Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA

September 26th-27th 2025

86th Virginia Philosophical Association Annual Conference

Virginia State University

Friday, September 26, 2025

11.30-12.00 p Check-in and Registration

Session One   Foster Hall, Room 200

12.00-1.00 p   “Covert Dogwhistles, In-Grouping, and Attentional Resiliency: Why Don’t Callouts Work?” Jacob Smith (University of Virginia)

                               Commentator: Benjamin Prisk (Georgetown University)

1.10-2.10 p     “On Moving On: Dynamic Value and the Fitting Diminishment of Emotions” Raye Ploeger (University of North Carolina)

                               Commentator: Josh Tignor (Syracuse/Virginia State)

2.20-3.20 p     “What Makes Affective Injustice Unjust: Dismissing Fitting Emotions versus Dismissing Apt Emotions” Yanjie Ding (University of Virginia)

          Commentator: Andrew Kissel (Old Dominion University)

Session Two   Foster Hall, Room 200

3.50-4.50 p     “Oneself as not Another: A New Hermeneutics of Blackness” James Henry Harris (Virginia Union University)

                     Commentator: Dylan Lackey (Virginia Commonwealth University)

5.00-6.00 p     "Norms Must Be Followable” Conner Schultz (Florida International University)

                               Commentator: Ethan Butt (University of Virginia)

Banquet Dinner Foster Hall, Room 200

7.00-8.30 p     Banquet Address “Freedom and the Pandemic” Victoria Costa (William and Mary University) 

Saturday, September 27, 2025

8.30-9.00 a     Continental Breakfast

Session Three Foster Hall, Room 200

9.00-10.00 a   “The Pragmatic Maxim and Analytic Truths” Jim Scow (Virginia State University)

                      Commentator: Justin Remhof (Old Dominion University)

10.10-11.10 a “Correspondence Pluralism is the ‘All in One’ We Need” Adekunle Taofeek (University of Mississippi)

                               Commentator: Olle Lövgren (Johns Hopkins University)

Keynote Lecture Foster Hall, Room 200

11.30-12.30 p “TBA” Forrest Black (Virginia State University) 

12.30-12.45 p Resolution of Gratitude and Election of 2025 VPA Vice President and Secretary