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Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1995 08:13:42 -0600 (CST)
From: John M Fritzman <tg0jmf1-AT-corn.cso.niu.edu>
Subject: Mid-South schedule


 
MID-SOUTH PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE
The University of Memphis
February 24-25, 1995
 
Sponsored by The University of Memphis, Department of
Philosophy & The Center for the Humanities; and by
Oklahoma City University, Department of Philosophy
& The Institute of Liberal Arts
 
FRIDAY       KEYNOTE ADDRESS     1:30-3:00 p.m.
 
Loyalty, Isolation and Rage:  A Philosophical
Probe Into the Present Situation
          John J. McDermott
          Texas A & M University
 
FRIDAY       SESSION 1     3:10-4:00 p.m.
 
ROOM A:  FRIDAY, SESSION 1, 3:10-4:00 p.m.
 
Micro-Phenomenology:  Towards a Hypothetico-Inductive
Science of the Phenomena
          Richard Lind
          The University of Tulsa
Comment:  Thomas J. Nenon
          The University of Memphis
 
ROOM B:  FRIDAY, SESSION 1, 3:10-4:00 p.m.
 
Whither Distributed Representations?
          Robert S. Stufflebeam
          Washington University
Comment:  Norman R. Gall
          The University of Manitoba
 
ROOM C:  FRIDAY, SESSION 1, 3:10-4:00 p.m.
 
Husserl's "Idea of a Grammer of Pure Logic"
          Bill Scott
          The John Hopkins University
Comment:  Stephen Pluhacek
          Purdue University
 
ROOM D:  FRIDAY, SESSION 1, 3:10-4:00 p.m.
 
Associative Obligations and Legitimacy
          James Janowski
          The University of Illinois
Comment:  Aeon Skoble
          The University of Central Arkansas
 
ROOM E:  FRIDAY, SESSION 1, 3:10-4:00 p.m.
 
A Paradoxical Relation between History and Philosophy
          George Gale
             The University of Missouri-Kansas City
          Cassandra Pinnick
             Western Kentucky University
Comment:  Eric Palmer
             Allegheny College
 
ROOM F:  FRIDAY, SESSION 1, 3:10-4:00 p.m.
 
Teaching Students with Disabilities:  A Logic Student with Dyslexia
          H. Hamner Hill
          Southeast Missouri State University
Comment:  Sheila Hollander
          University of Memphis
 
ROOM G:  FRIDAY, SESSION 1, 3:10-4:00 p.m.
 
Definitions for Three Proof-Theoretic Processes
in Aristotle's Prior Analytics
          George Boger
          Canisius College
Comment:  James W. Jobes
          Rhodes College
 
ROOM H:  FRIDAY, SESSION 1, 3:10-4:00 p.m.
 
Goodness, Obligation and Intrinsic Value
          Grant C. Sterling
          Eastern Illinois University
Comment:  Ralph D. Ellis
          Clark Atlanta University
 
FRIDAY       SESSION 2     4:10-5:00 p.m.
 
ROOM A:  FRIDAY, SESSION 2, 4:10-5:00 p.m.
 
A Defense of Paul Feyerabend's Scientific Anarchism
          Anthony Crifasi
          The University of Dallas
Comment:  Norman Lillegard
          The University of Tennessee-Martin
 
ROOM B:  FRIDAY, SESSION 2, 4:10-5:00 p.m.
 
Identity and the Information Theory of the Mental
          Jim Shelton
          The University of Central Arkansas
Comment:  Joseph C. Totherow
          Michigan State University
 
ROOM C:  FRIDAY, SESSION 2, 4:10-5:00 p.m.
 
The Law for Adorno
          Robert Russell
          Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Comment:  Adam Thurschwell
          Oklahoma City University
 
ROOM D:  FRIDAY, SESSION 2, 4:10-5:00 p.m.
 
The Moral Limits of the Use of Handguns
in Defense of Self and Property
          Nicholas Dixon
          Alma College
Comment:  Ronald J. Broach
          Washington University
 
ROOM E:  FRIDAY, SESSION 2, 4:10-5:00 p.m.
 
Divine Ideas in the Philosophy of George Berkeley
          Bruce Freeberg
          Emory University
Comment:  Mark Wimer
          Emory University
 
ROOM F:  FRIDAY, SESSION 2, 4:10-5:00 p.m.
 
The Use of Provocative Techniques in
Teaching Introductory Philosophy
          Jon K. Mills
          Vanderbilt University
Comment:  H. Peter Steeves
          Indiana University
 
ROOM G:  FRIDAY, SESSION 2, 4:10-5:00 p.m.
 
Friendship and the Dialectic of (Non-)Self-Identity
          Andrew Fiala
          Vanderbilt University
Comment:  Leighton Moore
          Emory University
 
ROOM H:  FRIDAY, SESSION 2, 4:10-5:00 p.m.
 

 
FRIDAY       SESSION 3     5:10-6:00 p.m.
 
ROOM A:  FRIDAY, SESSION 3, 5:10-6:00 p.m.
 
Paradigms, Individuals, and Collectives:
Popper and Kuhn on Normal Science
          Rick Varco
          Emory University
Comment:  David Henderson
          The University of Memphis
 
ROOM B:  FRIDAY, SESSION 3, 5:10-6:00 p.m.
 
Quine on Scepticism
          Robert L. Higgerson Jr.
          Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Comment:  Anthony Crifasi
          The University of Dallas
 
ROOM C:  FRIDAY, SESSION 3, 5:10-6:00 p.m.
 
Private Self-Creation and Public Solidarity:
A Critique of Rorty's Vision of Human Life
          William J. Garland
          The University of the South
Comment:  Randall E. Auxier
          Oklahoma City University
 
ROOM D:  FRIDAY, SESSION 3, 5:10-6:00 p.m.
 
Symbolic Utility and Rationality in Nozick's State of Nature
          John R. Danley
          Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
Comment:  Daniel Cullen
          Rhodes College
 
ROOM E:  FRIDAY, SESSION 3, 5:10-6:00 p.m.
 
Schopenhauer and Kieregaard on Humor as Aesthetic Experience
          Marty Miller Maddox
          Moraine Valley Community College
Comment:  Dan Fernald
          Emory University
 
ROOM F:  FRIDAY, SESSION 3, 5:10-6:00 p.m.
 
On Progress, Work, and the Intellectual Activity
          Thomas P. Kling
          Loyola University-New Orleans
Comment:  Andrew Fiala
          Vanderbilt University
 
ROOM G:  FRIDAY, SESSION 3, 5:10-6:00 p.m.
 
Does Socrates Show that He Does Not Corrupt
the Youth by Showing that He Is Not Impious?
          Scott Calef
          The University of Central Arkansas
Comment:  Kelly D. Jolley
          Auburn University
 
ROOM H:  FRIDAY, SESSION 3, 5:10-6:00 p.m.
 
The Morality and Constitutionality of Secession
          J. Angelo Corlett
          Georgia State University
Comment:  Steven J. Heikkila
          The University of Georgia
 
SATURDAY     SESSION 4     9:00-9:50 a.m.
 
ROOM A:  SATURDAY, SESSION 4, 9:00-9:50 a.m.
 
Movements in Time
          Gabriel Rockhill
          Grinnell College
Comment:  Bill Scott
          The John Hopkins University
 
ROOM B:  SATURDAY, SESSION 4, 9:00-9:50 a.m.
 
What Does the Appeal to Empirical Descriptions as
Definitional Descriptions Do for the Theory of Meaning?
          Rod Swearengin
          Claremont Graduate School
Comment:  Daniel Barwick
          SUNY-Buffalo
 
ROOM C:  SATURDAY, SESSION 4, 9:00-9:50 a.m.
 
Bodies May Matter, But We Should Still Dream
          Terrence Kelly
          Saint Louis University
Comment:  Margaret A. McLaren
          Rollins College
 
ROOM D:  SATURDAY, SESSION 4, 9:00-9:50 a.m.
 
Philosophy of Law
          John D. White
          Talladega College
Comment:  Randall E. Auxier
          Oklahoma City University
 
ROOM E:  SATURDAY, SESSION 4, 9:00-9:50 a.m.
 
The Nature of Locke's Moral Laws:  From _An_Essay_Concerning_
_Human_Understanding_ to _Two_Treatises_of_Government_
          Edward L. Conner
          The University of Georgia
Comment:  David J. Boerwinkle
          Loyola University-New Orleans
 
ROOM F:  SATURDAY, SESSION 4, 9:00-9:50 a.m.
 
Addiction and Knowledge:  Epistemic
Disease and the Hegemonic Family
          Judith Bradford
             Fordham University
          Crispin Sartwell
             The University of Alabama
Comment:  Joanna Crosby
             Vanderbilt University
 
ROOM G:  SATURDAY, SESSION 4, 9:00-9:50 a.m.
 
The Good, the Just, and the City:  The
Basis for Plato's Critique of Democracy
          David Wayne Loy
          Saint Louis University
Comment:  Johann A. Klaassen
          Washington University
 
ROOM H:  SATURDAY, SESSION 4, 9:00-9:50 a.m.
 
Consistency as a Moral Virtue
          Jason Holt
          The University of Western Ontario
Comment:  Doug Cooper
          The University of Western Ontario
 
SATURDAY     SESSION 5     10:00-10:50 a.m.
 
ROOM A:  SATURDAY, SESSION 5, 10:00-10:50 a.m.
 
Representing Past Time
          Deborah K. Heikes
          The University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
Comment:  Gabriel Rockhill
          Grinnell College
 
ROOM B:  SATURDAY, SESSION 5, 10:00-10:50 a.m.
 
Representationalism and the Relativity of Representations
          Andrew Ward
          San Jose State University
Comment:  Kam-Yuen Cheng
          Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
 
ROOM C:  SATURDAY, SESSION 5, 10:00-10:50 a.m.
 
The Concept of Rights and the Gift in
Sartre's _Notebooks_for_an_Ethics_
          Thomas B. Spademan
          Purdue University
Comment:  Daniel Price
          Loyola University-Chicago
 
ROOM D:  SATURDAY, SESSION 5, 10:00-10:50 a.m.
 
Anticipated War, Inevitable Peace
          Christopher Adair-Toteff
          American University-Bulgaria
Comment:  Kevin E. Dodson
          Lamar University
 
ROOM E:  SATURDAY, SESSION 5, 10:00-10:50 a.m.
 
Schopenhauer's and Cassirer's Shared Theories of Consciousness
          Doug Coulson
          Oklahoma City University
Comment:  Donald P. Verene
          Emory University
 
ROOM F:  SATURDAY, SESSION 5, 10:00-10:50 a.m.
 
The Internet, Ethics, and the Determination of Legal Principles
          Brian M. O'Connell
          Farmington, CT
Comment:  Jonelle DePetro
          Eastern Illinois University
 
ROOM G:  SATURDAY, SESSION 5, 10:00-10:50 a.m.
 
Plato's Two Immortalities
          William Irwin
          SUNY-Buffalo
Comment:  Nancy DuBois
          Emory University
 
ROOM H:  SATURDAY, SESSION 5, 10:00-10:50 a.m.
 
Being Moral:  Categoriality and Human Action
          H. Peter Steeves
          Indiana University
Comment:  Steven J. Ingeman
          Indiana University
 
SATURDAY     SESSION 6     11:00-11:50 a.m.
 
ROOM A:  SATURDAY, SESSION 6, 11:00-11:50 a.m.
 
Spatialized Time?  Temporalized Space!
          David Zacker
          Michigan State University
Comment:  Keith Abney
          The University of Notre Dame
 
ROOM B:  SATURDAY, SESSION 6, 11:00-11:50 a.m.
 
Davidson's Causal Theory of Action
          Kam-Yuen Cheng
          Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Comment:  Robert Epperson
          Auburn University
 
ROOM C:  SATURDAY, SESSION 6, 11:00-11:50 a.m.
 
Expenditure and the Gift
          Stephen Pluhacek
          Purdue University
Comment:  Albert Crim
          Vanderbilt University
 
ROOM D:  SATURDAY, SESSION 6, 11:00-11:50 a.m.
 
Noncausal Determinism in Human Action
          Ralph D. Ellis
          Clark Atlanta University
Comment:  George Gale
          The University of Missouri-Kansas City
 
ROOM E:  SATURDAY, SESSION 6, 11:00-11:50 a.m.
 
The Christian Religion as Basis of Freedom:  On
Positivity in Hegel's Text "Neufassung des Anfangs"
          Timothy C. Huson
          Tulane University
Comment:  Dan Harrell
          Emory University
 
ROOM F:  SATURDAY, SESSION 6, 11:00-11:50 a.m.
 
Futilitarianism, Exoticare, and Coerced
Altruism:  The ADA Meets Its Limits
          E. Haavi Morreim
          University of Tennessee-Memphis
Comment:  Brian M. O'Connell
          Farmington, CT
 
ROOM G:  SATURDAY, SESSION 6, 11:00-11:50 a.m.
 
The Relation between Plato's Good and the "Human Good"
          David J. Yount
          The University of Wisconsin-Madison
Comment:  David M. Parry
          Penn State University-Altoona
 
ROOM H:  SATURDAY, SESSION 6, 11:00-11:50 a.m.
 
The Psychological Versus the Logical:  Objectivity in Frege
          Jeffrey Denson
          The University of Toronto
Comment:  Erich H. Reck
          The University of Chicago
 
SATURDAY     LUNCH BREAK   12:00-1:20 p.m.
 
SATURDAY     SESSION 7     1:30-2:20 p.m.
 
ROOM A:  SATURDAY, SESSION 7, 1:30-2:20 p.m.
 
Subjective and Objective Statements
          H. B. Dalrymple
          The University of Texas-Arlington
Comment:  Robert J. Levy
          Wittenberg University
 
ROOM B:  SATURDAY, SESSION 7, 1:30-2:20 p.m.
 
Dennett, Abstracta, and Beliefs
          Tim Ketcher
          The University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
Comment:  Jeffrey Denson
          The University of Toronto
 
ROOM C:  SATURDAY, SESSION 7, 1:30-2:20 p.m.
 
Foucault, Critical Theory, Rationality
          David Hodges
          The University of Illinois
Comment:  Emrys Westacott
          The University of Texas-Austin
 
ROOM D:  SATURDAY, SESSION 7, 1:30-2:20 p.m.
 
Economies of AIDS
          John Protevi
          Louisiana State University
Comment:  Toby Sarrge
          Oklahoma City University
 
ROOM E:  SATURDAY, SESSION 7, 1:30-2:20 p.m.
 
The Influences of Montaigne's Logic on Emerson's Logic
          Bert P. Helm
          Southwest Missouri State University
Comment:  William J. Garland
          The University of the South
 
ROOM F:  SATURDAY, SESSION 7, 1:30-2:20 p.m.
 
Learning to See (Well):  "Justice" and "Care"
in the Photography of Dorothea Lange
          Mitchell Aliva
          California State University-Fresno
Comment:  Catherine Robertson
          Oklahoma City University
 
ROOM G:  SATURDAY, SESSION 7, 1:30-2:20 p.m.
 
Sympathetic Vibrations and Plato's Ethno-ethical
Modes:  The Psychological Prosuppositions
          Heidi Northwood
          The University of Alberta
Comment:  David J. Yount
          The University of Wisconsin-Madison
 
ROOM H:  SATURDAY, SESSION 7, 1:30-2:20 p.m.
 
Is the Morning Star Really Identical to the Evening Star?
          Leonard Schulte
          Arkansas State University
Comment:  Joseph Sartorelli
          Arkansas State University
 
SATURDAY     SESSION 8     2:30-3:20 p.m.
 
ROOM A:  SATURDAY, SESSION 8, 2:30-3:20 p.m.
 
Scepticism, Theory Choice, and Induction
          Robert J. Levy
          Wittenberg University
Comment:  Lee Hester
          Oklahoma City University
 
ROOM B:  SATURDAY, SESSION 8, 2:30-3:20 p.m.
 
How Dennett Can Carry a Tune
          Timothy Kenyon
          The University of Western Ontario
Comment:  Andrew Ward
          San Jose State University
 
ROOM C:  SATURDAY, SESSION 8, 2:30-3:20 p.m.
 
Metaphysical Help:  A Nietzschean Reading of Foucault
          J. Russell Couch
          Oklahoma City University
Comment:  Daniel Tkachyk
          Tulane University
 
ROOM D:  SATURDAY, SESSION 8, 2:30-3:20 p.m.
 
Instrumental Rationality and Evaluating Ends
          Jonelle DePetro
          Eastern Illinois University
Comment:  John E. Clifford
          The University of Missouri-Saint Louis
 
ROOM E:  SATURDAY, SESSION 8, 2:30-3:20 p.m.
 
The Necessity of Knowledge:  A Defense
of Peirce's Thoroughgoing Realism
          C. Anthony Earls
          Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Comment:  Mary Magada-Ward
          Middle Tennessee State University
 
ROOM F:  SATURDAY, SESSION 8, 2:30-3:20 p.m.
 
Marcellian Space:  Walker Percy's Statial
Imagery and _Homo_Viator_
          Michael Paul Jones
          Western Carolina University
Comment:  Jack Purcell
          Middle Tennessee State University
 
ROOM G:  SATURDAY, SESSION 8, 2:30-3:20 p.m.
 
Procedural or Contextual Justification:
On Grounding Moral Consensus
          James B. Sauer
          Saint Mary's University
Comment:  J. Craig Hanks
          The University of Alabama-Hunstsville
 
ROOM H:  SATURDAY, SESSION 8, 2:30-3:20 p.m.
 
Did Wittgenstein Espouse Complete Silence?
          James Peterman
          The University of the South
Comment:  Caleb Thompson
          SUNY-Buffalo
 
SATURDAY     SESSION 9     3:30-4:20 p.m.
 
ROOM A:  SATURDAY, SESSION 9, 3:30-4:20 p.m.
 
Argument Analysis and Enumerative Induction
          Robert Boyd
          Texas Christian University
Comment:  Mitch Haney
          The University of Memphis
 
ROOM B:  SATURDAY, SESSION 9, 3:30-4:20 p.m.
 
Moral Patterns
          Johann A. Klaassen
          Washington University
Comment:  Tim Ketcher
          The University of Illinois-Urbana
 
ROOM C:  SATURDAY, SESSION 9, 3:30-4:20 p.m.
 
Foucault on the Subject of Feminism
          Margaret A. McLaren
          Rollins College
Comment:  Ellen Armour
          Rhodes College
 
ROOM D:  SATURDAY, SESSION 9, 3:30-4:20 p.m.
 
Relativists Have Rights Too
          Emrys Westacott
          The University of Texas-Austin
Comment:  David Drebushenko
          The University of Southern Indiana
 
ROOM E:  SATURDAY, SESSION 9, 3:30-4:20 p.m.
 
Necessity Naturalized:  Dewey's Theory
of Universal Propositions
          Terry Moseley
          Purdue University
Comment:  Jayne Tristan
          Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
 
ROOM F:  SATURDAY, SESSION 9, 3:30-4:20 p.m.
 
Catharine Macaulay's _Letters_on_
_Education_:  Odd but Equal
          Catherine Gardner
          The University of Virginia
Comment:  H. Hamner Hill
          Southeast Missouri State University
 
ROOM G:  SATURDAY, SESSION 9, 3:30-4:20 p.m.
 
Descartes on Thought and Language
          Gordon Dabbs
          Oklahoma University
Comment:  Gareth B. Matthews
          The University of Massachusetts
 
ROOM H:  SATURDAY, SESSION 9, 3:30-4:20 p.m.
 
"My Propositions are Elucidatory in this Way":
Wittgenstein on Reading the Tractatus
          David Olson Pook
          Indiana University
Comment:  Michael Hodges
          Vanderbilt University
 
SATURDAY     SESSION 10    4:30-5:20 p.m.
 
ROOM A:  SATURDAY, SESSION 10, 4:30-5:20 p.m.
 
Incomplete Theories
          Paul Pojman
          The University of Mississippi
Comment:  Heidi Northwood
          The University of Alberta
 
ROOM B:  SATURDAY, SESSION 10, 4:30-5:20 p.m.
 
The Difficulty Defending Deep Ecology
          Daniel Tkachyk
          Tulane University
Comment:  Scott Warren Calef
          The University of Central Arkansas
 
ROOM C:  SATURDAY, SESSION 10, 4:30-5:20 p.m.
 
The Body, Consciousness, and Intersubjectivity
          Philip Thompson
          Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Comment:  Duane H. Davis
          Wabash College
 
ROOM D:  SATURDAY, SESSION 10, 4:30-5:20 p.m.
 
Value and Desire
          Desheng Zong
          Tulane University
Comment:  Grant C. Sterling
          Eastern Illinois University
 
ROOM E:  SATURDAY, SESSION 10, 4:30-5:20 p.m.
 

 
ROOM F:  SATURDAY, SESSION 10, 4:30-5:20 p.m.
 
Transcendental Philosophy, Plurality, and Respect for the Real
          Charles W. Harvey
          The University of Central Arkansas
Comment:  Crispin Sartwell
          The University of Alabama
 
ROOM G:  SATURDAY, SESSION 10, 4:30-5:20 p.m.
 
Leibnizian and Spinozistic Necessity
          Norman Lillegard
          The University of Tennessee-Martin
Comment:  Steven Parchment
          Emory University
 
ROOM H:  SATURDAY, SESSION 10, 4:30-5:20 p.m.
 
Wittgenstein's Investigations by Way of Examples
          Ben Pryor
          Pennsylvania State University
Comment:  Frederick R. Adams
          Central Michigan University
 
SATURDAY     SESSION 11    5:30-6:20 p.m.
 
ROOM A:  SATURDAY,  SESSION 11,  5:30-6:20 p.m.
 
The Demarcation Problem in Science and
Religion:  _McLean_v._Arkansas_
          Keith Abney
          The University of Notre Dame
Comment:  Paul Pojman
          The University of Mississippi
 
ROOM B:  SATURDAY,  SESSION 11,  5:30-6:20 p.m.
 
The Rule of Least Agency
          J. K. Swindler
          Westminster College
Comment:  Lynn Holt
          Mississippi State University
 
ROOM C:  SATURDAY,  SESSION 11,  5:30-6:20 p.m.
 
Derrida and the Public Sphere of Intelligibility
          Daniel Price
          Loyola University-Chicago
Comment:  Judith Bradford
          Fordham University
 
ROOM D:  SATURDAY,  SESSION 11,  5:30-6:20 p.m.
 
The Liberal Rule of Law as Conservative Political
Power:  A Critical Look at Free Speech
          John D. Musselman
          Indiana University
Comment:  James B. Sauer
          Saint Mary's University
 
ROOM E:  SATURDAY,  SESSION 11,  5:30-6:20 p.m.
 

 
ROOM F:  SATURDAY,  SESSION 11,  5:30-6:20 p.m.
 

 
ROOM G:  SATURDAY,  SESSION 11,  5:30-6:20 p.m.
 
The God/Attribute Distinction in Spinoza's
Metaphysics:  A Defense of Causal Objectivism
          Steven Parchment
          Emory University
Comment:  Claire Katz
          The University of Memphis
 
ROOM H:  SATURDAY,  SESSION 11,  5:30-6:20 p.m.
 
Wittgenstein, "Inverting Necessity," and the Child's "Why?"
          Jeffrey Bernstein
          Vanderbilt University
Comment:  Matthew Ostrow
          Boston University
 



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