Topics of Lawyerly Interest at the upcoming APA Conference

(Here are Saturday's events for now. I'll create another post for the events on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.)

SATURDAY:

IV-B. Symposium: Privacy, Community and Culture
9:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Scott A. Anderson (University of British Columbia)
Speakers: Anita L. Allen (University of Pennsylvania Law School)
Leslie Francis (University of Utah)
Geoffrey Brennan (Australian National University)
Chandran Kukathas (London School of Economics)

IV-G. Colloquium: Epistemology III
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Sarah Black Jones (Northern Michigan University)
Speaker: Michael A. Rescorla (University of California–Santa Barbara)
“The Dialectical Regress of Justifications”
Commentator: Juan Comesaña (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Matthew Mullins (Northwestern University)
Speaker: E.J. Coffman (University of Tennessee)
“Reliability and Warranted Assertion”
Commentator: Patrick Rysiew (University of Victoria)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: A. Minh Nguyen (Eastern Kentucky University)
Speaker: Ted L. Poston (University of South Alabama)
“Know How to Be Gettiered?”
Commentator: Marc A. Alspector-Kelly (Western Michigan University)

IV-H. Colloquium: Virtue Ethics
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: William O. Stephens (Creighton University)
Speaker: Mark Piper (Saint Louis University)
“Hursthouse’s Neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethics, the Slide into Consequentialism, and the Problem of Instrumentally Successful Vice”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: John Elia (Wilson College)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Larry J. Waggle (Illinois State University)
Speaker: Luke Gelinas (University of Toronto)
“Is Agent-Based Virtue Ethics Circular?”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Jason R. Kawall (Colgate University)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Thomas M. Tuozzo (University of Kansas)
Speaker: Macalester C. Bell (Columbia University)
“Globalist Attitudes and Special Relations”
Commentator: Amy Coplan (California State University–Fullerton)

IV-K. Colloquium: Moral Realism and Moral Responsibility
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: B. Scot Rousse (Northwestern University)
Speaker: William Rehg (Saint Louis University)
“Moral Realism and Autonomy in Discourse Ethics”
Commentator: Cristina Lafont (Northwestern University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Mark P. Jenkins (Johns Hopkins University)
Speaker: Matthew Pianalto (University of Arkansas)
“Moral Realism and Ways of Life”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Andrew M. Cullison (State University of New York–Fredonia)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Katie Padgett Walsh (Northwestern University)
Speaker: Matthew Brophy (Minnesota State University–Mankato)
“Moral Judgments: Etiologies and Credibility”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Michael W. Austin (Eastern Kentucky University)

V-F. Colloquium: Epistemology II
2:30-5:30 p.m.
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Anthony Gillies (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)
Speaker: Nicholaos Jones (The Ohio State University)
“Belief Revision and Coherence without Foundations”
Commentator: Joseph Moore (Amherst College)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Michael B. Horton (University of South Alabama–Mobile)
Speaker: Jay M. Newhard (John Carroll University)
“Circularity in Ordinary Language Arguments for Epistemic Contextualism”
Commentator: Baron Reed (Northwestern University)
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Chair: Jennifer Woodward (University of Kentucky)
Speaker: Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto)
“Knowledge Ascriptions and the Psychological Consequences of Thinking about Error”
Commentator: Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern University)

V-H. Colloquium: Issues in Ethical Theory
2:30-5:30 p.m.
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Julie McDonald (Saint Joseph’s University)
Speaker: Lisa S. Rivera (University of Massachusetts–Boston)
“Worthy Lives”
Commentator: Susanne E. Foster (Marquette University)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Monica L. Gerrek (University of Kansas)
Speaker: Daniel J. Callcut (University of North Florida)
“Mill, Sentimentalism, and the Problem of Moral Authority”
Commentator: Margaret A. Crouch (Eastern Michigan University)
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Chair: Anthony J. Rudd (St. Olaf College)
Speaker: Charles Huenemann (Utah State University)
“Valuing from Life’s Perspective”
Commentator: Daw-Nay Evans (DePaul University)


V-I. Colloquium: Kant
2:30-5:30 p.m.
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Chair: Adrian Switzer (Emory University)
Speaker: Brett Fulkerson-Smith (University of Kentucky)
“On the Apodictic Proof of Kant’s Revolutionary Hypothesis”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Claudia Schmidt (Marquette University)
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Russell Ford (Elmhurst College)
Speaker: Bryan Hall (Indiana University Southeast)
“A Dilemma for Kant’s Theory of Substance”
Commentator: Clinton Tolley (University of California–San Diego)
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Chair: Christopher Johns (Saint Xavier University (Chicago))
Speaker: Helga Varden (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign)
“Kant’s Non-Absolutist Conception of Political Legitimacy”
Commentator: Kyla Ebels Duggan (Northwestern University)