81st Program

Friday, October 30

DeMoss Hall, room 1334

1:00                Registration

Session One: Epistemology

2:00-3:00       “Virtue, Silencing, and Perception”

      Abhi K. Ruparelia  (University of Richmond)

                                 Commenter: Emily McCarty (St. Louis University) 

3:15-4:15      “What’s Wrong with Bad Cases of Cognitive Penetration”

                                 Haiming Hua (Sun Yat-sen University and Rutgers University)

                                 Commenter: James Reed (University of Virginia) 

Session Two: Ethics

4:30-5:30      “Achieving Objectivity in Moral Self-Assessment”

                                 Chris Tweedt  (Christopher Newport University)

                                 Commenter: Levi Tenen (Kettering University) 

 5:45-6:45      “Buying Humane Meat Is Wrong Because It Wrongs the Farmer”

                                 Josh Mund (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

                                 Commenter: Benjamin Rossi (Duke University Law School) 

7:00                Banquet in DeMoss Hall, room 1336

8:00-9:00        Banquet Address  

     “(How) Do the Numbers Count?:  God, Principles of Additivity, and the Problem of Evil” 

                                 Edward Martin (Liberty University)

Saturday, October 31

DeMoss Hall, room 1334

8:30                Registration and Continental Breakfast

Session Three: Identity Theory

9:00-10:00      “Identity, Instances, and Incompleteness: Objections against the Instance   Multiplicity Hypothesis”

                                 Alex Mendez (CUNY)

                                 Commenter: Charles “Chet” Duke (Felician University)

10:15-11:15     “A Buddhist Interrogation of the Aporia of Identity (Politics)”

                                  Jason Barton (University of New Mexico)

                                  Commenter: Bhavya Gopal Sharma (SUNY, Buffalo)

11:30-12:30      Keynote Lecture 

"Robots to the Rescue? Robots, Ethics, and Pandemics"

                                   Yvette Pearson (Old Dominion University)

12:30-12:45     Resolution of Gratitude, Vote on the Proposed Statement on Diversity and 

                             Inclusion, and Election of the Secretary of the VPA

1:00                    Lunch