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SSP Panels at the 2007 Pacific APA Meeting 

April 3-8, 2007

San Francisco, CA

Additional Details on the APA-Pacific can be found here

Wednesday Evening, April 4

Group Session GII — 6:00-9:00 p.m.

GII-F. Society for Student Philosophers, Session 1

    6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA

    Moderator: Shelly Denkinger (University of Hawaii–Manoa)

    Speakers: Gabriel R. Stern (Loyola Marymount University)

        “Action Guidance and Virtue Ethics”

    Mathieu Doucet (Queen’s University)

        “Disabling Particularism: Jonathan Dancy and Moral Principles”

    Yali Corea-Levy (University of Arizona)

        “Double Effect Amended: Preserving the Civilian Combatant Distinction”

    Michael Hannon (York University)

        “Representations of ‘Truth’ and the Legitimation of Testimony in the Criminal Justice System: An Analysis of Sexual Harassment

        and Sexual Assault”

 

 

Thursday Evening, April 5

Group Session GV — 6:00-9:00 p.m.

GV-I. Society for Student Philosophers, Session 2

    6:00-9:00 p.m., Location TBA

    Moderator: Gabriel R. Stern (Loyola Marymount University)

    Speakers: Parker Crutchfield (Arizona State University)

        “Mood About You”

    James Ambury (State University of New York–Stony Brook)

        “Nietzsche’s Pedagogical Dialectic: On the Remembering and Forgetting of the Youthful for Life”

    Huaping Lu-Adler (University of California–Davis)

        “Realism, Conceptual Relativity, and Analytic Entailment”

    Marina Folescu (University of Western Ontario)

        “The Fictional Worlds of Impossible Fictions”

    (New Panelist) Audrey Anton, Ohio State University,

        “'The Best' Explanation for Diversity in Moral Judgments”

 

Friday Evening, April 6

Group Session GVII — 8:00-11:00 p.m.

GVII-I. Society for Student Philosophers, Session 3

    8:00-11:00 p.m., Location TBA

    Topic: What We Don’t Know Can Hurt Us: Philosophy and the Overcoming of Ignorance

    Moderator: Jeremy Henkel (University of Hawaii–Manoa)

    Speakers: Geoff Ashton (University of Hawaii–Manoa)

        “A Case Study of Art as Naturalistic Map: Cognitive Immoralism and the Mahabharata”

    Shelly Denkinger (University of Hawaii–Manoa)

        “Border Ethics, the Limitations of Knowledge of Others, and Implications for Education”

    David Burns (University of New Mexico)

        “Forgetting Nietzsche”

    Laura P. Guerrero (University of New Mexico)

        “Land of the Free? The Delusion of Autonomy and its Role in the Enslavement of America”

    Allison Hagerman (University of New Mexico)

        “Off the Deep End: The Sublime Folly of Niagara Falls”

    Lara Mitias (University of Hawaii–Manoa)

        “Transformation of Memory from a Source of Bondage to a Source of Liberation”