83rd Program

83rd Program, 2022

Program for the 83rd Conference

Of the Virginia Philosophical Association

Friday, October 28th – Saturday, October 29th

University of Lynchburg, Lynchburg, Virginia

Friday, October 28, 2022

Room: Hall Campus Center Ballroom

12:30 Registration

Session One

1:00-2:00 “Testimonial Injustice as Testimonial Mistreatment”

Jonathan Weid (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois) 

Commenter: Shervin MirzaeiGhazi (Lund University)

2:10-3:10 “A Platonist's Perspective of Gender Fluidity “

Kevin Cales (Salem Virginia)

Commenter: Seth Jeremy Goldwasser (University of Pittsburg)

3:20-4:20 “Puzzles and Phenomenology of Perceptual Knowledge in Locke”

Nathan Dowell (Ohio State University)

Commenter: Andrew Kissel (Old Dominion University)

---30 Minute Break---

Session Two

4:50-5:50 “On Translating the Sensitivity Condition to the Possible Worlds Idiom”

Bin Zhao (UC Irvine)

Commenter: MohammadJavad Hajialikhani (Virginia Tech)

6:00-7:00 “A Critique of McGinn’s Aesthetic Theory of Virtue “

Joshua Anderson (Virginia State University)

Commenter: Shaun Respess (Virginia Tech)

7:15 Banquet Dinner: East Room, Drysdale Student Center

8:15-9:15 Banquet Address (Hall Campus Center Ballroom) “Against Ambition” 

Jess Flannigan (University of Richmond)

Saturday, October 29, 2022

Room: Hall Campus Center Ballroom

8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast:

Session Three

9:00-10:00 “An Ethical Way to Make Recall Decisions”

Chris Tweedt (Christopher Newport University)

Commenter: Guus Duindam (University of Michigan)

10:10-11:10 “Naïve Realism and Color Primitivism”

Torrance Fung (Old Dominion University)

Commenter: Ataollah Hashemi (St Louis University)

11:30-12:30 Keynote Lecture: “Responsibilities of Awareness of Suffering”

Andrea Veltman (James Madison University)

12:30-12:45 Resolution of Gratitude and Election of 2023 VPA Secretary

1:00 Post- Conference Conclusion