varieties of Perceptual Presence,
Fail to Escape Cartesianism and an
Varieties of Moral Psychology –
Alternative Position on Research
Christopher H. Ramey
Methods Based on the Participatory
11:00
Discussion Session (11:00-11:50)—Cellar
Perspective – Michael A. Westerman
Room
11:25Paper Session (11:25-11:50)—Bouquets Room
 Reconsidering Colleagues and
11:50
 The Ethics of Taste and Touch in
Professional Relationships from the
Levinas’ Sensibility and Proximity –
Perspective of a Practice-Based,
Maxim Livshetz, David M. Goodman
Relational, Non-Dualist Ontology –
Donald E. Jones
12:00- Lunch Break
1:30
1:30Symposium: Practicing Theoretical Psychology: Theoretical Resources for Enhancements in
2:50
Developmental Psychology—Bouquets Room
 Position Exchange Theory: At the Intersection of Theoretical and Social,
Developmental Psychology – Jack Martin
 The Emergence of Identity and Agency through Executive Function: Enhancing
Developmental Accounts with the Resources of Theoretical Psychology – Blaine J.
Fowers
3:00Conversation Hour: Career Transitions and Maintaining Connections with Theoretical
3:50
Psychology – Jeffrey S. Reber
4:00Discussion Session—Bouquets Room
4:50
 Some Radical Critics of Democracy – Duncan Moench & Frank. C. Richardson
5:00Welcome and Introductory Remarks — Bouquets Room – Blaine Fowers, President
5:20
5:20Dinner Break
7:20
7:30Book Discussion Session: David Goodman’s The Demanded Self: Levinasian Ethics and Identity
8:30
in Psychology – Discussants: Mark Freeman, Samuel D. Downs, Maxim Livshetz
8:30
Informal Reception
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22
9:00Paper Session—Austin South Room
9:50
 A Lonerganian Critique of Contemporary Consciousness Studies – Exhibit A: David
Chalmers – Daniel A. Helminiak
10:00- Symposium: Pragmatist Perspectives on the Lives of ‘Persons in Context’—Austin South
11:50  Life Positioning Analysis – Jack Martin
 The Life of Nelson Mandela: A Life Positioning Analysis – Heather Macdonald
 Identity and Authenticity: Person, Persona, and the Meaning of (Keith Richards’s) Life –
Mark Freeman
12:00- Interactive Poster Session—Austin South Room? – Jeff Reber, Chair
1:00
 Tension in Human Movement: Elaborating Boesch’s Concepts of Heimweh and Fernweh –
Zachary Beckstead
 An Example of the Rupture of Empirical Research: The Actor-Observer Asymmetry and
the Face of the Other – Samuel D. Downs
 Criteria and Benefits of Mapping Conscious States – Barry Klein
 The power and Meaning of Symbolic Consciousness – Jonathan Doner
 Does One Need to be Self-Conscious to be Social? – Lucian Delescu
 Existentialism: A Return to Irrationality and Responsibiltiy – Gary Senecal
 Professional Identity and Virtue Ethics: A Case History – F.D. Bud Boley
1:00
Lunch (On Own)
2:00Paper Session—Austin South Room
Paper Session—Austin North Room
2:50
 Naturalized Epistemology – Amir Salehi
 Market-Based School Reform, Liberal
Individualism, and the Enterprising Self –
 Youth Development as a World-Making
John H.W. Houser
Enterprise – Michael Hanchett Hanson
 The Role of Symbolic Logic in Theory
Analysis and an Application of
Muncaster’s Propositional Calculus to
Freudian Theory – Sheldon G. Levy
3:00Paper Session—Austin South Room
Paper Session—Austin North Room
3:50
 The Politics of Experience in
 Observing Ego, Self, and Therapeutic
Psychotherapy: Reconsidering the
Action: A Psychological and
Philosophical Exploration – Niquie
Boundary Between Healing and Activism
– Jacqueline Aug, David M. Goodman, Katie
Dworkin
Howe, & Samuel Gable
 Putting Feelings and Emotions in their
 Clarifying the Cultural Context of Mental
Place: Théodule Ribot on the Passions –
Louis C. Charland
Disorders and Emotional Problems in
Living – Steve Harrist & Frank C.
Richardson
4:00Paper Session: Biopsychology—Austin South
Paper Session: History/Philosophy of
5:20
Room
Science—Austin North Room
 Embodied Conceptual Representations
 Progress or Propaganda? What is the
Meaning of Unity in Science? – Jordan
and Their Implications for Semantic
Memory – Evangelia G. Chrysikou
Hyde & Alex North
 Alexander Luria and the Forgotten
 The Burden of the Psychological
Scientist: 1950s to Present – Jessica
History of Neuropsychology’s Two
Sciences – Brian W. Becker, Jenny Esdale,
Grogan
Frances Hatling, Heather Macdonald, &
David M. Goodman
 Toward an Expanded Concept of Human
Instinct – Samuel A. Malkemus
6:00
Informal Social Hour
7:30
Informal Dinners (outside the hotel; not covered by registration fee; signup sheets available)
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23
7:30Society Executive Committee Meeting
9:00
9:00Discussion Session—Austin South Room
9:50
 What Can Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology Offer at this Time to
Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, and Psychotherapy Research? Identifying Current
Cutting-Edge Issues – Michael A. Westerman
10:00Discussion Session—Austin South Room
10:50
 Present-day Medicine Goes “Person-Centered” and “People-Centered.” Whither
Goeth Psychology and Clinical Psychology? – Michael Schwartz and Edward Sherwood
11:00Lunch
12:30
12:30Paper Session—Austin South Room
Symposium: Agency and repetition in
1:20
Psychotherapy: Gilles Deleuze and Jacques
 What’s So Valid about Construct
Lacan Regarding the Subject—Austin North
Validation Research? – Kathleen
Slaney, Aaron Garcia, & Wanda Power Room
 The Psychoanalytic Subject and the
Repetition of a Work of Art: Not
Repetition Because of Repression,
Repression Because of Repetition –
Frank Scalambrino
 Later Lacan: The Psychoanalytic
Subject and Traversing the
Fundamental Fantasy – Stephanie
Swales Scalambrino
1:30Discussion Session—Austin South Room
2:20
 The McDonaldization of Psychotherapy: The Loss of Pluralism and Its Impact on
Social Class – David M. Goodman, Heather Macdonald, Nancy Muse, Perah Kessman,
Katie Howe, Sam Gable
 Respondent: Philip Cushman
2:30Closing Plenary Session: Symposium—Austin South Room
4:20
 Tinkers, Tailors, Soldiers, Spies: The Methods of Theoretical Psychologists – Jeff
Sugarman & Kathleen Slaney
o Contributors: Blaine Fowers, Mark Freeman, David Goodman, Jack Martin,
Kathleen Slaney, Jeff Sugarman, Thomas Teo
4:20Closing Remarks – Austin South Room – Blaine Fowers, President
4:30