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Thank you for your support and cooperation. 3 Wednesday Afternoon, March 2: 3:00–6:00 p.m. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2 REGISTRATION 2:00–8:00 p.m., registration desk (sixth floor) PLACEMENT INFORMATION Information desk: 2:00–8:00 p.m., registration desk (sixth floor) Interview tables: location to be announced EXHIBITS 2:00–8:00 p.m., sixth floor lobby EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING Noon–3:00 p.m., location to be announced WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 3:00–6:00 P.M. MAIN PROGRAM SESSIONS I-A. Invited Symposium: Contemporary Critical Theory Chair: Cristina Lafont (Northwestern University) Speakers: Nancy Fraser (New School for Social Research) Second speaker TBA Commentator: Linda M. G. Zerilli (University of Chicago) I-B. Invited Symposium: Immigration Chair: Grant J. Silva (Marquette University) Speakers: José Jorge Mendoza (University of Massachusetts Lowell) Peter Higgins (Eastern Michigan University) I-C. Invited Symposium: Knowledge, Time, and Eternity: Medieval Perspectives Chair: Andrew Arlig (CUNY–Brooklyn College) Speakers: Calvin Normore (University of California, Los Angeles) Deborah Black (University of Toronto) Tamar Rudavsky (Ohio State University) 4 Wednesday Afternoon, March 2: 3:00–6:00 p.m. (cont.) I-D. Invited Symposium: Human Judgment about Probability and Risk Chair: Anubav Vasudevan (University of Chicago) Speakers: Michael Strevens (New York University) “Intuitive Judgment of Physical Probabilities” Mariam Thalos (University of Utah) “Precaution-First Practical Reasoning” Commentator: André Ariew (University of Missouri) I-E. Author Meets Critics: Hugh Benson’s Clitophon’s Challenge: Dialectic in Plato’s Meno, Phaedo, and Republic Chair: David Squires (University of Notre Dame) Critics: Christine Thomas (Dartmouth College) Rachana Kamtekar (University of Arizona) Response: Hugh Benson (University of Oklahoma) I-F. Colloquium: Exclusion and Negativity 3:00-4:00 p.m. “Interventionist Compatiblism and Multiple Realizability: Zhong on Exclusion” Chair: Steven Wagner (University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign) Speaker: Douglas Keaton (Flagler College) Commentator: Kevin M. Morris (Tulane University) 4:00-5:00 p.m. “Against Rational Exclusion” Chair: Stan Husi (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee) Speaker: Aaron Wolf (Syracuse University) Commentator: Eric Sampson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 5:00-6:00 p.m. “Negative Actions and Causal Powers” Chair: David K. Chan (University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point) Speaker: Jonathan Payton (University of Toronto) **Graduate student travel stipend recipient** Commentator: Andrei A. Buckareff (Marist College) I-G. Colloquium: Contextualism and Disagreement 3:00-4:00 p.m. “Knowledge without Questions” Chair: Leopold Stubenberg (University of Notre Dame) Speaker: Peter van Elswyk (Rutgers University) **Graduate student travel stipend recipient** Commentator: Blake Roeber (University of Notre Dame) 4:00-5:00 p.m. “Useful Knowledge-Ascriptions” Chair: Matthias Steup (Purdue University) Speaker: Alexander Jackson (Boise State University) Commentator: Baron Reed (Northwestern University) 5 Wednesday Afternoon, March 2: 3:00–6:00 p.m. (cont.) 5:00-6:00 p.m. “Conciliationism and Easy Bootstrapping” Chair: Nathan Michael Weston (Northwestern University) Speaker: Eyal Tal (University of Arizona) **Graduate student travel stipend recipient** Commentator: Brian J. Weatherson (University of Michigan) I-H. Colloquium: Kant’s Moral Psychology 3:00-4:00 p.m. “Making Sense of Kant’s Moral Respect: A Case for Non-Pathological Feeling” Chair: Michelle Kosch (Cornell University) Speaker: Anastasia Artemyev Berg (University of Chicago) **Graduate student travel stipend recipient** Commentator: Patrick R. Frierson (Whitman College) 4:00-5:00 p.m. “A Common Root for Arrogance and Self- degradation: Self-conceit in Kant’s Moral Theory” Chair: Luca Oliva (University of Houston) Speaker: Catherine Mathie Smith (Cornell University) **Graduate student travel stipend recipient** Commentator: Iskra Fileva (University of Colorado–Boulder) 5:00-6:00 p.m. “Kant on Self-Opacity and Self-Conceit” Chair: Daniel Smyth (Cornell University) Speaker: Francey Russell (University of Chicago) **Graduate student travel stipend recipient** Commentator: Ryan S. Kemp (Wheaton College) I-I. Colloquium: Early Modern Philosophy 3:00-4:00 p.m. “Towards a More Concrete Interpretation of Spinoza’s Scientia Intuitiva” Chair: James Sikkema (McMaster University) Speaker: Matthew Homan (Christopher Newport University) Commentator: Sanem Soyarslan (North Carolina State University) 4:00-5:00 p.m. “Spinoza’s Argument for a Bodily Imagination” Chair: David Benjamin Johnson (Northwestern University) Speaker: Nastassja Pugliese (University of Georgia) **Graduate student travel stipend recipient** Commentator: Christopher Martin (University of Wisconsin–Green Bay) 5:00-6:00 p.m. “Arnauld on Divine Simplicity and God’s Practical Rationality” Chair: Georgette Sinkler (University of Illinois at Chicago) Speaker: Eric Stencil (Utah Valley University) Commentator: Monte L. Cook (University of Oklahoma) 6 Wednesday Evening, March 2: 7:00–8:00 p.m. I-J. Colloquium: Rationality, Reasons and Metaethics 3:00-4:00 p.m. “Can Objectivists Account for Subjective Reasons?” Chair: Karsten Stueber (College of the Holy Cross) Speaker: Daniel Wodak (Princeton University) **Graduate student travel stipend recipient** Commentator: John Brunero (University of Nebraska–Lincoln) 4:00-5:00 p.m. “Psychological Resistance to Full Information: An Objection to Subjectivist-Externalist Accounts of Reasons” Chair: Michael G. Bruno (Mississippi State University) Speaker: Carolyn Plunkett (Graduate Center–CUNY) **Graduate student travel stipend recipient** Commentator: Robert N. Johnson (University of Missouri– Columbia) 5:00-6:00 p.m. “Practicality, Normativity, and the Incoherence Argument” Chair: Erik Baldwin (University of Notre Dame) Speaker: Tung-Ying Wu (University of Missouri) **Graduate student travel stipend recipient** Commentator: Kate Padgett Walsh (Iowa State University) WEDNESDAY EVENING, 6:00–7:00 P.M. II-A. Carus Lecture I Author: Claudia Card (University of Wisconsin–Madison)† “Surviving Homophobia” Presenter: Victoria M. Davion (University of Georgia) Claudia Card, who agreed to give the Carus Lectures at this meeting, passed away in September 2015. Before her death, she completed two of her Carus Lectures. The first of them is being presented in this session. WEDNESDAY EVENING, 7:00–8:00 P.M. APA PRIZE RECEPTION (open to all: wine and cheese served) 7:00-8:00 p.m., location to be announced APA NATIONAL PRIZES Philip L. Quinn Prize 2015 Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago Law School) Sanders Lecture 2015-2016 Ned Block (New York University) 7 Wednesday Evening, March 2: 7:00–8:00 p.m. (cont.) Walter De Gruyter Stiftung Kant Lecture Series 2015-2016 Onora O’Neill (Cambridge University) CENTRAL DIVISION AWARDS John Dewey Lecture Charles W. Mills (Northwestern University) GRADUATE STUDENT TRAVEL STIPENDS Robert Beddor (Rutgers University) and Simon Goldstein (Rutgers University) for “Believing Epistemic Contradictions” Jacob Archambault (Fordham University) for “A Note on Dispositional Modalities, Constant Domains, and the (4) Axiom” Joel Archer (Saint Louis University) for “Why Agent-Causal Libertarians Should Not Be Physicalists” Anastasia Artemyev Berg (University of Chicago) for “Making Sense of Kant’s Moral Respect: A Case for Non-Pathological Feeling” Mike Ashfield (University of Southern California) for “Replies to Friedman on the Possibility of a Credal-Theoretic Account of Agnosticism/Suspended Belief” Matthew Babb (University of Southern California) for “The Essential Indexicality of Intentional Action: A Reply to Cappelen and Dever” Jonathan Barker (University of Virginia) for “Constructional Injustice” Devon Bryson (University of Tennessee) for “Changing a Mere Event into an Action” Donald Bungum (Saint Louis University) for “Authorization and Address in Group Testimony” Eddy Keming Chen (Rutgers University) for “Our Fundamental Physical Space: An Essay on the Metaphysics of the Wave Function” Steven Coyne (University of Toronto) for “Fraternity and the Service Conception of Authority” Milo Crimi (University of California, Los Angeles) for “Impossible Intrinsic Middles in Ockham’s Theory of Consequences” Michael Da Silva (University of Toronto) for “Relativism without Faultless Disagreement?” Mihailis Diamantis (New York University) for “Moral Gambling: Solving the Problem of Moral Luck” Torin Doppelt (Queen’s University) for “Idle Material in Spinoza’s Ethics” Kevin Dorst (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for “Paradoxes of Higher-Order Evidence” 8 Wednesday Evening, March 2: 7:00–8:00 p.m. (cont.) Landon D. C. Elkind (University of Iowa) for “On Russell’s ‘Vagueness’” Jonathan Fuqua (Purdue University) for “A Holistic Response to the Problem of Evil” Christopher Healow (University of California, Davis) for “Conventionalism(s) in Plato’s Cratylus” Ryan Hebert (University of Calgary) for “Epistemic Norms, Criticizability, and Impropriety” Aaron Henry (University of Toronto) for “Attention as Selection for Action: A Challenge” Kathleen Howe (University of Chicago) for “Thinking Parts and Human Animals” Tyler Huismann (University of Colorado–Boulder) for “Aristotle on Accidental Causation” Andrew Israelsen (Purdue University) for “Is Right Realizable? Kant’s Rechtslehre and the Ethical Community” Matthias Jenny (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for “Two Modal Concepts of Ground” Nihel Jhou (University of Miami) for “What Is It Like to Feel the Present?” Aidan Kestigian (Carnegie Mellon University) for “Freedom as Non-Domination in Behavioral and Biomedical Research” Andrew Kissel (Ohio State University) for “Belief in Indeterministic Choice: Resolution and Tension for Compatibilist Accounts of Free Will Beliefs” Teresa Kouri (Ohio State University) for “Connective Meanings in Beall and Restall’s Logical Pluralism” David Mark Kovacs (Cornell University) for “Priority Monism and the Notion of Dependence” Jordan Kroll (University of Massachusetts Amherst) for “Defending the Easy Road to Nominalism” Kelson Law (University of Pittsburgh) for “Action, Reflection, and Practical Readiness” Nicholas Leonard (Northwestern University) for “Testimony, Evidence, and Interpersonal Reasons” Zi Lin (University of Wisconsin–Madison) for “The Leverage Approach for Sufficientarianism” Jordan Liz (University of Memphis) for “Race, Medicine and Genetic Suspectibility: Diagnosing Disease in the ‘Postracial’ Genomics Age” Yael Loewenstein (University of Arizona) for “Morgenbesser’s Coin” Getty Lustila (Boston University) for “Bentham on the Place of Empathy in Morality” 9 Wednesday Evening, March 2: 7:00–8:00 p.m. (cont.) John Mahlan (University of Virginia) for “Immanent Universals and Spatial Location” Matthew Mandelkern (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for “Knowledge of Possibility” Miquel Miralbes del Pino (Brown University) for “Bi-Polarity and Double Negation: Wittgenstein’s Objection to Russell’s Theory of Judgment” Jonathan Payton (University of Toronto) for “Negative Actions and Causal Powers” Callie Phillips (University of Notre Dame) for “Quantificational Structure and the Substantivity of Ontological Disputes” Carolyn Plunkett (Graduate Center–CUNY) for “Psychological Resistance to Full Information: An Objection to Subjectivist- Externalist Accounts of Reasons” Nastassja Pugliese (University of Georgia) for “Spinoza’s Argument for a Bodily Imagination” Brentyn Ramm (Australian National University) for “Phenomenal Size” Nicole Ramsoomair (McGill University) for “Hateful Exclusions: The Limits of Shiffrin’s Autonomy Defense of Free Speech” Madeleine Ransom (University of British Columbia) for “Aesthetic Expertise, High-Level Perceptual Content, and Non- inferential Justification” Peter Rosa (Loyola University Chicago) for “Intersubjectivity in Spinoza’s Summum Bonum” Francey Russell (University of Chicago) for “Kant on Self- Opacity and Self-Conceit” Nicholas Sars (Tulane University of New Orleans) for “Pereboom, Pain, and Punishment” Jannai Shields (University of Rochester) for “No Fundamental Determinables” Adam Shmidt (Boston University) for “Moral Judgments and Wishful Thinking” Catherine Mathie Smith (Cornell University) for “A Common Root for Arrogance and Self-degradation: Self-conceit in Kant’s Moral Theory” Etye Steinberg (University of Toronto) for “Reflection and Responsibility for the Self” Nathan Stout (Tulane University) for “Blame without Relationships: A Challenge for Scanlon” Michael Szlachta (University of Toronto) for “Body on Body Causation in Descartes” Eyal Tal (University of Arizona) for “Conciliationism and Easy Bootstrapping” 10