TWENTY-THIRD INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL
PHILOSOPHY
CONFERENCE
Victoria, British Columbia
August 3-5, 2006
Thursday, August 3
Registration; Book Display: 12:00-5:00 p.m.
Session 1: 1:00-2:30 p.m.
1A. Habermas
Chair: Bill McBride, Purdue University
Kevin Gray, Laval University, “Can Habermas’ Reformulation of the
Normative Project Provide An Answer to the Questions of Dialogue Amongst
Religious Groups?”
Mark Thames, El Centro College, “Strange Welcomes: The Political
Meaning of Social Acceptance in Aboulafia, Habermas, and Searle”
1B. Cosmopolitan Democracy
Chair:
Maurice Hamington, University of Southern Indiana
Margaret Moore, Queen’s University, “The Ideal of Cosmopolitan
Democracy”
Colleen Stameshkin, Millersville University, “Cosmopolitan
Justice: Thinking Outside the Phase II
Box”
1C. Immigration
Chair: Shari Collins-Chobanian, Arizona State University
Alex Sager, University of Calgary, “Immigration, Discrimination and Just
Admission”
Peter Higgins, University of Colorado – Boulder, “Does Liberal
Cosmopolitanism Require Open Borders?”
1D. 16th Century
Chair: Jill Delston, Washington University, St. Louis
Krista Sajber, SUNY – Stony Brook, “International Justice and the
Rationality of the Indian Soul: A 16th
Century Theory of Human Rights”
Sharon M. Meagher, University of Scranton, “Cannibalizing the
City: Machiavellian Reason and the
Conquest of Tenochtitlán”
Session 2: 2:45-4:15 p.m.
2A. Relativism or Contextual Universalism
Chair: Nancy Snow, Marquette
University
Robert Strikwerda, Indiana University Kokomo, “Ruth Benedict, Relativism, and Cross Cultural Interaction”
Theresa Tobin, Marquette University, “The Moral Point of View in a Global Context”
2B. Rules and Norms
Chair:
Anja Matwijkiw, Indiana University, Northwest
Steven Wandmacher, University of Michigan – Flint, “Fragile Rules”
Chris Calvert-Minor, Syracuse University, “The Strong Programme, Social
Causes, and the Naturalization of Normativity”
2C. Non-Intervention
Chair:
Matt Silliman, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Deen K. Chatterjee, University of Utah, “Foreign Policy, Human Rights,
and “Preventive Non-Intervention”
Michael Kocsis, Queen’s University“Rescuing the Rule of Nonintervention”
2D. Free
Speech
Chair:
Lisa Schwartzman, Michigan State University
Zach Hoskins, Washington University in St. Louis, “Is freedom of the
press a human right?”
J.A. Neilson, University of British Columbia, “Is Obscenity Law Hate
Speech Against Sexually Divergent Minority Groups?”
2E.
Anthropocentrism and Essentialism
Chair:
Peter Wenz, University of Illinois-Springfield
Wendy Lynne Lee, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania,
“Anthropocentrism Reimagined: Ecology, Language, Aesthetic Experience, and
Epistemic Responsibility”
Drina Eva Bosnjak, “Feminism, Essentialism and Desire”
Session 3: 4:30-6:00 p.m.
3A. Racial Identity
Chair:
Neda Hadjikhani, Binghamton University
Kevin Graham, Creighton University, “Beyond the Pale: Irish Americans on the Margins of Whiteness, 1840-1960”
Brian Thomas, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, “Finding a
place for Racial Identity in Ideal Theory”
3B. Health and Justice
Chair: Philip Mouch, Minnesota State University
Elaine Gibson and Jan Sutherland, Dalhousie University, “A Challenge to
Cosmopolitanism: How Infectious Disease Reporting Systems are Redrafting our
Sense of Nationhood”
Lorraine Y. Landry, Oklahoma
State University,
“TMJ and Trust: A
Case for Interstitial Justice”
3C. Care and Justice
Chair:
Theresa Tobin, Marquette University
Maurice Hamington, University of Southern Indiana, “Cosmopolitanism,
Care, and International Justice: Jane
Addams Meet Kwame Anthony Appiah”
Cullen Padgett Walsh, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Civic
Friendship and the Possibility of Political Justice”
3D. Torture
Chair: Jean Makang, Frostburg State University
Bernard Prusak, Villanova University, “Visions of Evil and the Ticking
Time Bomb Case for Torture”
Dave Johnson and Matt Silliman, MCLA, “Tortured Ethics”
3E. Critiques from the Margin
Chair: Jean Harvey, University of Guelph
Kenna Miskelly, University of Victoria, “Ethical Issues in Data
Mining: Assessment from the Position of
the Margins”
David I. Gandolfo, Furman University, “American Liberation Philosophy:
Reforming the Center by Taking Account of Critiques from the Margins”
Dinner (on your own)
First Plenary Session: 8:00 - 9:30 p.m.
Chair:
Alistair MacLeod, Queen’s University, President - NASSP
Speaker:
Will Kymlicka, Queen’s University, “Can International Law Promote Justice for Minorities?”
Reception: 9:30
- 10:30 p.m.
Friday, August 4
8:30-5:00 Registration
Session 4: 9:00-10:30 a.m.
4A. Sexual Consent
Chair: Patricia Marino, University of Waterloo
Jeffrey A. Gauthier, University of Portland, “Sexual Consent as a Means
to Sexual Autonomy”
Scott Anderson, University of British Columbia, “The Coercion Theory of
Rape: A Reform Proposal”
4B. Multicultural Democracy and Human Rights
Chair:
Mark Thames, El Centro College
Carol C. Gould, George Mason University and Temple University, “Democratizing Transnational Power in a Human
Rights Framework”
Sharon Anderson-Gold, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, “Cultural
Identity and Human Rights: The Case for Multicultural Citizenship”
4C. Retributive Justice
Chair:
Jon Mahoney, Kansas State University
Michelle Maiese, Emmanuel College, “The Contextual Embeddedness of
Human Action: Shortcomings of Retributive Justice”
Michael Cholbi, Cal. State Pomona, “Liberalism, Retributivism, and the
Rule of Law”
4D. Immigration
Chair:
Alex Sager, University of Calgary
Corwin Aragon, University of Colorado, Boulder, “From Immigration to
Migration”
Shari Collins-Chobanian, Arizona State University, “25 Million And
Counting: A Case For Recognizing Environmental
Refugees”
Session 5: 10:45-12:15 p.m.
5A. Morality &Love
Chair: Barrett Emerick, University of Colorado-Boulder
Nancy Snow, Marquette University, “Iris Murdoch’s Notion of a Loving
Gaze”
John Escurel Funelas, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines, “The Face as the Seat of Value and
Desire: Levinasian concept of the Face within
the Filipino Culture”
5B. Democracy and Majority rule
Chair: Margaret Moore, Queen’s University
Ovadia Ezra, Tel Aviv University, “Second Thoughts About Democracy”
Joseph E. Martire, Missouri State University, “Conflicts between
Individual Liberty and Majority Rule: Constitutional Fidelity, Fairness and
Justice”
5C. Terrorism
Chair:
Bernard Prusak, Villanova University
Marilyn Friedman, Washington University, “Female Terrorists: What
Difference Does Gender Make?”
James Griffith, New School University, “The Philosophical
Considerations of Globalized Terrorism”
5D. Gender, Human Rights, and Global Justice
Chair:
Anita Silvers, San Francisco State University
Anne Donchin, Indiana University, Indianapolis, “Gender Justice, Global
Health, and Human Rights”
Jean-Marie Makang, Frostburg State University, “Assessing Simone de Beauvoir’s Ethics of Ambiguity in the Light of the
Complex Relation between Patriotism and Global Justice and between Ideology and
Truth”
5E. Justice, Law, and Contract
Chair:
Rahul Kumar, Queen’s University
David Wood, The University of Melbourne, “An Egalitarian Theory Of
Transactional Justice”
Alistair M.
Macleod, Queen’s University,
“Justice, Human Rights and Conformity to International Law”
Lunch 12:15-1:45 p.m. (on your own)
Session 6: 1:45-3:15 p.m.
6A. Polygamy and Polyamory
Chair: Margaret Crouch, Eastern Michigan University
Jon Mahoney, Kansas State University, “Liberalism, Toleration, and
Polygamy”
Deirdre Golash, American University, “Ethics of Polyamory”
6B. Reconciliation
Chair: Michael Cholbi, Cal State Pomona
Rahul Kumar, Queen’s University, “Rectification, Reparation, and the
Moral Significance of Wrongdoing”
Colleen Murphy, Texas A&M University, “Towards A New Understanding
of Political Reconciliation”
6C. American Foreign Policy
Chair: Wendy Lynne
Lee, Bloomsburg University
Peter S. Wenz, University of Illinois at Springfield, “An Ecological
Model of International Relations”
Jeffrey Paris, University of San Francisco, “After the Law of Peoples”
6D. Religion and Rights
Chair: P.J. Lomelino, University of Colorado-Boulder
Erik A. Anderson, Furman University, “Can an Atheist Believe in Human
Rights?”
John Scott Gray, Humboldt State University, “Family Indoctrination and
a Religious Education: An Analysis of Spinoza and the Impact of Home-Schooling
on The Freedom of Religious Thought”
6E. International Law
Chair: Michelle Maiese, Emmanuel College
Jean Harvey, University of Guelph, “International Justice And
Non-Distributive Concerns”
Jordy Rocheleau, Austin Peay State
University, “Critique of Pure Hypocrisy:
the Justice of Inconsistency in International Laws Regarding the
Possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction”
Book Award 3:30 -
5:00 p.m.
Chair:
Margaret Crouch, Eastern Michigan University, Vice-President - NASSP
Larry
May, Crimes
Against Humanity: A Normative Account, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005.
Comments:
Cheryl Hughes, Wabash College
Colin Macleod, University of Victoria.
Marilyn Fischer (Chair of Book Award Committee), University of Dayton
(also on book award committee: Kok-Chor Tan, Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Banquet 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Business Meeting 7:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Saturday, August 5
Session 7: 9:00-10:30 a.m.
7A. International norms
Chair: Deen Chatterjee, University of Utah
P.J. Lomelino, University of Colorado, Boulder, “Making Universal Human
Rights Applicable to All Persons”
Margaret A. Crouch, Eastern Michigan University, “The Influence of
International Institutions on Sexual Harassment Law”
7B. Hobbes
Chair: Sally Scholz, Villanova University
Jill Delston, Washington University, “The Limited Leviathan”
Noel E. Boulting, “Hobbes on Law”
7C. Privacy
Chair: Jami Anderson, University of Michigan-Flint
John R. Rowan, Purdue University Calumet, “Deconstructing the Right to Privacy”
Rita Nelson, Washington State University, “On Privacy: The pertinence
between global business and electronic commerce”
7D. Cosmopolitan Justice
Chair: Erik Anderson, Furman University
Paul Churchill, George Washington University, “Justice as Human Rights for the Third World”
Helga Varden, University of Toronto, “Legitimate International
Authority - A Kantian Conception of International Political Obligations”
7E. Empathy
Chair: Lorraine Y. Landry, Oklahoma State University
Audra King and Barrett Emerick, The University of Colorado at Boulder,
“Empathic Understanding”
Simon Cushing, University of Michigan-Flint, “What Empathy Isn’t and
Couldn’t be”
Session 8: 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
8A. Self-Determination and the Nation-State
Chair:
Joe Betz, Villanova University
Graham MacPhee, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, “Arendt and
the Opacity of Violence Beyond the Nation-State”
Dimitrios (Jim) Molos, Queen’s University, “The Problem Of
Self-Determination”
8B. Objectification, Privacy, and Autonomy
Chair: James Boettcher, St. Joseph’s University
Jami L. Anderson, University of Michigan-Flint, “Bodily Privacy,
Toilets and Sex Discrimination: The
Problem of “Manhood” in a Women’s Prison”
Patricia Marino, University of Waterloo, “The Ethics of Sexual
Objectification: Autonomy and Choice”
8C. Racial Divide
Chair:
Brian Thomas, University of North Carolina
Alison Bailey, Illinois State University, Purity and Ignorance in Mills’s The Racial Contract”
Johnny Washington, Missouri State University, “Destiny: Dr. Douglas C.
Engelbart’s Digital Innovations, and Enlarging the Mental Capabilities of the
Human Species”
8D. Technology and Weapons
Chair: Jordy
Rocheleau, Austin Peay State University
Andrew Light, University of Washington, “Does Nanotechnolgoy Generate
Deep Disagreement?”
Edmund Byrne, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. at Indianapolis, “Can Arms Be
Sold Responsibly In The Global Market?”
8E. International Norms
Chair: Jeff Paris, University of San Francisco
Anja Matwijkiw, Indiana University, Northwest, “The Reverse Revenge
Norm”
Azzurra Crispino, Texas A&M University, “Distant Needy, Feminist
Contractarianism and the Problem of Motivation”
Lunch 12:15-1:45 p.m. (on your own)
Session 9: 1:45-3:15
9A. Articulating
Rights in Revolutionary Fashion
Chair: Chris Calvert-Minor, Syracuse University
Penny Weiss, Purdue University, “The Politics of Revolutions:
Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls”
Anita Silvers, San Francisco State University, “Justice Strong And
Agile: Forging Concepts For The New U.N. Convention On The Rights And Dignity
Of People With Disabilities”
9B.
International Law/International Organizations
Chair:
Helga Varden, University of Toronto
Philip Mouch, Minnesota State University, “International Organizations:
Power and Resistance”
Neda Hadjikhani, Binghamton University, “The Question of Legal Standing: The ICC, the State, and the Subject of
International Law”
9C. Reproductive “Choices”
Chair: Sharon Meagher, University of Scranton
Joseph Betz, Villanova University, “The Higher the Abortion Rate, the Lower the Crime Rate?”
Lisa H. Schwartzman, Michigan State University, “Can Liberalism Account for Women’s ‘Adaptive
Preferences’?”
9D. Recognition and Respect
Chair:
Cullen Padget Walsh, University of Illinois at Chicago
James W. Boettcher, Saint Joseph's University, “Respect, Recognition and Public Reason”
Cindy Holder, University of Victoria, “Human Rights and Communal
Sovereignty: Must They Be At Odds?”
Second Plenary Session 3:30-5:00
Chair: Cindy
Holder, University of Victoria, Local Conference Host
Speaker:
Allan Buchanan, “Human Nature,
Human Enhancement, and Human Rights”
After the conference:
Join us and our local hosts at 6:00 pm for music on the lawn of Government House (the Liuetenant Governor’s residence). These festivities are part of the BC Day celebrations. Transportation from campus is provided and admission is free. There will be a refreshments concession available on-site for those who are hungry.