The American Philosophical Association EASTERN DIVISION O N E H U N D R E D T H I R T E E N T H A N N UA L M E E T I N G P RO G R A M RENAISSANCE BALTIMORE HARBORPLACE HOTEL BALTIMORE, MARYLAND JANUARY 4 – 7, 2017 Visit our booth at APA Eastern  Offering a 20% / 40% discount with free shipping to the contiguous U.S. for orders placed at the conference. CONTAINING COMMUNITY From Political Economy to Ontology in Agamben, Esposito, and Nancy Greg Bird ZHUANGZI’S CRITIQUE OF THE THE GOOD IS ONE, EDGAR ALLAN CONFUCIANS ITS MANIFESTATIONS POE, EUREKA, Blinded by the Human MANY AND SCIENTIFIC Kim-chong Chong Confucian Essays IMAGINATION on Metaphysics, Morals, David N. Stamos THE TRAGEDY Rituals, Institutions, March 2017 OF PHILOSOPHY and Genders Kant’s Critique of Robert Cummings Neville THE DEBT Judgment and the OF THE LIVING Project of Aesthetics ENTANGLEMENTS Ascesis and Capitalism Andrew Cooper A System of Philosophy Elettra Stimilli Crispin Sartwell Translated by WHITEHEAD’S March 2017 Arianna Bove RELIGIOUS Foreword by THOUGHT GERMAN IDEALISM’S Roberto Esposito From Mechanism TRINITARIAN LEGACY to Organism, From Dale M. Schlitt SELF-REALIZATION Force to Persuasion THROUGH Daniel A. Dombrowski KANT AND CONFUCIAN ARISTOTLE LEARNING MERLEAU-PONTY Epistemology, Logic, A Contemporary AND THE FACE OF and Method Reconstruction THE WORLD Marco Sgarbi of Xunzi’s Ethics Silence, Ethics, Siufu Tang Imagination, and GASTON BACHELARD, Poetic Ontology REVISED AND POETIC FRAGMENTS Glen A. Mazis UPDATED Karoline von Günderrode Philosopher of Science Translated and with and Imagination Introductory Essays by Roch C. Smith Anna C. Ezekiel www.sunypress.edu IMPORTANT NOTICES FOR MEETING ATTENDEES SESSION LOCATIONS Please note: this online version of the program does not include session locations. The locations of all individual sessions will be included in the paper program that you will receive when you pick up your registration materials at the meeting (if you opted to receive a paper program) as well as in the meeting app beginning the first day of the meeting. IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT REGISTRATION Please note: it costs $50 less to register in advance than to register at the meeting. Early bird registration at www.apaonline.org is available until December 21 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. Please note that online registration will be available only until December 21. After that date, online registration will no longer be available, but you will still be able to register at the registration desk on-site at the meeting. 1 SPECIAL EVENTS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING Wednesday, January 4, 1:00–6:00 p.m. AAPT–APA MINI-CONFERENCE ON TEACHING PHILOSOPHY Thursday, January 5, 9:00 a.m.–Friday, January 6, 9:15 p.m. PRIZE RECEPTION Thursday, January 5, 5:00–6:00 p.m. PUBLISHING WORKSHOP Thursday, January 5, 5:15–7:15 p.m. RECEPTION Thursday, January 5, 8:00 p.m.–Midnight BUSINESS MEETING Friday, January 6, 11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. RECEPTION Friday, January 6, 9:00 p.m.–Midnight JOURNAL PUBLISHING WORKSHOP Saturday, January 7, 10:00–11:00 a.m. 2 The Teaching Hub: AAPT-APA Mini-Conference on Teaching Philosophy INTRODUCTION The American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) and the American Philosophical Association Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy (CTP) have co- organized a two-day conference on teaching for the 2017 Eastern Division meeting. We are aiming to bring the collegial and supportive culture of the AAPT to the APA; highlight teaching within the context of an APA meeting; stretch beyond the traditional APA session format to offer sessions that model active learning; and attract a broader range of philosophers to the divisional meetings. The conference will include an AAPT workshop; a poster session; one-on- one consultations with expert teachers; and panels on inclusive teaching, teacher training, pre- college teaching, textbook work, and ways we might communicate the value of teaching philosophy to relevant stakeholders. Refreshments will be served at several of the sessions. THURSDAY, JANUARY 5 M1 Panel Discussion: How to Implement Teacher Training in Philosophy: Best Practices 9:00 a.m.–Noon Chair: C. L. Richardson (University of Nebraska–Lincoln) Presenters: David Concepción (Ball State University) Sandy Dwyer (Georgia State University) Catherine Homan (Siena College) George Rainbolt (Georgia State University) Adam R. Thompson (Kutak Ethics Center, University of Nebraska–Lincoln) Sarah Wieten (Durham University) Organizer: David Concepción (Ball State University) 3 AAPT-APA Mini-Conference on Teaching Philosophy M2 AAPT Workshop: Team-Based Learning for Philosophy Courses Noon–2:00 p.m. Presenter: Kimberly Van Orman (University at Albany and Bennington College) Organizer: Emily Esch (College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University) Refreshments will be served. M3 Panel Discussion: Teaching Philosophy Across the Pre-College/ College Boundary Co-sponsored by the APA Committee on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy 2:00–5:00 p.m. Presenters: Jessica Davis (Teachers College, Columbia University) “Community of Inquiry with Undergraduates” Claire Katz and Desirae Embree (Texas A&M University) “Why Host a Philosophy Camp for Teens? A Dispatch from the Aggie School of Athens” Carolyn P. Neuhaus (NYU Langone Medical Center) “Teaching High School Teachers to Teach Bioethics” Clinton Packman (University of Wisconsin–Madison) “Let the Students Teach! Reflections on CTY Hong Kong’s All-Site Presentations” Christian Tarsney (University of Maryland) “Competitive Debate as a Vehicle for Philosophy Education” Danielle Wylie (Mississippi State University) “Upward Bound and Philosophy: the Benefits of Bringing Philosophy to Underrepresented Pre- College Students” Organizers: Beth Dixon (SUNY Plattsburgh) Rory E. Kraft, Jr. (York College of Pennsylvania) Joe Murphy (Dwight-Englewood School) M4 Poster Session: Independent Research by Undergraduate Philosophy Students 5:15–8:00 p.m. Presenters: Jack Beaulieu (University of British Columbia) “Intellectualism and the Risk of Circularity in Belief- First Virtue Epistemology” 4 AAPT-APA Mini-Conference on Teaching Philosophy Brett Bracco (Hamilton College) “Non-Therapeutic Infant Male Circumcision: The Ethical Issues” Andrea Bridgewater (California State University, Bakersfield) “Promoting Inclusion: Philosophy’s Practitioners” Libby Rose Cronican (College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University) “Preserving Dignity in End of Life Care” Allison Escobar (University of Memphis) “Police Power and Racism in America” Daniel Farina (Hamilton College) “The Subject Side of Respect: Why and How to Be a Respecter” Julisa Fernandez (University of Texas at El Paso) “Philosophy for Children in the Borderlands” Samantha Herrador (Mount Saint Mary’s University) “National Identity and Race in Mexico” Spencer Knafelc and Andrew M. Winters (Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania) “Conducting Research in the Philosophy of Mind with Undergraduate Students” Cameron McNeely, Daniel Klinestiver, Quintin Thompson, and Daniel Wills (Ball State University) “Stance: An International Undergraduate Philosophy Journal” Sara Purinton (Hamilton College) “Nietzschean Affirmation: A Joyous Challenge” Adriana Ramirez (Mount Saint Mary’s University) “Philosophy and the Search for Lo Mexicano” Sofia Roi (University of British Columbia) “Painterly Photographs: A Study on the Aesthetic Experience of Filtered Images” Organizers: Emily Esch (College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University) Jennifer Mulnix (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth) Refreshments will be served. 5 AAPT-APA Mini-Conference on Teaching Philosophy FRIDAY, JANUARY 6 M5 Panel Discussion: A Lifetime of Philosophy Texts: Steve Cahn and Oxford University Press’s Robert Miller Discuss Their 20- Year Collaboration on Seventeen Philosophy Texts 9:00–11:00 a.m. Chair: Alexandra Bradner (Kenyon College) Presenters: Steven M. Cahn (The Graduate Center, CUNY) Robert Miller (Oxford University Press) Organizer: Alexandra Bradner (Kenyon College) M6 Walk-In Teaching Consultations: One- on-One Sessions with Expert Teachers 11:15 a.m.–1:15 p.m. Sign up or walk in to get help diversifying your syllabus, increasing student participation and engagement, teaching online, starting as a new teacher, or promoting active learning. Consultants: Sarah Mattice (University of North Florida) Leah Kalmanson (Drake University) Andrew Winters (Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania) Andrew N. Carpenter (Northcentral University) J. Robert Loftis (Lorain County Community College) David Concepción (Ball State University) Organizers: J. Robert Loftis (Lorain County Community College) Andrew Winters (Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania) Refreshments will be served. M7 Panel Discussion: Philosophy Under Fire: How to Convey to Stakeholders the Value of Teaching Philosophy Co-sponsored by the APA Committee on the Status and Future of the Profession 1:30–2:55 p.m. Chair: Spencer Knafelc (Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania) Presenters: James Rocha (Fresno State University) “On Recruiting Philosophy Majors” Wendy Turgeon (St. Joseph’s College, New York) “Surviving the Purge: Reflections on The Program Prioritization Process” 6 AAPT-APA Mini-Conference on Teaching Philosophy Bryan Hall (St. John’s University) “Your Defense against the Dark Arts: An Administrator’s Advice for Preempting the Threat of Closure” Organizers: Alexandra Bradner (Kenyon College) Anita Silvers (San Francisco State University) Sarah Donovan (Wagner College) M8 Panel Discussion: Topics in Inclusivity: An Open Discussion of Issues Facing the Profession Co-sponsored by the APA Committee on Inclusiveness in the Profession 3:05–4:30 p.m. Chair: Jessica Davis (Teachers College, Columbia University) Presenters: Daniel Brunson (Morgan State University) David W. Concepción (Ball State University) Maureen Linker (University of Michigan–Dearborn) Organizers: Rebecca Scott (Loyola University Chicago) Teresa Blankmeyer Burke (Gallaudet University) APA Presidential Address and Reception 4:45–7:00 p.m. Mini-Conference Closing Reception 7:15–9:15 p.m. Refreshments, wine, and beer will be served. 7 Wednesday Late Morning, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Main and Group Programs WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4 REGISTRATION 10:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m., registration desk (fifth floor) PLACEMENT INFORMATION 10:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m., registration desk (fifth floor) EXHIBITS 10:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m., atrium (fifth floor) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING 1:00–6:00 p.m., location TBA WEDNESDAY LATE MORNING, 11:00 A.M.–1:00 P.M. MAIN PROGRAM SESSIONS 1A Colloquium: Science and Language Chair: Michael Townsen Hicks (University of Oxford) Speaker: Andrew Parisi (University of Connecticut) “What’s In a Name: A Response to Ramsey” Commentator: Aleks Knoks (University of Maryland, College Park) Speaker: Richard Lauer (St. Lawrence University) “Is Understanding Factive? Responding to the Objection from Scientific Idealizations” Commentator: Brandon Boesch (University of South Carolina) 1B Colloquium: Kant’s Psychology Chair: Michael Rohlf (Catholic University of America) Speaker: Alexandra Newton (University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign) “Kant on the Act of Judging” Commentator: Meica Magnani (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Speaker: Justin Shaddock (Williams College) “Kant’s Conceptualism” Commentator: Luca Oliva (University of Houston) 8