SSP Panels at the 2008 Pacific APA Meeting 

March 19 - 23, 2008

Pasadena Hilton, Pasadena

Additional Details on the APA-Pacific can be found here

Thursday Evening, March 20

GIII-E. Society for Student Philosophers, Session 1

6:30-8:00 p.m., Location TBA

Topic: Topics in Mind and Language

Chair: Beata Bujalska (Tufts University)

Speakers: Ryan Pflum (Western Michigan University)

    “Butler’s Account of Self-Deception and Some Problems it Poses for Motivationism”

Erik Sorem (University College, Dublin)

    “Conceiving the Irreducibility of Consciousness from Longergan’s Metaphysical Perspective”

Beata Bujalska (Tufts University)

    “Mindreading and Autism: An Argument for the Scientific Theory Theory”

Michael Martin (Ohio State University)

    “The Method to Wittgenstein’s Madness in the Tractatus”

Saturday Evening, March 22

GX-A. Society for Student Philosophers, Session 2

8:30-10:00 p.m., Location TBA

Topic: Freedom, Reason, and Normativity

Chair: Jackie Rohel (University of Alberta)

Speakers: Matt Congdon (New School University)

    “‘If They Lived According to the Guidance of Reason…’: Spinoza on Imagination, Reason, and the Mob”

Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin (University of California–Riverside)

    “Disambiguating All-Things-Considered-'Ought'-Statements”

Jackie Rohel (University of Alberta)

    “Is Cartesian Generosity an Intellectual Virtue?”

Chad Vance (University of Colorado–Boulder)

    “The Eternal Moment’s View: A Solution to the Problem of Human Freedom and Divine Foreknowledge”