2nd Annual Updated

Please note the updated call for papers, as there has been a few changes (e.g., speaker line up and addition of cash award for best papers).

2nd annual Interdisciplinary Approach to Philosophical Issues Conference (2009)
Hosted by the University of South Alabama
This year’s theme will be “Perception, Action, & Consciousness”
Sponsored by University of South Alabama Departments of Philosophy and Psychology and SGA

September 25-26, 2009

Keynote Speaker: Marcel Kinsbourne (New School for Social Research, Department of Psychology)

Special Invited Speakers: Andrea Scarantino and Daniel Weiskopf (Georgia State University, Department of Philosophy, Neuroscience Institute)

Submissions are currently being accepted for paper presentations.
Submissions are due no later than JULY 31. Early submissions are encouraged.

Submissions should include the following:

1) author's name
2) institutional affiliation
3) email address
4) telephone number
5) the presentation title
6) detailed abstract of 250-500 words

The full-length conference paper is not required for consideration. However, when possible, full-length paper submissions are encouraged.

We are currently offering two awards of $300 for best submitted papers. To be eligible for this award, you must submit full-length paper by deadline.

Paper presentations should be prepared for 25-minute presentation (approx. 2500 to 3000 words).

Submissions should be emailed to jason.shepard'at'comcast.net or submitted online no later than July 31.

Please see website for registration and more information: http://southalabama.edu/idcon/index.htm .

Papers related to any area of the conference theme (perception, action, consciousness), broadly construed, are welcome. We strongly encourage papers from across all disciplines, as long as the papers are philosophical in nature.

There will be a conference fee of $35 for non-students, $20 for students.

Conference's New Official Website

http://southalabama.edu/idcon/

CFP for 2nd Annual

2nd annual Interdisciplinary Approach to Philosophical Issues Conference (2009)
Hosted by the University of South Alabama

This year’s theme will be “Perception, Action, & Consciousness”
Sponsored by University of South Alabama Departments of Philosophy and Psychology and SGA

September 24-26, 2009

Keynote speaker philosophy: Alva Noe (UC-Berkeley)
Keynote speaker psychology: Marcel Kinsbourne (New School for Social Research)

Submissions are currently being accepted for paper presentations and poster presentations.
Submissions are due no later than JULY 31. Early submissions are encouraged.

Submissions should include the following:

1) author's name
2) paper or poster presentation (or EITHER)
3) institutional affiliation
4) email address
5) telephone number
6) the paper's title
7) detailed abstract of 250-500 words

The full-length conference paper is not required for consideration. However, when possible, full-length paper submissions are encouraged.

Paper presentations should be prepared for 25-minute presentation (2500 to 3000 words may serve as an approximate guide). Poster presentations should not exceed 44” x 44” in total size.

Submissions should be emailed to jason.shepard_at_comcast.net no later than July 31.
Questions can be emailed to Jason.shepard_at_comcast.net.

Papers related to any area of the conference theme (perception, action, consciousness), broadly construed, are welcome. We encourage papers from across all disciplines, as long as the papers are philosophical in nature.

Get Ready! Info on the 2nd Annual Coming Soon!

Call for papers for the 2nd Annual Interdisciplinary Approaches to Philosophical Issues will soon be announced.

The theme this year is going to be: Consciousness, Perception, and Action

Currently the conference committee is negotiating schedules and finalizing details with the keynote. We hope to be able to officially announce call for papers, along with greater details by the end of March/beginning of April.

Conference Schedule

Registration is set to begin at 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19 in the Mitchell College of Business 2nd Floor lobby. Presentations begin at 2:30. All Presentation will be held in the Striplin Auditoriums on the 2nd floor of the Mitchell College of Business.

Student Sessions are Concurrent. Featured Sessions are Plenary.

Friday, Sept. 19

Student Session I 2:30-3:05
Chelsea Ruxer (U. of Evansville) Falsity in Physicalism
Raquel Spencer (West Virginia U.) Of Death and Experience

Student Session II 3:10-3:45
Wes Anderson (Portland State U.) Reciprocal Containment Naturalism and Extreme Methodological Naturalism
Jonathan Langlinais (Loyola U. - New Orleans) Hegel's Concept of Virtue as Ethical Phronesis

Student Session III 3:50-4:25
Melissa Garland (Spring Hill College) The Price of Escaping the Vat
John Silvia IV (U. of Southern Mississippi) An Aristotelian Internet, Or to E-mail or not to E-mail

Student Session IV 4:30-5:05
Lamont Rodgers (Tulane U.) The Other Kind of Deliberate Action
Jonathan Baynham (Spring Hill College) Using Common Sense

Featured Session I 5:10-5:55
Jamie Watson (Florida State University) Philosophical Intuitions and Psychological Envy

Featured Session II 6:00-6:45
Brandon N. Towl (Washington U. in St. Louis) Laws and Constrained Kinds: A Lesson from Motor Neuroscience

Saturday, Sept. 20 (Registration and Coffee begins at 8 a.m.)

Featured Session III 9:00-9:45
Josh May (U. of California - Santa Barbara) Empirical Evidence Against Psychological Egoism

Featured Session IV 9:50-10:35
Christopher Freiman (U. of Arizona) Deontological Emotions and Consequentialism

Featured Session V 10:40 - 11:25
Wesley Buckwalter (SUNY at Buffalo) Knowledge Isn’t Closed on Saturdays

Featured Session VI 11:30-12:15
Mark Phelan (U. of North Carolina) Evidence that Stakes Don’t Matter to Evidence

Lunch 12:15-1:45

Keynote Address 1:45 - 3:15
Joshua Knobe (U. of North Carolina) The Pervasive Impact of Moral Judgment

Featured Session VII 3:20-4:05
Justin M. Sytsma (U. of Pittsburgh) The Proper Province of Philosophy: Ordinary Language Meets Experimental Philosophy

Featured Session VIII 4:10-4:55
Adam Arico (U. of Arizona) The Folk v. Acme Corp: Or, the Effect of Context on Judgments of Consciousness Attributions

Featured Session IX 5:00-5:45
Edward T. Cokely (Max Planck Institute for Human Development) & Adam Feltz (Schreiner U.) Individual Differences and the Truth of Right and Wrong: Predicting Variations in Moral Judgment

Featured Session X 5:50-6:35
Matthew Katz (Central Michigan University) Can Developmental Psychology Reveal That Arithmetic is Known A Priori?

Conference Date Set

The inaugural philosophical issues conference hosted by the University of South Alabama will be held on Sept. 19 and 20.

All entries are due no later than Aug. 1. See CFP below for details.

CFP Posted on University Web Site

The Call for Papers has also been posted on the University Web site now. This same call for papers can also be accessed at http://www.southalabama.edu/philosophy.

Interested parties can check either site for updates and information.