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Society for Phiosophy in the Contemporary World
1996 Annual Conference
Estes Park, Co.


This program contains links to abstracts of the conference papers

Friday, August 9th

4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. -- Registration
5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. -- Dinner
7:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. -- Welcome/Introduction to Society
8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. -- Reception
Saturday, August 10th

Session I -- Erin McKenna, Chair
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Isaiah Smithson, Salvaging a Theory of Forest Ethics
Noel Boulting, A Triadic Interpretation of Contingency
Wendy Lee-Lampshire, Anthropomorphism without  Anthropocentrism: A Wittgensteinian Ecofeminist Alternative to Deep Ecology
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. -- LUNCH
Session II -- Michael Briand, Chair
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Eddy Souffrant, Looking Through Liberalist Lenses
Christopher Kilby, Aid and Sovereignty
2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. BREAK

Session III -- Peter Mehl, Chair
2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.

James Sauer, What does a Bribe Buy? Commerce, Bribery and the Structure of Moral Knowledge

Michael McKenna, The Limits of Evil and the Role of
Moral Address: A Defense of Strawsonian Compatibilism

4:15 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. DINNER

7:00 p.m. EVENING ACTIVITIES

Laura Duhan Kaplan, I Married an Empiricist
Sunday, August 11th

Session IV -- Christopher Kilby, Chair
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Richard deTar, An Empedoclean Epistemology
Peter Mehl, William James' Ethics and the New Casuistry
10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. BREAK


Session V -- Ray Kolcaba, Chair
10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

Val Kosky, A Philosophical Conceptualization
Hiam Gordon, Graham Greene's 'Stamboul Train" as a Critique of Martin Heidegger's Ontology
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. LUNCH

Session VI -- Lani Roberts, Chair
1:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m

Dick Burton, A Socialist-Feminist View of Women's Oppression in the Contemporary United States
Joy Riddle and Jillene Moore, The Spiritual Woman at Work in the World
Sharon Hartline, Battered Women Who Kill: Victims and Agents of Violence
3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. BREAK

Session VII -- Joe Frank Jones, Chair
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Ray Kolcaba, Loss of the World
Christopher Michaelson, Philosophy's Stylistic Retreat from the World
Monday, August 12th

Session VIII -- J. Craig Hanks, Chair
9:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

William Stephens, Four Ancient Perspectives on Everyday Death
Jeff Jordan, Death and Intrinsic Value
Mark Doorley, Teaching of Ethics
REST OF DAY FOR HIKING IN THE ROCKIES!!

Tuesday, August 13th

6:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. River Fall Road Trip

Session IX -- Sally J. Scholz, Chair
9:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

Richard Cohen, Privacy in Public World
Joe Frank Jones, An Error of Postmodernism: Relative Truth and Philosophical Counseling
Michael Krausz, Changing One's Mind, Changing One's Emotions
11:45 a.m - 1:00 p.m. LUNCH

Session X -- Stan Harrison, Chair
1:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Charles Kaplan, Discipline or Domination: An Ethical Dilemma in Childrearing
Laura Duhan Kaplan, From Solipsism to Ethics: One Parents Journey
Carmella Epright, TBA

3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. BREAK

Session XI -- James Sauer, Chair
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Patricia Thompson, Revisiting Hestia: Goddess of Everyday Life
Erin McKenna and J. Craig Hanks, Fragmented Selves and the Loss of Community
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. DINNER

7:00 p.m. Business Meeting

Wednesday, August 14th

Session XII -- Bryan Wiebe, Chair
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Joseph Wagner, Incommensurable Differences
Jack Weir, Way of Life Arguments
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. LUNCH
Session XIII -- Jack Weir, Chair
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Sally Scholz, Communicative and Universal Approaches to Solidarity: The Paradox of the Privileged
Peter Simon Roth, Blacks and Jews: A Disparity of Self- Esteem
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. -- Closing Dinner:

 Meet at a local restaurant for a Dutch Treat dinner
(Families Welcome!)

Thursday, August 15th

Goodbye, pack-up, safe travels

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