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PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, 2005

Time and Identity

 

 
All Sessions in the University of Idaho Commons unless otherwise indicated.

Friday, April 1, 2005

Registration and Refreshments: 8:00 am – 3:30 pm
Summit Conference Area
4th Floor, UI Commons

 

Paper Group I: 9:00 – 11:25 am

Session A         Chair: Robert F. Allen, University of Detroit Mercy
Crest Room     

9:00 – 10:10 am

Eric Olson, University of Sheffield

“Timeless and Dated Assertions”

Commentator: Sarah McGrath, Holy Cross

10:15 – 11:25 am

Jenann Ismael, University of Arizona

“Me, Again”

 

Session B         Chair: John Jensen, University of Idaho
Horizon Room

9:00 – 10:10 am

Kevin Timpe, University of San Diego

“Two Identity Problems for Disembodied Souls”

Commentator: Dominic Braune, South Texas College

10:15 – 11:25 am

Ben Bradley, Syracuse University

“The Worst Time to Die”

Commentator: Peter Hanowell, Florida State University

 

Session C         Chair: George Knight, Boise State University
Aurora Room

9:00 – 10:10 am

Bryan Frances, University of Leeds

“Quantification, Ontology, and Time”

Commentator: David Jehle, Cornell University

10:15 – 11:25 am

Ben Caplan, University of Manitoba, and David Sanson, UCLA 

“The Way Things Were”

Commentator: Joshua Spencer, Rochester University

 

Lunch Break: 11:30 am – 1:00pm  (on your own)

Paper Group II: 1:00 – 3:25 pm

Session A          Chair:  Joseph Keim Campbell, Washington State University
Crest Room

1:00 – 2:10 pm

Ted Sider, Rutgers University

“Parthood”

Commentator: Paul Hovda, Reed College

2:15 – 3:25 pm

Mark Hinchliff, Reed College

“The Identity of the Past”

3:30 – 4:40 pm

Hud Hudson, Western Washington University

“Extended Simples”

 

Session B         Chair:  Harry Silverstein, Washington State University
Horizon Room

1:00 – 2:10 pm

H. E. Baber, University of San Diego

“Ex Ante Desire and Post Hoc Satisfaction”

Commentator: Mark Alfino, Gonzaga University

2:15 – 3:25 pm

Robert F. Allen, University of Detroit Mercy

“The Subject is Qualia: Paronyms and Temporary Identity”

Commentator: Larry Colter, University of Evansville

3:30 – 4:40 pm

Todd Jones, University of Nevada Las Vegas

“Multiple Realizability – Fahgetaboutit!”

 

Commentator: Ron Wilburn, University of Nevada Las Vegas

 

Session C         Chair: Michael P. Nelson, University of Idaho
Aurora Room

1:00 – 2:10 pm

Tony Roark, Boise State

“Time Over Identity: Aristotle on the Problem of Identity Over Time”

Commentator: James Sage, University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point

2:15 – 3:25 pm

Geoffrey A. Gorham, University of Wisconsion–Eau Claire

“Descartes on Persistence and Temporal Parts”

Commentator: Russell Wahl, Idaho State University

3:30 – 4:40 pm

Cynthia D. Coe, Central Washington University

“The Anarchic Body: Hitlerism, Liberalism, and Levinas on Identity”

Commentator: Ann Levey, University of Calgary

Session D:         Chair: Richard Randall, North Idaho College
Panorama Room

1:00 – 2:10 pm

Stephen Sutton, North Carolina State University

“Debunking Bilking”

Commentator: Patrick Bageant, University of Idaho

2:15 – 3:25 pm

Peter Thurley, University of Waterloo

“A Clarification on Indexicality and Time: Dummett, McTaggart, and Perry on the Unreality of Time”

Commentator: Pip Cawley, Washington State University

3:30 – 4:40 pm

Brady R. Romtvedt, George Fox University

“A One-of-a-Kind Resurrection?”

Commentator: Dane Joseph, Washington State University

 

Dinner: 5:00 – 7:30 pm  (on your own)

 

Public Forum: 7:30 – 9:30 pm, University Inn Best Western, Moscow, ID

Time and Identity in Film

Jon R. Hegglund, English, Washington State University

Andrew Light, Applied Philosophy, New York University

George Patsakos, Physics, University of Idaho

Hans Rosenwinkel, Journalism and Mass Media, University of Idaho

 

Reception: 9:30 – 11:30 pm, Idaho/Washington Rooms, University Inn Best Western, Moscow, ID

 

Saturday, April 2, 2005

Registration and Refreshments: 8:00 am – 11:30 pm
Summit Conference Area
4th Floor, UI Commons

Continental Breakfast: 8:00 10:00, Whitewater/Clearwater Rooms

Paper Group III: 9:00 – 11:25 am

Session A         Chair:  Kevin Timpe, University of San Diego
Crest Room

9:00 – 10:10 am

Thomas Hofweber, University of North Carolina

“The Meta-Problem of Change”

10:15 – 11:25 am

Lawrence Lombard, Wayne State University

“Time for a Change: A Polemic Against the Presentism/Eternalism Debate”

 

Session B          Chair: Gregory E. Roth, Spokane Community College
Horizon Room

9:00 – 10:10 am

Simon Evnine, University of Miami

“The Shape of a Life: Epistemic Constraints on Personal Identity Over Time”

Commentator: Lisa Warenski, Union College

10:15 – 11:25 am

Elizabeth Harman, New York University

“Desires Across Time:  A Reflection Principle for Desires?”

Commentator: Robert Epperson, Western Washington University

 

Session C         Chair:  Catherine Roth, Spokane Community College
Aurora Room

9:00 – 10:10 am

Jonathan Westphal, Idaho State University

The Future and the Truth-Value Links: an Ockhamist and Common Sense View"

Commentator: Chris Heathwood, University of Massachusetts–Amherst

10:15 – 11:25 am

Roderick T. Long, Auburn University

“Future Truth and Leibniz’s Law: An Aristotelean Sea Battle in a Heracleitean River”

Commentator: Glen Cosby, Spokane Community College

 

Lunch: 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Whitewater/Clearwater Rooms

Paper Group IV: 1:00 – 3:25 pm

Session A         Chair:  Ron Wilburn, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Crest Room

1:00 – 2:10 pm

John Pollock, University of Arizona

"What Am I? Virtual Machines and the Mind/Body Problem"

2:15 – 3:25 pm

Carol Rovane, Columbia University

“The Unity and Separateness of Persons”

 

Session B         Chair:  Stephen Crowley, Indiana University
Horizon Room

1:00 – 2:10 pm

Yuri Balashov, University of Georgia

“Stage Theory, Universalism, and Lingering Properties”

Commentator: Andrew Cortens, Boise State University

2:15 – 3:25 pm

Ned Markosian, Western Washington University

“Identifying the Problem of Personal Identity”

Commentator: Tove Finnestad, State University of New York at New Paltz

 

Session C         Chair: Mike Myers, Washington State University
Aurora Room

            1:00 – 2:10 pm

Michael Nelson, Yale University/University of California, Riverside

“Traveling through Time, Presentist Style”

Commentator: Martin Thomson-Jones, Oberlin College

2:15 – 3:25 pm

W. Russ Payne, Bellevue Community College

“A Reply to Sider’s Truth-maker Objection to Presentism”

Commentator: Guy Rohrbaugh, Auburn University

 

Session D         Chair:  Glen Cosby, Spokane Community College
Panorama Room

            1:00 – 2:10 pm

Ken Himma, Seattle Pacific University

“One of You is All There Can Be”

Commentator: Stephan Torre, University of Massachusetts–Amherst

2:15 – 3:25 pm

Neal A. Tognazzini, University of California–Riverside

“Persistence and Responsibility”

Commentator: Brian Steverson, Gonzaga University

 

Special Session: 3:30 – 5:30 pm Janssen Engineering Building, Room 104

Death and Dying

Harry Silverstein, Washington State University

Barbara Baum Levenbook, North Carolina State University

Ben Bradley, Syracuse University

 

Dinner: 5:30 – 7:30 pm Whitewater/Clearwater Rooms

 

Keynote Address: 7:30 – 9:30 pm University of Idaho Law School Courtroom

John Perry, Stanford University

"Selves and Self-Concepts"

 

Reception: 9:30 – 10:30 pm, University of Idaho Law School, Main Lobby

 

Sunday, April 3, 2005

Continental Breakfast: 8:00 10:00, Whitewater/Clearwater Rooms

Group V: 9:00 – 11:25

Session A         Chair:  Michael O'Rourke, University of Idaho
Crest Room

9:00 – 10:10 am

Harold Noonan, University of Nottingham

“Persons, Animals and Human Beings”

10:15 – 11:25 am

Lynne Rudder Baker, University of Massachusetts–Amherst

“Temporal Reality”

 

Session B         Chair:  Joseph Keim Campbell, Washington State University
Horizon Room

9:00 – 10:10 am

John W. Carroll, North Carolina State University

“Context, Conditionals, Fatalism, Freedom, Time Travel”

Commentator: Stephen Crowley, Indiana University

10:15 – 11:25 am

James Blackmon, University of California, Davis

“Temporal Parts and the Problem of Motion”

Commentator: Jason Turner, Rutgers University

Session C        Chair:  Richard Wells, University of Idaho
Aurora Room

9:00 – 10:10 am

Reinaldo Elugardo, University of Oklahoma, and Robert J. Stainton, University of Western Ontario

“Identity through Change and Substitutivity Salva Veritate

Commentator: Mark M. Moyer, University of Vermont

10:15 – 11:25 am

Kurt Queller, University of Idaho

“Must We Conceptualize Time in Terms of Space? Reconsidering the Linguistic Evidence”

 

Closing Workshop: 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Whitewater Room

Michael Tooley, University of Colorado

Perdurantism

 

 


 
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