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.

Call for Papers

1st annual Interdisciplinary Approach to Philosophical Issues Conference (2008)

Hosted by the University of South Alabama

This year’s theme will be “At the Crossroads of Philosophy and Psychology”
Sponsored by University of South Alabama Philosophy Department

September 2008 (exact date TBA)

Keynote speaker: Joshua Knobe, University of North Carolina

Professional and student submissions are welcomed. The conference will be hosting both a student session and a professional session.

Submissions are due no later than August 1. Early submissions are encouraged.

Presentations should be 20 to 30 minutes in length. Presentations will be followed by commentary and audience discussion.

Papers should be prepared for blind review.

The cover page should include the following:

1) author's name
2) professional or student submission (advanced grad student are welcomed to submit "upwards")
3) institutional affiliation
4) email address
5) telephone number
6) the paper's title
7) an abstract - 150 words maximum

Papers should be emailed to jss310@jaguar1.usouthal.edu no later than August 1.
Questions can be emailed to jss310@jaguar1.usouthal.edu.

Papers in any area of philosophy are welcome, but papers in the area of philosophy of psychology, broadly construed, will be given special consideration. Philosophy of psychology, broadly construed, includes, but is not limited to, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of moral psychology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, action theory, artificial intelligence, rationality, philosophical psychology, etc. We encourage papers from across all disciplines, as long as the papers are philosophical in nature.

For student submissions, there will be a $15 conference fee, payable at the conference. For professional submissions, there will be a $25 conference fee, payable at the conference. An award will be granted to the best student paper.