2008 Pacific SCP

Tentative Conference Program

[updated 28-Oct-08]

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Time Room Event
5:00–6:55pm   Registration
7:00–9:00pm HMNSS 1500 Plenary Session #1: Richard Swinburne (Oxford University), “Identity Criteria for Substances, Properties, and Events”
Commentator: Michael Nelson (University of California, Riverside)

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Time Room Event
8:30–9:00am   Coffee, pastries, etc.
9:00–10:00am   Concurrent Session #1
  HMNSS 1500 Presenter: Kevin Timpe (University of San Diego), “Demotivating Semicompatibilism”
Session Chair: Eric T. Yang (UC Santa Barbara)
  HMNSS 2212 Presenter: Rico Vitz (University of North Florida), “Lies, Captivating Lies, and Religious Belief: Hume on the Learned Elite and ‘the Christian Superstition’ ”
Session Chair: Robert Hirsch (Biola University)
  HMNSS 1605B Presenter: Elizabeth Zeron Compton (SUNY Buffalo), “Aesthetic Dispositions for Realists”
Session Chair: Chris Franklin (UC Riverside)
  HMNSS 2412 Presenter: Joseph Baltimore (West Virginia University), “A Challenge to Type Physicalism’s Advantage in Avoiding the Exclusion Argument”
Session Chair: Kevin McCain (University of Rochester)
10:00–11:00am   Concurrent Session #2
  HMNSS 1500 Presenter: Scott Ragland (Saint Louis University), “Fischer’s Compatibilism: Hard or Soft?”
Session Chair: Justin A. Capes (Florida State University)
  HMNSS 2212 Presenter: Heath White (UNC Wilmington), “Mattering and Mechanism: Why Mechanism Undermines Meaning in Life, and What (Philosophically) We Might Do about It”
Session Chair: Brandon Johns (University of Southern California)
  HMNSS 1605B Presenter: Kenneth L. Pearce (UC Irvine), “Can Berkeley's God Raise the Same Body, Transformed?”
Session Chair: Harriet Baber (University of San Diego)
  HMNSS 2412 Presenter: Kevin Vallier (University of Arizona), “Liberalism, Religion, and Privatization”
Session Chair: Kevin Sharpe (St. Cloud State University)
11:00am–noon   Concurrent Session #3
  HMNSS 1500 Presenter: Michael Nelson (UC Riverside), “Rationalism within Reason”
Session Chair: Rebecca Bensen Cain (Oklahoma State University)
  HMNSS 2212 Presenter: Michael Robinson (Florida State University), “What’s Causa Sui Got to Do with It?”
Session Chair: Gregory J. Kerr (DeSales University)
  HMNSS 1605B Presenter: Ben Hart (Saint Louis University), “Why Thomas Reid was a Compatibilist (Of Sorts)”
Session Chair: Rico Vitz (University of North Florida)
  HMNSS 2412 Presenter: Kevin McCain (University of Rochester), “The Possibility of Absent Qualia”
Session Chair: Daniel Speak (Loyola Marymount University)
Noon–1:25pm (On your own) Lunch
1:30–2:30pm   Concurrent Session #4
  HMNSS 1500 Presenter: David Hunt (Whittier College), “Sanders’ Argument Against the Providential Utility of Divine Foreknowledge”
Session Chair: Nathan Weston (Biola University)
  HMNSS 2212 Presenter: Andrew Bailey (University of Notre Dame), “Incompatibilism and the Past”
Session Chair: Sean Choi (UC Santa Barbara)
  HMNSS 1605B Presenter: Gregory J. Kerr (DeSales University), “Dawkins and the Disappearing Act: A Reflection on Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion”
Session Chair: Jim Taylor (Westmont College)
2:30–3:30pm   Concurrent Session #5
  HMNSS 1500 Presenter: Laura Ekstrom (College of William and Mary), “The Role of Will in Free Will Theory”
Session Chair: John Saladino (Biola University)
  HMNSS 2212 Presenter: Andrew Moon (University of Missouri-Columbia), “Sexual Perversion and Morality”
Session Chair: Ben Hart (Saint Louis University)
  HMNSS 2412 Presenters: Jonathan Suit & Robert J. Hirsch (Biola University), “Fictionalism, Abstracta, and Logical Dependence”
Session Chair: Joshua Rasmussen (University of Notre Dame)
3:45–5:45pm HMNSS 1500 Plenary Session #2: Richard Swinburne, “Substance Dualism”
Commentator: Charles Siewert (UC Riverside)
6:00–8:00pm Alumni Center Banquet (and business meeting)

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Time Room Event
8:30–9:00am   Coffee, pastries, etc.
9:00–10:00am   Concurrent Session #6
  HMNSS 1500 Presenter: Daniel Speak (Loyola Marymount University), “Libertarianism, Luck, and Gift”
Session Chair: Luis Montes (UC Riverside)
  HMNSS 1400 Presenter: Jim Taylor (Westmont College), “Physicalism, Dualism, Death, and Resurrection”
Session Chair: Josh Bright (UC Riverside)
  HMNSS 1401 Presenter: Arash Farzam-Kia (Queen’s University at Kingston), “A Puzzle about the Quality of Will Thesis”
Session Chair: Heath White (UNC Wilmington)
  HMNSS 1605B Presenter: James Cain (Oklahoma State University), “Fischer vs. Regulative Control”
Session Chair: Scott Ragland (Saint Louis University)
10:00–11:00am   Concurrent Session #7
  HMNSS 1500 Presenter: Harriet Baber (University of San Diego), “The Real Presence”
Session Chair: Justin Coates (UC Riverside)
  HMNSS 1400 Presenter: Justin A. Capes (Florida State University), “Freedom Emerges”
Session Chair: Scott Sevier (UC Riverside)
  HMNSS 1401 Presenter: David Burris (Imperial Valley College), “Thomas Nagel on the Unity of Consciousness: A Critique”
Session Chair: Neal Tognazzini (UC Riverside)
  HMNSS 1605B Presenter: Joshua Rasmussen (University of Notre Dame), “What Is So Good about Moral Freedom—A Reply to Wes Morriston”
Session Chair: Patrick Todd (UC Riverside)
11:00am–noon   Concurrent Session #8
  HMNSS 1500 Presenter: Kevin Sharpe (St. Cloud State University), “Standard Compatibilism and the Problem of Causal Exclusion”
Session Chair: Garrett Pendergraft (UC Riverside)
  HMNSS 1400 Presenter: Chad Kidd (UC Irvine), “A Same-Order Solution to the Problem of Phenomenal Intimacy”
Session Chair: Elizabeth Zeron Compton (SUNY Buffalo)
  HMNSS 1401 Presenter: Eric T. Yang (UC Santa Barbara), “Going PAP-less”
Session Chair: Kevin Timpe (University of San Diego)
  HMNSS 1605B Presenter: Ross Inman (Talbot School of Theology), “Aquinas’ Metaphysics of Substance, Parthood, and Composition and Its Relevance to the Special Composition Question”
Session Chair: Jonathan Searle (San Francisco State University)
Noon–1:30pm (On your own) Lunch
1:45–3:45pm HMNSS 1500 Plenary Session #3: Richard Swinburne, “Soul-Body Interaction Is Scientifically Inexplicable”
Commentator: Nancey Murphy (Fuller Theological Seminary)
4:00pm   Conference concludes.

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