7th Annual Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference
April 30-May 2, 2004

 

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Friday, April 30, 2004   ---   All Session in the WSU Compton Union Building

 

Registration and Refreshments: 8:00 am – 3:30 pm     2nd floor Mezzanine, CUB

 

Paper Group I: 9:00 – 11:25 am

Session A         Chair: Harry Silverstein, Washington State University

Room 123

9:00 – 10:10 am

Joseph Tolliver, University of Arizona

“Revelations: Knowing the Nature of Properties and Objects in Experience”

 

10:15 – 11:25 am

Louise Antony, Ohio State University

“A Naturalized Approach to the A Priori”

 

Session B         Chair: Dan Holbrook, Washington State University

Room 212  

9:00 – 10:10 am

David Sosa, University of Texas, Austin

“Epistemic Luck”

 

10:15 – 11:25 am

Mark Heller, Southern Methodist University

“Defending Contextualist Anti-Luck Epistemology”

 

Session C         Chair: Jeffrey Dippman, Central Washington University

Room 127

9:00 – 10:10 am

DAVID HEMP, University College Cork

“Knowledge and Conclusive Evidence”

Commentator: Anastasia Panagopoulos, Simon Fraser University

 

10:15 – 11:25 am

Joe Salerno, Saint Louis University

“Truth-Tracking and the Problem of Reflective Knowledge”

Commentator: Marion Ledwig, Cowell College, University of California, Santa Cruz

 

Session D         Chair: John Jensen, University of Idaho

Room 214-6

9:00 – 10:10 am

Nicolette Ocheltree, Southern Methodist University

“I Am Highly Certain I Know Nothing”

Commentator: Otis Landerholm, Washington State University

 

10:15 – 11:25 am

Meggan Payne, Western Michigan University

“Kornblith's Naturalized Epistemology”

Commentator: Ann Levey, University of Calgary

 

Lunch Break: 11:30 am – 12:30 pm

 

Paper Group II: 12:30 – 2:55 pm

Session A         Chair: Joseph Keim Campbell, Washington State University

Room 123

12:30 – 1:40 pm

George Pappas, Ohio State University

“Sensitive Knowledge and Perception in Locke”

 

1:45 – 2:55 pm

Peter Fosl, Transylvania University

“Hume’s Skeptical Naturalism”

 

Session B         Chair: Michael O'Rourke, University of Idaho

Room 212

12:30 – 1:40 pm

Ram Neta, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

“Skepticism, Contextualism and a Puzzle about Seeing”

Commentator: Elizabeth Harman, New York University

 

1:45 – 2:55 pm

Jonathan Schaffer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

“Knowing the Answer”

Commentator: John Carroll, North Carolina State University

 

Session C         Chair: Daniel Holbrook, Washington State University

Room 127

12:30 – 1:40 pm

Kelly Dean Jolley, Auburn University

                                                Moore’s Proof:  Plainness and Purity”
                                                Commentator: Chris Tucker,
Purdue University

 

1:45 – 2:55 pm

Chad Mohler, Truman State University

“Finding Small Comforts in One’s Doxastic Home: a New Defense of Epistemic Conservatism”

Commentator: Myron A. Penner, Purdue University

 

Session D         Chair: Mary Bloodsworth, Washington State University

Room 214-6

12:30 – 1:40 pm

Mimi Marinucci, Eastern Washington University

“Knowledge as Kennenlernen: Subjectivity, Pluralism and Intimacy”

                                                Commentator: Glen Cosby, Spokane Community College

 

1:45 – 2:55 pm

Slawomir Szkredka, Loyola Marymount University

“Reconciling Logeran’s and Levinas' View of Skepticism”

Commentator: Kirk Besmer, Gonzaga University

 

Paper Group III: 3:00 – 5:25 pm

Session A         Chair: Joseph Keim Campbell, Washington State University

Room 123

3:00 – 4:10 pm

Peter Graham, University of California, Riverside

“Theorizing Justification”

 

4:15 – 5:25

Peter Klein, Rutgers University

“Human Knowledge and the Infinite Progress of Reasoning”

 

Session B         Chair: William R. Payne, Bellevue Community College

Room 212

3:00 – 4:10 pm

Stewart Cohen, Arizona State University

“Knowledge, Speaker, and Subject”

 

4:15 – 5:25

David Chalmers, University of Arizona

“The Matrix as Metaphysics: An Anti-Skeptical Argument”

 

Session C         Chair: David James Alexander, University of Washington

Room 127

3:00 – 4:10 pm

Adam Leite, Indiana University

“An Externalist Case Against the Project of Traditional Epistemology”

Commentator: James Beebe, Louisiana State University

 

4:15 – 5:25

Gary Hardcastle, Bloomsburg University

“Externalism and Induction”

Commentator: Stephen Crowley, Indiana University

 

Session D         Chair: Michael Nelson, University of Idaho

Room 214-6

3:00 – 4:10 pm

Sarah McGrath, Holy Cross

Moral Knowledge”

Commentator: Harry Silverstein, Washington State University

 

4:15 – 5:25

Ron Wilburn, University of Nevada–Las Vegas

“Why Is Moral Knowledge So Hard To Come By?”

Commentator: Todd Jones, University of Nevada–Las Vegas

 

Dinner: 5:30 – 7:30 pm

 

Public Forum: 7:30 – 9:30 pm     

Silver Room, University Inn, Moscow, ID

 

                        "Skepticism in the Real World"

 

                         Kelly Dean Jolley, Auburn University: "A Living Skepticism"

                         Carl Berkowitz, PNNL: "Global Climate Change:  Correlation or Causality?"

                                 Ken Kardong, Washington State University: "Taking Darwin Seriously"

                                 Bruce Livingston, Federal Attorney, Moscow: "Capital Punishment: How Sure is Sure Enough?"

 

 

Reception: 9:30 – 11:30 pm     

Idaho and Washington Rooms, University Inn, Moscow, ID

 


Saturday, May 1, 2004   ---   All Sessions in the UI Commons Building

 

 

Continental Breakfast: 7:30 – 10:00 am     Whitewater/Clearwater Rooms, UI Commons

 

Paper Group IV: 9:00 – 11:25 am

Session A         Chair: Richard Zach, University of Calgary

Crest Room

9:00 – 10:10 am

Joe Cruz, Williams College

“Is There a Reason for Skepticism?”

Commentator: Jonathan Weinberg, Indiana University

 

10:15 – 11:25 am

Catherine Elgin, Harvard University

“Skepticism Aside”

 

Session B         Chair: David Shier, Washington State University

Horizon Room

9:00 – 10:10 am

Kent Bach, San Francisco State University

The Emperor’s New ‘Knows’”

Commentator: Tim Black, California State University, Northridge

 

10:15 – 11:25 am

Robert Stainton, Carleton University

“Contextualism in Epistemology and the Context Sensitivity of ‘Knows’”

 

Session C         Chair: George Knight, Boise State University

Aurora Room

9:00 – 10:10 am

BRYAN FRANCES, University of Leeds

“Why You’re So Ignorant, and Why That’s a Good Thing”

Commentator: Ken Himma, University of Washington

 

10:15 – 11:25 am

Todd R. Long, University Notre Dame

“Justification-Skepticism, Strong Truth-Conduciveness, and Epistemic
Assurance”

Commentator: E. J. Coffman, Notre Dame University

 

Session D         Chair: Catharine P. Roth, Community Colleges of Spokane

Panorama Room

9:00 – 10:10 am

Jason S. Baehr, Loyola Marymount University

“Virtue and Character in Reliabilism”

Commentator: Stephen Grimm, Brown University

 

10:15 – 11:25 am

Heather Battaly, California State University, Fullerton

“Must the Intellectual Virtues Be Reliable?”

Commentator: William R. Payne, Bellevue Community College

 

Lunch: 11:30 am – 12:30 pm     Whitewater/Clearwater Rooms, UI Commons

 

Paper Group V: 12:30 – 2:55 pm

Session A         Chair:  Ann Levey, University of Calgary

Crest Room

12:30 – 1:40 pm

Mylan Engel, Northern Illinois University

“Lotteries, Knowledge and Inconsistent Belief”

 

1:45 – 2:55 pm

Sven Bernecker, University of Manchester

“The KK Thesis, Zombies and Skepticism”

Commentator: Robert Epperson, University of Calgary

 

Session B         Chair: Elizabeth Brake, University of Calgary

Horizon Room

12:30 – 1:40 pm

Brian Weatherson, Brown University

“Scepticism, Rationalism and Externalism”

Commentator: James G. Edwards, Shippensburg University

 

1:45 – 2:55 pm

Elijah Millgram, University of Utah

“Refuting Skepticism with Style”

Commentator: Bruce Glymour, Kansas State University

 

Session C         Chair: Gregory E. Roth, Community Colleges of Spokane

Aurora Room

12:30 – 1:40 pm

Scott Forrest Aikin, Vanderbilt University

“Prospects for Skeptical Foundationalism”

Commentator: Ken Lucey, University of Nevada, Reno

 

1:45 – 2:55 pm

Daniel Howard-Snyder, Western Washington University

“Foundationalism and Arbitrariness”

Commentator: E. J. Coffman, Notre Dame University

 

Session D         Chair: Brian Morton, University of Idaho

Panorama Room

12:30 – 1:40 pm

Paul Kjellberg, Whittier College

“The End of Zhaungzi’s Skepticism”

Commentator: Nick Gier, University of Idaho

 

1:45 – 2:55 pm

Donald N. Blakeley, California State University Fresno

“Daoist Skepticism: Epistemic Inquiry in the Writings of Zhuangzi”

Commentator: Terry MacMullen, Eastern Washington University

 

Special Session on BonJour and Sosa’s Epistemic Justification: 3:00 – 5:30 pm

Janssen Engineering Building 104

Laurence BonJour, University of Washington

Ernest Sosa, Brown University

Michael Bergmann, Purdue University

Richard Feldman, University of Rochester

THOMAS KELLY, Notre Dame University

 

Dinner: 5:30 – 7:30 pm     Whitewater/Clearwater Rooms, UI Commons

 

Keynote Address: 7:30-9:30 pm

UI Law School Courtroom

Fred Dretske, Duke University

“Knowing it Hurts”

 

 

Sunday, May 2, 2004   ---   All Sessions in the UI Commons Building

 

 

Continental Breakfast: 8:00 – 9:30 am     Whitewater/Clearwater Rooms, UI Commons

 

Paper Group VI: 9:00 – 11:25

Session A         Chair: John Carroll, North Carolina State University

Crest Room

9:00 – 10:10 am

John Pollock, University of Arizona

“Irrationality and Cognition”

 

10:15 – 11:25 am

Richard Feldman, University of Rochester

“Reasonable Disagreements”

Commentator: Marc A. Moffett, University of Wyoming

 

Session B         Chair: Joseph Keim Campbell, Washington State University

Horizon Room

9:00 – 10:10 am

Tim Black, California State University, Northridge, and Peter Murphy, Augustana College

“Explanation, Epistemic Closure and Belief-Forming Methods”

Commentator: Elka Shortsleeve, University of Florida

 

10:15 – 11:25 am

Duncan Pritchard, University of Stirling

“Contextualism, Skepticism and Warranted Assertibility Manœuvres”

Commentator: Patrick Rysiew, University of British Columbia

 

Session C         Chair: Robyn Morton, University of Idaho

Aurora Room

9:00 – 10:10 am

Kirk Ludwig, University of Florida

“Skepticism, Logical Independence, and Epistemic Priority”

Commentator: Russell Wahl, Idaho State University

 

10:15 – 11:25 am

Anthony Brueckner, University of California Santa Barbara

“Fallibilism, Underdetermination, and Skepticism”

Commentator: Andrew Cortens, Boise State University

 

Session D         Chair: George Knight, Boise State University

Panorama Room

9:00 – 10:10 am

Cornelis van Putten, Free University of Amsterdam

“The Role of Skepticism in Greco’s Putting Skeptics in their Place

                                                Commentator: Karen Green, Monash University

 

10:15 – 11:25 am

Leora S. Weitzman, University of St. Thomas

“Anti-Individualism, Self-Knowledge, and Why Skepticism Cannot Be Cartesian”

Commentator: Lisa Warenski, The CUNY Honors College

 

Closing Workshop: 11:30 am – 1:00 pm

Whitewater Room, UI Commons

Stewart Cohen, Arizona State University

Catherine Elgin, Harvard University

Ernest Sosa, Brown University

 

 
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