The Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference

Realism vs. Anti-Realism

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Friday, April 3, 1998 (Moscow Social Club, 112 N. Main St., Moscow, ID)

6:00 - 7:00 p.m.: Registration and Refreshments

7:00 - 9:00 p.m.: Panel Discussion: Is the World There When No One is Looking? A Conversation About the Nature of Reality.

Patricia Blanchette (Notre Dame University, Mathematics)

Mary Bloodsworth (Washington State University, Feminism)

Andrew Cortens (Boise State University, Philosophy)

Nick Gier (University of Idaho, Religious Studies)

Karen Gipson (Washington State University, Physics)

Bruce Glymour (Kansas State University, Biology)

Lance Olsen (University of Idaho, Literary Theory)

Harry Silverstein (Washington State University, Ethics)

Saturday, April 4, 1998 (Student Union Building, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID)

8:00 - 9:00 a.m.: Registration and Refreshments (SUB, 2nd Floor)

9:00 - 11:00 a.m.: Concurrent Session 1.A (Chiefs Room)

Patricia Blanchette (Notre Dame University): "Realisms and Reductions"

Commentator: James Foster (University of Idaho)

Richard DeWitt (Fairfield University): "The Indispensibility Argument as an Anti-Realist Argument"

Commentator: Kurt Torell (Lewis-Clark State College)

9:00 - 11:00 a.m.: Concurrent Session 1.B (Pend O'Reille Room)

Armand Larive (Washington State University): "Good/Evil: Depicted/Encountered"

Commentator: Mike Myers (Washington State University)

Ben Tilghman (Kansas State University): "Aesthetic Realism, Aesthetic Judgments and Imponderable Evidence"

Commentator: Michael Neville (Washington State University)

9:00 - 11:00 a.m.: Concurrent Session 1.C (Pow Wow Room)

Mary Kate McGowan (University of Maryland, Baltimore County): "The Metaphysics of Squaring Realism with Referential Indeterminacy"

Commentator: Jeffry L. Ramsey (Oregon State University)

Andy Lloyd (University of Nevada, Reno): "Spukhafte Fernwirkungen: The Relationship Between Science and Philosophy"

Commentator: Kris McDaniel (Western Washington University)

11:00 - 1:00 p.m.: Lunch (Appaloosa Lounge, SUB, 2nd Floor)

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.: Concurrent Session 2.A (Chiefs Room)

Ron Wilburn (University of Nevada, Las Vegas): "Metaphysical Realism as Less Than a Dogma"

Commentator: Michael O'Rourke (University of Idaho)

Charlie Huenemann (Utah State University): "Mach's Science of Functions as Kantian Architectonic"

Commentator: Hud Hudson (Western Washington University)

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.: Concurrent Session 2.B (Pend O'Reille Room)

Mary Bloodsworth (Washington State University): "Realism and Anti-Realism in/of 'Sex' and 'Race'"

Commentator: Ann Levey (University of Calgary)

Paul Hedengren (University of Utah): "The World As It Is"

Commentator: David Garrison (Washington State University)

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.: Concurrent Session 2.C (Pow Wow Room)

Janet D. Stemwedel (Stanford University): "Observations on Observability"

Commentator: Russell Wahl (Idaho State University)

Juan Ferret (Oregon State University): "What is the Electron? A Perspective on the Realism/Antirealism Debate"

Commentator: Brian Watkins (Washington State University)

3:00 - 5:00 p.m.: Concurrent Session 3.A (Chiefs Room)

Andrew Cortens (Boise State University): "The Structure of the Realist/Anti-Realist Debate"

Commentator: Jim Cadello (Central Washington University)

Bruce Glymour (Kansas State University): "A Defense of Causal Realism"

Commentator: Joseph Keim Campbell (Washington State University)

3:00 - 5:00 p.m.: Concurrent Session 3.B (Pend O'Reille Room)

Jonathan Kaplan (Stanford University): :Scientific Explanations, Political Pluralism, Ontological Commitments and What Killed the Dinosaurs"

Commentator: Michael McDuffie (California State University, San Marcos)

James Lenman (University of Glasgow): "On Being Jubblesome: Expressivism, Naturalism and Absence of Knowledge Argument"

Commentator: Harry Silverstein (Washington State University)

6:00 - 8:30 p.m.: Dinner and Reading (Gold Galena Room, SUB, 2nd Floor)

Lance Olsen, Burnt

Sunday, April 5, 1998 (Washington State University, Pullman, WA)

8:00 - 9:00 a.m.: Registration and Refreshments (Bundy Reading Room, Avery Hall)

9:00 - 11:00 a.m.: Symposium: "Realism, Anti-Realism, and Theoretical Entities" (Bundy Reading Room, Avery Hall)

Russell Wahl (Idaho State University)

Jonathan Westphal (Idaho State University)

9:00 - 11:00 a.m.: Postmodern Presentations (Bryan 324)

Nathan Griffith (University of Idaho): "A Personal Theory of Pain: Thoughts from a Self Bound to the 'Lifeworld'"

Kerry McKeever (University of Idaho): "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf: Who is the Big Bad Wolf? Meditations on Realism from the Fields of the Imagination"

9:00 - 11:00 a.m.: Undergraduate Paper Session (Bryan 402)

Zach Smith (University of Idaho): "Value, Quality, and the Nature of Virtue"

Commentator: Kirk Klaas (Washington State University)

Boe Balko (Washington State University): "We, By Nature, Are Metaphysical Animals"

Commentator: Stanley Dau (University of Idaho)

11:00 - 12:30 p.m.: Panel Discussion: "Postmodernism and 1984" (Bundy Reading Room, Avery Hall)

David Shier (Washington State University, Philosophy)

Steve Kale (Washington State University, History)

Lance Olsen (University of Idaho, English)

Nathan Griffith (University of Idaho, Art)