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Program and Schedule
Continental Breakfast 8:40–11:00
Session I 9:05–10:45
| A. |
Ethics,
Social and Political Philosophy
– HMNSS 1500 |
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Chair: Carl Cranor (UCR)
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Paul Hurley (Pomona)
“Does Consequentialism Demand Too Much,
Or Nothing At All?” |
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Commentator: Chris Naticchia
(California State University, San Bernardino) |
| B. |
Agency – Watkins
1101 |
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Chair: Manuel Vargas (CalTech) |
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Matthew Talbert (UCR)
“Normative Competence, Moral Responsibility,
and Personal History” |
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Bryan Lee (UCR)
“Normative Competence and Moral Concern”
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| C. |
Metaphysics and
Epistemology – Watkins 1111 |
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Chair: Tony Roy (CSUSB) |
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Mark Balaguer (California
State University, Los Angeles)
“The Metaphysical Irrelevance of the
Compatibilism Debate” |
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Matthew Davidson (CSUSB)
“Propositions As Structured Entities” |
| D. |
Early Modern Philosophy
– Watkins 1117 |
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Chair: Jill Buroker (CSUSB) |
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Charles Huenemann (Utah
State)
“The Problem of Optimism in Early Modern
Philosophy” |
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Jeremy Anderson (University
of California, Irvine)
“The Evolution of Hobbes’s Account
of Disorder” |
| E. |
Philosophy of
Religion – Watkins 2141 |
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Chair: Dan Speak (UCR)
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Gregg Ten Elshoff (Biola)
“Religious Experience, Conceptual Contribution
and the Problem of Diversity: How not to
make the problem worse” |
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Commentator: Dallas Willard
(University of Southern California) |
| F. |
Kant and Post-Kantian
European Philosophy – Watkins 2240 |
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Chair: Amy MacArthur (UCR) |
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Peter Thielke (Pomona)
“Kant and Mereology” |
| G. |
Graduate Student
Sessions – HMNSS 1501 |
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Jacob Affolter (UCR)
“The Virtue of the Superior: A Few
Remarks on Humility” |
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Christopher Yeomans (UCR)
“Continuant Agents and Datable Events:
A Response to C. D. Broad’s Objection
to Agent-Causation” |
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Session II 11:00–12:40
| A. |
Ethics,
Social and Political Philosophy –
Watkins 1101 |
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Chair: Andrews Reath (UCR)
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Stephen Finlay (USC)
“Motivation to the Means” |
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Commentator: Aaron James
(UCI) |
| B. |
Agency – Watkins
1111 |
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Chair: John Fischer (UCR) |
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Richard Arneson (University of California, San Diego)
“Just Warfare and Noncombatant Immunity” |
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Kadri Vihvelin (USC)
“Killing and Letting Die: The Difference” |
| C. |
Metaphysics and
Epistemology – Watkins 1117 |
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[Cancelled] |
| D. |
Early Modern Philosophy
– Watkins 2141 |
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Chair: Nicholas Sinigaglia
(UCI) |
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Shoshana Smith (University
of California, Berkeley)
“Clear and Distinct Perception in Descartes” |
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David Clemenson (University
of St. Thomas)
“Much Ado About Non-Things: Cartesian
Idea Theory and the
Doctrine of Material Falsity” |
| E. |
Kant and Post-Kantian
European Philosophy – HMNSS 1500 |
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Martin Schwab (UCI)
“Nietzsche's Nazi Affinities” |
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Commentator: Bernd Magnus
(UCR) |
| F. |
Graduate Student
Sessions - Watkins 2240 |
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Chair: Jeffrey Yim (UCR) |
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Melissa Johnson (UCSD)
“Real Velocity and Strange Motion
on Possible Worlds: An analysis and response
to Humean objections” |
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Sam Hillier (UCI)
“Scientific Naturalism and Mathematical
Methodology” |
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Session III 2:10-3:50
| A. |
Ethics
Social and Political Philosophy – HMNSS
1500 |
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[Cancelled] |
| B. |
Metaphysics and
Epistemology – Watkins 1101 |
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Tony Brueckner (University
of California, Santa Barbara)
“Fallibilism, Underdetermination, and Skepticism” |
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Commentator: Peter Graham
(UCR) |
| C. |
Early Modern Philosophy
– Watkins 1111 |
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Chair: Noa Shein (UCI) |
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Brian Garrett (California
State University, Fullerton)
“A Secret Reproach? Boyle’s Cautions
regarding Final Causes” |
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Kurt Smith (Bloomsburg)
and Alan Nelson (UCI)
“Descartes and Spinoza on Indivisibility,
the Impossibility of the Vacuum, and Corporeal
Substance” |
| D. |
Philosophy of
Religion – Watkins 1117 |
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Chair: David Strauss (UCR) |
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Daniel Speak (Azusa Pacific)
and Rico Vitz (UCR)
“Belief, Hope, and Salvation” |
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Commentator: Pamela Hieronymi
(University of California, Los Angeles) |
| E. |
Graduate Student
Sessions– Watkins 2240 |
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Chair: William Bristow
(UCI) |
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John T. Stopple (UCI)
“The Annas/Frede Debate Over Stoic
Epistemology” |
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Kristen Irwin (UCSD)
“Heidegger’s Transcendental Phenomenology” |
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Session IV 4:05 - 5:45
| A. |
Agency
– HMNSS 1500 |
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Chair: Eric Schwitzgebel
(UCR) |
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David Hunt (Whittier College)
“Moral Responsibility and Buffered
Alternatives” |
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Dana Nelkin (UCSD)
“Freedom, Responsibility, and the Challenge
of Situationism” |
| B. |
Metaphysics and
Epistemology – Watkins 1101 |
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Chair: June Yang (UCI) |
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Philip Nickel (UCI )
“Epistemic Autonomy” |
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Tim Black (California
State University, Northridge)
“Is there room for epistemic closure
in a counterfactualist theory of knowledge?”
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| C. |
Kant and Post-Kantian
European Philosophy – Watkins 1111 |
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Ian Duckles (UCI)
“Kierkegaard and the Limits of Reflection
in Ethics” |
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Commentator: William Bracken
(UCR) |
| D. |
Graduate Student
Sessions – Watkins 1117 |
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Chair: Koki Funato (UCR) |
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Mark Newman (UCSD)
“Ramsey-Sentence Realism As an Answer
to the Pessimistic Meta-Induction” |
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Nellie Wieland (UCSD)
“Error and Linguistic Beliefs” |
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| The Department
of Philosophy would like to thank Jill
Buroker, Bill Bracken, John Fischer,
Peter Graham, Pierre Keller, Andy Reath,
and Dan Speak for planning the various
sessions. The graduate student papers
were selected out of twenty-two submissions
by a process of blind refereeing. |
Directions
and Maps to UCR
For an interactive campus map,
click here.
The conference will be held in Humanities and
Social Sciences Building (HMNSS) and Watkins
Hall.
Parking
There is a charge for visitor parking.
More information is available at Transportation
and Parking Services.
Parking information: (909) 787-4395
Monday–Friday, 8 a.m.–4 p.m.
After hours: Campus Police (909) 787-5222
Driving directions to
UC Riverside
From Los Angeles and Orange
Counties:
From the 10 freeway (and From
Ontario Airport): Take the I-10 freeway east
to Interstate 15 south and then to the 60 freeway
east. Exit at University Avenue and turn left.
Go to the second light and make a right onto
Campus Drive. Get parking permit at kiosk.
From the 91 freeway: Take the
91 freeway east to the 60 freeway east. Exit
at University Avenue and turn left. Go to the
second light and make a right onto Campus Drive.
From the 60 freeway: Take the
60 freeway east. Exit at University Avenue and
as above.
From San Diego County:
Take the 15 freeway north to
the 215 north and then the 60 freeway west.
Exit at University Avenue and turn left. Go
to the second light and go right on Campus Drive.
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