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