64th Program

The 64th Annual Meeting of the

Virginia Philosophical Association

October 17-18, 2003

Mary Baldwin College

Pannill Student Center, First Floor

Friday, October 17

2:00-2:10   Welcome

2:10-3:20   INVITED PAPER: “What Ever Happened to the Cognitive Studies of Science?,” Valerie Hardcastle, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University;  comments by Paul Davies, College of William and Mary.

3:30-4:40   “Boyle, Classification and the Workmanship of the Understanding Thesis,” Jan-Erik Jones, Southern Virginia University;  comments by Miriam McCormick, University of Richmond.

4:50-6:00   “Does Free Will Remain a Mystery?  A Response to Van Inwagen,” Meghan E. Griffith, Washington and Lee University;  comments by Rod Owen, Mary Baldwin College.

6:30-8:00   Dinner, West Wing of the Hunt Dining Hall

8:00-9:00   KEYNOTE ADDRESS: “Reciprocity (But I Repeat Myself),” Lawrence Becker, Fellow of Hollins University and Professor Emeritus at the College of William and Mary.

Saturday, October 18

8:50-9:30   Continental Breakfast

9:30-10:40   INVITED PAPER: “Composition and Vagueness,” Trenton Merricks, University of Virginia;  comments by Geoff Goddu, University of Richmond.

10:50-12:00   “Defending Author-Essentialism,” Jeffrey Goodman, James Madison University;  comments by Gene Mills, Virginia Commonwealth University.

12:10-1:20   “Carnap, Quine, and the Metaphysical Wolf,” Paul A. Gregory, Washington and Lee University;  comments by Michael Boylan, Marymount University.

1:20-1:30   Election of Officers

Registration Information and Deadline

To register for the conference, please send your name, institutional affiliation, email address, and phone number to Linda Wandless at wandlelc@jmu.edu or, if need be, call her at (540) 568-6394.  Please indicate whether you will be attending the dinner on Friday evening and whether you will have a companion.  Dinner reservations must be made by October 3.  There is no fee for membership, registration, the continental breakfast, or the dinner.

Parking will be readily available in the parking lots immediately adjacent to the Pannill Center.

Hotel Information (with Deadlines) and Directions On Reverse

Sponsors

The Virginia Philosophical Association gratefully acknowledges the generous sponsorship of this year’s meeting by and Mary Baldwin College, and especially, the MBC Department of Philosophy and Religion.