2007 Conference Program
34th Annual Meeting*
March 8th - 10th, 2007
Marriott Columbia, 1200 Hampton Street, Columbia, SC 29201
Host Institution:
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Local Arrangements Chair, Tom Burke
Department of Philosophy, USC
Thursday, March 8, 2005
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm - Registration
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm - Book Exhibit
2:00 pm - 3:45 pm - Concurrent Sessions I
A. Panel - Naturalism and the Human Spirit
Douglas Anderson, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Thomas Alexander, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Randal E. Auxier, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Stephen Tyman, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
B. Discussion Papers on on Self-Reliance, Community, and Democracy
Session Chair: John Shook, Center for Inquiry Transnational
Todd Lekan, Appreciating the Impersonal in Emerson
Chris Keegan, Voting and Other Myths of Democracy
Commentator: Pat Dooley, St. Bonaventure University
C. Traditional Papers on Women Philosophers in the American Tradition
Session Chair: Mary Magada-Ward, Middle Tennessee State University
Maurice Hamington, Before Jane Addams, There Was Fanny Wright”
Dorothy Rogers, America’s First Academic Women Philosophers”
Commentator: Jenny Hansen, Gettysburg College
D. Traditional Papers on Peircian Abduction
Session Chair: Nathan Houser, IUPUI
Scott Mayberry, Clarifying the Process of Abduction and Understanding ‘Inductive’ Generalization
Michael Hoffmann, Abduction and Diagrammatic Reasoning in a Theory of Scientific Discovery
Commentator: Charlie Hobbs, SIUC
E. Graduate Student Session
David Strand, Grad Student Representative and Session Organizer
Marc Lombardo,
Tony Giambuso, Southern Illinois University, Paul Goodman’s Place in the American Radical Tradition
Christopher Hanks, School
of Education,
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm - Refreshment Break (for all registrants)
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm - Concurrent Sessions II
A. Discussion Papers on Reasoning and Inquiry
Session Chair: Sulia Mason, University of South Carolina
Spencer Gwartney-Gibbs, Continuous Frustration: C.S. Peirce’s Mathematical Conception of Continuity
Scott Aiken, Pragmatism, the Given, and Dewey’s Notion of Experience” )
Commentator: Albert Spenser, Baylor University
B. Panel - Moral Cultivation and Growth in Dewey’s Moral Theory
Richard Shusterman, Florida Atlantic University, “Deweyan Dialectics of Self-Cultivation
Scott R. Stroud, University of Texas at Austin, “Growth and Orientational Meliorism in Dewey’s Moral Theory
Gregory Pappas, Texas A&M University, “For Dewey Growth is NOT the End”
C. Traditional Papers on Deweyan Ethics and Poltical Theory
Session Chair: Bill Myers, Birmingham Southern College
David Rondel, Equality, Luck, and Pragmatism
Justin Bell, Veblen, Dewey, and the Price System: Corporate Sabotage and the Democratic Engineer
Commentator: Craig Hanks, Stevens Institute of Technology
D. Invited Session: USC Honors: Service-based Learning
Mary Baskin-Waters, Albion Research Associates and USC Women's Studies
Rob Scharstein, South Carolina Honors College
Ed Munn Sanchez, Associate Dean, South Carolina Honors College
Commentator: Matt Pamental, Northern Illinois University
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm - Welcome and Plenary I
6:00 Greetings from the University of South Carolina
6:05-8:00 Civil Rights, South Carolina and the United States
Session Chair: Lewis Burke, USC Law School
Jack Bass, Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Charleston
Philip Grose, South Carolina Executive Institute and USC's Institute for Southern Studies
Cleveland Sellers, Director of USC's African-American Studies Program
Jean Hoefer Toal, Chief Justice, South Carolina Supreme Court
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm - Reception
Friday, March 9, 2005
7:30 am - 9:00 am - Continental Breakfast (for all registrants)
7:30 – 9:00: Breakfast Book Discussion: Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege, Shannon Sullivan
8:00 am - 5:00 pm - Registration & Book Exhibit
9:00 am - 10:45 am - Concurrent Sessions III
A. Discussion Papers on Expression
Session Chair: James Pawelski, University of Pennsylvania
John Jacob Kaag, Getting Under My Skin: William James on the Emotions, Mimicry, and the Social Self
David Vessey, Poetry as a Unique Art Form
Commentator: Michael Brown, Creighton University
B. Panel - John Dewey and the American Bildung Tradition
Jim Good, The German Bildung Tradition, North Harris College
Jim Garrison, Identifying Traces of Hegelian Bildung in Dewey’s Philosophical System, Virginia Tech University
Commentator: Stefan Neubert, University of Cologne
C. Traditional Papers on Aesthetic Experience, Vagueness, and Mystery
Session Chair: Michael Eldridge, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Eric Mullis, Consummatory Experience and the Democratic Way of Life
Rosa Slegers, Anhedonia and the Broken World: William James and Gabriel Marcel on Vagueness and Mystery
Commentator: Phil Oliver, Middle Tennessee State University
D. Traditional Papers on Peircian Epistemology
Session Chair: Martin Coleman, IUPUI
Roger Ward, Knowledge and Transformation in Peirce’s ‘Reasoning and the Logic of Things’
Lara Trout, Colorblindness and Paper Doubt: A Socio-political Application of Critical Common-sensism
Commentator: Robert Lane, University of West Georgia
E. Traditional Papers on Addams's Ethical Philosophy
Session Chair: Marilyn Fischer, University of Dayton
Charlene Seigfried, A Pragmatist Response to Death: Jane Addams on the Permanent and the Transient
Ryan Musgrave, Cosmopolitan Ethics Through Art: Addams, Starr, and Hull-House Aesthetics
Commentator: Lee McBride, The College of Wooster
10:45 am - 11:00 am - Refreshment Break (for all registrants)
11:00 am - 12:30 pm - Plenary II: Coss Dialogues
Session Chair: Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Purdue University
Jack Donnelly, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver
"The Relative Universality of Human Rights"
Commentator: Marjorie Miller, SUNY, Purchase
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm - Lunch on own
SAAP Executive Committee Meeting
Meeting of Jane Collective
2:30 pm - 4:15 pm - Concurrent Sessions IV
A. Panel - Reassessing Susanne Langer: Forty Years After the Essay on Human Feeling
Robert E. Innis, University of Massachusetts Lowell, "Placing Langer’s Philosophical Project"
Felicia Kruse, Xavier University, "Vital Rhythm and Temporal Form in Langer and Dewey"
Donald Dryden, Duke University, "Susanne Langer: The Philosopher as Prophet and Visionary"
B. Traditional Papers on Normativity
Session Chair: Michael Hodges, Vanderbilt University
James Liszka, “Pragmatic Ethics and Normative Naturalism”
Zach Vander Veen, “Pragmatism and Democratic Values: Beyond Minimalist Accounts of Deliberation”
Commentator: Troy Deters, SIUC
C. Traditional Papers on Mead
Session Chair: Brendan Hogan, Pacific Lutheran University
Elizabeth Baeton, “A Naturalized Context of Moral Reasoning”
Soren Willert, “George Herbert Mead on Consciousness: Antidote to Cartesian Absurdities?”
Commentator: Kara Burnette, University of Oregon
D. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy: Pragmatism and Buddhism
Tao Jiang, Rutgers University, “A Zen Buddhist Engagement with William James: LInji and William James on Mortality”
Joel W. Krueger, SIUC, “Body-Mind and Experience in Dogen and Dewey”
Carl Dull, SIUC, “Buddhism and Pragmatism: Suffering and Compassion in the Technology of the Mind”
Commentator and Chair: John J. Holder, St. Norbert College
E. Invited Session: USC Honors: Undergraduate Research at USC
Julie Morris, Director of USC's Office of Undergraduate Research
Leslie Sargent Jones, Associate Dean, South Carolina Honors College
Commentator: Barbara Stengel, Millersville University
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm - Refreshment Break (for all registrants)
4:30 pm - 6:15 pm - Concurrent Sessions V
A. Panel - Pragmatism with Ressentiment
John J. Stuhr, Department of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
Noelle McAfee, Department of Philosophy, George Mason University
Vincent Colapietro, Department of Philosophy, Penn State University, Notes for a Sketch of a Pragmatist Offensive against Resentment
B. Traditional Papers on Deweyan Ethics and Pedagogy
Session Chair: Michael Brodrick, Vanderbilt University
Phillip Olsen, Dewey’s Virtues
Leonard Waks, Re-Reading Democracy and Education Today: John Dewey on Globalization and Democratic Education
Commentator: Stuart Rosenbaum, Baylor University
C: Traditional Papers on Buchler's and Whitehead's Metaphysics
Session Chair: Richard Hart, Bloomfield College
Nicholas Coccoma, “The Absence and Presence of God in Buchler’s Metaphysics of Natural Complexes”
Gary Herstein, “The Logical Problem with Cosmological Measurements”
Commentator: Gary Calore, Penn State
D. The John Dewey Society: Context and Conduct: New Directions for Character Ethics and Character Education
Chair, Matt Pamental
Eric Bredo, "Character, Context and Conduct"
Craig Cunningham, “Dewey’s Metaphysics and the Self: A New Look”
Barbara Stengel: “Concepts of Character and Systems of Morality”
E: Society for the Study of Africana Philosophy
Session Chair: Alfred E. Prettyman, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Dwight Murph, Bowie University (President, SSAP), "The N-word" Its Use and Abuse"
John P. Pittman, John Jay College, CUNY (Vice President, SSAP), "Choosing A Race"
David E. McClean, Molloy College (Founder, The Interfaith Union for Progressive Religion), "Using Richard Rorty"
Alfred E Prettyman, Ramapo College of New Jersey (Co-Founder SSAP): "Taxing Considerations"
6:30 pm - Dinner on own
Saturday, March 10, 2005
7:30 am - 9:00 am - Continental Breakfast (for all registrants)
8:00 am - 12:00 pm - Registration & Book Exhibit
8:30 am - 10:15 am - Concurrent Sessions VI
A. Discussion Papers on Peircean Inquiry
Session Chair: Cynthia Gayman, Murray State University
Jacquelyn Kegley, Peirce and Royce and the Betrayal of Science: Scientific Fraud and Misconduct
Alain Beauclair, Continuing Education: Peirce and Morality in the 1898 Cambridge Lectures
Commentator: Cathy Legg, University of Waikato and University of Pittsburgh
B. William James Society: James: Influences, Ancestors, and Applications
Paul Croce, Stetson University, From Swedenborgian Philosophy of Use to William James’s Pragmatism
Tadd Ruetenik, Penn State, War-Hawking and Other Addictions: Social Criticism in Henry and William James
Robert Richardson, Pragmatism and Darwin
C. Panel - The Moral and Political Dimensions of the Social Self in the Philosophy of George Herbert Mead
Benjamin Galatzer-Levy, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, "Speech in Anticipation of the other: A Defense of Politically Correct Speech from the Standpoint of G. H. Mead's Self Psychology and Ontology of Personhood"
Anthony L. Cashio, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, "The Genesis and Perpetuation of Moral Values in the Philosophy of G. H. Mead"
Joshua W. Houston, Vanderbilt University, "Democracy, Obligation and Pragmatism"
D. Traditional Papers on Dewey’s Aesthetics
Session Chair: Daniel O'Connell, University of South Carolina
Joseph John, “Experience as Medium: John Dewey and a Traditional Japanese Aesthetic”
Phillip Seng, “Dewey and Movies: A Missed Opportunity?”
Commentator: Jacoby Carter, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
E. Traditional Papers on Transforming Politics
Session Chair: Armen Marsoobian, Southern Connecticut State University
Judy Whipps, The Relevance of Jane Addam’s Theory of Democracy in a Global Post-Colonial Feminist Context
Judith Green, A Tragically Melioristic Hypothesis for Democratic Living: Risking Our Hopes on Direct Citizen Participation
Commentator: Jayne Tristan, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
10:15 am - 10:300 am - Refreshment Break (for all registrants)
10:30 am - 12:15 pm - Concurrent Sessions VII
A. Discussion Papers on Santayana, Dewey, and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind
Session Chair: Bill Gavin, University of Southern Maine
Jessica Wahman, “It Depends What the Meaning of ‘Is’ Is: Santayana, Identity Theory, and the Mind-Body Problem”
Mark Johnson, “Dewey’s Zen – The ‘Oh’ of Wonder”
Commentator: John Lysaker, University of Oregon
B. Panel - Counter-Disciplinary Pragmatism: Philosophy and History
Colin Koopman, UC Santa Cruz, “Historicism in Pragmatism: Lessons for Philosophy, Historiography, and Politics”
James Livingston, Rutgers University, “Pragmatism, Nihilism, and Democracy: What is Called Thinking at the End of Modernity?”
Mark Bauerlein, Emory University, “The Enemies of Pragmatism”
C. Traditional Papers on James's Philosophy of Religion
Session Chair: Larry Hickman, SIUC
Richard Mullin, Is James’s ‘Mystical Realism’ Consistent with his Humanism?
Sean Lipham, The Universe as Thou: William James’s Religious Personalism
Commentator: Mat Foust, University of Oregon
D. American Association of Philosophy Teachers: Teaching Peirce to Undergraduates
Chair,
James Campbell, University of Toledo
Speakers: Cornelis de Waal, Indiana University – Purdue University
Indianapolis
Matt Flamm, Rockford College
Kathleen Hull, New York University
Rosa Mayorga, Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University
Michael Raposa, Lehigh University
12:15 pm - 1:45 pm - Lunch on own
SAAP Executive Committee Meeting
Royce Society
1:45 pm - 3:30 pm - Concurrent Sessions VIII
A. Panel - Statesmen of Ideas: Aristotle and the American Pragmatists
Christopher Long, The Pennsylvania State University
Masato Ishida, The Pennsylvania State University
B. Traditional Papers on Community, Pluralism and interpretation
Session Chair: David Strand, Emory University
Frederick Kellogg, “Opposing Conceptions of Law in Constitutional Interpretation and their Relation to Classical American Philosophy”
Scott Pratt, “The Experience of Pluralism”
Commentator: Richard Atkins, Fordham University
C. Traditional Papers on West and Rorty
Session Chair: Kamaljeet Dhah, University of South Carolina
Dwayne Tunstall, “Cornel West’s Non-Deweyian Prophetic Pragmatism”
Mark Sanders, “My Rortyian Hope”
Commentator: Ken Stikkers, SIUC
D. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy: Pragmatism and Chinese Philosophy
Session Chair and Commentator: Robert Neville, Boston University
Sor-hoon Tan, National University of Singapore, Are Chinese Pragmatists Iconoclasts?
James Behuniak, Colby College, John Dewey and the Moral Defense of Cook Ding’s Dao
Warren G. Frisina, Hofstra University, Forming One Body with All Things
E. American Studies Association
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm - Refreshment Break (for all registrants)
3:45 pm - 5:30 pm -Concurrent Sessions IX
A. Discussion Papers on Otherness and Community
Session Chair: Scott Mayberry, University of South Carolina
Paul Standish, “Who Is My Neighbor? Skepticism and the Claims of Alterity”
Kim Garchar, “Sin, Sorrow, and Suffering: A Graceful Response to the Deeper Tragedies of Life”
Commentator: Celia Bardwell-Jones, University of Oregon
B. Panel - Ideas and Ideals of America in the Thought of Stanley Cavell, Richard Rorty, and Hannah Arendt
Corey McCall, Elmira College, Stanley Cavell’s Romantic Redemption of American Philosophy and the Idea of America
Matthew Sanderson, SIU Carbondale, "Richard Rorty on the American Dream and the Civic Religion of Democracy"
Russ Couch, Keene State College, "Electrifying Democracy: The Importance of Imagination for Whitman and Arendt"
C. Traditional Papers on Emerson
Session Chair: Peter Hare, SUNY-Buffalo
Howard Callaway, “Emerson and Santayana on Imagination”
Naoko Saito, “American Philosophy, Perfectionism and Cross-cultural Understanding”
Commentator: Michael Howard, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
D. Society for the Study of Process Philosophies: "Inconvenient Pragmatic Truths"
Session Co-Chairs: Jude Jones, Fordham University, and Brian Henning, Mount St. Mary's University
After brief framing remarks from an informal panel of discussants, we will engage in a collaborative inquiry into the role of American philosophies in confronting global climate change.
E. Coss Dialogue Follow Up Panel
Session Chair: Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Purdue University
John J. McDermott, Texas A & M
Stephen Thompson, William Patterson University
James Campbell, University of Toledo
Marjorie Miller, SUNY-Purchase
Respondent: Jack Donnelly, University of Denver
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm - Business Meeting
7:00 pm - Banquet & Awards
Founders' Address: Beth Singer
Film by Phillip McReynolds
2007 SAAP Program Committee:
Cynthia Gayman (Murray State University), co-chair
Mary Magada-Ward (Middle Tennessee State University), co-chair
Richard Hart (Bloomfield College)
Michael Hodges (Vanderbilt University)
John Lysaker (Univ. of Oregon)
John R. Shook (Center for Inquiry Transnational)