62nd Program

                        You are invited to the

 

                              62nd Annual Meeting of the

                         Virginia Philosophical Association

                                      Hollins University

                                    October 19-20, 2001

 

FRIDAY AFTERNOON (Wyndham Robertson Library, Hollins Room, 3rd Floor)

 

2:00  Registration

 

2:50  Welcome

 

3:00  Norman Melchert, Virginia Commonwealth University, “The Last Word In Ethics”

                      Commentator: Andrew Cohen, James Madison University

 

4:15  Robert S. Fudge, College of William and Mary, Value and Understanding in

                       Aesthetic Appreciation”

                       Commentator: Tom Adajian, James Madison University

 

FRIDAY EVENING (Ballator Room, Moody Center, upstairs)

 

6:30  Reception

 

7:00  Dinner *

 

         After dinner: Harlan Miller, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

                            “Mind, Brain and Skull; or What Do Philosophers Do?”

 

SATURDAY MORNING (Wyndham Robertson Library, Hollins Room, 3rd Floor)

 

8:30  Coffee and Danish

 

9:00  Lee Mayo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, “Severe Tests and

                Underdetermination Or How Dietrich Gets At Least Most Of What He Wants”

                Commentator: Joseph Milton, University of Virginia

 

10:15  William F. Brazier, George Mason University, “The Eternal Return and The Relevance

                          Of Time: A Question of Matter, Energy and Weight”

                          Commentator: Daw-Nay Evans, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

 

11:45  Business Meeting, then adjournment