73rd Program

October 19-20, 2012

Virginia Tech

Friday October 19, 2012

2:15 Registration

2:45-3:40 Extending The Leibnizian Framework: Toward An Understanding Of Functionally Unified Aggregates

Blake Thompson (VT)

Commentator: Jim Downey (Hollins)

3:45-4:40 Arbitrariness, Choice and Practical Reason

Patrick Fleming (JMU)

Commentator: Mark Piper (JMU)

4:40-5:05 Break

5:05-6:00 Aspect-Perception as a Philosophical Method

Reshef Agam-Segal (VMI)

Commentator: Rickey Ray (Northeast State CC)

6:05-7:00 Why We Should All Be Kantian Dualists

Nathaniel Goldberg (Washington & Lee)

Commentator: Matt Priselac (UNC/VT)

7:15 Banquet

8:15-10:00 Keynote Address

Dangerous Liaisons: A History of some Un-Ordered Pairs

Michael Boylan (Marymount)

Saturday October 20, 2012

9:00 Registration

9:30-10:25 Rehabilitating the Community View: Majority Agreement in Standard Conditions as the Source of Normativity

Tom Wilk (Johns Hopkins)

Commentator: Duncan Richter (VMI)

10:30-11:25 Methods Of Determination: Relevant Differences Between Twin Earth And Moral Twin Earth

Joey Miller (Virginia Tech)

Commentator: Andrew Morgan (Virginia)

11:25-11:40 Break

11:40-12:55 Invited Lecture

Berkeley And Natural Law

Dan Flage (JMU)

1:00-1:15 Business Meeting - Including the Resolution of Gratitude and elections of officers