The Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference
Reason and Rationality
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
If you have any questions about this program, please e-mail Professor
Michael O'Rourke at morourke@uidaho.edu .
Friday, April 23, 1999
North Campus Center, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
Registration and Refreshments: 11:00 - 12:00 p.m., North Campus Center lobby
Paper Session I: 12:00 - 2:25 p.m.
Group A: Undergraduate Session
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Thomas Minnick, Boise State University: "Rationality, Consistency, and Ethical Market Participation"
Comment: Brett Villaume, University of Idaho1:15 - 2:25 p.m.
Kim Traver, University of Idaho: "The Role of Rationality in Successful Communication"
Comment: Kirk Klaas, Washington State University
Group B: Epistemology and Practical Reasoning
12:00 - 1:10 p.m.
Linda Radzik, Texas A&M University: "A Coherentist Theory of the Authority of Practical Reason"
Comment: Allen A. Thompson, University of Washington
1:15 - 2:25 p.m.
Jim Skidmore, University of Minnesota: "Skepticism About Practical Reasoning: Transcendental Arguments and Their Limits"
Comment: Michael McDuffie, California State University-San Marcos
Group C: Moral Reasoning
12:00 - 1:10 p.m.
Johann Klaassen, University of Idaho: "Reason, 'Real' Patterns, and Moral Judgment"
Comment: Timothy Chappell, University of Dundee
1:15 - 2:25 p.m.
Philip Lewin, University of Oregon: "Moral Reason and the Authoring Function"
Comment: Ed Lawry, Oklahoma State University
Coffee Break: 2:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Paper Session II: 3:00 - 5:25 p.m.Group A: Reason and Action
3:00 - 4:10 p.m.
Ariela Lazar, Northwestern University: "'Just This Once': Acting Against One's Better Judgment"
Comment: Robert A. Epperson, Auburn University
4:15 - 5:25 p.m.
Timothy Chappell, University of Dundee: "Option Ranges"
Comment: Kenneth Einar Himma, University of Washington
Group B: Epistemology3:00 - 4:10 p.m.
David Shier, Washington State University, "Can Human Rationality Be Defended A Priori?"
Comment: TBA
4:15 - 5:25 p.m.
Ron Wilburn, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: "Epistemological Realism as an Intuitive Doctrine"
Comment: Mathew Robbins, University of Washington
Group C: Hume's Skepticism3:00 - 4:10 p.m.
Joseph Keim Campbell, Washington State University: "Hume's Religious Skepticism"
Comment: Melissa Norton, Idaho State University
4:15 - 5:25 p.m.
Daniel Flage, James Madison University: "Hume's Systematic Skepticism"
Comment: Jennifer Nagel, University of New Mexico
Dinner Break: 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Registration and Refreshments: 6:30 - 7:30 p.m., Moscow Community Building, 3rd and Washington, Moscow, ID
Public Forum: 7:30 - 9:30 p.m., Moscow Community Building, 3rd and Washington, Moscow, ID
Topic: How Should We Draw the Line Between the Rational and the Irrational?
Panelists:
Ray Dacey (University of Idaho, Business and Economics)
Mark Kaplan (University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin, Philosophy)
Kerry McKeever (University of Idaho, Literature)
Gina Poe (Washington State University, Neuroscience)
Saturday, April 24, 1999
Todd Hall, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Registration and Refreshments: 7:30 - 9:00 a.m.,
Paper Session III: 9:00 - 11:25 a.m.Group A: Practical Reasoning
9:00 - 10:10 a.m.
Richard Keshen, University College of Cape Breton: "Reasonable But Intractable Disagreement"
Comment: Bruno Verbeek, University of Amsterdam
10:15 - 11:25 a.m.
David Schmidtz, University of Arizona: "Reason's Reasons"
Comment: Ann Levey, University of Calgary
Group B: Action Theory9:00 - 10:10 a.m.
Randolph Clarke, University of Georgia: "Decision and the Freedom of Subsequent Action"
Comment: Edward Abrams, University of Massachusetts-Amherst10:15 - 11:25 a.m.
Philip Clark, Kansas State University: "The Action as Conclusion"
Comment: Betsy Postow, University of Tennessee
Group C: Moral Reasoning9:00 - 10:10 a.m.
Michael Lacewing, University of Reading: "Feeling Our Way: Virtue, Insight, and Emotion"
Comment: Mary Bloodsworth, Washington State University
10:15 - 11:25 a.m.
Frances E. Gill, University of Missouri-Columbia: "Moral Reasons and Sympathy"
Comment: Doran Smolkin, Kwantlen University-College
Group D: Symposium on Non-Western Rationality9:00 - 11:25 p.m.
Nicholas Gier, University of Idaho: "Logos and Dharma"
Sharon Kehoe, University of Idaho: "Samyama Science: A Methodology"
Robert Snyder, University of Idaho: "Unpacking an Ancient Chinese Text: A Phenomenological Hermeneutics"
Lunch Break: 11:30 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch provided in Todd Hall Room ...
Paper Session IV: 1:00 - 3:25 p.m.Group A: Scientific Explanation
1:00 - 2:10 p.m.
Gary Hardcastle, Virginia Tech University: "A Problem-Solving Account of Scientific Explanation"
Comment: James G. Edwards, University of Redlands
2:15 - 3:25 p.m.
Bruce Glymour, Kansas State University: "Truth and the Pragmatics of Explanation"
Comment: Stephen Crowley, Indiana University
Group B: Value Theory1:00 - 2:10 p.m.
Sergio Tenenbaum, University of New Mexico: "Desire and the Good"
Comment: Richard Keshen, University College of Cape Breton
2:15 - 3:25 p.m.
Bruno Verbeek, Amsterdam University: "Consequentialism and Rational Choice"
Comment: David Silver, University of Delaware
Group C: Decision Theory1:00 - 2:10 p.m.
Ken Levy, Rutgers University: "A Solution to the Toxin Puzzle and to Sorensen's 'Strengthened Predicition Paradox'"
Comment: Harry Silverstein, Washington State University
2:15 - 3:25 p.m.
Jonathan Michael Kaplan, University of Tennessee: "Decisions and the Culture of Deciding: An Externalist Critique of Decision Theory and Economic Rationality"
Comment: Jim Cadello, Central Washington University
Group D: Feminism and Rationality
1:00 - 2:10 p.m.
Kerry McKeever, University of Idaho: "Between Reason and Unreason: Philosophy, Feminism, and the Laugh of Medusa"
Comment: Nathan Griffith, University of Idaho
2:15 - 3:25 p.m.
Nancy Shaffer, University of Nebraska-Omaha: "Is Bias a Philosophical Problem?"
Comment: Jay Feldman, University of Idaho
Paper Session V: 3:30 - 4:40 p.m.Group A: Language and Rationality
3:30 - 4:40 p.m.
Barbara Hannan, University of New Mexico: "Language and Animal Rationality: A Critique of Sellars"
Comment: Christopher Preston, University of Montana
Group B: Probability and Logic3:30 - 4:40 p.m.
Charles Morgan, University of Victoria: "Comparative Probability as a Foundation for Logic"
Comment: James G. Edwards, University of Redlands
Group C: Epistemology3:30 - 4:40 p.m.
H. Benjamin Shaeffer, Humboldt State University: "What Should a Theory of Epistemic Justification Tell Us? A Defense of Deontologism"
Comment: Ron Wilburn, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Keynote Address: 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Michael Bratman, Stanford University: "Reflection, Planning, and Temporally Extended Agency"
Dinner Break: 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 25, 1999
Student Union Building, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
Registration and Refreshments: 8:00 - 9:00 a.m., 2nd floor lobby, Student Union Building
Paper Session VI: 9:00 - 11:25 a.m.Group A: Philosophy of Science
9:00 - 10:10 a.m.
Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay, Montana State University: "Inductive Inference and Beyond: From Bayesian Rationality to Logical Reliability"
Comment: Ray Dacey, University of Idaho
10:15 - 11:25 a.m.
Mark Kaplan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: "In Praise of a Modest Probabilism"
Comment: Ray Dacey, University of Idaho
Group B: Philosophy of Mind9:00 - 10:10 a.m.
Lisa L. Hall, John Carroll University: "Self-Knowledge and Practical Reasoning"
Comment: Kelly D. Jolley, Auburn University
10:15 - 11:25 a.m.
Mark Perlman, Western Oregon University: "We Know Better Than You Why You Did That!! The Methodological Problem of Systematic Reinterpretation of First-Person Mental State Attributions"
Comment: David Shier, Washington State University
Group C: Moral Theory9:00 - 10:10 a.m.
Paul Russell, University of British Columbia: "Moral Sense andWide-Responsibility"
Comment: Stephen Scott, Eastern Washington University
10:15 - 11:25 a.m.
Harry Silverstein, Washington State University: "Hobbes on Reason and Self-Preservation"
Comment: Kurt Torrell, Lewis-Clark State College
Workshop on Reason and Rationality: 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.Brian Skyrms, University of California-Irvine: "Mutual Aid"
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council, a State-Based Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Additional support has been received from the Departments of Philosophy at the University of Idaho and Washington State University, the College of Letters and Sciences at the University of Idaho, the College of Arts and Sciences at Washington State University, and the Research Offices at the University of Idaho and Washington State University.