THE METAPHYSICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
72nd Annual Meeting
Constituent of the American Council of Learned Societies
Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
March 24-27, 2022
“METAPHYSICAL TRADITIONS IN DIALOGUE”
THE METAPHYSICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
72nd Annual Meeting
Constituent of the American Council of Learned Societies
Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
March 24-27, 2022
“METAPHYSICAL TRADITIONS IN DIALOGUE”
Thursday, March 24
Registration: 4:00 – 4:30 (in the lobby of the Marquette Raynor Memorial Libraries)
4:30 – 6:30: Society for the Study of Process Philosophies (Raynor Library Conference Center Rooms B and C, all are welcome)
Chair and Commentator: Randall Auxier (Southern Illinois University)
Donald Wayne Viney (Pittsburg State University) “Something Unheard Of: The Unparalleled Legacy of Jules Lequyer”
6:30: Welcoming Reception (Raynor Library Conference Center)
Friday, March 25 Keynote Address (Raynor Library Conference Center Rooms B and C)
Registration: 8:30 – 9:30 (in the lobby of the Marquette Raynor Memorial Libraries)
9:00 – 10:15: James Maffie (University of Maryland) “The Shape of Change: Mexica Metaphysics in the Era of the Conquest”
Dr. Maffie's talk is sponsored by the The Marquette University Center for Race, Ethnic and Indigenous Studies with additional support from the Marquette University Philosophy Department
10:30 – 10:45: Break
10:45 – 12:00: Aristotle Prize Lecture (Raynor Library Conference Center Rooms B and C
Chair and Commentator: Irfan Omar (Marquette University)
Qiu Lin (Duke University) “Wang Daiyu 王岱舆 (1570-1660) on the Non-Ultimate (wuji 无极)
and the Great-Ultimate (taiji 太极): an Islamic Makeover”
12:00 – 2:00 Lunch (on your own) / MSA Executive Council Meeting (Raynor Room 060D)
2:00 - 3:15: Concurrent Sessions
Session 1 (Raynor Conference Room C): Process Philosophy
Chair and Commentator: Fr. James Flaherty, S.J.
Daniel Dombrowski (Seattle University) “Neoclassical Theism as Inherently Dialogical"
Robin Friedman, "Paul Weiss and the Nature of Metaphysical Dialogue”
Session 2 (Raynor Conference Room B): Philosophy East and West
Chair and Commentator: Jeffrey Dirk Wilson (Catholic University)
May Sim (College of the Holy Cross) “Aristotle and Mencius: Resources for Transgenerational Justice”
Richard C. Taylor (Marquette University) “Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’: The Crafting of a New Metaphysics From Arabic Sources”
3:15 – 3:30 Break
3:30 – 4:45: Presidential Address (Raynor Library Conference Center Rooms B and C
Introduction: TBA
Owen Goldin (Marquette University): “Symbolic Classification and the Emergence of a Metaphysics of Causality”
Comment: George R. Lucas, Jr. (Naval Postgraduate School)
5:00 – 6:00
Annual Business Meeting, followed immediately by Past Presidents’ Advisory Board
(Raynor Conference Room C)
Saturday, March 26 [Please note that Saturday conference events are being run by Bella-Rose Kelly (bella-rose.kelly@marquette.edu, Jessica Wolfendale (jessica.wolfendale@marquette.edu), and Michael Olson (Michael.Olson@marquette.edu). Enquiries prior to Saturday concerning that day should be directed to Bella; on Saturday all requests and problems should be directed to Jessica or Michael.]
Please note that Raynor Library will not have doors opened until 8:45
9:00 – 10:30: Concurrent Sessions
Session 1 (Raynor Conference Room C): Agency, East and West
Chair and Commentator: Lisa Landoe Hedrick (University of Chicago)
Robert C. Neville (Boston University): “None, an Easy One, and a Hard One”
Jessica Wahman (Emory University): “Self and Agency: Buddhist Anattā, Dependent Arising, and the Problem of Free Will”
Session 2 (Raynor Conference Room B): First Philosophy, Religion, and Metaphysical Problems
Comment: Philip Sutherland, S.J. (Marquette University)
Lars Enden (Kalamazoo College): “Metaphysics is Not One: Promoting Inter-Metaphysical Dialogue”
Mariane Oliveira (University of São Paulo): “Astronomy and First Philosophy in Aristotle”
(This research was supported by FAPESP – Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Project number (processo número) 2021/01029-9)
10:30 – 10:45: Break
10:45 – 12:15: Concurrent Sessions
Session 1 (Raynor Conference Room C): Buddhism and Metaphysics
Chair and Commentator: Michael Mullooly (University of Wisconsin – Waukesha)
Michael Schon (University of Wisconsin) “Conventionalism of Conventionalism: A Buddhist-Inspired Approach"
Eric Miller (Marquette University) “Japan and the ‘Cult of Deus’: Jesuit-Buddhist Disputations During Japan’s Christian Century (1549-1650)”
Session 2 (Raynor Conference Room B) Philosophical Understanding
Chair and Commentator: Stanley Harrison (Marquette University)
Scott Roniger (Loyola Marymount University) “Forms of Being, Forms of Knowing”
Vincent Colapietro (Pennsylvania State University) “Philosophical Traditions and Intellectual Ruptures: The Exemplarity of John Herman Randall, Jr.”
12:15: Lunch (on your own)
2:00 – 3:30: Concurrent Sessions
Session 1 (Raynor Conference Room C) Dialogue and Interpretation
Chair and Commentator: Michelle Mahoney (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Pol Vandevelde (Marquette University) “The Influence of Plato’s Philebus on Davidson’s and Gadamer’s Metaphysics of Interpretation”
C. Wesley DeMarco (Clark University) “Philosophical Dialogue and Metaphysical Fluency”
Session 2 (Raynor Conference Room B) Causation, Dao, Metaphysics, Antimetaphysics
Chair and Commentator: Dustin Trampe (Marquette University)
Stephen C. Walker (University of Chicago) Causation, determinacy, and dao in Zhuangzi 25”
Justin Remhof (Old Dominion University) “Nietzsche as Metaphysician: A First Metametaphysical Approach”
3:30 – 3:45: Break
3:45 – 5:15: Concurrent Sessions
Session 1 (Raynor Conference Room C) French Phenomenology and Existentialism
Chair and Commentator: Tyler Tritten (Gonzaga University)
Andrew Davis (Belmont University) “Dualism is Dead, Long live Dualism: Merleau-Ponty’s Dialogue with Descartes”
Jonathan Scruggs (Boston College) “The Possibility of Being: Sartre’s Negatités Reconsidered”
Session 2 (Raynor Conference Room B) Unity and Separation
Chair and Commentator: Michael Olson (Marquette University)
Lucas Carroll (Boston College) “Being Without One: Deleuze and the Medievals on the Transcendental Convertibility of Being and Unity”
Bernardo Andrade (Emory University) “Levinas, Plato, and the Metaphysics of Separation”
7: 00 Banquet: Lunda Room, Marquette Alumni Memorial Union
Sunday, March 27
8:50 – 10:30: Concurrent Sessions
Session 1 (Raynor Conference Room C) Engagements with Kant [Note: This session must begin at 8:50]
Chair and Commentator: Yoon Choi (Marquette University)
Mine Sak (Duquesne University “Kant and Deleuze on Synthesis and Freedom”
Session 2 (Raynor Conference Room B) Dialectic and Dialogue [Beginning at 9:00]
Chair and Commentator: Clark Wolf (Marquette University)
Edward Halper (University of Georgia) “The Metaphysics of Dialectic”
Dylan Shaul (University of Toronto) “Hegel’s Reading of Aristotle: The Absolute Idea and Absolute Spirit”
Speakers and Commentators in italics will be presenting remotely.
The conference is made possible by private donations, the Hocking-Cabot Fund for Systematic Philosophy, and support from Marquette University (The Way Klinger College of Arts and Science, the Department of Philosophy, and the Center for Race, Ethnic and Indigenous Studies) .