Sunday, November 8th
9:45– 11:30 VI: Philosophical Theology
SARRATT 220
Chair: Mark Silcox, University of Central Oklahoma
— “The Modal-Knowno Problem”
Robert William Fischer, Texas State University and
Felipe Leon, El Camino College
Commentator: Joshua Rollins, University of Oklahoma
— " Not Skeptical Theism, but Trusting Theism”
John McClellan, Carson-Newman University
Commentator: Klaus Ladstaetter, Washburn University
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President – Gregg D. Caruso
Corning Community College, SUNY
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Vice-Pres. & Program Chair – Mark Silcox
University of Central Oklahoma
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Secretary-Treasurer – Deborah Heikes
University of Alabama in Huntsville
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Journal Editor – Todd Stewart
Illinois State University
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Local Arrangements Chair – Scott Aiken
Vanderbilt University
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Website – www.southwesternphilosophical.com
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will be collected at the meeting. For those unable to
attend the meeting, dues may be sent to:
Deborah Heikes
Department of Philosophy
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Huntsville, AL, 35899
(Make check payable to Southwestern
Philosophical Society.)
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1938 E.T. Mitchell
1939 Frederick W. Meir
1940 Charles M. Perry
1941 W.B. Mahan
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1947 Gustav Mueller
1948 A.J. Bahm
1949 David L. Miller
1950 Radoslav A. Tsanoff
1951 Hubert G. Alexander
1952 Edward S. Robinson
1953 C.W. Berenda
1954 Anna McCracken
1955 Lewis E. Hahn
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1958 Robert L. Rein’l
1959 J.C. Feaver
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1961 Patrick Romanell
1962 Edmund L. Pincoffs
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1964 W.J. Kilgore
1965 Konstantin Kolenda
1966 John Silber
1967 Haywood R. Shuford
1968 Robert C. Whittemore
1969 William Horosz
1970 Gustav Ferre
1971 Irwin Lieb
1972 John Kultgen
1973 Andrew J. Reck
1974 Elmer H. Duncan
1975 Manuel M. Davenport
1976 Robert W. Shahan
1977 Douglas Browning
1978 Richard Cole
1979 Pete A.Y. Gunter
1980 Ted E. Klein
1981 James K. Feibleman
1982 Neil R. Luebke
1983 A.C. Genova
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2005 Alastair Norcross
2006 May Sim
2007 Thomas D. Senor
2008 Stuart Rosenbaum
2009 Robert B. Talisse
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2013 Randall Auxier
2014 Julie Kuhlken
2015 Gregg D. Caruso
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Joe Bien
Doug Browning
Richard Cole
Elmer Duncan
Dick Eggerman
Bob Feleppa
Hoke Robinson
Larry Hickman
David Beisecker
Ise Kalsi
Ted Klein
John Kultgen
Donald S. Lee
Neil Luebke
Alastair Norcross
K.F. Rogerson
Robert B. Talisse
Randy Auxier
John Silber
Nancy Simco
J.K.Swindler
Spencer Wertz
Pete Gunter
May Sim
Thomas D. Senor
Stuart Rosenbaum
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Southwestern Philosophical Society
Friday, November 6th
1:00 – 5:30 REGISTRATION
SARRATT 216
1:30 – 3:15 I: Metaphilosophy
SARRATT 220
Chair: Sarah Woolwine, University of Central Oklahoma
— “The End of Philosophy, “The Beginning of Phenomenology and
the Future of Thinking”
Timothy Hyde, Stony Brook University
Commentator: Julie Kuhlken, Independent Scholar
— “Empiricism, Freedom, and Naturalism: An Alternative Diagnostic
Solution to McDowell’s Problem of Empirical Content”
Eric Morton, Georgia Perimeter College
Commentator: Randall Auxier, Southern Illinois University
BREAK
3:30 – 5:15 Plenary Session: American Philosophy
SARRATT 220
Chair: Patrick Shade, Rhodes College
Keynote: “The Cost of Comfort”
John Lachs, Vanderbilt University
Commentator: Justin Bell, University of Houston, Victoria
Commentator: Eric Weber, University of Mississippi
Saturday, November 7th
8:00 – 12:15 REGISTRATION
SARRATT 216
8:30 – 10:15 II-A: Epistemology
SARRATT 220
Chair: Mary Gwin, Oklahoma State University
— "Defending Conciliationism from Self-Defeat”
Katerina Psaroudaki, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Commentator: Todd Stewart, Illinois State University
—“Intellectual Flourishing, The Truth Norm, and Epistemic Norm
Pluralism”
Jill Cumby, York University
Commentator: Thomas Dabay, Vanderbilt University
8:30 – 10:15 II-B: Feminist Philosophy
SARRATT 327
Chair: Julie Kuhlken, Independent Scholar
— ““Aristotle on Woman’s Capacity for (Practical) Reason””
Seena Eftekhari, University of Kansas
Commentator: Deborah Heikes, University of Alabama - Huntsville
— “Transgressive Freedom: On Beauvoir’s Hegelian Philosophy of
Action”
Martina Ferrari, University of Oregon
Commentator: Sarah Woolwine, University of Central Oklahoma
1:30 – 3:15 IV-B: History of Philosophy
SARRATT 327
Chair: Mark Rauls, College of Southern Nevada
— "Free to be Intolerant and Intolerant to be Free: Bridging the Gap
Between Spinoza’s Ethics and Theologico-Political Treatise”
Daniel Larkin, University of Memphis
Commentator: Michael Gifford, SUNY Buffalo
— "Phantasia as Perception-Based Belief and the Epistemic Worry
of Plato”
Wenjin Liu, University of Pennsylvania
Commentator: Elizabeth Jelinek, Christopher Newport University
BREAK
BREAK
10:30 – 12:15 III-A: Science & Semantics
SARRATT 220
Chair: James Mock, University of Central Oklahoma
— "Of German Tanks and Scientific Theories: Estimating the
Number of Unconceived Alternatives”
Burkay T. Ozturk, Texas State University
Commentator: Susan Castro, Wichita State University
— "Using Truth Relatively”
David Sackris, Princeton University
Commentator: David Beisecker, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
10:30 – 12:15 III-B: Philosophical Psychology
SARRATT 327
Chair: Gregg Caruso, SWPS President
— "Navigating Subjective Theories of Well-Being”
Mark Piper, James Madison University
Commentator: Jared Brandt, Baylor University
— "Giving Reasons for What We Do:
Integrating Affective and Cognitive Neuroscience”
Paul Sheldon Davies, College of William and Mary
Commentator: Glenn Trujillo, Vanderbilt University
3:30 – 5:15 V-A: Philosophy and Health
SARRATT 220
Chair: Eva Dadlez, University of Central Oklahoma
— "Health, Harm and Potential”
David B. Hershenov, University of Buffalo and Rose Hershenov,
Niagara University
Commentator: J. Robert Loftis, Lorain County Community College
— "Personal Worth and Sport”
Mary Gwin, Oklahoma State University
Commentator: Dustin Nelson, University of Missouri – Columbia
3:30 – 5:15 V-B: Ethical Theory
SARRATT 327
Chair: Justin Bell, University of Houston - Victoria
— “The “Necessity” Fallacy in Ethical Theory”
Scott Forschler, Independent Scholar
Commentator: Noell Birondo, Wichita State University
— "John Dewey and the Possibility of Particularist Moral Education”
Nate Jackson, Capital University
Commentator: James Mock, University of Central Oklahoma
LUNCH: 12:30-1:30
5:30 – 7:15 BUSINESS MEETING & PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
BUTTRICK 102
1:30 – 3:15 IV-A: The Ethics of Blame
SARRATT 220
Chair: Randall Auxier, Southern Illinois University
— "Standing Conditions and Blame”
Amy McKiernan, Vanderbilt University
Commentator: Eva M. Dadlez, University of Central Oklahoma
— "Excuses and Blame-Based Theories of Moral Wrongness”
Benjamin Rossi, University of Notre Dame
Commentator: Robyn Gaier, Viterbo University
"Free Will Skepticism and Criminal Behavior: A Public HealthQuarantine Model”
Gregg Caruso, SWPS President
7:30 BANQUET
BUTTRICK Reception Hall
Later
PRESIDENTIAL RECEPTION
(CONTINUED ON BACK)