ACPA 2018 Monday June 4, 9:00-12:30 Sympoisum Christine Tappolet (UdeM) Carolyn Price (Open University) Sophie Rietti (University of Ottawa) Murat Aydede (UBC) Laura Sizer (Hampshire College) Christine Tappolet (UdeM)
The nature of moods Remarques introductives The Intentionality of Moods Moods and Justification Affect – Core or Not? Sad Songs Say So Much: The Apparent Paradox of Liking Sad Music Organzizer
Symposium Andrew Molas (York)
Perspectives From “the Margin”: Student Proposals for Diversifying the Field of Philosophy Universal Instructional Design and Supporting Students with Disabilities in Philosophy
Veromi Arsiradam (Western) Lara Jost (UNIGE) Andrea Dionne Warmack (Emory), Emily Bingeman (Dalhousie)
Solutions for Diversifying Academic Philosophy Microaggressions et philosophie: pour un changement de l'environnement académique Translated to Death: On Making Oneself Intelligible
Tiffany Gordon & Emily Bingeman (Dalhousie) Oranizers Symposium Daniel Weinstock (McGill) (Organizer) Colin MacLeod (Victoria) Anne Iavaronne-Turcotte (McGill) Muhammad Velji (McGill)
Bill 62: A discussion/La loi 62: une discussion
Karen Robrertson (Trent) (Organizer) Marie-Anne Casselot-Legros (Laval ) Emily R. Douglas (McGill) Rachel Elliott (Guelph)
CSWIP Anglophone Session: Dimensions of Togetherness: Oppression and Transformation in Space and Time and Corporeality Chair “Manspreading”: A Study of Appropriative Intentionality with Iris Marion Young Phenomenologies of Resistance in and through Fanon Togetherness in the Future
9:00-9:45
Colloquium Kenneth Boyd (UofT) Nicole Ramsoomair (McGill)
Epistemology and Ethics Chair Technological Scotomisation: Autonomy in an Echo Chamber
9:55-10:40
Michael Randall Barnes (Georgetown)
Who Do You Speak For? And How? The Management of Identities on Social Media
Sympoisum
10:50-11:35 Charles Côté-Bouchard (Rutgers)
Is the Internet epistemically safe? Personalization and the threat of epistemological skepticism
11:45-12:30 Craig Agule (Rutgers)
Distinctive Duress and The Good Cognitive Capacity
9:00-9:45
Colloquium Dan McCarthur (York)
Philosophy of Science 1 Chair
Cory Lewis (UofT)
Laws, Models, and Explanations
9:55-10:40 Mark Alliksaar (UofT) 10:50-11:35 Rebecca Livernois (UBC) 11:45-12:30 Eve Roberts (University of King's College)
9:00-9:45 9:55-10:40
Colloquium Allen Habib (Calgary) Frédérick Armstrong and Natalie Stoljar (McGill) Jorge Humberto Sanchez-Perez (McMaster)
10:50-11:35 L. Chad Horne (Franklin & Marshall)
9:00-9:45
Colloquium TBD Stephanie Morais (CPA)
9:55-10:40 Marta Jimenez (Emory) 10:50-11:35 Taylor Barinka (UofT) 11:45-12:30 Michael Korngut (Western)
The Status of Classical Physics in Contemporary Science Externality, Pollution, and Economic Policy Novelty as an epistemic virtue for ‘Big Data’ research Philosophy of Law 1 Chair Responding to Group-Based Vulnerabilities - Intersectionality and Law Judicial Review or Democracy by Other Means: The Transitivity of the Will of the People Dworkin's Relational Egalitarianism Plato Chair The role of choral education in Plato’s Laws Plato on the Role of Anger in our Intellectual and Moral Development Perception and Knowledge in Plato's "Theaetetus" (184b3-186e12) What is the Value of Health (τὸ ὑγιαίνειν) in Plato?
1/20
ACPA 2018 9:00-9:45 9:55-10:40
Colloquium TBD Danielle Bromwich and Joseph Millum (UMass, Boston, NIH) Julian Jonker (University of Pennsylvania)
Applied Ethics 1 Chair Consent to Medical Research Vulnerability and the Puzzle of Mutually Beneficial Exploitation
10:50-11:35 Nathan Brett (Dalhousie)
Climate Change and Common-Sense Morality
11:45-12:30 Attila Ataner (Western)
Kant and Hegel on Our Duties to Preserve the Living Body and the Natural Environment
9:00-9:45
Colloquium Amanda Bryant (Trent) Steven Bland (Huron University College)
Epistemology 1 Chair Sceptical Arguments for Epistemic Relativism
9:55-10:40 Marius Backmann (Konstanz University) 10:50-11:35 David Didomenico (University of Miami)
Varieties of Justification – How (not) to Solve the Old Riddle Hijacked Experiences, Reasoning, and Rationality
11:45-12:30 C Dalrymple-Fraser (UofT)
Building epistemic justice: disability, epistemic exclusions, and the material built environment
9:00-9:45 9:55-10:40
Colloquium Xavier Scott (York) Michael Cuffaro and Molly Kao (Western , UdeM)
Social and Political Philosophy: Justice, Responsibility and Religion Chair
Sandra Raponi (Merrimack College)
Developing a Moral Framework for a New Global Compact on Responsibility Sharing for Refugees
Employing Agent-Based Computer Simulations in Developing Theories of Distributive Justice
Leland Harper (Kwantlen Polytechnic Theory and Practice: Ethical Considerations of Religious Pluralism University) Susan Dieleman and Zahra Shojaei (University 11:45-12:30 Religious Reasons as Conversation-Stoppers of Saskatchewan) 10:50-11:35
9:00-9:45
Colloquium Susan-Judith Hoffmann (McGill) Natalie Helberg (UofT)
Contemporary European Philosophy 1 Chair Explosive Plasticity, Insubordination, and Deconstruction
9:55-10:40
Patrick Eldridge (KU Leuven)
The Vicissitudes of Remembering: Husserl's Phenomenology of False Memories The Persistence of Memory: Henri Bergson, Margaret Urban Walker, and the Necessity of Moral Repair
10:50-11:35 Bianca Mary Waked (McMaster)
9:00-9:45 9:55-10:40
Colloquium Sarah Stroud (McGill) Scott Woodcock (Victoria) Aaron Ancell (UofT)
Normative Ethics 1 Chair Virtue Ethics Must be Self-Effacing to be Normatively Significant Compromising Justice: Should we be principled or pragmatic?
10:50-11:35 Lorenza D'Angelo (Syracuse)
Non-Sensory Phenomenology and Theories of Pleasure
11:45-12:30 Danielle Bromwich (UMass, Boston)
Consent, Conversation, and Communication
9:00-10:00
Colloquium Simon Gurofsky (U. of Chicago)
Hume, Kant and Hegel Chair
Manuel Vásquez Villavicencio (UQAM)
Intellectual curiosity and melancholy in Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature
TBD
Comments on Villavicencio
10:15- 11:15 Farshid Baghai (Villanova)
The systematic unity of reason in Kant's critical philosophy
11:30-12:30 Kaveh Boveiri (UdeM)
On Hegelian Totality
9:00-9:45 9:55-10:40
Jeanne Allard (McGill)
Comments on Boveiri
Colloquium Claudine Verheggen Christina Behme (Mount Saint Vincent)
Language and Mind Chair Descartes’ view on animal cognition
Michaela Manson (UofT)
Comments on Behme
Hayden Kee (Fordham )
Sense-making from the top down
10:50-11:35 Benjamin Winokur (York)
Davidson, Authoritative Speech, and Privileged Self-Knowledge
11:45-12:30 Chang Liu (Western)
Slurs as Illocutionary Force Indicators
2/20
ACPA 2018 Symposium Frédéric Coté-Boudreau (Queens)
Autonomy and (non-)domination: the case of non-human animals Preference Formation: A Non-Rationalistic and Non-Individualistic Approach
Sue Donaldson & Will Kymlicka (Queens) Natalie Evans (Guelph-Humber )
Freedom in Action Animal agency, autonomy, and assent in domesticated animal citizens
Angie Pepper (UdeM) Kristin Voigt (McGill)
Enabling Nonhuman Animal Agency: Consent, Assent, and Dissent Organizer & co-chair
Valéry Giroux (UdeM)
Organizer & co-chair
9:00-9:45
Colloquium Anne-Marie Boisvert (UQAM) Kaveh Boveiri (UdeM)
9:55-10:40
Andreanne Veillette (Sherbrooke)
10:50-11:35 Jean-Charles Pelland (UQAM)
Cognition, langage et science Présidente Construction de niche : une réévaluation Cartographier l’épistémologie sociale orientée vers les systèmes : à la recherche de standards de recherche rigoureux Le continu, le discret, et la numérosité
11:45-12:30 Marc Champagne (Trent)
Kripke et Saussure affirmaient-ils la même chose?
Colloquium André Duhamel (Sherbrooke) 9:00-10:00 Alexandre Rouette (UQTR) 10:15-11:15 Jeffrey Reid (Ottawa) Andreas Farina-Schroll (UdeM) 11:30-12:30 Laura Kassar (UdeM) Bernabé Wesley (UdeMl)
Histoire de la philosophie 1 Président Existe-t-il une inertie des idées chez Spinoza ? Le temps chez Löwith et Hegel Comments on Reid La lecture benjaminienne de Franz Kafka - une oeuvre "de nature prophétique" Comments on Kassar
Sympoisum Nawel Hamidi (Université d'Essex, UK) Kasereka Kavwahirehi (Université d’Ottawa) Kevin Lamoureux U. of Manitoba and U. of Winnipeg) Delphine Abadie (UdeM) Jenna Woodrow (Thompson Rivers U.) Naïma Hamrouni (UQTR)
Existence racisée, politiques de résurgence et philosophies de libération / Racialised existences, philosophies of resistance, and the politics of resurgence. La voix des humiliés : pouvoir, récits et généalogie de l’humiliation en Algérie De l’« ego cogito » cartésien à la « corpo-politique » : La philosophie africaine et la recherche d’une autre dimension d’humanité Mino Pimatisiwin: Walking in a good way Organizer Organizer Organizer
Symposium Céline Riverin (Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf), organizer Simon Goyer (UQAM) Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien (UQAM)
Philosophie et science: dialogue et bénéfices mutuels
François Papale (UdeM)
La classification dans le contexte de la pratique scientifique et la tradition des espèces naturelles
David Montminy (UdeM), Organizer Kevin Kaiser (UdeM)
Fonctionnalisme et antiréalisme des espèces naturelles Taxonomie des modèles d'intégration en biologie
Président Analyse critique de la dysfonction préjudiciable Le concept de santé mentale: socialement construit et objectif
Monday June 4, 2:00-5:30 Sympoisum
The perception-cognition boundary.
Eric Mandelbaum (CUNY)
Seeing and Conceptualizing: Modularity and the Shallow Contents of Perception
Grace Helton (Princeton) Endre Begby (SFU) Jacob Beck (York), Organizer Hayley Clatterbuck (Rochester)
Unrevisability and the Divide Between Perception and Cognition On Objectivity and Bias in Perception Hallucinations and Perceptual Noise Chair
3/20
ACPA 2018 Sympoisum
New Narratives in the History of Philosophy: Renaissance and Early Modern Women
Kelin Emmet (UBC)
Resisting Marriage, Reclaiming Right
Charlotte Sabourin (McGill)
Subordinates in Society, Equals in the Bedroom: Kant on Women and Marriage
Allauren Forbes (University of Pennsylvania)
The Virtue of Conversation Letters on Natural Philosophy and New Science: Camilla Erculiani (Padua 1584) and Margherita Sarrocchi (Rome 1612)
Sandra Plastina (University of Calabria) Marguerite Deslauriers (McGill), organizer
Generation, Agency and Material Causation: Renaissance Men Argue for Women's Worth
Symposium Andrew Botterell (Western) & Mianna Lotz (Macquarie) Veromi Arsiradam (Western) Colin MacLeod (Victoria) Sally Haslanger (MIT) & Isaac Yablo (U. MassBoston) Tina Rulli (UC Davis) Carolyn McLeod (Western)
Having Children By Adoption: Philosophical Reflections
Symposium Gurpreet Rattan (UofT), Organizer Mark McCullagh (Guelph), Organizer Gurpreet Rattan & Marion Durand (UofT) David Sosa (University of Texas at Austin) Roy Sorensen (Wash-U, St. Louis) David Hunter (Ryerson)
Mates's Puzzle: challenging our conceptions of meaning and belief Chair Two takeaways from the Mates examples The Cognitive Significance of Mates’s Puzzle Mates in Two Embedded Nonsense Organizer
Symposium
Adoption, Intimacy, and Obligation Children, Adoption, and the Politics of Belonging Decolonizing Adoption Transracial Adoption: Does Openness Matter? To Whom? Taking Back 'Transracial' Organizer
Democracy in crisis? Historical and contemporary perspectives
Ronald Beiner (UofT) Étienne Brown (CRÉ), Organizer Sophie Marcotte-Chénard (Carleton), Organizer Robert Sparling (Ottawa)
Dangerous Minds in Dangerous Times Rhetoric and Democracy: Kant on Self-Government and Representation. Representations of Crisis, Crisis of Representation: Considerations on Lefort's Theory of Democratic Indeterminacy Adam Smith and the Crisis of Liberalism : Public Power, Private Power and Corruption
Christian Nadeau (UdeM)
La fragilité des institutions. Délibération et défense des droits
Colloquium Charles Côté-Bouchard (Rutgers)
Epistemology 2 Chair
2:00-3:00
Kenneth Boyd (UofT)
Figure It Out For Yourself: Moral Knowledge and the Limits of Testimony
3:15-4:15
Nicole Dular (Franklin College) Amanda Bryant (Trent)
Comments on Boyd Why Care about Constraint: Theoretical Constraint as an Epistemic Good
Bryson Brown (Lethbridge)
Comments on Bryant
Jill Cumby (York)
Thinking beyond Imagining
Nathan Howard (USC)
Comments on Cumby
Colloquium Sandra Raponi (Merrimack College)
Philosophy of Law 2 Chair
2:00-3:00
Evan Tiffany (SFU)
Epistemic Duress and the Fair Opportunity to Avoid Ignorance
3:15-4:15
L. Chad Horne (Franklin & Marshall College) Lisa Hecht (Stockholm) Jorge Humberto Sanchez-Perez (McMaster)
Comments on Tiffany Compensation for Justified Harm to the Innocent Comments on Hecht
Shruta Swarup (UofT) Robert Murray (Ryerson)
Rights, Respect, and the Duty to Obey the Law Comments on Swarup
4:30-5:30
4:30-5:30
4/20
ACPA 2018 Colloquium Cory Lewis (UofT) Hassan Masoud (University of Alberta)
Epistemology, Logic and Laws Chair Epistemology of Deductive Systems
Boaz Schuman (UofT)
Comments on Masoud
Manish Oza (UofT)
Illogical thought and the external conception
Daniel Munro (UofT)
Comments on Oza
4:30-5:30
Yang Zhao (University of Alberta)
Laws without properties
2:00-3:00
Colloquium Christopher Yorke (Open University) Kathy Behrendt (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Ethics 1 Chair Unmoored: making sense of fear of death
John McHugh (Denison University)
Comments on Behrendt
Eric Bohner (Calgary)
Praising Secret Agents Who Could Not Have Done Otherwise
Miriam McCormick (U of Richmond)
Comments on Bohner
Howard Nye (University of Alberta) Arron Ancell (UofT)
In Defense of a Harm-Based Account of the Default Wrongness of Killing Comments on Nye
Colloquium John Hacker-Wright (Guelph) Benjamin Wald (UofT)
Moral Psychology 1 Chair Thin Constitutivism and Motivational Internalism
Steven Woodworth (Stanford) Etye Steinberg (UofT) Catherine Rioux (UofT) Jessica Wright (UofT)
Comments on Wald Reflection and Responsibility for Attitudes Comments on Steinberg Cognitive Control and Rational Evaluation
Paul Boswell (UdeM)
Comments on Wright
Symposium Jenny Pelletier (KU Leuven-norganizer) & Magali Roques (Helsinki Collegium for Claude Panaccio (UQAM) Martin Pickavé (UofT) Gyula Klima (Fordham) Susan Brower-Toland (St. Louis University) Calvin Normore (UCLA) All
Ockham on Intentionality
Beauty, power and preference Chair
2:00-3:00
Colloquium Rebecca Livernois (UBC) Myron A Penner and Amanda Nichols (Trinity Western University, Oklahoma Christian University) Danny Goldstick (UofT)
3:15-4:15
Travis Lacroix and Cailin O'Connor (University of California, Irvine)
On the Role of Power in the Evolution of Inequitable Norms
Mike Ashfield (USC)
Comments on Lacroix and O'Connor
Glen Koehn (Huron University College) Alex Koo (UofT)
On the Order of Preferences Comments on Koehn
2:00-3:00 3:15-4:15
3:15-4:15 4:30-5:30
2:00-3:00 3:15-4:15 4:30-5:30
4:30-5:30
Symposium 2:00-3:00 3:15-4:15 4:30-5:30
Thomas Lamarre (McGill), Organizer Melanie Coughlin (McGill) Jingjing Li (McGill), Organizer Christopher Byrne (McGill)
Introducing The Language of Thought in Late Medieval Philosophy Ockham on Intentionality Short response to "Ockham on Intentionality" I Short response to "Ockham on Intentionality" II Short response to "Ockham on Intentionality" III Short response to "Ockham on Intentionality" IV Roundatble discussion
Molecular Symmetry, Beauty, and Truth Comments on Penner and Nichols
If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha: Dialectics in East Asian Buddhism Chair Nishitani’s Critique of Ideology: Emptiness in Affect Icchantika and Bodhisattva: Dialectics of Ignorance and Awakening Straight is Crooked: Poetry as Performative Dialectics in the Five Ranks Theory of Zen Buddhism
5/20
ACPA 2018 Symposium Nigel DeSouza (Ottawa)
La philosophie à l'Académie de Berlin au 18e siècle Herder and the Berlin Academy
François Duchesneau (UdeM)
Méthode historique et méthode déductive en philosophie naturelle selon Maupertuis académicien
Christian Leduc (UdeM), Organizer Mitia Rioux-Beaulne (Ottawa)
Folie, enthousiasme, songes, pressentiments. Penser les pouvoirs de l’imagination à l’Académie de Berlin L’idée de philosophie spéculative à l’Académie de Berlin Fontenelle et le rôle de l’histoire de l’académie
Colloquium Laura Kassar (UdeM)
Philosophie sociale et politique Présidente
2:00-2:45
André Duhamel (Sherbrooke)
Ricoeur et Nussbaum sur la tragédie : enjeux d’une réappropriation contemporaine de la phronesis
2:55: 3:40
Hugo Rangel Torrijo (UQAM)
La philosophie politique dans le débat de la démocratie en Amérique Latine.
3:50-4:35
Lara Jost (UNIGE)
Microaggressions: Défense d'une Approche Idéalisée
2:00-3:00
Colloquium Kaveh Boveiri (UdeM) Valérie Lynn Therrien (Western)
Philosophie de la science et de la logique Président Le débat sure l'axiome du choix: Sermelo et Sierpinski contre les semi-intuitionnistes francais
Judy Pelham (York)
Comments on Therrien
Daniel Dumouchel (UdeM), Organizer
3:15-4:15
Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien (UQAM) Derek Andrews (Dalhousie)
4:30-5:30
Boorse et le mouvement antipsychiatrique : même combat? (Winner of the Graduate Student Essay Prize (1st place)) Comments on Gagné-Julien
Pierre-Yves Rochefort (Cégep de l'Outaouais) Ruphy, le pluralisme et le réalisme scientifique Anne-Marie Boisvert (UQAM) Comments on Rochefort Symposium Christine Tappolet (UdeM)
Éthique et intelligence artificielle Présidente
Martin Gibert (UdeM), Organizer “Intelligence, conscience et vie artificielle : les leçons de l'éthique animale” Dominique Martin (UQAM), Organizer “Agent moral artificiel et structure de la moralité” Vincent Müller (University of Leeds & Anatolia “Neurosurveillance” College) “L'arroseur arrosé, et impuissant: Pourquoi nous sommes vulnérables aux effets de bulle Pierre Poirier (UQAM) numérique.” Miguel Ángel Sebastián (Université Nationale “First-Person Representation and the Moral Status of Artificial Intelligence” de Mexico)
Monday June 4, 6:00-7:00
Sandra Lapoint (McMaster) Samantha Brennan (Guelph)
Presidential Address Chair Fit is a Feminist Issue: Reflections on Public Engagement as a Philosopher
Monday June 4, 7:00-9:00 CPA Reception
6/20
ACPA 2018 Tuesday June 5, 9:00-12:30 Symposium Muhammad Ali Khalidi (York) Laura Franklin-Hall (NYU) Marc Ereshefsky (Calgary) Adrian Currie (CSER, Cambridge)
Historical Kinds What Are Historical Kinds? (And Why Does It Matter?) Why are some kinds historical and others not? Historical Kinds Central Subjects & Historical Individuals
Sympoisum Chris Heathwood (U Colorado Boulder)
Desire and Wellbeing Desire and Well-Being: A Partial Map
Gwen Bradford (Rice) Tim Schroder (Rice) (organizer)
Perfectionist Bads and Desires The nature of desires and the theory of wellbeing
Symposium Pablo Gilabert (Concordia) Katharina Nieswandt (Concordia) Jeppe von Platz (University of Richmond) David Borman (Nipissing University) (organizer) Colloquium Luca Gili (UQAM) Benjamin Wilck (Humboldt-Universitaet zu 9:00-10:00 Berlin) Peter Haskett (Carleton) 10:15-11:15 Jonathan Milad (UofT) Marta Jimenez (Emory) 11:30-12:30 Tiger Zheng (Guelph)
9:00-10:00
Capitalist Domination, the Moral Economy, and the Right to Justification Ancient Philosophy Chair Scientific Definitions and a New Problem for Pyrrhonian Scepticism Comments on Wilck Epictetus and the Notion of the Will Comments on Milad It Takes One to Know One - Phronēsis, Sunēsis, the Difficulty of Identifying Aristotelian Exemplars Comments on Zheng
Colloquium Nathan Howard (USC)
Epistemology 3 Chair
Marc-Kevin Daoust (UdeM)
Epistemic Akrasia, Rational Closure and Lotteries
Phyllis Pearson (UBC)
Comments on Daoust Internalism vs. Externalism: A Battle of Intuitions Comments on Mackenzie Acquittal from Knowledge Laundering
Graham Moore (UBC)
Comments on Glasscock
Colloquium Christie Hartley (Georgia State)
Feminist Philosophy: Ethics and health care Chair Defending a Phenomenological Account of Empathy and an Ethic of Care for Overcoming Stigma Associated with Schizophrenia Comments on Molas The Epistemology of Ignorance and Prenatal Care for Pregnant Women in Provincial Jails in Ontario and Nova Scotia Comments on Critchley
Andrew Molas (York) Elizaveta Solomonova (McGill)
10:15-11:15 Harry Critchley (Queen's) Heather Stewart (Western) 11:30-12:30 Holly Longair (Vanderbilt)
9:00-10:00
Exploitation, Solidarity, and Dignity Beyond Frontier Town: Domination and Theories of Private Property Capitalism and the Problem of Alienation
John Thorp (Western)
10:15-11:15 Mikaela Mackenzie (UofT) Whitney Lilly (Northwestern) 11:30-12:30 Juan Pineros Glasscock (Yale)
9:00-10:00
Liberty, Equality, and Solidarity at Work: Justice in Employment and Production
Epistemic Injustice and Alternative Epistemic Frameworks: The Case of Cuba
Ryoa Chung (UdeM)
Comments on Longair
Colloquium Emily Carson (McGill) Thomas Land (Ryerson) Nick Dunn (McGill)
Kant Chair The Importance of Faculty Psychology in Kant Comments on Land
10:15-11:15 Simon Gurofsky (U. of Chicago) Nik Hamm (McGill) 11:30-12:30 Samantha Wesch (Alberta) Kaveh Boveiri (UdeM)
Kant's Principle of Significance Comments on Gurofsky Kant’s University: The Anthropological Significance Conflict of the Faculties Comments on Wesch
7/20
ACPA 2018
9:00-10:00
Colloquium David Copp (UC Davis)
Meta-Ethics 1 Chair
David Rocheleau-Houle (York)
Scanlon, Pure Normative Claims, and Necessity
Mike Ashfield (USC)
Comments on Rocheleau-Houle
10:15-11:15 Griffin Klemick (UofT) Ulf Hlobil (Concordia) 11:30-12:30 Nicole Dular (Franklin College)
9:00-10:00
Constructivism's Moral Epistemology Comments on Dular
Colloquium Chris Viger (Western)
Philosophy of Cognitive Science 1 Chair
Dylan Ludwig (York)
The Psychological Mechanisms of Implicit Bias
Eric Mandelbaum (CUNY)
Comments on Ludwig
Christopher Mole (UBC) Colloquium
Debates in Cognitive Science: mapping the mind using cognitive homologies Comments on Brigham Explaining the Sense of Ownership for Action: An Attentional Account Comments on Henry
TBD
Normative Ethics 2 Chair
Jordan Thomson (UofT)
Having it Good Without Being Bad: Toward a Defense of Moral Moderation
Arron Ancell (UofT)
Comments on Thomson
10:15-11:15 Jamie Robertson (York) Sophie Rietti (U. Ottawa) 11:30-12:30 Alistair Macleod (Queen's)
9:00-10:00
Comments on Klemick
Félix Aubé-Beaudoin (Laval)
10:15-11:15 Andrew Brigham (Ottawa) Lauren Olin (University of Missouri Saint Louis) 11:30-12:30 Aaron Henry (UofT)
9:00-10:00
McDowell, Moral Realism, and "Reflective Self-Scrutiny"
Silos versus layer-cake: productively contending with the complexity of autonomy Comments on Robertson The Conditionality of Promissory Obligations [ or When Is There No Obligation to Keep a Promise?]
Allen Habib (Calgary)
Comments on Macleod
Colloquium Phil Corkum (Alberta) Jonathan Payton (UofT) Neil Williams (University of Buffalo)
Metaphysics 1 Chair Proportionality and Omissions Reconsidered Comments on Payton
10:15-11:15 Evan Woods (Ohio State)
Many, but One
Adam Murray (UofT) 11:30-12:30 Carolyn Garland (Syracuse) Damian Melamedoff (UofT)
Comments on Woods Substance Prioritism: Constituent Ontologies and the Order of Dependence Comments on Garland
9:00-9:45 9:55-10:40
Colloquium Ethics 2 TBD Chair Willem van der Deijl (Centre de Recherche en Two reasons to step into the matrix Ethique) Steven Woodworth (Stanford)
The Asymmetry of Instrumental Reason
10:50-11:35 Dwayne Moore (Saskatchewan)
Reconciling Appraisal Love and Bestowal Love
11:45-12:30 Barry Hoffmaster (Western)
The Rationality of Bioethics and More
Symposium Carrie Jenkins (UBC) Kate Norlock (Trent) Audrey Yap (Victoria) Kate Manne (Cornell) Victor Kumar and CSWIP
Author Meets Critics Session on Kate Manne’s Down Girl Comments on Down Girl I Comments on Down Girl II Comments on Down Girl III Reply to Jenkins, Norlock, and Yap Organizers
8/20
ACPA 2018 D. Anthony Larivière (Lakehead) 9:00-10:00
Phil Smolenski (Queens) Blain Neufeld (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee)
Social and Political Philosophy 1 Chair Checking for Stability in a World of Strict Compliance Comments on Smolenski
10:15-11:15 Devlin Russell (Buffalo)
On a Need-to-Know Basis: A New Theory of Privacy
11:30-12:30 Peter Balint (UNSW)
What can the neutral tolerant state do? The case of mocking cultural appropriation
Symposium Marie-Claude Beaudin (Sherbrooke)
La coopérative comme institution politique “La confiance envers les coopératives : constats et postulats philosophiques”
Allison Marchildon (Sherbrooke)
“L'organisation coopérative, lieu privilégié de développement d'une éthique capacitante”
Dominic Martin (UQAM) (Organizer) Gabriel Monette (UdeM) Michel Séguinv (UQAM)
“Quel est le rôle de la coopérative dans une société juste?” “Le républicanisme libéral, l'entreprise et la justice économique.” “L'approche éthique de la pratique de la démocratie au sein des cooperatives”
Symposium Jean-Sébastien Hardy (Johns Hopkins) (Organizer) Giulio Mellana (Laval/Paris-Sorbonne) (Organizer) Jean-François Perrier (Laval/Wuppertal) Marc-Antoine Vallée (Collège EdouardMontpetit)
Penser le religieux après la « mort de Dieu ». Expériences et interprétations contemporaines du sacré
La « παρουσία des perdus ». L’attente chez Heidegger et dans The Road Abenderkenntnis. Une histoire occidentale L’énigme de l’incarnation chez Marc Richir La persistance du religieux et de la métaphysique théiste après la « mort de Dieu »
Elisa Bellato (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) L’espace du mythe et le temps de l’origine
Paul Karazivan (Collège Lasalle)
Heidegger et la résurgence des dieux. La phénoménologie religieuse après la mort de Dieu Dionysos et Saint-Paul. Un second souffle pour les Dieux ?
Michel Rhéaume (Laval/Paris-Sorbonne)
Des prophètes sont-ils encore possibles ?
Clay Mamvemba (Laval)
Alexandre Lavallée (PetalMD) Valéry Giroux (UdeM) William-Jacomo Beauchemin (Exeko) Alain Létourneau (Sherbrooke)
Philosophy in and for Society: Developing Best Practices for Engagement / La philosophie dans et pour la société: développer des pratiques exemplaires d’engagement The roles and responsibilities of scholars in creating public debate: Challenging intuitive ethical considerations Comment et pourquoi faire le marketing de la philosophie? L’engagement antispéciste des chercheurs.ses en éthique animale La médiation intellectuelle : une pratique de la philosophie et un outil d’action sociale Un engagement en gouvernance de l’adaptation aux changements climatiques
Brooke Struck (Science-Metrix) Matthew Sample & François Claveau
Embodied concepts: how philosophical analysis can guide institutional reform Organizers
Symposium Françoise Baylis (Dalhousie)
Tuesday June 5, 12:30 - 2:00 Chair's Lunch Tuesday June 5, 2:00 -5:30 Sympoisum
Relational Autonomy, Relational Equality and Self-Regarding Attitudes
Marina Oshana (UC Davis)
Does relational autonomy presuppose egalitarianism— and if so, so what?
Christian Schemmel (Manchester) Éliot Litalien (McGill) Natalie Stoljar & Kristin Voigt (McGill) (coorganizers)
Social Equality, Self-Respect, and Autonomy Agency, Inequality and Self-Respect Regarding Oneself as an Equal
9/20
ACPA 2018 Sympoisum Chris Tillman (Manitoba) Eileen Nutting (University of Kansas) Ali Kazmi (Calgary) Cody Gilmore (UC Davis) Ben Caplan
Why 0-adic Relations Have Truth Conditions Chair Comments on Gilmore: Why 0-adic Relation Have Truth Conditions On Plugging Slots: Some Friendly Suggestions for Gilmore Reply to Nutting and Kazmi Organizer
Symposium Christine Tappolet (UdeM) Heidi Maibom (University of Cincinatti)
Regard for Reason in the Moral Mind Comments on Regard for Reason in the Moral Mind I Comments on Regard for Reason in the Moral Mind II
Neil Sinhababu (National University of Singapore) Joshua May (U. of Alabama at Birmingham)
Comments on Regard for Reason in the Moral Mind III Reply to Tappolet, Maibom, and Sinhababu
Victor Kumar (Boston University )
Organizer and Chair
Symposium Olivia Sultanescu (York) (Organizer)
Donald Davidson’s Triangulation Argument Introductory Remarks
Kirk Ludwig (Indiana University, Bloomington) Triangulating on Thoughts and Norms Duncan MacIntosh (Dalhousie) Alex Miller (University of Otago) Paul Hurley (Claremont McKenna College) Claudine Verheggen (York) Robrert Myers (York) Colloquium Thomas Land (Ryerson)
Contra Myers on There Having to Be Objectively Normative Reasons; Contra Verheggen on Semantics Having to Be Irreducible Verheggen on Davidson and Kripke on Rule-Following Davidson's Debt to Anscombe Reply to Ludwig, MacIntosh, and Miller Reply to Macintosh, Ludwig and Hurley
Arianna Falbo (Brown University) Liang Zhou Koh (UofT) David DiDomenico (Miami) Julia Smith (UofT) Catherine Hundleby (Windsor)
Epistemology 4 Chair Constitutive Reasons and the Suspension of Judgment (Winner of the Graduate Student Essay Prize (2nd place)) Comments on Lilly Rational Dispositions, the Brain-Scrambler, and Brains-in-Vats Comments on Koh Unacknowledged Permissivism Comments on Smith
Colloquium Joshua Brandt (UofT) Michael Da Silva (UBC) Howard Nye (University of Alberta) Frank Hindriks (Groningen) Katharina Nieswandt (Concordia)
Normative Ethics 3 Chair Still Partly Wrong Comments on Da Silva The Problem of Insignificant Hands Comments on Hindriks
Brandon Wooldridge (McMaster) John Hacker-Wright (Guelph)
Is Integrity a Virtue? Comments on Wooldridge
2:00-3:00
Colloquium Marnina Norys (York) Hasko von Kriegstein (Ryerson)
Applied Ethics: terrorism, business and climate Chair The Radical Behavioral Challenge and Wide-Scope Obligations in Business
3:15-4:15
Dominic Martin (UQAM) Michael Montess (York)
Comments on Kriegstein Challenging the Anthropocentrism in the Ethics of Climate Change
4:30-5:30
Charles Dalrymple-Fraser (UofT) Lu-Vada Dunford (UofT)
Comments on Montess Terrorism as a violent practice of eradiction: Killing bodies to kill ideas
Renaud-Phillippe Garner (UofT)
Comments on Dunford
Colloquium Carolyn Garland (Syracuse) Phil Corkum (University of Alberta)
Metaphysics 2 Chair Salience and Metaphysical Explanation
Jonathan Payton (UofT)
Comments on Corkum
Ranpal Dosanjh (Iowa State) James Davies (UofT) Fatema Amijee (SFU) Evan Woods (Ohio State)
Is Counterfactual Stability a Guide to Ontological Distinctness Comments on Dosanjh Relativized Fundamentality Comments on Amijee
2:00-3:00 3:15-4:15 4:30-5:30
2:00-3:00 3:15-4:15 4:30-5:30
2:00-3:00 3:15-4:15 4:30-5:30
Whitney Lilly (Northwestern)
10/20
ACPA 2018 Symposium
Cynthia Stark (University of Utah)
Reciprocity and Social Justice Reciprocity of Contribution and Justificatory Reciprocity: On the Connection between Two Notions of Reciprocity in Political Liberalism. Publicity, Reciprocity, and Incentives Justice, Reciprocity, and Competing Social Ends: A Proposal for Managing Trade-offs between Gender Equality and Economic Equality. Reciprocity, Desert and Compliance.
Colloquium Letitia Meynell (Dalhousie)
Philosophy of Cognitive Science 2 Chair
Sam Clarke (Oxford)
Beyond the Icon: On Carey’s Characterisation of Core Cognition
Dan Casey (York University)
Comments on Clarke
Jean-Charles Pelland (UQAM)
Arithmetic, Culture, and Attention: An internalist approach to numerical cognition
Brian Ball (Oxford)
Comments on Pelland
Brandon Tinklenberg (York)
Primate Mindreading Revisited: A Dilemma for the Two Systems View of Social Cognition
Hayley Clatterbuck (Rochester)
Comments on Tinklenberg
Colloquium Sonia Sikka (Ottawa ) Xavier Scott (York) Susan Dieleman (Saskatchewan)
Social and Political Philosophy 2 Chair Beyond Metaphysics: Emphasizing Religion's Social and Political Features Comments on Scott
Sébastien Lacroix (Laval)
Identity & Recognition: Québec’s Identity Debate as a Contribution to Canadian Political Philosophy
Daniel Tanguay (Ottawa)
Comments on Lacroix
D. Anthony Larivière (Lakehead)
Privacy, Security, and Secrecy
Ryoa Chung (UdeM)
Comments on Larivière
Colloquium Andrew Botterell (Western)
Meta-Ethics 2 Chair
2:00-3:00
David Matheson (Carleton) Devlin Russell (University at Buffalo)
Immorality and Meaning in Life Comments on Matheson
3:15-4:15
Bowen Chan (UofT)
Making Me Happy: An Obsession with One’s Own Life in Explaining the Value of Virtue
Samantha Wesch (Alberta)
Comments on Chan
Trystan Goetze (Sheffield) David Collins (McGill)
The Shadow of Answerability: Taking Responsibility and Penumbral Agency Comments on Goetze
Symposium Boyd White (McGill), Natalie Fletcher (Concordia) & Amélie Lemieux (McGill) Marc-Antoine Dilhac (UdeM) Manon Claveau (Maison Théâtre) et Natalie Fletcher (Concordia) Pierre Desprès & Emmanuelle Gruber (Collège Montmorency) Estelle Lamoureux (Manitoba Association for Rights and Liberties) et Linda Connor Christian Frenette (Cégep de Lanaudière) Remi Robert & François Claveau (Organizers)
La philosophie dans l’éducation / Philosophy before University Aesthetigrams and Philosograms: A philosophical lens on visual mapmaking strategies to record aesthetic encounters with young people TBD Théâtre jeune public et philosophie pour enfants: Développement de la réflexion autonome, de l’esprit critique et de la pensée créatrice
2:00-3:00
Colloquium Dominic Mciver Lopes (UBC) Tim Juvshik (U. Mass-Amherst)
Aesthetics 1 Chair Are Artworks Necessarily Artifacts?
3:15-4:15
Bianca Waked (McMaster) John Dyck (CUNY)
Comments on Juvshik There Are No Purely Aesthetic Obligations
Robbie Kubala (Columbia)
Comments on Dyck
Christopher Yorke (Open University)
Suits on Autotelic Value: Is Gameplay a Uniquely and Independently Valuable Activity?
Gwen Bradford (Rice)
Comments on Yorke
Christie Hartley (Georgia State) Andrew Lister (Queen's) (Organizer) Gina Schouten (Harvard)
2:00-3:00 3:15-4:15 4:30-5:30
2:00-3:00 3:15-4:15
4:30-5:30
4:30-5:30
4:30-5:30
FORUM JEUNESSE « penser la démocratie autrement ». High School Ethics Bowl: Ethical thinking is the new sport Dlibr: Une communauté d'idées en ligne pour enseigner la philosophie
11/20
ACPA 2018 Symposium David Hyder (Ottawa) Xavier Corsius (Ottawa) Ageel Al-Fadli (Ottawa) David Gaber (McGill) Samuel Descarreaux (Ottawa) (Organizer) Symposium
Les enjeux de l'interprétation kantienne du temps et de l'espace / Issues on Kant's Interpretation of Space and Time Kant and Einstein on the Causal Order of Time L'algèbre comme science pure du temps : Kant et Hamilton Kant on Simultaneity Kant, Relativity and non-Euclidiean Geometry Entre spatialité et temporalité schématique : Friedrich-Albert Lange critique de Kant La dialectique comme théorie de la déduction dans la philosophie ancienne
Laurence Godin-Tremblay (UQAM)
La réfutation dialectique des Éléates (Aristote, Phys. I, 2-3)
Benoît Castélnerac (Sherbrooke)
Socrate mord-il la poussière dans l'Euthydème?
Luis-André Dorion (UdeM) Luca Gili (UQAM) (Organizer)
Les arguments dialectiques dans le livre Gamma de la Métaphysique Chair
Symposium Hasana Sharp (McGill) Syliane Malinowski Charles (UQTR)
Spinoza: Desiring and Knowing: Bodies, Cognition, and Power Duo simul: Eros and power in Spinoza Spinoza et les théories contemporaines de la cognition incarnée
Norman Whitman (University of Houston Downtown) Mario Donoso Gómez: (Université Paris 8) Sarah M. Kizuk (Marquette University) (Organizer)
Natural Individuals of (sive) Political Individual: Self Identity and Knowledge in Spinoza’s Politics Le rôle des affect imitatifs dans la production des notion communes chez Spinoza Chair
Oberto Marrama (UQTR) (Organizer)
Tuesday June 5, 5:00 -6:00 Truth and Reconciliation in Academia: Preliminary Reception Tuesday June 5, 6:00 -8:00 Sandra Lapoint
Truth and Reconciliation in Academia: What role of non-Indigenous Researchers?
Kevin Lamoureux (National Centre for Truth Chair and Reconciliation, University of Manitoba) Otsi'tsaken:ra (Charlie Patton) Mohawk Elder Opening Ceremony from the People of Kahnawá:ke Michael Giudice (York) Engaging in Reconciliation as a Law Scholar 1 Daniel Weinstock (McGill) Engaging in Reconciliation as a Law Scholar 2 Sandra Lapointe (McMaster ) Engaging in Reconciliation as Member of the Borader Academic Community Avery Kolers (Louisville) Modeling Engagement with Indigenous Scholars on Indigenous Issues. Douglas Sanderson (UofT) Modeling Engagement with Indigenous Scholars on Indigenous Issues. Mihaela Vieru (Federation for the Humanities Knowledge: Indigenous, Philosophical 1 and Social Sciences) Aude Bandini (UdeM) & Otsi'tsaken:ra (Charlie Patton) Knowledge: Indigenous, Philosophical 2 Otsi'tsaken:ra (Charlie Patton) Closing Ceremony
12/20
ACPA 2018 Wednesday June 6, 9:00-1:00
9:00-10:00
Peter Epstein (Cambridge)
Prize Winners and CJP Lecture A Priori Concepts in Euclidean Proof (Non-Tenured Faculty Essay Prize)
Dirk Schlimm (McGill)
Comments on Epstein
10:15-11:15 Dominic Mciver Lopes (UBC) David Collins (McGill) 11:30-1:00 Hannah Ginsborg (Berkeley)
Aesthetic Value Naturalism (Tenured Faculty Essay Prize) Comments on Lopes Wittgenstein on Going On (CJP Lecture)
Wednesday June 6, 1:00 - 2:00
Sandra Lapointe (McMaster) Peter Dietsch (UdeM) Tim Wilson Gabriel Miller
Lunchtime workshop on SSHRC Insight Grant Applications 2017 Chair, SSHRC Philosophy Insight Grant evaluation committee 2018 Chair, SSHRC Philosophy Insight Grant evaluation committee Executive Director, Research Grants & Partnerships, SSHRC Executive Director, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Wednesday June 6, 2:00 -5:30
2:00-3:00
Symposium Wesley Cray (Texas Christian University) Sam Cowling (Denison University), Organizer Cathleen Muller (Marist College)
Fictional Reality Appreciating Characters qua Mere Characters Fictional Realism in the Funny Pages Grounding Fictional Objects
Colloquium Nicholas Dunn (McGill) Michael Szlachta (UofT)
Medieval Philosophy Chair A Challenge for Later Medieval Voluntarism
Peter Eardley (Guelph)
Comments on Szlachta
Andrew Martin (McGill)
John Duns Scotus on Grounding Possibility in Quaestiones super libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis IX Comments on Vucu
Francesco Pica (UofT)
John Baconthorpe on the divine knowledge of individual things: an interpretation of Averroes
TBD
Comments on Pica
Symposium Deborah Brown (Queensland) Martin Lenz (Groningen University) Donald Ainslie (UofT), Organizer Dario Perinetti (UQAM), Organizer
Is the Early Modern Mind Social? Descartes and the Social Mind Biased Beliefs: Spinoza on the Interaction of Ideas Fictions and Artifices: Hume on Following a Rule Did you see my Ideas? Hume on whether Perceptions are Mental
Symposium Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa (UBC) Anna-Sara Malmgren (Stanford) Hilary Kornblith (U Mass) David Barnett (UofT) Anna-Sara Malmgren (Stanford) Ram Neta (UNC)
The Epistemology of Inference Chair Goodness, Availability, and Argument Structure Comments on Malmgren Higher-Order Evidence is the Wrong Kind of Reason Comments on Barnett Organizer
Colloquium Michael Montess (York) Philip Shadd (Redeemer University College) Carolyn McLeod (Western)
Applied Ethics : Ethics and Health Care Chair Institutional Refusal to Assist in Dying: The Positive Case Comments on Shadd
3:15-4:15
Elyse Platt (McMaster)
Effective Referral and Equality in Healthcare
4:30-5:30
Phil Shadd (Redeemer University College) Marnina Norys (York)
Comments on Platt Techniques of Relatedness in Practice: Lessons from Community Mental Health
Heather Stewart (Western)
Comments on Norys
3:15-4:15
4:30-5:30
2:00-3:00
Simona Vucu (UofT)
13/20
ACPA 2018
2:00-3:00 3:15-4:15 4:30-5:30
2:00-3:00 3:15-4:15 4:30-5:30
Symposium Joe Heath (UofT) Kate Manne (Cornel)
Paul Bloom's Against Empathy Comments on Against Empathy I Comments on Against Empathy III
Victor Kumar (Boston University), Organizer
Comments on Against Empathy III
Paul Bloom (Yale)
Reply to Heath, Manne & Kumar
Colloquium Claudien Verheggen (York) Henry Schiller (UT Austin) Travis Lacroix (UC Irvine)
Philosophy of Language 1 Chair Responsibility for Saying and Asserting Comments on Schiller
David Hunter (Ryerson)
Are beliefs true?
Peter Hanks (Minnesota)
Comments on Hunter
John Mackay (Wisconsin-Madison)
Counterfactual Epistemic Scenarios
Meagan Philips (UofT)
Comments on Mackay
Colloquium Cynthia Stark (University of Utah)
Social and Political Philosophy 3 Chair
Robert Murray (Ryerson)
Kant's Challenge and the Navigation Problem
Michael Kessler (UofT)
Comments on Murray
Christopher Lowry (Waterloo)
Citizenship, Ability, and Contribution
Éliot L'Italien (McGill)
Comments on Lowry
Arjun Sawhney (Queen's)
Robot Citizenship
Martin Gibert (UdeM)
Comments on Sawhney
Colloquium
Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics 1
Sorin Bangu (Univ. of Bergen, Norway)
Chair
2:00-3:00
Eric Guindon (University of Connecticut)
Arbitrary reference is pluri-reference
3:15-4:15
Daniel Krasner (Metropolitan State University Comments on Guindon of Denver) Marc Champagne and Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen Why images cannot be arguments, but moving ones might (Trent, Nazarbayev U.) Hans Hansen (Windsor) Comments on Champagne and Ahti-Veikko
4:30-5:30
Matthieu Remacle (UofT)
The Semantics of Stoic 'Cases': Words, Lekta, and Bodies
Colloquium Mark Fortney (UofT)
Philosophy of Mind 1 Chair
2:00-3:00
Dominic Alford-Duguid (King's College London) On the Epistemic Significance of Perceptual Structure Don Oxtoby (Rice)
3:15-4:15
4:30-5:30
Evan Taylor (UofT) Luke Roelofs (Ruhr-University Bochum)
Comments on Taylor
Dennis Papadopoulos (York)
A Collective Emotional Theory of Love
Raymond Aldred (McGill)
Comments on Papadopoulos
Colloquium Norman Whitman (University of Houston Downtown) 2:00-3:00 3:15-4:15 4:30-5:30
Comments on Alford-Duguid Two puzzles about insight in obsessive-compulsive disorder (Winner of the Graduate Student Essay Prize (3rd place))
Locke, Leibniz and Kant Chair
Elliot Rossiter (Douglas College)
Mixed Modes and Moral Epistemology in John Locke’s Essay concerning Human Understanding
Matthew Leisinger (Yale)
Comments on Rossiter
Adam Harmer (UC Riverside)
Leibniz's Argument for Simple Substances
Robert Mason (UofT)
Comments on Harmer
Damian Melamedoff (UofT)
Truthmaker Noumenalism Comments on Melamedoff
Faema Amijee (SFU)
14/20
ACPA 2018
2:00-3:00 3:15-4:15 4:30-5:30
Symposium Joshua Shepherd (Carleton) Myrto Mylopoulos (Carleton) Chris Viger & Robert Foley (Western & Carleton) Myrto Mylopoulos & Robert Foley (Carleton)
Agency, Action, and the Interface Problem Practical reasoning, representational formats, and the interface problem Skilled Action and the Dynamic Interface Problem
Colloquium Hayden Kee (Fordham ) Daniel Harris (University of Prince Edward Island) Susan-Judith Hoffmann (McGill) Akos Krassoy (KU Leuven)
Contemporary European Philosophy 2 Chair
Marc Zilbert (UdeM) Christopher Cohoon (University of King's College) Jordan Glass (Dawson College)
Comments on Krassoy
The role of semantic hubs in perception and action: a novel solution to the interface problem Organizers
Nietzsche on Honesty and Truthfulness Comments on Harris Music, transcendental philosophy, and ethics Levinas, Plotinus, and Being Edible Comments on Cohoon Aesthetics 2
TBD
Chair
Julianne Chung (Louisville)
Moral Cultivation: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Karesansui Gardens
Melanie Coughlin (McGill)
Comments on Chung
3:15-4:15
Uku Tooming (University of Tartu) John Dyck (CUNY)
The Puzzle of Good Bad Movies Comments on Tooming
4:30-5:30
Ellen Miller (Rowan University-Glassboro )
More than a Case Study: Retrieving Depth from Sylvia Plath’s Poetry
2:00-3:00
Peter Haskett (Dominican University College) Comments on Miller Symposium Frédérick Armstrong (McGill) Christine Straehle (Ottawa) Ryoa Chung (UdeM) Frédérick Armstrong (McGill) Naïma Hamrouni (Laval) Naïma Hamrouni (Laval)
Conceptual Issues on Vulnerability Organizer's Introduction Vulnerability, Autonomy and the Limits of Epistemology Les dimensions structurelles de la vulnérabilité In Defense of Relational and Extrinsic Vulnerability: An Ameliorative Analysis Comments on Staehle, Chung and Armstrong Chair
Symposium Marie-Andrée Ricard (Laval)
CSWIP Francophone Session: L'idéologie en changeant et ses effets La malédiction de la beauté féminine selon Adorno, d’hier à aujourd’hui. Les idéologies (néo)féministes et les mouvements pour les droits de la femme en Amérique Centrale Chair
Sophie Lavoie (University of New Brunswick) Karen Robrertson (Trent) (Organizer) Wednesday June 6, 6:00 - 7:00 AGM
AGM
15/20
ACPA 2018 Thursday June 7, 9:00-12:30 Symposium
Continental Perspectives on Climate Change
Ted Toadvine (Penn State)
Climate Change and the Temporal Sublime
Brett Buchanan (Laurentian)
The Great Disenchantment: Environmentalism and the New Climate Disorder
Matthias Fritsch (Concordia)
Capitalocene, Anthropocene, and the Politics of Generations
Trish Glazebrook (Washington State)
Gendering Climate in the Androcene: A Heideggerian Perspective Environmental Justice in the Urban Anthropocene: Legacies of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Urban Setting Organizer
Chaone Mallory (USC) Marie-Eve Morin (Alberta) Symposium Gordon Davis (Carleton) Charles Goodman (Binghamton University (SUNY) ) Sonia Sikka (Ottawa ) Ashwani Peetush (Wilfrid-Laurier ) Antoine Panaïoti (Ryerson)
Ethical Reflections in the Indian and Indo-Tibetan Philosophical Traditions “Is Buddhist Moral Realism a Modern Fabrication? A Comparison of Two Forms of Buddhist MetaNormative Realism" What Can We Learn from Śāntideva’s Arguments against Anger? “Searching for Selfhood: The Neo-Buddhist Challenge to the Ethics of anatta" “The Self as God in Advaita Vedānta: Problematizing the Religion as Faith versus Philosophy as Reason Opposition" Organizer
Symposium Meena Krishnamurty (U. Michigan, Ann Arbor) Agnès Berthelot-Raffard (Ottawa)
Racial Justice
Serene Khader (CUNY) Naïma Hamrouni (UQTR) Ryoa Chung (UdeM)
Towards a Decolonial Feminist Universalism Organizer Organizer
Symposium Fermín Fulda (Western)
Making Pictures, Making (Racial) Progress Black Feminism et (in)justice raciale à l’Université.
The Holobiont Concept and the Ontology of Multispecies Biological Entities I “Us and Them: Holobionts, Organisms and Agency”
Derek Skillings (University of Bordeaux/CNRS) “The Ecology of the Holobiont”
9:00-10:00
Antoine C. Dussault (CIRST, Collège LionelGroulx), Organizer
“Can Metabolic Interaction Patterns Evolve?”
François Papale (UdeM), Organizer
“The Minimal Requirements of Evolution by Natural Selection and the Role Played by Reproduction”
Colloquium Sarah M. Kizuk (Marquette University) Matthew Wurst (UofT)
Spinoza, Leibniz and Hegel Chair Leibniz on Physical Necessity
Adam Harmer (UC Riverside)
Comments on Wurst
10:15-11:15 Torin Doppelt (Queen's) Robbie Matyasi (UofT) 11:30-12:30 Michaela Manson (UofT)
9:00-10:00
A Sadness Born of a Fact: a Study of Spinoza's Humility Comments on Doppelt Hegel’s Critique of Spinoza’s Method
Kaveh Boveri (UdeM)
Comments on Manson
Colloquium Tyler Desroches (Arizona State) Jeremy Butler (Queen's)
Social and Political Philosophy 4 Chair Political Instrumentalism and Equality of Political Power
Frederick Armstrong (McGill)
Comments on Butler
10:15-11:15 Barbara Fultner (Denison University) Éliot Litalien (McGill) 11:30-12:30 Chrisoula Andreou (University of Utah) Guillaume Soucy (UdeM)
Acting Together: Toward a Performative Theory of Joint Agency Comments on Fultner Unpresumptuous Paternalistic Constraint Comments on Andreou
16/20
ACPA 2018
9:00-10:00
Colloquium Amanda J. Nichols (Oklahoma Christian University)
Philosophy of Science 2
Derek Andrews (Dalhousie)
Natural Kinds and Social Factors: On the Classification of Mental Disorders
Jonathan Tsou (Iowa State)
Comments on Andrews
10:15-11:15 Ananya Chattoraj (Calgary) Dan McCarthur (York) 11:30-12:30 Alex Koo (UofT)
9:00-10:00
Comments on Chattoraj Inference to the Best Explanation and Mathematical Explanation Comments on Koo
Colloquium Robert Myers (York)
Ethics 3 Chair
Caleb Dewey (University of Arizona)
Moral Naturalism in Its Own Right
David Copp (UC Davis)
Comments on Dewey
Todd Calder (St. Mary's) 11:30-12:30 Joshua Brandt (UofT)
Moral Improvement: The Significance of Cultural Practices on Care Ethics Comments on Hoffman Forgiveness and Negative Partiality
Kathryn Norlock (Trent)
Comments on Brandt
Colloquium Marius Backmann (Konstanz University) Noa Latham (Calgary) Travis LaCroix (UC Irvine)
Epistemology 5 Chair Simplicity and A Priori Probability Principles Comments on Latham
10:15-11:15 M Bryson Brown (Lethbridge) Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa (UBC) 11:30-12:30 Robert Siscoe (University of Arizona)
9:00-10:00
De Scientia and De Re Distinctions as a Defense for Scientific Fictionalism
Marissa Bennett (UofT)
10:15-11:15 Kate Nicole Hoffman (York)
9:00-10:00
Chair
How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Induction Comments on Brown Ordinary and Ideal Rationality
Adam Sennett (UC Davis)
Comments on Siscoe
Colloquium Catherine Rioux (UofT) Lesley Jamieson (Queen's)
Moral Psychology 2 Chair Iris Murdoch's Philosophical Attention
Samantha Wesch (Alberta)
Comments on Jamieson
10:15-11:15 Katherine Bourdeau (McMaster) Charlotte Sabourin (McGill)
Simone de Beauvoir’s Ethics of Ambiguity as a Practice of Moral Repair Comments on Bourdeau
11:30-12:30 Federica Berdini (UofT)
Disorders of Agency, Constitutivism, and Practical Knowledge of Intentional Action
9:00-10:00
Symposium Matthew Palynchuk (Concordia) Kyle Johannsen (Trent) Louis-Philippe Hodgson (York) Colin Macleod (Victoria) Phil Smolenski (Queens), Organizer Kristin Voigt (McGill) Kyle Johannsen (Trent)
Johannsen’s A Conceptual Investigation of Justice Chair Synopsis of A Conceptual Investigation of Justice Comments on A Conceptual Investigation of Justice Comments on A Conceptual Investigation of Justice Comments on A Conceptual Investigation of Justice Comments on A Conceptual Investigation of Justice Reply to Hodgson, Macleod, Smolenski and Voigt
Colloquium Murat Aydede (UBC) Luke Roelofs (Ruhr-University Bochum)
Philosophy of Mind 2 Chair Indeterminately Offline States: A New Approach to the Puzzle of Imaginative Desire
I II III IV
Martina Orlandi (McGill) Comments on Roelofs Michele Palmira (University of Barcelona and 10:15-11:15 Inquiry and Doxastic Attitudes LOGOS) Tim Schroeder (Rice) Comments on Palmira 11:30-12:30 Lisa Doerksen (UofT) Ronald De Sousa (UofT)
On the Problem of Taking Oneself as an Object in the World Comments on Doerksen
17/20
ACPA 2018 9:00-10:00
Colloquium Audry Yap (Victoria) Ulf Hlobil (Concordia)
Logic Chair The Cut-Free Approach and the Admissibility-Curry
Philip Kremer (UofT)
Comments on Hlobil
10:15-11:15 Patrick Girard (University of Auckland)
A classical logic for counterpossibles
11:30-12:30 Philip Kremer (UofT)
Quantified Logic in Topological Semantics
Symposium Robert Howton (Pittsburgh) Umrao Sethi (CUNY) Dominic Alford-Duguid (King's College London), Organizer Ivan Ivanov (Shandong University, China), Organizer
9:00-9:45
Colloquium Luca Gili (UQAM) Adam Westra (University of Ottawa)
9:55-10:40
Mathilde Bois (Laval)
10:50-11:35 Arnaud Petit (Ottawa) Pierre-François Noppen (University of 11:45-12:30 Saskatchewan) Symposium Jean-Guy Meunier (UQAM) Louis Chartrand (UQAM), Organizer Janie Brisson & Serge Robert (UQAM) Janie Brisson (UQAM) Christophe Malaterre (UQAM)
Observational Properties in Experience and in Thought Mixture and Motion: Aristotle on Motion and the Sensible Qualities Instances Without Bearers: Making Sense of Hallucinations Perception-Based Thought About Properties Tolerates Perceptual Error Properties in View and in Mind Histoire de la philosophie 2 Président Kant et le symbolisme des Lumières De la liberté de l’imagination chez le génie : une approche facultaire de la comparaison entre beau artistique et beau naturel chez Kant Merleau-Ponty et le problème de la connaissance des autres esprits Souffrir et penser : Adorno et les ressorts conatifs de la rationalité Données empiriques et approches expérimentales en philosophie Empirical analysis of a conceptual intuition : A case study on the computational analysis of MIND in C.S. Peirce's writings Grandma's challenge for experimental philosophy, and what new tools can do about it Beyond the opposition of normativity and empirical science: the interdisciplinary study of human reasoning Studying cognitive sciences from a philosopher's perspective: Challenges and solutions to better grasp empirical experiments Philosophy of Science through the lens of topic-modeling (1934-2015)
Thursday June 7, 12:30 -2:00 CJP Board Meeting Thursday June 7, 2:00 - 5:30 Symposium Justin Donhauser, Gillian Barker & Eric Desjardins (Western) Trish Glazebrook (Washington State ) Edwin Etieyibo (University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa)) Jennifer Welchman (University of Alberta ), Organizer Symposium Rohit Dalvi (Brock) Philippe Turenne (Kathmandu University) Shyam Ranganathan (York) Julia Stenzel (McGill) Antoine Panaïoti (Ryerson)
Disruptive Technologies in the Anthropocene: Perspectives from Environmental Philosophy “Potential Hidden Dangers of Biomimicking Robots” “The Two Faces of Drones: Sustainability and the 'War on Terror'” “Ubuntu and the Anthropocene” “Return of the Living Dead? Genetic Resurrection of Zombie Species” Methodological and Hermeneutical Issues in Cross-cultural Philosophy “Don't Fear the Yogī: Towards the Decolonization of Indian Philosophy" “A Critical Look at Rational Reconstruction and the Principle of Charity as Applied to Buddhist Philosophy" “Interpretation, Explication, and the Determination of Philosophical Concepts (The Indian Ones Too)" “Reflections on Secularization as Cross-Cultural Translation" Organizer
18/20
ACPA 2018 Symposium Ramesh Prasad (Waterloo and Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institiute) Sinan Sencan (University of Calgary)
The Holobiont Concept and the Ontology of Multispecies Biological Entities II
Felix Walpole (UofT)
Organisms, Holobionts, Genomes and Epigenomes: Much Ado About Everything
Andrew Inkpen (Dalhousie)
Disease and the Microbiome
Antoine Dussault & François Papale (CIRST, UdeM)
Organizers
Colloquium Peter Verveniotis (Western)
Philosophy of Cognitive Science 3 Chair
2:00-2:45
Brian Ball (Oxford)
Vehicles of Content and the Representational Theory of Mind
2:55-3:40
Casey Landers (University of Miami)
Specialized Perceptual Experiences
3:50-4:35
Elliot Carter (UofT)
Perception and the Present
4:45-5:30
Mark Fortney (UofT)
The Temporal Profile of Linguistic Understanding
2:00-2:45 2:55-3:40
Colloquium TBD Peter Haskett (Dominican University College) Michael Tremblay (Queen's)
Ancient and Medieval Chair The Problem of Private Men in Book IX of Plato's Republic Akrasia in Epictetus: A comparison with Aristotle
3:50-4:35 4:45-5:30
John Thorp (Western) Peter Eardley (Guelph)
Epicurean Theology and the Atomic Storm The Debate over Theology as a Science in Aquinas and Ockham
2:00-2:45
Colloquium David Barnett (UofT) Johanna Thoma (LSE)
Epistemology and Decision Theory Chair Instrumental Rationality Without Separability
2:55-3:40 3:50-4:35
Kenji Lota (Concordia) Arianna Falbo (Brown)
Unique and Permissive Updating Permissive Epistemic Standards and Rational Isolation
4:45-5:30
Daniel Munro (UofT)
Undercutting Defeaters: A Problem for Mentalism Feminist Philosophy Chair Epistemic Injustice and Cognitive Disability
3:50-4:35
Colloquium Barbara Fultner (Denison University) Amandine Catala (UQAM) Lisa Mckeown (New School for Social Research) Alex Gruenewald (Waterloo)
4:45-5:30
Pamela Lee (Ottawa)
Cultural accommodation, public reason, and Mencian extension by analogy
2:00-2:45
Spinoza Chair Spinoza and Mind Control
3:50-4:35
Colloquium Torin Doppelt (Queen's) Thomas Colbourne (McGill) Oberto Marrama (UQTR/ University of Groningen) Nikolas Hamm (McGill)
4:45-5:30
Robert Matyasi (UofT)
Spinoza and Descartes on representation and intelligibility
Colloquium Ronald De Sousa (UofT)
Meta-Ethics and Moral Psychology Chair
2:00-2:45
Sam Steadman (York)
The Agent and Her Operative Reasons: Binding the Normative to the Mental
2:55-3:40
Alexander Leferman (York)
Practical Reason and Judgment Sensitive Attitudes
3:50-4:35
Quinn Gibson (NYU)
Addiction as Desensitizing Vulnerabililty
4:45-5:30
Arina Pismenny (CUNY)
Staring down the green-eyed monster: romantic jealousy and ideology
2:00-2:45 2:55-3:40
2:55-3:40
The Holobiont Concept and the Ontology of Multispecies Biological Entities Integrative Pluralism and Holobiont Individuality.
Are You Serious? The Insidious Silencing of Romantic Comedies What Makes a Man: Determining on Trans Men's Social Needs and Requirements
Spinoza on Reason, Memory and ‘The habits of virtue’ Spinoza's Free Man in Kant's Kingdom of Ends
19/20
ACPA 2018 2:00-2:45
Colloquium Robert Siscoe (University of Arizona) Cameron Boult (Brandon University)
Epistemology and Mind Chair The (Virtue) Epistemology of Political Ignorance
2:55-3:40
Orlandi Martina and Eliot Litalien (McGill)
A Functionalist Account of Group Self-Deception
3:50-4:35
George Christopoulos (Concordia)
True-to-False Belief Ratios in Epistemic Assessments of Experts & Strategies
4:45-5:30
Agnes Tam (Queen's)
The Limits of Epistemic Egalitarianism: Why Different Sources of Bias Require Different Remedies
2:00-2:45 2:55-3:40
Colloquium TBD Matthew Leisinger (Yale) Nicholas Dunn (McGill)
Precarity, Coherence, Intuition and Self-Control Chair Locke and the Possibility of Self-Control Kant on Intuitive Priority and the Givenness of Intuition
3:50-4:35
Meagan Phillips (UofT)
Tolerance and Coherence
4:30-5:30
Howard Williams (UofT)
Internalism and Epistemic Precarity: A Response to Radical Externalism
2:00-2:45
Colloquium Patrick Girard (University of Auckland) James Davies (UofT)
Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics 2 Chair The Significance of Numerals
2:55-3:40
Michael Hymers (Dalhousie)
Noticing Aspects in Mathematics and Philosophy
3:50-4:35
Sorin Bangu (Univ. of Bergen, Norway)
Later Wittgenstein and the Genealogy of Logical Necessity
4:45-5:30
Arnaud Petit (Oxford)
Towards a New Account of Rule-Following
Colloquium Adam Sennett (UC Davis)
Philosophy of Language 2 Chair
2:00-2:45
Agustin Vicente and Dan Zeman (University of How to say When. A Reichenbachian approach to the Answering Machine Paradox the basque Country,University of Vienna)
2:55-3:40
Olivia Sultanescu (York)
In Defence of the Coherence of the Semantic Sceptic
3:50-4:35
Adam Murray (UofT)
Eternal Existents
4:45-5:30
Kelsey Vicars (Simon Fraser University)
Slurs, Reappropriation, and Bracketing
TBD
Colloquium
Social and Political Philosophy 5 Chair
2:00-2:45
Sara Ellenbogen (MIT)
The Right to Rehabilitation
2:55-3:40
Tyler Desroches (Arizona State)
Sustainability without Sacrifice: Human Well-Being and Consumption
3:50-4:35
Aaron Crowe (University College of the North) Why Are We Really Talking About UBI?
4:45- 5:30
Daniel Tanguay (Ottawa)
Démocratie et philosophie politique : le dernier dialogue de Claude Lefort avec Leo Strauss
2:00-2:45 2:55-3:40 3:50-4:35 4:45-5:30
Colloquium André Duhamel (Sherbrooke) Pierre-Luc Boudreault (Western) Luca Gili (UQAM) Simon Fortier (Université de Liège) Matthieu Remacle (UofT)
Philosophie ancienne et Philosophie médiévale Président La conception aristotélicienne du nombre Les principes de la pensée étique de Catherine de Sienne (1347-1380) Les limites de la théologie comme science chez Proclus Transparence sémantique chez al-Fârâbî
Symposium Anne-Marie Boisvert & Christophe Malaterre (UQAM) Laurent Jodoin (UdeM) David Montminy (UdeM)
Explication scientifique : vers l’unité ou la pluralité ? L’intelligence artificielle explicable How a unified model of explanation can help assessing interdisciplionary projects? Données massives et stratégies explicatives
Eric Muszynski (UQAM) Is this pluralism? Diversity in biological explanations of behaviour Laurent Jodoin & Christophe Malaterre (UdeM Organizers & UQAM)
2:00-2:45
Colloquium Ananya Chattoraj (Calgary) Jamie Shaw (Western)
2:55-3:40
Yousuf Hasan (Western)
3:50-4:35
Yussif Yakubu (McMaster)
Philosophy of Science 3 Chair Duhem on Good Sense and Theory Pursuit On the Application of Carnap’s Internal/External Distinction to the Realism/Anti-Realism Controversy The Ghost of Saltationism in Contemporary Darwinism
4:45-5:30
Letitia Meynell (Dalhousie)
Measuring Minds: Towards a Non-anthropocentric Model for the Comparative Study of Cognition
20/20