Pacific APA

For those of you attending the Pacific APA in Pasadena, here are some sessions that might be of interest:

Thursday, March 20, 2008, 9 am-noon
Invited Symposium: Four Views on Free Will
Chair: Joseph Keim Campbell (Washington State University)
Speakers: Michael McKenna (Florida State University)
“Compatibilism”
Derk Pereboom (Cornell University)
“Hard Incompatibilism”
Robert Kane (University of Texas–Austin)
“Libertarianism”
Manuel Vargas (University of San Francisco)
“Revisionism”

Thursday, March 20, 2008, 1-4 pm
Invited Symposium: The Problem of Evil
Chair: Thomas M. Crisp (Biola University)
Speakers: John Bishop (University of Auckland)
Ken Perszyk (Victoria University of Wellington)
“The Normatively Relativised Logical Argument from Evil”
Hugh McCann (Texas A&M University)
“On Grace and Free Will”
Michael Tooley (University of Colorado–Boulder)
“The Probability That God Exists”

Friday, March 21, 2008, 9 am-noon
Author-Meets-Critics: John Martin Fischer, My Way: Essays on Moral Responsibility
Chair: Michael Tiboris (University of California–San Diego)
Critics: Randolph Clarke (Florida State University)
Calvin Normore (University of California–Los Angeles)
Gideon Yaffe (University of Southern California)
Author: John Martin Fischer (University of California–Riverside)

Friday, March 21, 2008, 9 am-noon
Author-Meets-Critics: Ernest Sosa, A Virtue Epistemology
Chair: Keith Lehrer (University of Arizona)
Critics: Paul Boghossian (New York University)
Stewart Cohen (Arizona State University)
Hilary Kornblith (University of Massachusetts–Amherst)
Author: Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University)

[And, yes, I’m aware of the conflict but sometimes life isn’t fair!]

Hope to see you there!

Best, Joe

Comments

[Justin Coates]

Here are a couple more free will sessions that might be of interest:

X-B. Invited Symposium: Nietzsche on Autonomy and Freedom of the Will
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Mark Wrathall (University of California–Riverside)
Speakers: Ken Gemes (University of Southampton)
Peter Poellner (Warwick University)
Bernard Reginster (Brown University)
Commentator: Brian Leiter (University of Texas–Austin)

X-F. Colloquium: Frankfurt Cases
1:00-4:00 p.m.
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Chair: Kenneth Lucey (University of Nevada–Reno)
Speaker: Roger Clarke (University of British Columbia)
“How to Manipulate an Incompatibilistically Free Agent”
Commentator: Todd R. Long (California Polytechnic State University–San Luis Obispo)
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Neal A. Tognazzini (University of California–Riverside)
Speaker: David Palmer (University of Texas–Austin)
“Pereboom on the Frankfurt Cases”
Commentator: Daniel Speak (Loyola Marymount University)
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Chair: Justin Coates (University of California–Riverside)
Speaker: Charles Hermes (University of Texas–Arlington)
“Counterfactual Reasoning in Frankfurt Cases”
Commentator: David Robb (Davidson College)

[Zac Cogley]

Also, there's this one on Saturday Morning (the third paper, in particular):

IX-G. Colloquium: Justice
9:00-Noon, Location TBA
9:00-10:00
Chair: Richard Amesbury (Claremont Graduate University)
Speaker: Joseph Quinton Adams (Georgia State University)
“The Inconsistency of Morally Required Diminishment”
Commentator: Michael Cholbi (California State Polytechnic University–Pomona)
10:00-11:00
Chair: David Theo Goldberg (University of California–Irvine)
Speaker: Lucy Allais (University of the Witwatersrand)
“Restorative Justice, Retributive Justice, and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission”
Commentator: Simon Keller (Boston University)
11:00-12:00
Chair: David DeMoss (Pacific University)
Speaker: Benjamin Vilhauer (William Paterson University)
“Free Will and Reasonable Doubt”
Commentator: Zac Cogley (UCLA)