Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World

Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World
at the APA

APA Eastern Division

APA Central Division

APA Pacific Division

December 27-30, 2008
Philadelphia, PA

Session Topic: Relativism

Sunday, December 28, 2008 11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.

Chair: Edward Grippe, (Norwalk Community College)

Speakers:

Michael Krausz [Bryn Mawr College]: "Mapping Relativisms"

David Wong [Duke University]:
"Pluralism and Ambivalence"

Edward Grippe [Norwalk Community College]: "Relativism:
Possibility and Probability in Interpretation"

February 18-20, 2010 Chicago, IL

Session I Topic: Moral Reasoning

Thursday, February 18, 7:15-10:15 p.m.

Chair: David K. Chan (University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point)

Speakers:

Philip Clark (University of Toronto) "Aspects, Guises, Species and Knowing Something to be Good"

Amanda Marshall (Western Michigan University)
"The Particularist Challenge to Norm Expressivism"

Matt Stichter (Washington State University)
"Solving the Dilemma of the Unity of the Virtues"

Melanie Johnson-Moxley (University of Missouri)
"Sometimes, the Way to the Soul is Through the Gut: Confucius, Aristotle and the Role of Empathy in Moral Comprehension"

Session II Topic: War and Killings in War: Are They Necessary?

Friday, February 19, 7:15-10:15 PM

Chair: David K. Chan (University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point)

Speakers:

Cheyney Ryan (University of Oregon)
"A Pacifist Looks at Just War Theory"

Jeff McMahan (Rutgers University)
"Pacifism, Terrorism, and Moral Theory"

Andrew Fiala (California University, Fresno)
"Right to Kill; Wrong to be Killed"

April, 2009 Vancouver, CANADA

Session Topic: Images and Ethics: Film and the Other

Wednesday, April 8, 2009
6:00-9:00 p.m.

Chair: Travis Anderson (Brigham Young University)

Speakers:

Tom Davis (Whitman College)
"Cavell, Levinas, and Gaslight: Seeing Evil"

Travis Anderson (Brigham Young University)
"Tarantino and Nietzsche on the Backstory Ethics of a Reservoir Dog"

Jim Gough (Red Deer College) & Sue Matheson (University College of the North)
"Allie Fox's Challenge to Nietzsche's Overman's Overcoming Bad Conscience"

This site is maintained by Janet Donohoe at the University of West Georgia