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  • "Under the trees of England I meditated on this lost and perhaps mythical labyrinth. I imagined it untouched and perfect on the secret summit of some mountain; I imagined it drowned under rice paddies or beneath the sea; I imagined it infinite, made not only of eight-sided pavilions and of twisting paths but also of rivers, provinces and kingdoms. I thought of a maze of mazes, of a sinuous, ever growing maze which would take in both past and future and would somehow involve the stars."
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March 19, 2008

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

February 18, 2008

Commentary Opportunity at Pacific APA

I'm on the Program Committee for the Pacific APA. Recently two commentators have notified me that they are unable to attend this year's conference. One paper is on free will/moral responsibility, the other is on concept empiricism. If anyone is interested in commenting on a paper at the 2008 Pacific APA, please let me know ASAP

Thanks! Joe