FPA 2008 Daytona Beach

FPA 2008, Daytona Beach

54th Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association

CONFERENCE TALKS & PROGRAM

Below is a list of talks given at the conference. Also available here is a pdf copy of the printed program of the conference.

Andrew Aberdein, FIT: Mathematical Luck.
Marshall Abrams, Birmingham: Toward a Mechanistic Interpretation of Probability.
Nathan Andersen, Eckerd: Exemplars in Environmental Ethics.
Ana Maria Andrei, UF: A Refutation of Scott Sturgeon's Epistemic View of the Explanatory Gap.
Sean Armil, University of Florida: How to Motivate the Maxim that 'Ought' Implies 'Can' to Defend the Principle of Alternate Possibilities.
Sidney Axinn, USF: Where Kant Lost his Nerve.
Emil Badici, LSU: Non-cognitivism and deflationary deflationism.
Steven Burgess, USF: Death as Pure Possibility in Being and Time.
Ben Burgis, Miami: Negation, Complementation and Explosion.
Elijah Chudnoff, University of Miami: Intellectual Gestalts.
Daniel L Cohen, Miami: Love, Friendship, Harmony: A Reply to the 'Moral Schizophrenia' Argument Against Modern Ethical Theories.
C. W. Dawson, Jr., Cookman: An Examination of Race as a Social Construct with Objective Status.
Erich Freiberger, JAXU: Sartre and Lacan on the Look: From the Shattered Totality to the Shattering of Consciousness.
Catherine M. Galko, Georgetown: A Defense of Rawls' Conception of Political Identity.
Ronald L Hall, Stetson: On Getting Over Getting Over the Rainbow.
Scott Kimbrough, JAXU: Experimental Philosophy and the Compatibilism Debate.
David McNaughton, FSU: Is unconditional forgiveness morally defective?.
Michele C Merritt, USF: Reconstruction at the Intersextion: Beyond Heteronormativity, Power, and Postmodernity.
Nicolas Michaud, UNF: Moods and Emotion as Expressed and Caused by Music.
Brian J Mondy, Miami: Naturalism and Ameliorative Epistemology.
Jeremy Morris, Ohio: Non-Existence, Reference Failure, and Non-Self-Identity.
Lorraine Ogan, Pensacola Junior College: On Visual Argumentation.
Ronald Planer, Rutgers University: Can Type-Physicalism Overcome Cartesian Intuitions? .
Alan Pratt, Embry-Riddle: Nihilism, Noble Lies, and the Danger of Philosophy.
Greg Ray, UF: Pegasus Does Not Exist (Finally).
Joshua Rust, Stetson: John Searle's Relational Definition of Mind.
Rico Vitz, UNF: Lies, Captivating Lies, and Religious Belief: Hume on the Learned Elite and the 'Christian Superstition'.
Jamie Carlin Watson, FSU: A Priori Justification and Testimony.
Gene Witmer, UF: Semantic Rationalism: A Brief Exposition and Defense.

Conference Hotel Information

The Plaza Ocean Club hotel is offering a reduced group rate to people attending the FPA meeting. The rate is $109 per night. All conference talks will take place at this hotel.

The Plaza Ocean Club is a full service, beachfront hotel with heated, oceanfront pool. More hotel information.

TO MAKE A ROOM RESERVATION, PLEASE CALL 1(800) 806-3859. ASK FOR THE FLORIDA PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION GROUP RATE.

Fee Schedule

Conference Fee:
- Faculty: $25
- Grad Student: $10
- Undergraduate Student: $5
- Other: $25
Banquet Fee:
- $25
FPA Membership:
- Full: $15
- Associate: $10
- Retired Full: $0

How to Get There

Travel from the airport:
Florida Cab (386-254-3400) will provide round-trip transportation with a minimum of two persons each trip for $15.00 each. Mike Sinninger (owner) offers to have drivers pick up all arrivals at the escalator descending from the gate area.

Google map of the hotel location.

Driving directions to Plaza Ocean Club, 640 North Atlantic Avenue, Daytona Beach:
I-95, exit at Daytona Beach, continue straight to International Speedway (I-92), then East down International, over the International Bridge, across the Halifax River. Continue to Atlantic Avenue, then make a left at the light. As you are traveling north, the Plaza Ocean Club is on the right hand side.

Park in either the Front or North Lot of the hotel. Obtain a parking pass at check in.

CAUTION: Don't confuse 'North Atlantic' in Ormond Beach with 'North Atlantic' in Daytona Beach. If you know Daytona already, you might look for Seabreeze Blvd.; this street ends into Atlantic Avenue across from (or, better, kitty-cornered from) the hotel.

Call for Papers

Sorry, the deadline for paper submissions has passed.

Paper submissions are invited for the 54nd annual meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association which will be held in Daytona Beach, November 14-16, 2008. Program Coordinator: Dr. Marina Oshana. Local Organizer, Dr. Reinhold Schlieper.

1. Regular Submissions:

Submission Deadline: * August 15, 2008 *

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 as described below
• 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 include 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: Prof. Marina Oshana, Department of Philosophy, PO Box 118545, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32611-8545

2. Graduate Paper Award Competition:

Submission Deadline: August 15, 2008

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, 2008

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.