76th Program

Virginia Philosophical Association Annual Meeting 2015

Friday, October 9th - Saturday, October 10th

(All conference events will be in the University Student Commons, 907 Floyd Ave., on the VCU Monroe Park Campus. This is not the MCV Campus).

Friday, October 9th, 2015 (Commonwealth Ballroom A)

2:15                 Registration

2:45-3:40         Cognitive Penetration and Top-Down Processing in Visual Perception

                        Dimitria Gatzia (University of Akron)

                        Comments by Andrei Marasiou (University of Virginia)

3:45-4:40         A Portable Defense of the Procreation Asymmetry

                        Jake Earl (Georgetown University)

                        Comments by Nicholas Rimell (University of Virginia)

4:40-5:05         Break

5:05-6:00         On the Difficulty of Accounting for Supererogation

                        Nora Grigore (University of Texas at Austin)

                        Comments by Andrew Morgan (University of Virginia)

6:05-7:00         Transparency and the Slippery Slope Argument

                        Jeremy Dawson (Ryerson University)

                        Comments by Derek Lam (University of Virginia)

7:15                 Banquet

8:00-9:00         Banquet Address (Commonwealth Ballroom B)

                        How to Ruin an Otherwise Good Time at the Movies: A Philosopher Thinks about Star Wars

                        Marc Hight (Hampden-Sydney College)

Saturday, October 10th, 2015 (Richmond Salon)

9:00                 Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:30-10:25       Happiness is Not Psychic Affirmation

                        Sean Meseroll (University of Kansas)

                        Comments by Gil Hersch (University of California, San Diego)

10:30-11:25     Religion: For Both Brights and Lights

                        Sheldon Wein (Saint Mary's University)

                        Comments by Rick J. Ray (Northeast State Community College)

11:25-11:40     Break

11:40-12:40     Keynote Lecture

                        Self-Regulating Passions: Hume's Alternative to Practical Reason

                        Elizabeth Radcliffe (College of William and Mary)

12:45-1:00       Resolution of Gratitude and elections