FPA 2007, Tallahassee
53nd Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association
What's New: as of December 30, 2007
The 53nd annual meeting of the FPA was a terrific meeting thanks to the contributions of so many interesting papers, and to the hard work of our site coordinator, Peter Dalton, and our program coordinator, Ron Hall.
Many thanks to all for a fine meeting.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Except where indicated, all events take place in the HCB building on the campus of FSU in Tallahassee. Directions to the HCB building.
Friday, November 9th: Conference Reception
7:00 PM -10:00 PM Social Hour and Conference Registration
- Breakfast Room, Marriot Residence Inn, 600 West Gaines Street
8:00 PM- 9:00 PM Book Discussion:
- Ron Cooper (CFCC) will present a reading from his novel Hume's Fork, followed by comments by Toby Howe (UWF), and Ronald Hall (Stetson) and a general discussion.
- Florida Room, Marriott Inn
Saturday November 10th
8:45 AM Welcome to FSU
- Continental breakfast will be served for those not staying at the Marriott, where there is a free breakfast for guests.
Saturday: 9:00-9:50 Concurrent Sessions 1
- Room 210 UCB—
Rico Vitz, UNF:
"Doxatic Virtues as Moral Virtues in Hume's Epistemology"
Chair: Chris Zarpentine, FSU - Room 212 UCB—
Elijah Chudnoff, Harvard:
"Cartesian and Leibnizian Rationalism"
Chair: Susan Peppers-Bates, Stetson - Room 213 UCB—
Randolph Clarke, FSU:
"Intrinsic Finks"
Chair: Kirk Ludwig, UF
Saturday: 10:10-11:00 Concurrent Sessions 2
- Room 205—
Reinhold Schlieper, ERAU:
"Tweaking a Moral Hero: Doblmeier vs. Bonhoeffer"
Chair: Stephen Morris, Western Mo. State - Room 210—
Greg Ray, UF:
"Even-Tempered Truth"
Chair: Aron Edidin, New College - Room 212—
Jason Zinser, UNF:
"A Fundamental Flaw in Intelligent Design Theory"
Chair: Robert D'Amico, UF - Room 213—
Michael Williams, USF:
"Against the Nietzschean Immoralist: The Rule of Reason Giving in Constructing Morality"
Chair: Ron Cooper, CFCC
Saturday: 11:20-12:10 Concurrent Sessions 3
- Room 205—
Todd Bates, UCF:
"Saving Scotus' Real Distinction"
Chair: Jae Jerkins, FSU - Room 210—
Sidney Axinn, USF:
"Sacrifice and Value"
Chair: Fred Sale, GCU - Room 212—
Brian Mondy, UM:
"Must We Claim that the World Has Distinguished Structure"
Chair: Mason Cash, UCF - Room 213—
Nicolas Michaud, UNF:
"Moral Luck and the Loss of Ignorance"
Chair: Gene Witmer, UF
Saturday: 12:10- 2:00 Lunch
- & Past Presidents' Luncheon
Saturday: 2:00-2:50 Concurrent Sessions 4
- Room 205—
David McNaron, Nova Southeastern:
"Rebutting Recent Objections to Free Speech"
Chair: Nicholas P. Power, UWF - Room 210—
Risto Hilpinen, UM:
"From Error to Knowledge"
Chair: Peter Dalton, FSU - Room 212—
Chad Hale, USF:
"Doing the Will of Beliefs: A Critical Assessment of William James' Defense of Religious Faith"
Chair: Jason Zinser, UNF - Room 213—
Jamie Watson, FSU:
"Intuition and Judgment: A Dilemma for Strategic Reliablism"
Chair: Marina Oshana, UF
Saturday: 3:10-4:00 Concurrent Sessions 5
- Room 205—
Michael Hurlburt, UM:
"Is it Evil to Enjoy Imaginary Wicked Acts"
Chair: Sidney Axinn, USF - Room 210—
Elizabeth Victor, USF:
"The Leap that Kierkegaard Could have Let Lie"
Chair: Michael Strawser, UCF - Room 212—
Hans Pedersen, USF:
"Being, Seeming and Oedipus"
Chair: Jeffery Hinzmann, USF - Room 213—
Kristjan Laasik, UM:
"The Ambassadors and the Ambulatory View of Knowledge"
Chair: Robert Ennis, Illinois
Saturday: 4:20-5:10 Plenary Sessions 1: Graduate Paper Award
- Room 205—
Emil Badici, UF:
"The Liar Paradox and the Inclosure Schema"
Chair: David McNaughton, FSU
Saturday: 6:30 PM Cash Bar
Saturday: 7:00 PM Annual Banquet & Presidential Address
- "Truth, Tedium, and Tenure" David McNaughton, FSU
Sunday November 11th
8:00 AM Continental Breakfast
- HCB 2nd Floor Lounge Area
9:00-10:00 Business Meeting
- Room 205 HCB
Sunday: 10:15-11:05 Concurrent Sessions 6
- Room 210—
Russell Dancy, FSU:
"A Chat with Plato's Cavemen"
Chair: Charlotte Presser, SFCC - Room 212—
Gene Witmer, UF:
"Realization and the Promise of Explanatory Import"
Chair: Piers Rawlings, FSU - Room 213—
Mason Cash, UCF:
"Nonreductive Naturalism and the Normativity of Meaning"
Chair: Donald Crosby, FSU
Sunday: 11:25-12:15 Concurrent Sessions 7
- Room 210—
Ana-Maria Andrei, UF:
"Myth and Enlightenment in The Dialect of Enlightenment"
Chair: Adam Feltz, FSU - Room 212—
Stephen Morris, Missouri Western State University:
"The Impact of Neuroscience on the Free Will Debate"
Chair: Sally Ferguson, UWF - Room 213—
Darrien Hibbs, Nova Southeaster University:
"John Scottus Eriugena On the Composition of Material Bodies"
Chair: Josh Rust, Stetson
Sunday: 12:15-2:00 Lunch
Sunday: 2:00-2:50 Plenary Session 2 Undergraduate Award
- Room 205—
Jared Warren, University of North Florida:
"Abstracta For Cheap"
Chair: David McNaughton, FSU
Sunday: 3:10-4:00 Concurrent Sessions 8
- Room 210—
Noel Alphonse, UM:
"Inquiry in the Limit: Cursed Worlds, Fallible Knowers and the Subjective Paradox of Epistemic Justification"
Chair: Greg Ray, UF - Room 212—
Anton Tupa, Auburn:
"Boonin's Critique of Marquis' Criterion of a Right to Life"
Chair: Reinhold Schlieper, ERAU - Room 213—
Jon Tresan, UF:
"The Moral Sense of Duty as Exapted Agent-Targeted Feelings"
Chair: Russ Dancy, FSU
Sunday: 4:10-5:00 Concurrent Sessions 9
- Room 210—
Josh Rust, Stetson:
"Are Ethicist Ethical? Empirical Support for Aristotle's Moral Particularism"
Chair: Ian Wasser, Stetson - Room 212—
by C. S. Hudspeth, USF:
"Trustworthiness and Trustingness: Co-Dependent or Just Good Friends"
Chair: Emil Badici, UF - Room 213—
Jeremy Morris, UM:
"Knowing What Someone Else Knows Vs. Knowing That Someone Else Knows"
Chair: David Strand, PJC
- Conference ends at 5:00 pm.
Directions to the HCB Building on the FSU Campus
- Starting from the Marriott Inn:
- Take West Tennessee Street in a westward direction.
- Take a left on to Woodward Street (there are stop lights there, and also a brick FSU sign at the corner)
- Take Woodward Street as far as you can go (which isnt far), and bear right down a driveway.
- Enter the parking lot on your left (the bar will be up; parking is free)
- HCB is the massive brick building across Woodward Street from the parking lot. That parking lot is a rectangle set in an east-west direction, and HCB is east of it. Also, HCB has some new landscaping in front of it.
- When you reach HCB, go to the left (north) side of the building and look for elevators and stairs.
FEE SCHEDULE
- Conference Fee:
- Faculty: $20
- Grad Student: $10
- Undergraduate Student: $5
- Other: $20
- Banquet Fee:
- $27
- FPA Membership:
- Full: $15
- Associate: $10
- Retired Full: $0
Conference Hotel Information
The Marriott Residence Inn Tallahassee has offered a reduced group rate to people attending the FPA meeting November 9-11, 2007. The rate is $109 per night. They can get information about the hotel by going on the internet at residenceinntallahassee.com.
The Marriott Residence Inn offers spacious suite-style rooms, complimentary breakfast and free parking. More hotel information.
TO MAKE A ROOM RESERVATION, PLEASE CALL 850-329-9080. ASK FOR THE FLORIDA PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION GROUP RATE.
[DO NOT CALL THE EMBASSY SUITES 1-800 NUMBER SINCE THEY DO NOT HAVE THE GROUP RATE INFORMATION!]
Deadline for Conference Rate Reservations: October 7, 2007.
Call for Papers
Sorry, the deadline for paper submissions has passed.
Paper submissions are invited for the 53nd annual meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association which will be held in Tallahassee at Florida State University, Nov 9-11, 2007. Program Coordinator: Dr. Ron Hall. Local Organizer, Dr. Peter Dalton.
1. Regular Submissions:
Submission Deadline: * August 15, 2007 *
Papers submitted for inclusion in the regular program should be limited to a reading time of 30 minutes, that is, approximately 12 double-spaced pages. Submission of papers in all areas of philosophy is welcomed. All papers should be prepared for blind refereeing. Please include a cover sheet with:
- Name
- Email address
- Affiliation
- Paper title
The cover sheet should also indicate if the paper is to be considered:
- For publication in The Florida Philosophical Review
- For the graduate student paper award as described below
Paper Length: Presentation time for papers on the regular program will be 45 minutes (30 minutes reading time with 15 minutes discussion), and submitted papers should be correspondingly brief (approx. 12 double-spaced pages).
Electronic submission of papers is requested. Papers in PDF, RTF, Word formats are preferred. Submissions should be sent to . Please indicate Submission in the subject line of email submissions and insert two attachments as follows:
- Attachment 1: the paper (with title please)
- Attachment 2: just the cover sheet.
Please also paste the details from the cover sheet into the body of your email.
Postal paper submissions may be sent in triplicate with cover sheet to: Ronald L. Hall, Department of Philosophy, Unit 8250, Stetson University, DeLand, Florida, 32724
2. Graduate Paper Award Competition:
Submission Deadline: August 15, 2007
Graduate students submitting papers for the regular program may also elect to have their papers considered for the Outstanding Graduate Paper Award, and should so indicate on their cover page. The winning paper will be published in The Florida Philosophical Review and the author receives a monetary award. Only students at Florida colleges are eligible.
3. Undergraduate Paper Awards Competition:
Submission Deadline: September 15, 2007
Undergraduate students may submit papers for special award consideration. Eligible undergraduates should indicate which one of the following award competitions they are submitting for:
- The Gerrit and Edith Schipper Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Philosophy Paper in a Four-Year College or University
- The Outstanding Undergraduate Philosophy Paper in a Two-Year College
Papers may be any length, but 15 double-spaced pages is recommended. The winning papers will be published in The Florida Philosophical Review and the authors will receive a monetary award. Only students at Florida colleges are eligible.
Note that the submission deadline for the undergraduate awards competition is later than the general deadline for paper submissions.
4. Florida Philosophical Review
A selection of the papers from the FPA meeting will be published in the annual conference issue of The Florida Philosophical Review. If you would like your submission to be considered for publication, please follow these additional instructions:
- Indicate your interest in the cover page of your submission,
- Submit your paper to the FPA electronically, and
- Make the file format and content of your submission for the FPA conform to the guidelines of the journal.
All members are encouraged to take this opportunity. The FPR is an anonymously refereed journal indexed by Philosopher's Index and Noesis.
5. Other Program Business:
Members are invited and encouraged to help by lending their expertise in the refereeing of papers. If you are a full member of the FPA and have not already indicated to us your willingness to referee, please email the program coordinator indicating your willingness to serve and AOR (areas of refereeing).
