The annual meeting of the Central States Philosophical Association will be held at Northern Illinois University on October 9-10, 2009. All events in the program below will be held in the Holmes Student Center.
8:30-10:00 a.m.
Reception and Onsite Registration
University Suite
10:00-10:55 a.m.
"Why Friends of the Character View of Moral Worth Should Reconsider"
Speaker: Mark Anderson, Tarrant County College
Commentator: Bekka Williams, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Illinois Room
"The Self-Grounding of Pure Powers"
Speaker: William A. Baer, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Commentator: Ronald Loeffler, Grand Valley State University
Lincoln Room
"What the Nose Doesn't Know: Non-veridicality and Olfactory Experience"
Speaker: Clare Batty, University of Kentucky
Commentator: Kevin Sharpe, Saint Cloud State University
Heritage Room
11:00-11:55 a.m.
"Moral Particularism and Holism About Reasons"
Speaker: Mark Decker, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Commentator: Alastair Norcross, University of Colorado
Illinois Room
"Diamonds Are Not Forever: Possible Worlds and the Open Future Thesis"
Speaker: Naomi Luce, University of Notre Dame
Commentator: Grant Sterling, Eastern Illinois University
Lincoln Room
"Does Disagreement Lead to Skepticism? A Response to Feldman"
Speaker: Michael Thune, Joliet Junior College
Commentator: Jason Rogers, University of Rochester
Heritage Room
1:30-2:25 p.m.
"The Particularist Challenge to Norm Expressivism"
Speaker: Amanda Marshall, Western Michigan University
Commentator: Howard Nye, University of Alberta
Illinois Room
"Fischer and the Flicker of Freedom"
Speaker: James Cain, Oklahoma State University
Commentator: Alicia Finch, Northern Illinois University
Lincoln Room
"A Defense of Realism About Spatial Objects"
Speaker: Ali Hasan, University of Iowa
Commentator: Sean Stidd, Wayne State University
Heritage Room
2:30-3:25 p.m.
"Willing Universal Law vs. Universal Lawful Willing: What Kant's Supreme Principle of Ethics Should Have Been"
Speaker: Scott Forschler, Independent Scholar
Commentator: Ted McNair, Illinois Wesleyan University
Illinois Room
"Universalism, Vagueness, and the Argument from Borderline Hammers"
Speaker: Dan Korman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Commentator: Ben Caplan, Ohio State University
Lincoln Room
"Humean Theories of Explanation and the Ontological Economy Argument"
Speaker: Jaeho Lee, University of Indiana at Bloomington
Commentator: Michael Shaffer, Saint Clould State University
Heritage Room
3:30-4:25 p.m.
"Ethical Progress as Problem-Resolution"
Speaker: Amanda Roth, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Commentator: Hallie Liberto, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Illinois Room
"Facts About the Slingshot"
Speaker: Gregory Landini, University of Iowa
Commentator: Valia Allori, Northern Illinois University
Lincoln Room
"Generality Problems for Anti-Luck Epistemologies"
Speaker: Ben Rohrs, Northern Illinois University
Commentator: Jon Matheson, University of Rochester
Heritage Room
4:30-5:25 p.m.
"Medical Necessity, Basic Needs, Pareto Optimal Opportunities, and the Uninsured"
Speaker: Andrew Ward, Kansas Health Institute, Topeka
Commentator: Paul Bowman, Northern Illinois University
Illinois Room
"Being in Charge: The Moral Significance of Choice"
Speaker: Erica Lucast Stonestreet, College of St. Benedict/St. John's University
Commentator: John Lemos, Coe College
Lincoln Room
"Inferential Externalism and the Evidential Support Requirement: Friends or Foes?"
Speaker: Chris Tucker, University of Notre Dame
Commentator: Shawn Graves, Cedarville University
Heritage Room
5:30-6:30 p.m.
Reception
Capitol Room
6:30-7:30 p.m.
Banquet
Capitol Room
7:30 p.m.
Presidential Address
Mylan Engel Jr., Northern Illinois University
"Reliabilism, Epistemic Luck, and the Generality Problem"
Capitol Room
8:30-10:00 a.m.
Reception and Onsite Registration
University Suite
10:00-10:55 a.m.
"A Defense of Kant's Concept of the Highest Good"
Speaker: Alonso Villaran, Fulbright Fellow, Loyola University
Commentator: David Sussman, University of Illinois
Illinois Room
"Means-Ends Coherence and Unmodifiable Intentions"
Speaker: John Brunero, University of Missouri at St. Louis
Commentator: Kenneth Williford, University of Texas at Arlington
Lincoln Room
"Self-Evidence and Disagreement in Ethics"
Speaker: Ryan Fanselow, University of Maryland at College Park
Commentator: Jim Hudson, Northern Illinois University
Heritage Room
11:00-11:55 a.m.
"Hey You, What's So Special About the Second-Person Perspective?"
Speaker: Robyn Gaier, St. Louis University
Commentator: Molly Gardner, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Illinois Room
"A Law Requires a Lawgiver"
Speaker: Evan Fales, University of Iowa
Commentator: Eric Kraemer, University of Wisconsin at La Crosse
Lincoln Room
"No Epistemic Norm of Assertion"
Speaker: Bradley Rettler, University of Notre Dame
Commentator: Geoff Pynn, Northern Illinois University
Heritage Room
1:30-2:25 p.m.
"On the Need to Justify the Prohibition of the Slave Contract"
Speaker: Hallie Liberto, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Commentator: Patrick Beach, Boise State University
Illinois Room
"Concept Empiricism, Content, and Compositionality"
Speaker: Collin Rice, University of Missouri at Columbia
Commentator: Michael Roche, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Lincoln Room
"Does Knowledge Secure Warrant to Assert?"
Speaker: E.J. Coffman, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Commentator: Casey Swank, Saint Cloud State University
Heritage Room
2:30-3:25 p.m.
"The 'Best and Most Irrefutable' Ethical Internalism"
Speaker: Sharon Sytsma, Northern Illinois University
Commentator: Justin Horn, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Illinois Room
"Kojeve and the 'Premises' of Phenomenology of Spirit"
Speaker: Shane C. Callahan, Georgia State University
Commentator: Gordon Knight, Iowa State University
Lincoln Room
"Basic Justification and Reflective Defeat"
Speaker: David Alexander, Iowa State University
Commentator: Matthias Steup, Purdue University
Heritage Room
3:30-4:25 p.m.
"Humeanism and Amoralism"
Speaker: Steven Swartzer, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Commentator: Robyn Gaier, St. Louis University
Illinois Room
"Rejectability Accounts of Political Justification"
Speaker: William Glod, Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University
Commentator: Katherine Kim, Wayne State University
Lincoln Room
"The Skeptical Regress Argument and Non-inferential Beliefs: A Reply to Sinnott-Armstrong"
Speaker: J. Cervantez, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Commentator: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Dartmouth College
Heritage Room
4:30-5:25 p.m.
"Value Realism and Moral Constructivism"
Speaker: Henry West, Macalester College
Commentator: Jason Hanna, Northern Illinois University
Illinois Room
"The Bayesian Explanation of Transmission Failure"
Speaker, Geoff Pynn, Northern Illinois University
Commentator: Paul Weirich, University of Missouri at Columbia
Heritage Room
5:30-7:00 P.M.
Reception, University Suite
7:00 p.m.
Keynote Address
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Dartmouth College
"Contrastivism and Degrees of Freedom and Responsibility"
Capitol Room