THURSDAY, APRIL 9 |
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| THURSDAY MORNING, 8:00 - 10:00 P.M. |
| G1A | Philosophy of Physics Society, Session 1 |
| Chair: | Samuel C. Fletcher (University of Oxford and University of Minnesota) |
| Speakers: | Enrico Cinti (Université de Genève) |
| | Marco Sanchioni (Istituto Universitario Sophia) |
| “Gravity as Thermodynamics” |
| | Aditya Jha (University of Cambridge) |
| “Heat and Work in Open Systems: Weak and Strong Coupling” |
| | Jens Jäger (University of Texas at Austin) |
| “The Gibbs Paradox, Haecceitism, and Context” |
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| G1B | Society of Christian Philosophers |
| Topic: | Christianity and Panpsychism |
| Chair: | Garrett Pendergraft (Pepperdine University) |
| Speakers: | Philip Goff (Durham University) |
| | Joanna Leidenhag (University of Leeds) |
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| G1C | Western Phenomenology Conference |
| Topic: | Critical Phenomenology and the Imaginary |
| Chair: | Shannon Hayes (Vanderbilt University) |
| Speakers: | Riccardo Valenti (Ca’ Foscari University and Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) |
| “Educating the Imaginary: Toward a Generative Practice of Critical Phenomenology” |
| | Dilara Sengul (Stony Brook University) |
| “Muslim Women Behind Veil or Veil Behind Muslim Women: A Phenomenological Analysis of Veiling in Turkey” |
| | Brenda Vega (University of Texas at Dallas) |
| “The Scarring Body: Phenomenologies of Pain and Healing in Chicano/x/Latino/x Performance Art” |
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| THURSDAY MORNING, 10:00 - 3:00 P.M. |
| G2A | Charles S. Peirce Society, Session 1 |
| Chair: | Aaron Bruce Wilson (South Texas College) |
| Speakers: | Scott Metzger (University of Toronto) |
| “Margaret MacDonald’s Contribution to Peirce’s Legacy in Analytic Philosophy: Diagrammatic Iconicity in Peirce and Wittgenstein” |
| | Evelyn Vargas (Universidad Nacional de La Plata) |
| “Peirce’s Non-Standard Conception of Fallacies” |
| | Samuel Bruton (University of Southern Mississippi) |
| “Peirce’s Justification of Induction and Kant’s Practical Postulates” |
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| G2B | Deep South Philosophy and Neuroscience Workgroup |
| Topic: | The Hippocampal Cognitive Map |
| Chair: | Ken Aizawa (Rutgers-Newark) |
| Speakers: | Kathryn McClain (New York University) |
| “Psychological and Behavioral Correlates Across the Longitudinal Axis of the Hippocampal CA1 Subregion” |
| | Ori Hacohen (Independent Scholar) |
| “Structural Similarity Does Not Ground Content” |
| | Edvard Avilles-Meza (Cornell University) |
| “The Icon of Thought Hypothesis: The Preliminary Evidence” |
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| G2C | North American Kant Society, Session 1 |
| Topic: | Kant and Disability |
| Chair: | Michael Bennett McNulty (University of Minnesota) |
| Speakers: | Patrick R. Frierson (Whitman College) |
| “Kant and Disability: Red Herrings, Real Problems, and Relevant Opportunities” |
| | Adam Cureton (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) |
| “Kant on Cognitive Impairment” |
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| G2D | Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience, Session 1 |
| Topic: | Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience Session 1 |
| Chair: | Olga Louchakova-Schwartz (University of California, Davis) |
| Speakers: | Melina Garibovic (North Central College) |
| “Edith Stein on Religious Experience” |
| | Olga Louchakova-Schwartz (University of California, Davis) |
| “Embodied Inwardness as Foundation of Religious Experience” |
| | Rui Ge (Boston College) |
| “Husserl and Kierkegaard on the Phenomenology of Selfhood, Self-Givenness, and Divine-Givenness” |
| | Gigla Gonashvili (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) |
| “Synthesis of Self-Awareness in Embodied Phenomenology” |
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| THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 12:00 - 3:00 P.M. |
| G3A | Charles S. Peirce Society, Session 2 |
| Chair: | Scott Metzger (University of Toronto) |
| Speakers: | Daniel Soucy (Mt. Wachusett Community College) |
| “From Monson, Massachusetts, to Chicago Once Again: This Time, Bringing Cheerful Hope” |
| | Werner Moskopp (Universität Koblenz-Landau) |
| “Peirce’s Triadic Categories as a Methodological Framework for Complex Participatory Research Projects: Integrating Experience, Normative and Descriptive Elements through First-, Second-, and Third-P” |
| | Ken Aizawa (Rutgers-Newark) |
| “Revising Peirce’s Views of the Scientific Use of Abduction” |
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| G3B | International Association for the Philosophy of Sport |
| Topic: | Book Symposium: Francisco Javier Lopez Frias, Performance, Health, and Excellence: An Ethical Examination of Anti-Doping Policies and Practices |
| Chair: | Shawn E. Klein (Arizona State University) |
| Author: | Francisco Javier Lopez Frias (Utah State University) |
| Critics: | Eric Moore (Longwood University) |
| | Jo Morrison (Longwood University) |
| | Angela Schneider (Western University) |
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| G3C | Radical Philosophy Association, Session 1 |
| Topic: | Ethics of Immigration 1 |
| Chair: | José Jorge Mendoza (University of Washington) |
| Speakers: | Julia Pelger (University of Washington) |
| “(E/Im)migrants? How Climate Change Threatens the Maintenance of Distinctions Between Displaced and Non-displaced Individuals and Opens Up Borders” |
| | Tobias Leon Romein (University of Washington) |
| “Moral Sentimentalism and the Undocumented: From Empathy to Amnesty” |
| | Ángel Rafael Sosa Muñiz (University of Texas at El Paso) |
| “The Böckenförde’s Dilemma: An Analysis on the Foundations of the Liberal-Democratic State” |
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| G3D | Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Session 1 |
| Topic: | Comparative Approaches to Chinese Philosophy |
| Chair: | Johnathan Flowers (California State University, Northridge) |
| Speaker: | Season Blake (Occidental College) |
| | Wiebke Deimling (Clark University) |
| “Or ‘Moral Beauty and Deformity in Kant and Zhuangzi’?” |
| Presenters: | May Sim (College of the Holy Cross) |
| “Making Friends with McIntyre and Mencius” |
| | Season Blake (Occidental College) |
| | Wiebke Deimling (Clark University) |
| “Or ‘Moral Beauty and Deformity in Kant and Zhuangzi’?” |
| | Junbo Tao (University of Hong Kong) |
| “Usurper’s Legacy: From Confucian Reflections on Wang Mang’s Usurpation to a Framework for the Coordination, Education, and Assessment of Leadership Candidates” |
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| THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 2:00 - 4:00 P.M. |
| G4A | International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Session 1 |
| Topic: | Daoist Texts and Practices |
| Chair: | Jeffrey W. Dippmann (Central Washington University) |
| Speakers: | Jing Liu (Shandong University) |
| “Against Progress: A Daoist Response to the Climate Crisis” |
| | Jeffrey W. Dippmann (Central Washington University) |
| “And the Debate Goes Ever On: Is the Daodejing a Mystical or Practical Text (Theosophical and Anthroposophic Perspectives)” |
| | Derong Chen (University of Toronto Mississauga) |
| “Beyond Morality: The Philosophical Divide between Inner Nature and External Conduct in Zhuangzi” |
| | John R. Williams (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen) |
| “Philosophical Aspects of Fang Yizhi’s “A Letter from Huìzǐ to Zhuāngzǐ”” |
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| G4B | Radical Philosophy Association, Session 2 |
| Topic: | Ethics of Immigration 2 |
| Chair: | José Jorge Mendoza (University of Washington) |
| Speakers: | Rose E. Sanchez (University of Washington) |
| “Locating Discrimination in Immigration Policy” |
| | Natalie Dorfman (University of Washington) |
| “Migration and Vulnerability: The case for taking domestic and regional status seriously” |
| | Cory Aragon (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona) |
| “The Migration Contract” |
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| G4C | Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy |
| Chair: | Anthony Preus (Binghamton University) |
| Speakers: | Coleen Zoller (Susquehanna University) |
| “Diotima’s Humanistic Lessons about Pregnancy and Philosophy in Plato’s Symposium” |
| | Brian Reese (University of Central Florida) |
| “The Principle of Noncontradiction: What Aristotle Saw and Sextus Missed” |
| | Luke Jennings (University of Oxford) |
| “What Does One Grasp in Experience? Reassessing ἐμπειρία in Posterior Analytics II.19 and Metaphysics A.1” |
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| THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 4:00 - 6:00 P.M. |
| G5A | International Society for Comparative Philosophy toward World Philosophy |
| Topic: | Modes of Existence, Sameness and Difference, Cross-Tradition Engagement: From a Holistic Vantage Point |
| Chair: | Sammuel R. Byer (Fort Hays State University) |
| Speakers: | Tim Connolly (East Stroudsburg University) |
| “Challenges of Emergent Intercultural Philosophy” |
| | Soraj Hongladarom (Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University) |
| “On the Point of the Buddhist “Anicca” of Tri-Laksana: Absolute or Relative Impermanence?” |
| | Bo Mou (San José State University) |
| “The Same Objects, Self-Identities, Existential Bases for Cross-Tradition Engagement” |
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| G5B | International Society for Socratic Studies |
| Topic: | Death and the Afterlife in Plato’s Socrates |
| Speakers: | Nicholas R. Baima (Florida Atlantic University) |
| “Persuasion and Justice in the Afterlife Myths of the Phaedo and the Gorgias” |
| | Tyler Paytas (Australian Catholic University) |
| “Was Socrates Afraid of Annihilation in the Phaedo?” |
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| G5C | Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Session 2 |
| Topic: | Asian and Comparative approaches to Moral Problems |
| Chair: | Johnathan Flowers (California State University, Northridge) |
| Presenters: | Samiksha Goyal (Simon Fraser University) |
| “A Gandhian Response to the Problem of Interest-relativity in Bernard Williams” |
| | Jiayao (Lilith) Gao (Bard College Berlin) |
| “Embracing the Name: Comparative Philosophy of Identity and Ethics in The Dream of the Red Chamber and Neon Genesis Evangelion” |
| | Jinesh R. Sheth (University of Birmingham) |
| “On the Method of Anekāntavāda and its Therapeutic Paradigm” |
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FRIDAY, APRIL 10 |
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| FRIDAY MORNING, 8:00 - 10:00 P.M. |
| G6A | APA Graduate Student Council |
| Topic: | Political Epistemology and Legitimacy |
| Chair: | Will Cailes (University of Arizona) |
| Speakers: | Fabienne Peter (University of Warwick) |
| “Epistemic Encroachment on Political Normativity” |
| | Elizabeth Edenberg (Baruch College) |
| “Misinformation, Disinformation and Political Legitimacy” |
| | Ismail Kurun (Vanderbilt University) |
| “The Epistemology of Liberalization” |
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| G6B | Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children |
| Topic: | Editors Meet Critics: Matthew Lipman and the Educational Role of Philosophy |
| Speakers: | Megan Laverty (Columbia University) |
| “Matthew Lipman’s Life and Legacy: Philosophy as Education” |
| | Maughn Rollins Gregory (Montclair State University) |
| “Matthew Lipman’s Life and Legacy: Philosophy as Education” |
| Critics: | Darren Chetty (University College London) |
| | Alex M. Richardson (DePauw University) |
| | Barbara Stengel (Vanderbilt University) |
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| G6C | North American Kant Society, Session 2 |
| Topic: | Kant versus Maimon on Logic, Mathematics, and Intuition |
| Chair: | Anat Schechtman (University of Texas at Austin) |
| Speakers: | Katherine Dunlop (University of Texas at Austin) |
| “Defending the Syntheticity of Mathematics: Kant’s Reply to Maimon” |
| | Peter Thielke (Pomona College) |
| “Kant and Maimon on the Content of Intuition” |
| | Timothy Franz (John Jay College of Criminal Justice) |
| “Kant and Maimon on the Role of the Science of Logic in the Critical Philosophy” |
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| G6D | Philosophy of Physics Society, Session 2 |
| Chair: | Samuel C. Fletcher (University of Oxford and University of Minnesota) |
| Speakers: | Justin Clarke-Doane (Columbia University) |
| “Logical Dependence of Physical Determinism on Set-theoretic Metatheory” |
| | Doreen Fraser (University of Waterloo) |
| | Maria Eftychia Papageorgiou (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) |
| “No Superluminal Causal Influence in QFT with a Local Measurement Theory” |
| | Henrique Gomes (University of Oxford) |
| “Particles Without Symmetry” |
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| FRIDAY MORNING, 10:00 - 3:00 P.M. |
| G7A | Association of Chinese Philosophers in America, Session 1 |
| Topic: | Environment and Technology |
| Speakers: | Helen Han Wei Luo (Columbia University) |
| “Culture and Character in Confucianism” |
| | Wenyang Gao (Brown University) |
| “Ren min ai wu仁民爱物: A Mencian Environmental Virtue Ethics” |
| | Pei Wang (University of Hong Kong) |
| “Sex Robots as Perfect Confucian Wives? Which Confucianism? Whose Fantasy?” |
| | Season Blake (Occidental College) |
| “The Mohist Dialectics on Communication and Reference” |
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| G7B | Critical Genealogies Workshop, Session 1 |
| Topic: | Marx and Foucault |
| Chair: | Colin Koopman (University of Oregon) |
| Speakers: | Alberto Toscano (Simon Fraser University) |
| “Surplus Powers: Foucault, Marx and the Theory of Fascism” |
| | Johanna Oksala (Loyola University Chicago) |
| “The Future of Left Thought: Marx and Foucault on Power” |
| | Gonzalo Bustamante-Moya (University of Oregon) |
| “Toward an Ontology of Our Capitalist Selves” |
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| G7C | Society for the History of Political Philosophy |
| Topic: | Philosophy and Poetry |
| Chair: | Alexander Duff (University of Texas at Austin) |
| Speakers: | Alex Montag (Tulane University) |
| “Language and Philosophy in Plato’s Cratylus” |
| | Leo Trotz-Liboff (Universität Bonn) |
| “Lucretius and the Question Concerning a Thing” |
| | David Alejandro Hernandez (University of Chicago) |
| “Poets and Man: Philosophy and the Need for ‘the Ancient Quarrel’” |
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| G7D | Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience, Session 2 |
| Topic: | Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience Session 2 |
| Chair: | Olga Louchakova-Schwartz (University of California, Davis) |
| Speakers: | Patrick Fahey (Boston College) |
| “Phenomenology, Mindfulness, and Theravāda Buddhism: A New Approach” |
| | Antonino Drago (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) |
| “Prayers as Self-Consciousness in Lanza Del Vasto” |
| | Julia Yusupova (California Institute of Integral Studies) |
| “Precognition and Synchronicity through the Lens of Husserlian Transcendental Phenomenology” |
| | M. Kemal Isik (Sakarya Üniversitesi) |
| “The Grammar of Possession: Rhythm, Revelation, and Eidetic Variation in Apollonian Practice” |
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| FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 12:00 - 3:00 P.M. |
| G8A | Association of Chinese Philosophers in America, Session 2 |
| Topic: | Political and Moral Philosophy |
| Speakers: | May Sim (College of the Holy Cross) |
| “MacIntyre and Mencius: Resources for Human Rights” |
| | Junbo Tao (University of Hong Kong) |
| “Symbolic vs. Substantive: Rethinking the Tension Between Political Pragmatism and Moral Supremacism in the Long Controversy over Rang since Yang Zhu’s Reflection on Boyi’s Legend” |
| | Xing Hao Wang (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) |
| “Towards Mencian Constructivism: Or, Why Everybody Hates Gaozi” |
| | Yuhan Liang (Wuhan University) |
| “Unequal Emotional Labor in Self-Presentation—A Confucian Approach” |
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| G8B | Center for New Narratives in Philosophy |
| Topic: | Mary Shepherd: New Resources and New Questions |
| Chair: | Margaret Atherton (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) |
| Speakers: | Don Garrett (New York University) |
| “An Essay upon the Relation of Cause and Effect” |
| | Keota Fields (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth) |
| “Causation, Mind, and Metaphysics: Essays on Mary Shepherd” |
| | Antonia LoLordo (University of Virginia) |
| “Essays on the Perception of an External Universe” |
| Commentator: | Maité Cruz (Union College) |
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| G8C | Critical Genealogies Workshop, Session 2 |
| Topic: | Functional Analysis in Genealogy |
| Chair: | Colin Koopman (University of Oregon) |
| Speakers: | Paul Showler (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology) |
| “From Pragmatic Maxim to Functional Genealogy” |
| | Anthony Garruzzo (Columbia University) |
| “Power, Genealogy, and Emergent Functionality” |
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| G8D | Heidegger Circle |
| Moderator: | John M. Rose (Goucher College) |
| Speakers: | Matteo Valdarchi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana) |
| “From Subjectivity to Subjectness: Heidegger’s Ontological Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology” |
| | David Batho (Red Rocks Community College) |
| “Heidegger’s Concept of Death” |
| | Matthew Kwak (University of Kentucky) |
| “The Place of Transcendental Philosophy in Heidegger’s Later Thought” |
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| FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 2:00 - 4:00 P.M. |
| G9A | Concerned Philosophers for Peace |
| Topic: | Democracy at the Crossroads |
| Chair: | John Park (California State University, Sacramento) |
| Speakers: | Colin Lewis (University of Colorado Colorado Springs) |
| “Moral Hegemony and Modern Democracy: Xunzi’s “Sage-Lite” as Civic Guide” |
| | Fuat Gürsözlü (Loyola University Maryland) |
| “Why Agonism Matters?” |
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| G9B | North American Society for Social Philosophy, Session 1 |
| Topic: | Who Lives, Who Learns, Who Dies: Power, Personhood, and the Shape of the Future |
| Chair: | Christopher M. Innes (Boise State University) |
| Speakers: | Charels Freiberg (University of Central Florida) |
| “AI Education is a Social Responsibility” |
| | Heng Ying (University of Hong Kong) |
| “Attentional Biases and Social Movements for Justice” |
| | Lacey J. Davidson (University of Indianapolis) |
| “The Prevention of Being Born: Harrisian Necro-Being and Reproductive Justice” |
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| G9C | Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy |
| Topic: | Morphology as a Philosophical Method |
| Speakers: | Rojin Mazouji (University of California, Riverside) |
| “Tracing Goethe’s Morphological Method in Schelling and Hegel” |
| | Erich Reck (University of California, Riverside) |
| “Wittgenstein, Goethe’s Morphology, and Philosophical Method” |
| | Maxine McCuller (University of California, Riverside) |
| “Wittgenstein’s Grammatical Morphology of Aspects” |
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| G9D | Society for Women in Philosophy |
| Chair: | Jen Markewych (California State University, Los Angeles) |
| Speakers: | Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco (Grand Valley State University) |
| “‘Whatever You Want’: The Moral Harms of People Pleasing” |
| | Valerie Entus (University of California, Davis) |
| “The Necessity of Positive Autonomy in Transgender Health Care” |
| Commentator: | Dana S. Belu (California State University, Dominguez Hills) |
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| FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 4:00 - 6:00 P.M. |
| G10A | International Association for Philosophy of Meaning in Life |
| Topic: | Meaning in Life |
| Chair: | Kiki Berk (Southern New Hampshire University) |
| Speakers: | Masahiro Morioka (Waseda University) |
| “A Phenomenological Approach to Meaning in Life” |
| | Joshua Glasgow (Sonoma State University) |
| “Diachronic Value and Temporal Possibilities” |
| | Mirela Oliva (University of St. Thomas Houston) |
| “Meaning and Value” |
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| G10B | International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Session 2 |
| Topic: | How Missionary-Scholars’ Translations and Interpretations of Ruist Canonical Texts Dealt with the Philosophical Legacy of Zhū Xī 朱熹(1130-1200) |
| Chair: | Lauren F. Pfister (Hong Kong Baptist University) |
| Speakers: | Pedro R. Cabral (Sun Yat-sen University) |
| “Joaquim Guerra’s (1908-1993) Critique of Zhū Xī as an Atheist and Materialist: Guerra’s Portuguese Interpretations of The Four Books and a Response to Pfister’s Account of Guerra’s Critique” |
| | Thierry Meynard (Sun Yat-sen University) |
| “Supporting Chinese Ancestral Rites through Zhū Xī: Discussion of the Jesuit François Noël’s Second Treatise in Philosophia sinica (1711)” |
| | Lauren F. Pfister (Hong Kong Baptist University) |
| “The Unavoidable Necessity and Qualitative Impact of Dealing with Zhū Xī’s Philosophical Heritage through The Four Books: James Legge (1815-1897), Seraphin Couvreur (1835-1919), and Richard Wilhelm” |
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| G10C | North American Society for Social Philosophy, Session 2 |
| Topic: | Looking Forward: Health, Freedom, and the Ethics of Intergenerational Justice |
| Chair: | Chong Choe-Smith (California State University, Sacramento) |
| Speakers: | Elizabeth Lanphier (University of Cincinnati) |
| ““Healthy” Children: A Concept of “Health” & Future Healthcare Policy Setting” |
| | Taylor Matalon (University of Rochester) |
| “Generational Replacement and the Axiology of Death” |
| | Jim Buhler (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) |
| “How Far Do Our Duties to Future Generations Extend? Full vs. Bounded Longtermism” |
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| G10D | Society for the Study of Philosophy and the Martial Arts |
| Chair: | Joseph J. Lynch (California Polytechnic State University) |
| Speakers: | Allan Bäck (Kutztown University of Pennsylvania) |
| “Gandhi’s Conception of Nonviolence” |
| | Kevin Houser (California Polytechnic State University) |
| “Musashi on Tactical Empathy” |
| | Steven Geisz (University of Tampa) |
| “Seeing-as, Symbols, and Patterns Made of Qi: Cognitively Valuable Pattern-Seeking in Mindful Movement Practices” |
| | Judy D. Saltzman-Saveker (California Polytechnic State University) |
| “The Spiritual Warrior” |
| Commentator: | Joseph J. Lynch (California Polytechnic State University) |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 11 |
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| SATURDAY MORNING, 8:00 - 10:00 P.M. |
| G11A | International Association of Japanese Philosophy |
| Topic: | Japanese Philosophy |
| Chair: | Kevin Curtis Taylor (University of Memphis) |
| Speakers: | Augustin Berque (École des hautes études en sciences sociales) |
| “Both Place and Time of Some Event: The Contingency (baaisei 場合性) of the Japanese ba 場” |
| | Michael Cevering (Saint Louis University) |
| “How Would Dōgen Respond to Three Recent Critiques of Zen Buddhist Ethics?” |
| | Johnathan Flowers (California State University, Northridge) |
| “Kata and American Pragmatism” |
| | Jay McKinney (Carleton College) |
| “Kyudo and Embodied Cognition” |
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| G11B | Philosophers for Sustainability, Session 1 |
| Topic: | Philosophers in the Field: Philosophers in Public Policy/Public Institutions |
| Chair: | Kate Brelje (St. Bonaventure University) |
| Speakers: | Bob Fischer (Texas State University) |
| | Yogi Hale Hendlin (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam) |
| | Kian Mintz-Woo (University College, Cork) |
| | Simona Capisani (Durham University) |
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| G11C | Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy |
| Topic: | American Philosophy Engaging with Non-Western Traditions |
| Chair: | John B. Min (College of Southern Nevada) |
| Speakers: | Dan Campana (University of La Verne) |
| “Emerson’s American Religion” |
| | Miguel Gualdrón Ramírez (University of Oregon) |
| | Sanjula Rajat (University of Oregon) |
| “Is There an Outside of Modernity’s Freedom? Thinking ‘Freedom’ Through Four Strands of Decolonial Thought from the Americas” |
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| SATURDAY MORNING, 10:00 - 3:00 P.M. |
| G12A | International Association for the Philosophy of Humor, Session 1 |
| Topic: | Book Symposium: Tristan Burt, The Critique of Representation and the Semiotics of the Real |
| Chair: | Lydia Amir (Tufts University) |
| Author: | Tristan Burt (University of Sydney) |
| Critics: | John Marmysz (College of Marin) |
| | James Tartaglia (Slovenská akadémia vied) |
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| G12B | Philosophers for Sustainability, Session 2 |
| Topic: | International Society for Environmental Ethics Session: Climate Philosophy after 1.5 Degrees C |
| Chair: | Simona Capisani (Durham University) |
| Speakers: | Shawn Simpson (North-West University) |
| “Life Beyond 1.5°C: Revolution or Resignation?” |
| | Kyle Ferguson (Hunter College) |
| “The Unavoidability of Adaption in a Post-1.5°C World” |
| | Daniele Fulvi (Western Sydney University) |
| “Towards an Ethics of Responsible Risk: Bioengineering and the Challenge to Environmental Ethics” |
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| G12C | Philosophy of Time Society |
| Speakers: | Samuel C. Fletcher (University of Oxford and University of Minnesota) |
| “Spare the Rod: Relativity as Pure Chronometry” |
| | Rachel Russell (University College Dublin) |
| “Time from Within: A Neopragmatic Complaint” |
| | Asya Ciftci (McGill University) |
| “When Nothing Ticked: On Physical Time in the Early Universe” |
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| G12D | Society for Mexican-American Philosophy, Session 1 |
| Topic: | Topics in Mexican American Philosophy 2 |
| Chair: | Rocio Mercedes Alvarez (California State University Stanislaus) |
| Speakers: | Ivory Day (Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo) |
| “Benoist’s Contextual Realism and Portilla’s Descriptive Methodology as Applied to Mexican Linguistic Practices” |
| | M. Polo Camacho (Independent Scholar) |
| “Beyond Principlism: Lessons from Mexican Indigenous Philosophy for Clinical Ethics” |
| | Alejandro Santana (University of Portland) |
| “Danza Azteca and Embodied Metaphysics” |
| | Osiris González Romero (Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo) |
| “Native American Philosophies in the History of Ideas in Mexico 1945-2025 (Nahua, Maya and Zapotec)” |
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| SATURDAY AFTERNOON, 12:00 - 3:00 P.M. |
| G13A | Philosophers for Sustainability, Session 3 |
| Topic: | Teaching on Climate and the Environment: Challenges and Opportunities |
| Chair: | Simona Capisani (Durham University) |
| Speakers: | Nora Boyd (Siena University) |
| “How to Host a Creature Council” |
| | Roberta L. Millstein (University of California, Davis) |
| “Teaching the Land is Our Community” |
| | Anna Peterson (University of Florida) |
| “The Challenges and Urgency of Teaching about Climate Change in Florida” |
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| G13B | Public Philosophy Network, Session 1 |
| Topic: | Transformative Philosophy |
| Chair: | Jeanne Proust (University of California, Santa Cruz) |
| Speakers: | Lydia Amir (Tufts University) |
| | Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College) |
| | Louis Marinoff (City College of New York) |
| | David Bartosch (Beijing Normal University) |
| | Enoch Lambert (Tufts University) |
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| G13C | Society for Mexican-American Philosophy, Session 2 |
| Topic: | Topics in Mexican American Philosophy 1 |
| Chair: | Alejandro Santana (University of Portland) |
| Speakers: | Aubrial Harrington (Arizona State University) |
| “Feminist Political Economy and Undocumented Latina Migration” |
| | Stephanie Alvarez (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley) |
| | Cynthia Paccacerqua (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley) |
| “From Mestiza Consciousness to Conocimiento: The Theoretical Evolution of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Chicana Borderlands” |
| | Allyson Duarte (Texas A&M University) |
| “Luis Villoro’s Plural State, Plurality of Cultures” |
| | Ashli Anda (California Lutheran University) |
| “Teaching Latin American Philosophy At A Hispanic Serving Institution” |
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| SATURDAY AFTERNOON, 2:00 - 4:00 P.M. |
| G14A | Philosophers for Sustainability, Session 4 |
| Topic: | Annie Stilz on Climate Change Governance |
| Chair: | Britta Clark (Harvard University) |
| Speaker: | Annie Stilz (University of California, Berkeley) |
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| G14B | Public Philosophy Network, Session 2 |
| Topic: | Teaching Ethics in Public |
| Chair: | Jeanne Proust (University of California, Santa Cruz) |
| Panelists: | Eugene Chislenko (Temple University) |
| | Eli Yetter-Bowman (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
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| G14C | Society for German Idealism and Romanticism |
| Topic: | Philosophy and Literature |
| Chair: | Gerad Gentry (Baylor University) |
| Speaker: | Owen Ware (University of Toronto) |
| “Return of the Gods: Mythology in Romantic Philosophy and Literature” |
| Critics: | Laure Cahen-Maurel (Universität Bonn) |
| | Richard Eldridge (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) |
| | Espen Hammer (Temple University) |
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| SATURDAY AFTERNOON, 4:00 - 6:00 P.M. |
| G15A | International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy |
| Topic: | Cross-Tradition Engaging Inquiries into Some Jointly Concerned Issues in Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, and Philosophy of Language |
| Chair: | Xiaojun Ding (Xi’an Jiaotong University) |
| Speakers: | Soo Lam Wong (Singapore University of Social Sciences) |
| “A Cross-tradition Engaging Inquiry into Fang Zhu’s Shen-Mie-Lun () and Contemporary Physicism” |
| | Hongyin Zhou (Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts) |
| “A Reflection on Aboutness of Chinese Artistic Symbols in View of Husserl and Searle on Objects of Intentionality” |
| | Bo Mou (San José State University) |
| “Gongsun Long’s Jian-Bai-Lun (), Objects of Thinking and Reference, a Collective-Immanent Realist Account” |
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| G15B | North American Korean Philosophy Association |
| Topic: | New Work in Early Korean Buddhism and Daoism |
| Chair: | David H. Kim (University of San Francisco) |
| Speakers: | Will Gilbert (Sogang University) |
| “Cosmogony and Korean Neo-Daoism in the Writings of Yi Gyubo” |
| | Yoon Kyung Cho (Gyeongguk National University) |
| “Hyegyun’s Dialectics of Sotong (疏通): From Gap (疏) to Universality (通) in Early Korean Philosophy” |
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| G15C | Philosophers for Sustainability, Session 5 |
| Topic: | Environmental Aesthetics in Changing Climates |
| Chair: | Britta Clark (Harvard University) |
| Speakers: | Robert Fudge (Weber State University) |
| “Environmental Degradation and the Assault on the Dignified Sublime” |
| | Ariane Nomikos (West Virginia University) |
| “Everyday Aesthetics for Sustainability” |
| | Cheng Xiangzhan (Sun Yat-sen University) |
| “The Model of “what–how–why–how” in Chinese Environmental Aesthetics” |
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| G15D | Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love |
| Topic: | Book Symposium: Larry Herzberg, The Moral Psychology of Sexual Passion |
| Chair: | Andrea Warmack (Ursinus College) |
| Speakers: | Raja Halwani (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) |
| | Arina Pismenny (University of Nevada, Reno) |
| | Larry A. Herzberg (University of Wisconsin Oshkosh) |
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SUNDAY, APRIL 12 |
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| SUNDAY MORNING, 8:00 - 10:00 P.M. |
| G16A | North American Neo-Kantian Society |
| Topic: | Mathematics in Neo-Kantianism and Early Analytic Philosophy |
| Chair: | Erich Reck (University of California, Riverside) |
| Speakers: | Georg Schiemer (Universität Wien) |
| “Cassirer on Ideal Elements in Mathematics” |
| | Luca Oliva (University of Houston) |
| “Fregean Elements in Rickert’s Philosophy of Mathematics” |
| | Scott Edgar (Saint Mary’s University) |
| “What’s Really at Stake in Bertrand Russell’s Criticism of Hermann Cohen’s Concept of Infinitesimals?” |
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| G16B | Philosophy, Politics and Economics Society, Session 1 |
| Topic: | Navigating the Social Contract: Structure, Culture, and Identity |
| Speakers: | Frank Hindriks (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) |
| “Justice and the Open Society: Beyond the Basic Structure” |
| | Martijn van Zomeren (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) |
| “Social Justice and the Social Contract: Insights from Social Psychology” |
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| SUNDAY MORNING, 10:00 - 3:00 P.M. |
| G17A | International Association for the Philosophy of Humor, Session 2 |
| Topic: | Book Symposium: John Charles Simon and Jennalee Donian, Understanding Laughter and Humor: Why We Laugh, Why We Don’t, and Why it Matters |
| Chair: | Lydia Amir (Tufts University) |
| Authors: | Jennalee Donian (Nelson Mandela University) |
| | John Charles Simon (Independent Scholar) |
| Critics: | Steven Gimbel (Gettysburg College) |
| | Thomas Wilk (Widener University) |
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| G17B | Philosophy, Politics and Economics Society, Session 2 |
| Topic: | Interdisciplinary Normative Political Economy |
| Moderator: | Andy Huynh (University of Oklahoma) |
| Speakers: | Edward Sankowski (University of Oklahoma) |
| “Neo-Liberalism and State Capitalism” |
| | Betty Harris (University of Oklahoma) |
| “Some Problems about Political Economy and Academic Freedom” |
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| G17C | Society for the Philosophy of Creativity |
| Chair: | Olav Bryant Smith (California State University, Chico) |
| Speakers: | Albert R. Spencer (Portland State University) |
| “Role-Playing Games: Art, Inquiry, and Ritual” |
| | Samuel Loncar (Boston College) |
| “The Beginning of Humanity: Philosophy, Self-Creation, and The Republic of Existence” |
| | Yuan Dong (Duke University) |
| “When Player Creativity and Authorship Trumps Prescribed Agency” |
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| SUNDAY AFTERNOON, 12:00 - 3:00 P.M. |
| G18A | North American Nietzsche Society, Session 1 |
| Topic: | Nietzsche on Love and Asceticism |
| Speakers: | Melanie Shepherd (Misericordia University) |
| “Meanings of Love in Nietzsche” |
| | Joel Van Fossen (Hosei University) |
| “Nietzsche on Eros” |
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| G18B | Personalist Discussion Group |
| Chair: | Olav Bryant Smith (California State University, Chico) |
| Speakers: | Illya Davis (Morehouse College) |
| “A Fanonian Person” |
| | James McLachlan (Western Carolina University) |
| “Bergson’s Personalism in from his Gifford Lectures on the Person to The Two Sources of Morality and Religion” |
| | Ruel Mannette (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) |
| “Evaluating Simone Weil’s Critique of Personalism in View of a Larger Movement” |
| | James Beauregaard (Saint Anselm College) |
| “Philosophical Theology from an Integral Personalist Perspective” |
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| SUNDAY AFTERNOON, 2:00 - 4:00 P.M. |
| G19A | North American Nietzsche Society, Session 2 |
| Topic: | Nietzsche on Love and Asceticism (Part 2) |
| Speaker: | Samuel Filby (Northwestern University) |
| “The New Ascetic Ideal” |
| Commentator: | Zoe Anthony (University of Tampa) |
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| G19B | Society for Philosophy and Disability |
| Topic: | The Ethics of Supported Decision-Making |
| Chair: | Eva Feder Kittay (Stony Brook University) |
| Speakers: | Laura Guidry-Grimes (Case Western Reserve University) |
| “Epistemic Preconditions and Clinical Realities for Supported Decision-Making” |
| | Dana Howard (Ohio State University) |
| “Supported Decision-Making Under Uncertainty” |
| | Leslie Pickering Francis (University of Utah) |
| “Supported Decisions as the Person’s Own?” |
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| G19C | Society for Philosophy of Emotion, Session 1 |
| Topic: | Book Symposium: Amandine Catala, The Dynamics of Epistemic Injustice |
| Chair: | Sarah Arnaud (Cégep Édouard-Montpetit) |
| Author: | Amandine Catala (Université du Québec à Montréal) |
| Commentators: | Alice Monypenny (University of Nottingham) |
| | Lubomira Radoilska (University of Kent) |
| | Caleb Ward (Universität Hamburg) |
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| G19D | Society for the Study of Process Philosophies |
| Chair: | Olav Bryant Smith (California State University, Chico) |
| Speakers: | Myron Jackson (Western Carolina University) |
| “Entertainment as Creative Advance in Whitehead’s Cosmology of Play” |
| | Aliman Sears (Chaminade University) |
| “Process, Nontheism, and Today's Meaning Crisis” |
| | George Lucas (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) |
| “Rethinking Whitehead After a Century” |
| | Brian G. Henning (Gonzaga University) |
| “The Philosophy of Organism and the Metaphysical Foundations of Environmental Ethics” |
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| SUNDAY AFTERNOON, 4:00 - 6:00 P.M. |
| G20A | Society for Philosophy of Emotion, Session 2 |
| Topic: | Book Symposium: Helen De Cruz, Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think |
| Chair: | Alexus McLeod (Indiana University Bloomington) |
| Commentators: | Natalja Deng (Yonsei University) |
| | Joerg Fingerhut (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) |
| | Emma Otterski (Trinity College Dublin) |
| | Jodie Russell (University of Birmingham) |
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