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2006 PROGRAM
Friday, March 31, 2006
Compton Union Building, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Registration: 8:00 am – 3:30 pm
Vans will run from the University Inn to the CUB from 7:30 am until
9:00 am.
Continental Breakfast: 8:00 – 10:00 am
Registration Area, Mezzanine Level
Paper Group I: 9:00 – 11:25 am
Session A CUB 212 Chair: Manuel Vargas, University of San Francisco
9:00 – 10:10 am
John Martin Fischer, University of California, Riverside
Manipulation and Guidance Control: A Reply to Long
Comment: Todd Long, California Polytechnic State University
10:15 – 11:25 am
Saul Smilansky, University of Haifa
Free Will: Some Bad News
Session B CUB B1-5 Chair: Michael Metzler,
University of Idaho
9:00 – 10:10 am
Abby Gosselin, Washington State University
Role Responsibility and Global Injustice
Comment: Brian Steverson, Gonzaga University
10:15 – 11:25 am
Allen Coates, East Tennessee State University
Directions of Fit, Motivation, and Instrumentalism
Comment: Mary Coleman, Bard College
Session C CUB B11-15 Chair:
Meggan Payne, Bellevue Community College
9:00 – 10:10 am
Robert Schopp, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
“So sick he deserves it:” Desert, Dangerousness, and Character in the Context of Capital Sentencing
Comment: Michael Austin, Eastern Kentucky University
10:15 – 11:25 am
Robert F. Allen, University of Detroit Mercy
Autonomy and Transcendence
Comment: Kristin Mickelson, University of Colorado
Lunch (on your own): 11:30 am – 1:00pm
Paper Group II: 1:00 – 3:25 pm
Session A CUB 212 Chair: John Jensen, Gonzaga
University
1:00 – 2:10 pm
Randolph Clarke, University of Georgia
Making Up One’s Mind
Comment: Richard DeWitt, Fairfield University
2:15 – 3:25 pm
Paul Russell, University of British Columbia
History, Implantation and Hard Compatibilism
3:30 – 4:40 pm
Michael Moore, University of Illinois
Causal Relata
Comment: Brian Morton, Indiana State University
Session B CUB B1-5 Chair: Stewart Goetz, Ursinus College
1:00 – 2:10 pm
Kevin Timpe, University of San Diego
Source Incompatibilism and its Alternatives
Comment: Kip Werking, William and Mary Law School
2:15 – 3:25 pm
Seth Shabo, University of Vermont
Eschewing Alternatives: A Limited Defense of Source Incompatibilism
Comment: Josh Bright, University of California, Riverside
3:30 – 4:40 pm
Joseph Keim Campbell, Washington State University
Farewell to Source Incompatibilism
Comment: Kevin Timpe, University of San Diego
Session C CUB B11-15 Chair: Dane Joseph,
Washington State University
1:00 – 2:10 pm
Charles T. Wolfe, Boston University
Locke’s Compatibilism: Suspension of Desire or Suspension of Determinism?
Comment: Meggan Payne, Bellevue Community College
2:15 – 3:25 pm
Donald Smith, Virginia Commonwealth University,
and E. J. Coffman, Notre Dame University
The Fall of the Mind Argument and Some Lessons about Freedom
Comment: Larry Colter, Evansville University
3:30 – 4:40 pm
Neil Levy, University of Melbourne
Are Zombies Responsible? The Role of Consciousness in Moral Responsibility
Comment: Alex Guerrero, New York University
Session D CUB 214-216 Chair: Michael P. Nelson,
University of Idaho
1:00 – 2:10 pm
Michael Austin, Eastern Kentucky University
A Causal Account of Parental Obligations
Comment: Elizabeth Brake, University of Calgary
2:15 – 3:25 pm
Elizabeth Harman, New York Universit
Does Blameless Ignorance Exculpate?
Comment: Adam Hosein, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Session E – Undergraduate Sessions CUB 224 Chair: Christi Mallory,
Washington State University
1:00 – 2:10 pm
Michael Aune, Florida State University
Natural Morality: A Biological Justification of Praise, Reward, Blame, and Punishment
Comment: Ryan Cole,
Washington State University
2:15 – 3:25 pm
Tim Campbell, University of Buffalo
Frankfurt-style Counterexamples and Principles Similar to PAP: A Critique of van Inwagen
Comment: Patrick Bageant, University of Idaho
3:30 – 4:40 pm
Julianne Chung, University of Calgary
On Smith’s Objections to Davidson
Comment: DeAnn Gerlick,
Washington State University
Dinner (on your own): 5:00 – 7:30 pm
Public Forum: 7:30 – 9:30 pm
Silver and Gold Rooms, University Inn, Moscow, ID
What Should We Do for Nature? Environmental Problems, Responsibility, and Action
Barbara Cosens, Law, University of Idaho
Michael P. Nelson, Philosophy, University of Idaho
Gene Rosa, Sociology, Washington State University
Mark Solomon, Activist, Moscow, ID
Lisette Waits, Wildlife Biology, University of Idaho
Saturday, April 1, 2006
Compton Union Building, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Registration and Refreshments: 7:30 – 11:30 am
Vans will run from the University Inn to the Commons from 7:30 am
until 9:00 am.
Continental Breakfast: 8:00 – 10:00 am
Registration Area, Mezzanine Level
Paper Group III: 9:00 – 11:25 am
Session A CUB 212 Chair: Harriet Baber, University of San Diego
9:00 – 10:10 am
George Sher, Rice University
Responsibility and Practical Reason
Comment: Michael McKenna, Ithaca College
10:15 – 11:25 am
Al Mele, Florida State University
Conscious Intentions
Session B CUB B1-5 Chair: Jason Johnstone-Yellin, University of Idaho
9:00 – 10:10 am
Eddy Nahmias, Georgia State University
Relocating the Problem of Free Will
Comment: Matt King, University of Maryland, College Park
10:15 – 11:25 am
Matthew Talbert, University of California, San Diego
Moral Blindness and Moral Blame
Comment: Michaela Mueller, University of Arizona
Session C CUB B11-15 Chair: Michael O'Rourke,
University of Idaho
9:00 – 10:10 am
Todd Jones, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The Metaphysics of Collective Agency
Comment: Rob Epperson, Western Washington University
10:15 – 11:25 am
Qiong Wang, University of Connecticut
Joint Commitment and the Direction of Obligation
Comment: Cara Nine, University College Cork
Session D CUB 214-216 Chair: Rebekah Rice, Whitworth College/Brown University
9:00 – 10:10 am
Caspar Hare, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distant Suffering
10:15 – 11:25 am
Carolina Sartorio, University of Wisconsin
Omissions: An Exclusion Problem for Causalism
Comment: Daniel Speak, Azusa Pacific University
Lunch: 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Compton Union Building, Cascade Rooms, 1st Floor
Paper Group IV: 1:00 – 3:25 pm
Session A CUB 212 Chair: Richard DeWitt,
Fairfield University
1:00 – 2:10 pm
David Widerker, Bar-Ilan University
Libertarianism and the Philosophical Significance of Frankfurt-scenarios
2:15 – 3:25 pm
Hilary Bok, Johns Hopkins University
Responsibility for Character
Session B CUB B1-5 Chair: Gregory Roth, Spokane Community College
1:00 – 2:10 pm
Thomas Nadelhoffer and Adam Feltz, Florida State University
Folk Intuitions, Slippery Slopes, and Necessary Fictions: An Essay on Saul Smilansky's Free Will Illusionism
Comment: Tamler Sommers, University of Minnesota-Morris
2:15 – 3:25 pm
Shaun Nichols, University of Utah, and
Joshua Knobe, University of North Carolina
Moral Responsibility and Determinism: The Cognitive Science of Folk Intuitions
Comment: Stephen Crowley, Indiana University
Session C CUB B11-15 Chair: Jennifer Stephens,
University of Idaho
1:00 – 2:10 pm
Andrew Sneddon, University of Ottawa
Putting the Moral/Conventional Distinction in its Place
Comment: James Sage, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
2:15 – 3:25 pm
Andrei Buckareff, Franklin and Marshall College
Protecting Intentions from Mental Birth Control
Comment: Zac Cogley, The Ohio State University
Session D CUB 214-216 Chair: Catharine Roth, Spokane Community College
1:00 – 2:10 pm
H. E. Baber, University of San Diego
Action, Responsibility, and Women’s Choices
Comment: Ann Levey, University of Calgary
2:15 – 3:25 pm
Sarah McGrath, Brandeis University
Autonomy and Choice
Comment: Pete Graham, New York University
Special Session: 3:40 – 5:40 pm Chair: Paul Russell, University of British Columbia
Author Meets Critics: John Martin Fischer’s My Way: Essays on Moral Responsibility
John Martin Fischer, University of California, Riverside
Derk Pereboom, University of Vermont
Angela Smith, University of Washington
David Zimmerman, Simon Fraser University
Dinner: 6:00 – 7:45 pm
Compton Union Building, Cascade Rooms, 1st Floor
Keynote Address: 8:00 – 9:30 pm
CUE 203
Frances Kamm, Harvard University
Intention, Responsibility, and Terrorism
Sunday, April 2, 2006
Commons, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
Continental Breakfast: 8:00 – 10:00 am
Whitewater/Clearwater Rooms, 1st Floor
Vans will run from the University Inn to the Commons from 7:30 am
until 9:00 am.
Group V: 9:00 – 11:25
Session A Crest Room Chair: Joseph Keim
Campbell, Washington State University
9:00 – 10:10 am
Derk Pereboom, University of Vermont
Is Our Conception of Agent-Causation Coherent?
10:15 – 11:25 am
Michael Nelson, University of California, Riverside
Breakin’ the Law
Comment: Paul Hovda, Reed College
Session B Horizon Room Chair: Stephen Crowley,
Indiana University
9:00 – 10:10 am
Neal Tognazzini, University of California, Riverside
Four-Dimensional Agent Causation
Comment: Andrew Cortens, Boise State University
10:15 – 11:25 am
Daniel Speak, Azusa Pacific University
The Impertinence of Frankfurt-Style Arguments
Comment: Ron Wilburn, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Session C Aurora Room Chair: Justin Moss, University of Idaho
9:00 – 10:10 am
David Chan, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
A Reappraisal of the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing
Comment: Harry Silverstein, Washington State University
10:15 – 11:25 am
Helen Frowe, University of Reading
Defending the Moral Distinction between Killing and Letting Die
Comment: Russ Payne, Bellevue Community College
Session D Panorama Room Chair: Royce Grubic,
Washington State University
9:00 – 10:10 am
Jason Turner, Rutgers University
Compatibilism and the Free Will Defense
Comment: Todd Trembley, Washington State
University
10:15 – 11:25 am
Antti Kauppinen, University of Helsinki
Moral Judgment and Volitional Incapacity
Comment: James Skidmore, Idaho State University
Closing Workshop: 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Peter van Inwagen, University of Notre Dame
How to Think about the Problem of Free Will
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