Southern California Philosophy Conference

Hosted jointly by
University of California, Irvine, Departments of

PHILOSOPHY
&
LOGIC AND
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
and
THE INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAM IN
HISTORY AND
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
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Location: University of California, Irvine.
Date: Saturday, October 27, 2001
The conference is open to all and registration is free.

Sessions will be held in the Humanities Instructional Building.
Click here for parking information and campus maps.


Program Committee
Co-chairs: Nick White (UC-Irvine, Philosophy) and Kyle Stanford (UC-Irvine, Logic and Philosophy of Science)
Members: Larry Nolan (CSU Long Beach), Bonnie Kent (UC-Irvine, Philosophy), Brian Keeley (Pitzer), Aaron James (UC-Irvine, Philosophy), Bill Bristow (UC-Irvine, Philosophy), Jeff Barrett (UC-Irvine, Logic and Philosophy of Science)

Plenary Address: Pat Suppes (Stanford University)
Pat Suppes, "Representations of Language in the Brain and in the Mind" Abstract: This lecture will begin with a brief review of the literature on what can be said about the representational status of mental imagery. Second, the apparent lack of any general theory of any detail on mental representations of words and sentences will be examined. Third, the possibility that detailed results of brainwave representations may eventually fill this gap will be considered. Fourth, the question will be raised of whether of not such brainwave representations will become the mental representations of language in the future. For example, how will we come to think of semantic computations of truth in ordinary circumstances? A Humean answer will be outlined.

Conference Program:
Session One: 9:00 - 10:20 a.m.

Modern Philosophy HIB 135
Chair: Noa Shein, UCI
Nicholas Jolley, UCI
"Leibniz's Theodicy and the Excellence of Minds"
Erik Watkins, UCSD
"Kant's Precritical Reflections on Causality"

Testimony HIB 137
Chair: Edward Hinchman, Claremont McKenna College
Jennifer Lackey, Pomona College
"Truth Conduciveness and Testimony"
Peter Graham, UCR
"Testimony, Agency, and Entitlement"

Graduate Student Session in Philosophy of Science HIB 220
Chair: Tim Shanahan, Loyola Marymount University
P. D. Magnus, UCSD
"Underdetermination and the Problem of Identical Rivals"
Comments: Paul Livingston, UCI
Doug Hill, UCI
"Private Judges and Uncorrelated Errors in an Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma"
Comments: Samarth Vaidya, UCI

Justice HIB 341
Chair: Deborah Marble, UCI
Aaron James, UCI
"The Subjects of Justice"
Comments: Martin O'Neill, Harvard University

Graduate Student Session in Ethics HIB 469
Chair: Jerry Santas, UCI
Leonard Kahn, UCI
"Moral Disagreement and Non-Cognitivism About Moral Judgments"
Comments: Luke Robinson, UCSD
Ted Preston, UCR
"No Justice, No Stability: Environmental Ethics as a Destabilizing Factor for Rawls' Well-Ordered Society"
Comments: Minh Nguyen, UCI

Session Two: 10:40 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Philosophy of Religion HIB 137
Chair: Larry Nolan, CSULB
Thomas Schmidt, CSULB and University of Frankfurt
"Reasonable Pluralism: Justified Beliefs, Religious Faith in a Pluralistic Society"

Color HIB 220
Chair: Dion Scott-Kakures, Scripps College
Peter Ross, CSU Pomona
"Fixing the Reference of Color Terms"
Jonathan Cohen, UCSD
"Color Properties and Color Ascriptions: A Relationalist Manifesto"

Philosophy of Physics HIB 469
Chair: Brian Woodcock, UCI
Craig Callender, UCSD
"An Answer In Search of A Question: Proofs of the 3-Dimensionality of Space"
Carolyn Brighouse, Occidental College
"What Is Determinism?"

Harm HIB 341
Chair: Leonard Kahn, UCI
Matthew Hanser, UCSB
"Harm"
Comments: Pamela Hiernoymi, UCLA

Moral Psychology HIB 135
Chair: Bonnie Kent, UCI
Gary Watson, UCR
"The Work of the Will"

Lunch Break: 12:00 - 1:40 p.m.

There are numerous places to eat, varying widely in price, formality, and type of food in the University Marketplace. After exiting HIB (Bldg. 610 on the campus map) on foot, follow the campus circle around to the left until you see the University's main library on your right (Bldg. 102) and a wide flight of stairs past the main administration building (Bldg. 111) on your left. Go left down the stairs and then over the large pedestrian bridge in front of you: the Marketplace begins at the other end of the pedestrian bridge.
Session Three: 1:40 - 3:00 p.m.

Ancient Philosophy HIB 137
Chair: Nick White, UCI
Voula Tsouna, UCSB
"Interpretations of Socratic Self-Knowledge in Plato's Dialogues"
Comments: Mariana Anagnostopoulos, UCLA
Richard McKirahan, Pomona College
"Aristotle and the Objects of Mathematics"
Comments: Henry Mendell, CSULA

Philosophy and Psychiatry HIB 220
Chair: Eric Schwitzgebel, UCR
Dominic Murphy, Cal Tech
"What, If Anything, Is Psychiatry?"
Brian Keeley, Pitzer College
"Is There a Special, Conceptual Problem of Mental Disease (Beyond the Problem of Disease Itself)?"

Scientific Realism HIB 469
Chair: Teri Merrick, UCI
P. Kyle Stanford, UCI
"Defending the Pessimistic Induction: Selective Confirmation and the History of Science"

Moral and Political Philosophy HIB 135
Chair: Aaron James, UCI
Barbara Herman, UCLA
"The Scope of Moral Requirement: Limiting the Duty to Aid"

Medieval Philosophy HIB 341
Chair: Thomas Bushnell, UCI
Bonnie Kent, UCI
"What Do Moral Dispositions Explain?"
Mary Elizabeth Ingham, Loyola Marymount
"Did Scotus Modify His Position on the Relationship of the Intellect and the Will?"

Session Four: 3:20 - 4:40 p.m.

Early Modern Philosophy HIB 341
Chair: June Yang, UCI
Patricia Easton, Claremont Graduate University
"Some Consequences of the Cartesian Account of Matter"
Alan Nelson, UCI
"Spinoza as a Precursor of Leibniz"

Epistemology and Philosophy of Language HIB 220
Chair: Dominic Murphy, Cal Tech
Baron Reed, Pomona College
"Knowledge, Agency, and Personhood"
Kent Johnson, UCI
"The Structure of Demonstratives"

Game Theory HIB 137
Chair: Carol Skrenes, UCI
Peter Vanderschraaf, Carnegie Mellon (presenting joint work with Brian Skyrms, UCI)
"Learning to Take Turns"

Moral and Political Philosophy HIB 135
Chair: Randy Firestone, UCI
Richard Arneson, UCSD
"Moral Limits on the Demands of Beneficence"

Moral Psychology HIB 469
Chair: Jan-Erik Jones, UCI
Dana Nelkin, UCSD
"She Would Not Have Done Otherwise Even If She Could Have"
Comments: Amy Kind, Claremont McKenna College

Plenary Address: 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Patrick Suppes, Stanford University
"Representations of Language in the Brain and in the Mind"

This address will be in Humanities Hall 178 (Bldg. 601 on the campus map). Walk down the flight of stairs across from HIB; Humanities Hall is on your right. Room 178 is around the back of the building, with entries from both an outside door and from an inside hallway.




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