79th Program

Virginia Philosophical Association Annual Conference 2018 

October 26th - 27th

Marymount University Ballston Center

1000 N Glebe Rd, Arlington, VA 22201 

Note: The VPA conference will be at the Ballston Center (address above), which is a mile from Marymount's main campus. The Ballston Center is near the Ballston-MU metro stop. 

Parking: To park at the Ballston Center underground parking with the parking fee waived, please send your name to our host, Adam Kovach, at akovach@marymount.edu, by Sept. 28. Your name will be given to the parking attendant as a VPA guest. If you are staying at the Holiday Inn, then it will be easy for you to instead park at the hotel and walk to Marymount's Ballston Center.

Banquet: If you plan to attend the dinner on Friday, please email our host, Adam Kovach, at akovach@marymount.edu, by Sept. 28, so that he can get a headcount for the caterer.

Friday, October 26

Ballston Center, room 2080

1:30                   Registration

2:00-3:00           “Fair Relational Equality”

Dan Threet (Georgetown University)

Comments by Jeppe von Platz (University of Richmond)

3:15-4:15           “On Nietzsche’s Philosophical Methodology: Appeals to Intuition”

Justin Remhof (Old Dominion University)

                          Comments by Carl Sachs (Marymount University)

4:30-5:30           “Relativism Is Not that Weird, but 'Relativism' Is”

Bill Knorpp (James Madison University)

Comments by David Baggett (Liberty University)

5:45-6:45           "The Rational Beginning of Intentional Action"

Derek Lam (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater)

                          Comments by Andrew Kissel (Old Dominion University)

7:15                   Banquet (includes a vegan option): Register for the dinner by emailing Adam Kovach at akovach@marymount.edu by Sept. 28.

8:00-9:00           Banquet Address: “The Ethics of Ethics: Should Philosophy Have a Moral License to Advocate Wrongful Ideas?”

Jason Brennan (Georgetown University)

Saturday, October 27

Ballston Center, room 2080

8:30                   Registration

9:00-10:00        “A Defense of Nonreductionism for Moral Understanding: The Case of a Hanging in Burma”

Michael Sigrist (The George Washington University)

Comments by Guy Axtell (Radford University)

10:15-11:15       “Acceptance Cognitivism”

Avery Archer (The George Washington University)

Comments by Andrew McGonigal (Washington & Lee University)

11:30-12:30       Keynote Lecture

“Universal Basic Income and the Problem of Bad Work”

Andrea Veltman (James Madison University)

12:30-12:45       Resolution of Gratitude & Elections

1:00-2:30           Lunch Break