Western Canadian Philosophical
Association Conference

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WCPA 2001 Conference Program

Note:  All Sessions take place in Luther College, University of Regina, 2nd Floor
 

	Session A  Luther College Room 202	Session B  Luther College Room 207	Session C  Luther College  Room 208	Session D  Luther College Room 211
Friday  7:00 - 8:00 p.m.	Mark Gardiner (Mt. Royal College) Realistically Respectable Relativism    Commentator: Bernie Linsky (Univ. of Alberta) Chair:  Tiim Schroeder	Robert Hudson  (Univ. of Sask.)  Novelty and the 1919 Eclipse Experiments      Commentator: Dan McArthur  (Univ. of Regina) Chair: Ali Kazmi	Alex Rueger  (Univ. of Alberta)  A Harmony-of-Valuations Model for the Aesthetic Appreciation of Scientific Theories  Commentator: John Heintz  (Univ. of Calgary) Chair: Sarah Hoffman	Workshop on Logical Pluralism James van Evra  (Univ. of Waterloo) Dispensing with Indispensability
Break
Friday  8:15 - 9:15	Tim Schroeder  (Univ. of Manitoba) Moral Responsibility and Tourette Syndrome  Commentator: Emer O'Hagan  (Univ. of Sask.)  Chair: Eldon Soifer	Bernard Linsky (Univ.of Alberta) Logical Types in Arguments about Knowability and Belief    Commentator: Ali Kazmi  (Univ. of Calgary) Chair:  Mark Gardiner	Kent Peacock  (Univ. of Lethbridge)  Are There Really Laws of Nature?        Commentator: Sarah Hoffman  (Univ. of Sask.) Chair: Robert Hudson	Workshop on Logical Pluralism Nicole Wyatt (Univ of Calgary)  What are Beall and Restall Pluralists About?
Friday 9:30 - 11:00 Reception University Club College West Building Room 215

Shuttle Bus: Service available back to Hotels (pickup: outside of College West Residence Building - west exit)
Phone number for Shuttle Bus: 539-4610
 

	Session A  Luther College Room 208	Session B Luther College  Room 211	Session C  Luther College  Room 202	Session D Luther College Room 207
Saturday  9:00 - 10:00 a.m.	Peter Alward  (Univ. of Leth.)  A Neo-Hintikkan Solution to Kripke's Puzzle            Commentator: David DeVidi  (Univ. of Waterloo) Chair: David Johnston	Manuela Ungureanu (Okanagan College)  The Past and Present of Davidson's Radical Interpretation: Does it Have Any Future?  Commentator: Rick DeVidi  (Carleton Univ.) Chair: Dan McArthur	Peter Murphy (Univ. of Calgary)  A Route From Process Reliabilism to Skepticism            Commentator: Bruce Hunter (Univ. of Alberta) Chair: Eric Dayton	Workshop on Logical Pluralism Stephen Fagan  (Simon Fraser Univ.)  From Possibility to Preference in Theories of Inference
Break
Saturday 10:15 - 11:15	David Johnston  (Simon Fraser Univ.)  Identity, Necessity, and Propositions    Commentator: Peter Alward (Univ. of Leth.)   Chair: Bruce Hunter	Roger Shiner  (Okanagan College)  Legal Positivism and the Concept of Morality  Commentator: Maricarmen Jenkins (STM at Univ. of  Sask.) Chair: Bob Bright	Jillian McIntosh & Christian Lacroix  (Univ. of Western Ont.) Non-Supervening Emergence?  Commentator: Mohan Matthen  (Univ. of British Columbia) Chair: Phil Hanson	Workshop on Logical Pluralism Kent Peacock and  John Woods  (Univ. of Leth)  What Physics does to Logic and Logic should do to Physics
Break
Saturday 11:30 - 12:30	Mohan Matthen  (Univ. of British Columbia)  Emotion and Learning         Commentator: Manuela Ungureanu (Okanagan College) Chair: TBA	Oliver Schulte  (Simon Fraser Univ.) A Case Study in Formal Learning Theory: Conservation Principles in Particle Physics  Commentator: Dan MacArthur  (Univ. of Regina)     Chair: Peter Murphy	Paul Raymont (Univ. of Calgary) Kim and Marras on the Exclusion Problem          Commentator: Phil Hanson  (Simon Fraser Univ.)     Chair: Jill McIntosh	Workshop on Logical Pluralism Martin Allen  (Univ. of Mass)  Negation and Logical Opposition (This paper has been cancelled)
Lunch

	Session A  Luther College Room 211	Session B  Luther College  Room 202	Session C Luther College  Room 207	Session D  Luther College Room 208
Saturday  2:00 - 3:00 pm.	Catherine Wilson (Univ. of British Columbia)  The Merit-Desert Intuition          Commentator: Bob Bright (Univ. of Manitoba) Chair: Ann Levey	Lisa Fuller  (Univ. of Toronto)  Language, Essence and the Aesthetic Relation: Reflections on Truth and Lies in an Extra-Moral Sense  Commentator: Mark Migotti (Univ. of Calgary) Chair: Arthur Krentz	Jussi Haukioja (Australian National Univ.) Rule-Following and Natural Properties          Commentator: Eric Dayton  (Univ. of Sask.)  Chair: Phil Dwyer	Workshop on Logical Pluralism Francis Jeffry Pelletier (Univ. of Alberta)  and  Alasdair Urquhart  (Univ. of Toronto) Synonymous Logics
Break
Saturday  3:15 - 4:15 p.m.	Kai Nielsen  (Univ. of Calgary)  The Democratic Deficit of Capitalist Globalization    Commentator: Ann Levey (Univ. of Calgary) Chair: Paul Viminitz	Mark Migotti  (Univ. of Calgary)  Priests, Philosophers, and the Ascetic Ideal    Commentator: Arthur Krentz (Univ. of Regina) Chair: Lisa Fuller		Workshop on Logical Pluralism Ray Jennings  (Simon Fraser Univ.) and  Darko Sarvenac (Stanford Univ.)  The Preservation of Truth

4:30 - 6:00: Keynote Address:

Professor John R. Searle, U.C. Berkeley
"Philosophy in the New Century"

Location: Luther College Auditorium (2nd Floor, Luther College)
 

7:00 - 9:00: Banquet

Location: University Club - College West Building, Room 215

Shuttle Bus:  Service available back to Hotels (pickup: outside of College West Residence Building - West exist)
Phone Number for Shuttle Bus:  539-4610
 

	Session A  Luther College Room 207	Session B  Luther College Room 208	Session C  Luther College Room 211	Session D  Luther College Room 202
Sunday  9:00 - 10:00 a.m.	Paul Viminitz  (Univ. of Leth.) Coercion        Commentator: Emily Muller (Univ. of Manitoba) Chair: Wes Cooper	Andrew Sneddon (McGill Univ.)  Feeling Utilitarian        Commentator: Scott Woodcock  (Univ. of Calgary) Chair: David Elliott	Matthew Stephens (Univ. of Alberta)  The Use and Abuse of William James in Philosophical Investigations  Commentator: Phil Dwyer  (Univ. of Sask.)  Chair: TBA	Workshop on Logical Pluralism Sandy Berkovski (Oxford Univ.)  Modal Truth
Break
Sunday  10:15 - 11:15	Wes Cooper  (Univ. of Alberta)  Morality Made Flesh        Commentator: Paul Viminitz (Univ. of Leth.) Chair: Scott Woodcock	David Ohreen  (Mt. Royal College) Scientists, Teddy Bears and Folk Psychology      Commentator: Kenneth Chung (Univ. of Sask.) Chair: Peter Campbell	Victor Rodych  (Univ. of Leth.)  Popper vs. Wittgenstein on Truth, Necessity, and Scientific Hypotheses  Commentator: David Johnston (Univ. of Victoria) Chair: Phil Dwyer	Workshop on Logical Pluralism David DeVidi  (Univ. of Waterloo)  and  Graham Solomon (Wilfrid Laurier Univ.)  Empirical Negations in Intuitionistic Logic
Break
Sunday  11:30 - 12:30	Brendan Leier  (Univ. of Alberta) Schopenhauer's Paradox of Compassion          Commentator: David Elliott (Univ. of Regina) Chair: Herbert Korte	Kamran Karimi Michelle Bryson (Univ. of Regina) Kiana Karimi (Concordia Univ.) A Buddhist Perspective on Artificial Intelligence  Commentator: Eldon Soifer (Univ. of Regina) Chair:  TBA

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