73rd Program

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