TWENTY-SECOND INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL
PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE
Troy, New York
July 28, Thursday
Registration;
Book Display: 12:00-5:00 p.m. (Darin Communication Center – Great Hall)
Session 1:
1:00-2:30 p.m.
1A.
Democratic Theory (DCC 232)
Chair: Rory Kraft, Michigan State University
Jean-Marie Makang, Frostburg State University, “A Different Vanguard:
Popular Consent and Political Competence in Democracy Reconsidered”
Richard Buck, Mount St. Mary’s University, “Deliberative Democracy and
Democratic Equality”
1B. The Ethics of Unequal Relationships (DCC 235)
Chair:
Ovadia Ezra, Tel Aviv University
Jordy Rocheleau, “Values, Advocacy and Neutrality in College Teaching”
Lisa Rivera, University of Massachusetts, Boston, “Best Practices for
Beneficence”
1C. Technology and Economics (DCC 236)
Chair: Lauren Fleming, Georgetown University
Tait Szabo, University of Colorado, Boulder “Commodification and the
Legal Prohibition of Organ Sales”
Victor Wallis, Berklee College of Music, “Socialism and Technology: A
Sectoral Overview”
1D. Chinese Philosophy (DCC 239)
Chair: Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, American University of Sharjah
Wenyu Xie, International Theological Seminary, “Human Duty or Human
Rights: In Search for the Foundation of Society”
Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, SUNY Cortland, “The Tao of Love: A Convergent Ethic
of Nonviolent Compassion”
Session 2:
2:45-4:15 p.m.
2A. Group Rights (DCC 232)
Chair: Jacob Affolter, University of California, Riverside
Jose Enrique Idler, University of Maryland, College Park,
“Multiculturalism, Group Rights and the Value of Membership”
Lazar Popov, Purdue University, “Towards a Genuine Racial/Group
Contractarianism”
2B. Defining Concepts of Life and Technology (DCC
235)
Chair:
Richard Buck, Mount St. Mary’s University
Noel Boulting, “Conceptions of Technology: Developing a Peircian
Suggestion”
Peter Higgins, University of Colorado,
Boulder, “When Is a Definition of ‘Life’ Adequate?”
2C. Ethics
and Violence (DCC 239)
Chair:
Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, SUNY Cortland
Joe Betz, Villanova University, “The Definition of 'Torture'”
Edmund F. Byrne, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. at Indianapolis,
“Individual Homicidal Self-Defense: Neither Natural nor Culturally Desirable”
Session 3:
4:30-6:00 p.m.
3A. Welfare and Well-Being (DCC 232)
Chair:
Lisa Cassidy, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Jim Molos, Queen’s University, "Subjects with Attitudes: Dealing
with Our Intuitions about Welfare"
Jenny Szende, Queen’s University, “A Problem for Well-Being”
3B. Legal Theory (DCC 235)
Chair:
John Wright, Miami University
Matt James, Washington University, “Does Legal Morality Need to be
Fuller?”
Shane Ralston, Western State College, “The Politics of Reconstruction:
Posner and Dewey on Democracy and a Diverse Judiciary”
3C. Participation and Democracy
(DCC 236)
Chair:
Gaile Pohlhaus, Miami University
Angela
Yesh, Miami University, “Gay Marriage”
Lauren Fleming, Georgetown University, “Public Input and Science
Funding”
3D.
Individual and Group Action (DCC 239)
Chair:
Brian Thomas, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Jean
Harvey, University of Guelph, “Securing Social Justice: The Role of
Individuals”
Cindy Holder, University of Victoria, “Rethinking Collective Action”
Dinner (on
your own)
First Plenary
Session: 8:00 - 9:30 p.m. Darin
Communication Center Room 337
Carol
Gould, Stevens Institute of Technology, "Global Democratic Transformation
and the Internet"
Reception: 9:30 - 10:30
p.m. Russell Sage Dinning Hall
July 29, Friday
8:30-5:00 Registration - Darin Communication Center – Great Hall
Session 4:
9:00-10:30 a.m.
4A. Eugenics (DCC 232)
Chair:
Nancy Campbell, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Lisa Bellantoni, Albright College, “Disabling the Future: Eugenics for
the Biotech Century”
Wade Roberts, Duquesne University, “Biopower and Liberal Eugenics:
Foucault and Habermas on the Future of the Species”
4B. Oppression of Women (DCC 235)
Chair:
Lisa Rivera, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Lisa Schwartzman, Michigan State University, “Choice, Circumstance, and
Equality: A Feminist Critique”
Margaret Crouch, Eastern Michigan University, “Cross-Cultural
Conceptions of Sexual Harassment: The Middle East”
4C. Comparing People and Cultures (DCC 236)
Chair:
Shelly Wilcox, Temple University
Mathieu Doucet, Queen's University, “Donald Davidson and the Problem of
Interpersonal Comparison”
Lisa Cassidy, Ramapo College of New Jersey, “North is to South as
Husband is to Wife? Exploring an Analogy”
4D. Libertarianism (DCC 239)
Chair:
Shane Ralston, Western State College
Elin Palm, Royal Institute of Technology, “Is There Anything Wrong with
Voluntary Slavery?”
David Traven, Ohio State University, “Libertarianism and Rights: A
Justification of the More than Minimal State”
Session 5:
10:45-12:15 p.m.
5A. Virtue Theory (DCC 232)
Chair:
Kevin Graham, Creighton University
Nancy Snow, Marquette University, “The Structure of the Self and the
Possibility of Virtue”
John Wright, Miami University, “Virtue Theory and Moral Status”
5B. Biotechnology (DCC 235)
Chair:
Barry DeCoster, Michigan State University
Keith Bustos, University of Tennessee, “Exploring Monsanto’s Use of
Terminator Technology.”
Johann Klaassen, First Affirmative Financial Network, LLC,
“Contemporary Biotechnology and the New ‘Green Revolution’: Feeding the World
with ‘Frankenfoods’?”
5C. Habermas and Technology (DCC 236)
Chair:
Wade Roberts, Duquesne University
Drew Pierce, Michigan State University, “Habermas and Media Technology”
Roger Foster, “Rethinking the Critique of Instrumental Reason”
5D. Immigration Issues (DCC 239)
Chair:
Colleen Stameshkin, Millersville University
Shelly Wilcox, Temple University, “Immigrant Admissions and Globalized
Relations of Harm”
Lisa Campo Engelstein, Michigan State University, “The Privatization of Immigrant Culture: A
Burden for Women”
Lunch
12:15-1:45 p.m. (on your own)
Session 6:
1:45-3:15 p.m.
6A. Cyber Communities (DCC 232)
Chair:
Patricia Marino, University of Waterloo
Sally Scholz, Villanova University, “Cyber Solidarity and Grassroots
Webbing.”
Ovadia Ezra, Tel Aviv University, “The Moral Status of a Virtual
Community.”
6B. The Limits of Punishment (DCC 235)
Chair:
Jason Hanna, University of Colorado, Boulder
Lynne Arnault, Le Moyne College, “Technology Matters: Supermax Prisons
and ‘Disappeared’ Human Suffering”
Jason L. Mallory, Binghamton University (SUNY), “Democracy and Prison
Abolition”
6C. Moral Theory (DCC 236)
Chair: Peter
Higgins, University of Colorado, Boulder
Alistair McLeod, Queens University, “Acts of Consent, Commitment and
Promise as Sources of Moral Duties and Rights”
Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, American University of Sharjah, “Separation and
Conscience”
6D. Technology and Morality (DCC 239)
Chair:
Aaron Lercher, St. Andrews Presbyterian College
Martin Gunderson, Macalester College, “Human Rights, Dignity and
Germ-Line Engineering”
Daniel Levine, Georgetown University, “Could Robot Weapons Bring about
the Moral Disappearance of the Soldier?”
Book Award
3:30 - 5:00 p.m., Darin Communication Center Room 337
Seyla Benhabib, The Rights of Others: Aliens, Residents, and
Citizens
Comments:
Johann Klaassen, First Affirmative Financial Network, LLC
Jeremy Bendyk-Keymer, American University of Sharjah
Marilyn Fischer, University of Dayton
Banquet 5:30 -
7:30 p.m. Russell Sage Dining Hall
Presidential Address:
William McBride, Purdue
University, “The End of Liberal Democracy as We Have Known It?”
Business
Meeting 7:30 - 8:30 p.m., DCC 337
OPEN HOUSE
9:00-Midnight Conference
participants are invited to the home of local host Sharon Anderson-Gold at 130
2nd Street in the historic district of downtown Troy. Wine and cheese.
Saturday, July 30
Session 7:
9:00-10:30 a.m.
7A. War and Race (DCC 232)
Chair: Edmund F. Byrne, Indiana University, Purdue University at
Indianapolis
Robert Van Wyk, “Reflections on Jean Bethke Elshtain, George Weigel,
Lee Harris and Just War Theory”
Kevin Graham, Creighton University, “Color, Race, and White Privilege”
7B. The Impact of Technology on Ethics (DCC 235)
Chair: Daniel Levine, Georgetown University
Colleen Stameshkin, Millersville University,
“Technologically and the End of Abortion as We Know It”
Ronald Sandler, Northeastern University,
“Designing the Very Small: Is There a Need for a New, a Nano Ethic?”
7C. Autonomy and Justice (DCC
236)
Chair: Cindy Holder, Victoria University
Anne Donchin, Indiana University, “Recasting Autonomy/ Rethinking
Justice: Perspectives from Bioethics”
Brian Thomas, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, “What Personal
Autonomy Can Teach Us about Group Autonomy”
7D. Examining History (DCC 239)
Chair: Mark Jensen, University of Notre Dame
Adam Rosen, New School University, “Sovereignty or Social Justice?”
Rory Kraft, Michigan State University, “After the End of History? 9/11
and Its Aftermath”
Session 8:
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
8A. The Significance of the Sociological (DCC 232)
Chair: Roger Foster
Mark Jensen, University of Notre Dame, “How Should Sociological Facts
Constrain Social and Political Theory? Civil Society as a Test Case”
Jonathan Roberge, University
of Montreal,
“Man and Culture from the Standpoint of French Hermeneutics”
8B. Islam Considered (DCC 235)
Chair: Margaret Crouch, Eastern Michigan University
Irfan Khawaja, The College of New Jersey, “Realism, Nominalism, and
Orientalism: Edward Said on the Essence of Islam”
Ramazan Bicer, University of Sakarya, “Do Religion and Science Conflict?”
8C. Conceptualizing Science and
Technology (DCC 236)
Chair: Sharon Anderson-Gold, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Noel Boulting, “Four Accounts of the Relationship between Science and
Technology with Respect to the Problem of Rationality”
Matt Silliman, North Adams State, “Two Cheers for Reductionism”
8D. Sex and Lust (DCC 239)
Chair: Sally Scholz, Villanova University
Patricia Marino, University of Waterloo, “Seeking Desire: Reflections
on Blackburn's Lust”
Helga Varden, University of Toronto, "A Kantian Conception of
Rightful Sexual Relations"
Lunch
12:15-1:45 p.m.
Second Plenary Session
1:45-3:15 p.m. Darin Communication Center Room 337
Sandra
Harding, University of California, Los Angeles, "Women, Science,
Modernity"
Session 9:
3:30-5:45 p.m.
9A. Environmental Justice (DCC 232)
Chair: Johaan Klaasen, First Affirmative Financial Network, LLC
Sharon, Anderson-Gold, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, “Global
Warming and Social Justice”
Aaron Lercher, St. Andrews Presbyterian College, “Mercury Emissions
Trading and Environmental Rights”
Sarah Kenehan, University of Tennessee, “Moving Towards Environmental
Sustainability: The Relationship Between Fossil Fuel Consumption and the
Preservation of Background Justice in A Well-Ordered Society”
9B. Rawls
Revisited (DCC 235)
Chair: Lisa Schwartzman, Michigan State University
Walter Riker, University of Tennessee, “Rawls’s Liberal Principle of
Legitimacy Revisited”
Chris Lowry, Queens University, “The Difference Principle, Resource
Scarcity and Wellbeing”
Jacob Affolter, University of California, Riverside, “Boundaries of
Justice: A Reply to Kok-Chor Tan.”
9C. Considering Punishment
(DCC 236)
Chair: Jason Mallory, Binghamton University (SUNY)
Christopher Ciocchetti, Centenary College of Louisiana, “Trust and Punishment”
Jason Hanna, University of Colorado, “Getting Lucky, Getting Even, or
Getting Away with (Attempted) Murder: The Punishment of Failed Attempts”
Jeffrey Paris, University of San Francisco, “Notes Toward a Philosophy
of Mass Incarceration”
9D. Epistemology and Justice (DCC 239)
Chair: Nancy Snow, Marquette University
Gaile Pohlhaus, Miami University, “Knowing Others Well”
Nancy Campbell, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, “Situated Expertise:
Feminist Epistemology as a Route to Social Justice”
Barry DeCoster, Michigan State University, “Who Explains Disease?:
Epistemological Communities and Medical Explanations of Disease”