Friday, November 9:

SESSION I:  8:30-10:00

A.  Social Philosophy: Chair: Megan Mustain, St. Mary’s University
“Cosmopolitanism and Identity:  How to Speak to Others as “Rooted” Cosmopolitans,” Joseph Palencik, University at Buffalo
Commentator:  John Harris, Texas Christian University

“Liberty and the American Patent System,” John Terisse, Florida International University
Commentator: Hanoch Scheinman, Rice University

B. Evolution and Biology: Chair: Michael Patton, University of Montevallo
“From Darwin to Hitler?  Evolutionary Ethics and Respect for human Life,” Doren Recker, Oklahoma State University
Commentator: Scott Bartlett, Southern Methodist University

“Epistemic and Rhetorical Remedies for the Evolution/Intelligent Design Predicament,” David Hildebrand, University of Colorado at Denver
Commentator: Roger Sansom, Texas A&M University


SESSION II:  10:30-12:15

A. Epistemology and Metaphysics: Chair:  Peter Hutcheson, Texas State University
“Reliability and Warranted Assertion,” E.J. Coffman, University of Tennessee
Commentator: Jon Kvanvig, Baylor University

“Making Co-instantiation Primitive:  Consequences for the Bundle Theory’s Commitment to the Identity of Indiscernibles,” Dan Johnson, Baylor University
Commentator: Michael, Almeida, University of Texas at San Antonio

B.  Ethics and Practice: Chair:  Archibald Laud-Hammond, Texas A&M International University
“The Causal Impotency Objection to Vegetarianism,” Aaron Champene, University of Arkansas, and Don Merrill, Arkansas State University
Commentator:  Alastair Norcross, University of Colorado

“Deontic Reasons and Distant Need,” Sarah Clark Miller, University of Memphis
Commentator:  Caleb Clanton, Pepperdine University


SESSION III:  1:30-3:15

A. Ethics I: Chair:  Mark Gilbertson, Texas Lutheran University
“Moral Realism and Ways of Life,” Matthew Pianalto, University of Arkansas
Commentator:  Darin Davis, Baylor University

“Are Intuitions of Supererogation Redoubtable?” Alexander Jech, University of Notre Dame
Commentator:  Russ Jacobs, Washburn University


B. Continental Philosophy I: Chair:  Jeffrey Gordon, Texas State University
“Heidegger’s Political Philosophy:  The Distinction between Nationality and Patriotic Orientation,” Julie Kuhlken, Concordia University
Commentator:  Mark Painter, Misercordia University

“Rational Agreement and the Validity of Moral Norms:  Criticisms of Habermas’s Discourse Ethics,” Chris Calvert-Minor, Syracuse University
Commentator:  Anthony Thomas, University of Missouri


SESSION IV:  3:45-5:30

A. Philosophy of Religion: Chair:  Keith Lovin, Maryville University  
“The Problem of Free Will in Heaven,” Mark Brown, University of Wisconsin Colleges
Commentator:  Deborah Heikes, University of Alabama at Huntsville

“Karma and Evil:  A Critical Evaluation,” Gene James, University of Memphis
Commentator:  Augusta Gooch, University of Alabama at Huntsville

B. Continental Philosophy II: Chair:  Scott Bartlett, Southern Methodist University
“Can Truth Be an Event and Still Be Truth?  On Gadamer,” Peter Fristedt, University at Stony Brook
Commentator:  Eric Roark, University of Missouri

“Understanding the Worldly and Human Significance of Art through Arendt and Gadamer,” James Couch, Keene State College
Commentator:  Joe Bien, University of Missouri


Saturday, November 10:

SESSION V:  8:30-10:15

Ethics II: Chair:  Caleb Clanton, Pepperdine University
“Intrinsic Value and Sentimentalism,” Lawrence Pasternack, Oklahoma State University
Commentator:  Spencer Wertz, Texas Christian University

“Mill’s Misleading Moral Mathematics,” Ben Eggleston, University of Kansas, and Dale Miller, Old Dominion University
Commentator:  Larry James, University of Kansas


SESSION VI:  10:30-12:15

A. Ancient Philosophy: Chair:  Stephen Rosenbaum, University of Nevada Las Vegas 
“Socrates’s Narrative Audience in Euthydemus,” Anne Bowery, Baylor University
Commentator:  Randy Auxier, Southern Illinois University

“Whose Aristotle?  Which Stagirite?,” May Sim, College of the Holy Cross
Commentator:  Margaret Tate, Baylor University

B. American Philosophy: Chair:  Stuart Rosenbaum, Baylor University
“Evidentialism and James’s Argument from Friendship,” Scott Aikin, Western Kentucky University
Commentator:  Stephen Barnes, Northwest Vista College

“A Farewell to Deweyan Democracy,” Robert Talisse, Vanderbilt University
Commentator:  Michael Eldridge, University of North Carolina at Charlotte


SESSION VII:  1:30-3:45

A.  Modern Philosophy: Chair:  Gene James, University of Memphis
“Reid and Condillac on Sensation and Perception:  A Thought Experiment on Sensory Deprivation,” Giovanni Grandi, Auburn University
Commentator:  Jay Bruce, Baylor University

“Kant, Ginsborg, and Empirical Concepts,” Hoke Robinson, University of Memphis
Commentator:  Ken Rogerson, Florida International University

“On the Reconciliation of the Spinozistic Doctrines of the Eternality of Mind and Monistic Parallelism,” Robyn Gaier, St. Louis University
Commentator:  Michael LeBuffe, Texas A&M University

B.  Philosophy of Mind: Chair:  Deborah Heikes, University of Alabama Huntsville
“Consciousness and Free Will:  A Critique of the Argument from Introspection,” Gregg Caruso, Corning Community College
Commentator:  Eric Gilbertson, New Mexico State University

“How Paranoid Delusions Support Simulation Theory,” Ingra Schellenberg, University of Washington
Commentator:  Nicoletta Orlandi, Rice University


BUSINESS MEETING:  4:15
6:00 Casa Rio Restaurant, Open Bar

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:  6:15, Casa Rio Restaurant
Introduction:  May Sim, Past President, College of the Holy Cross
President:  Tomas D. Senor, University of Arkansas

BANQUET:  7:00, CASA RIO RESTAURANT
PROGRAM:  8:00
AWARD: Best Paper by a Youngster
FILM:   Phillip McReynolds’s American philosophy film

PRESIDENTIAL RECEPTION: 9:00, Location to be determined
Preliminary Program for
69TH ANNUAL MEETING OF
THE SOUTHWESTERN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
Nov 9-11, 2007

The Menger Hotel
San Antonio, Texas