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54th WCPA and 2nd CSEP-SCPE

October 13-15, 2017

Special Conference Notes

Conference Session Rooms are located on the ground floor of the Education Building (ED on the campus map), except for CK187, which is close by and accessible from inside the Education Building. Please follow the signs. Registration Desk is located on the ground floor of the Education Building (ED), close to the Education Auditorium (EA). There will be signs to help locate the Registration Desk. Catering Light breakfasts, coffee, snacks, and the reception on Friday evening are provided to all Registered Participants of the Conference. Food on Campus (Saturday lunch) Unfortunately, options are limited on the weekends. But, Global Village (Riddell Centre) has brunch from 11am-3pm; The Owl (campus pub; also in Riddell Centre) is open at lunch time on Saturday; Luther Cafeteria (Luther College) opens at noon; and there are a few options close-by, but off-campus at the corner of Wascana Parkway and Kramer Blvd (the south-west corner of campus). Guest WiFi Access Please use the “URGuest” network (note that this is not a fully secure connection). Washrooms There are gender specific, accessible washrooms located on all floors of the Education Building (ED). Gender neutral washrooms (2) are located on the 2nd floor, Room 217, Room 218 Quiet Space and Computers Archer Library (LY on the campus map), ground floor, and Campion College Library, 2nd floor Campion College (CM on campus map) Campus Security 306-585-4999 Local Taxi and Regina Transit Bus Co-op Taxi 306-525-2727

Bus fare in Regina is $3.25 for all trips. The Regina Transit website has all sorts of tools and services: http://www.regina.ca/residents/transit-services

If you need any assistance during the conference, please do not hesitate to call or text Anna: (306) 540.9724.

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Note: Paper sessions are 60 minutes long. Each presenter will have 30 minutes, followed by a 10-minute commentator response, before a 20- minute question-and-answer period. In the event that the session Chair is absent, please find another chair from among the audience members, or find a conference organizer. Friday, October 13

4:30-7:00pm Registration, Education Hallway

Session I

5:15-6:15pm

ED 191 ED 193 P: Paul Viminitz, ULethbridge & Pamela Lindsay, ULethbridge “Holocaust, Global Warming, Filioque” C: Roger Petry, Luther College, UofR Chair: Jordan Wadden, UBC

P: Nathan Todd, McMaster “Rehabilitating the World of Meaning: An Analysis of Hannah Arendt’s Existentialism” C: Anna Mudde, Campion College, UofR Chair: Shawn O’Dell, UofR

Break 6:15-6:30

Session II

6:30-7:30pm

ED 191 ED 193 ED 114 P: Jordan Wadden, UBC “Testimony and the Effects of Dismissal on Marginalised Knowers” C: Pamela Lindsay, ULethbridge Chair: Paul Viminitz, ULethbridge

P: Zahra Shojaei, USask “Against the Rejection of Public Reason” C: Stefan Koppert, UofR Chair: David Elliott, UofR

P: Roger Petry, Luther College, UofR “Human Lethality, Extraterrestrials, and Divine Hiddenness” C: Sami Helewa, SJ, Campion College, UofR Chair: Robert Piercey, Campion College, UofR

Reception – All Registered Participants are welcome

7:45-9:30pm Education Hallway

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Saturday, October 24 8:30am, Registration and Breakfast – Education Hallway

Session III 9-10am

ED191 ED193 ED114 EA106.1 CK187 P: Emer O’Hagan, USask “Inarticulate Forgiveness” C: Wooram Lee, USC Chair: Aaron Ancell, UofT

P: Andrew Brigham, Ottawa “The Evolution of Human Higher Cognition” C: Dylan Ludwig, York Chair: Dwayne Moore, USask

P: Daniel Munro, UofT “Redirecting Constructive Empiricism” C: Conor Mayo-Wilson, UWashington-Seattle Chair: Don Oxtoby, Rice University

P: Susan Dieleman, USask “Non-Ideal Theories and the Fact of Historical Injustice” C: Paul Viminitz, ULethbridge Chair: Anna Mudde, Campion College, UofR

P: Jim Jordan, Waterloo “Temporal and Causal Distance in Aggressive Cyberoperations” C: Darren Corpe, UCalgary Chair: Roger Petry, Luther College, UofR

Break 10-10:15am Session IV

10:15-11:15am

ED191 ED193 ED114 EA106.1 CK187 EA106.2 – CSEP/SCPE P: Nicholas Dunn, McGill “Imaginative Necessity: Kant and Arendt on Cognition and Judgment” C: Robert Piercey, Campion College, UofR Chair: Pierre-François Noppen, St. Thomas More College, UofS

P: Dylan Ludwig, York “Content that Matters: In Defense of a Representational Theory of Emotions” C: Dwayne Moore, USask Chair: Andrew Brigham, Ottawa

P: Conor Mayo-Wilson, UWashington-Seattle “Bayesianism is inconsistent with reliabilism” C: Daniel Munro, UofT Chair: Ryan Doran, UofR

P: Aaron Ancell, UofT “Utopianism and Political Irrationality” C: Susan Dieleman, USask Chair: Jillian McIntosh, Simon Fraser

P: Darren Corpe, UCalgary “The Unjust War: Punishing Bad Brute Luck to Wage the War Against Drugs” C: Jim Jordan, Waterloo Chair: Monte Forster, UCalgary

P: Corey Katz (Ohio State): Inconsequentialism, complicity and individual fossil fuel consumption C: Peter Andes (UofA) Chair: Jenny Welchman (UofA)

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Break 11:15-11:30am

Session V 11:30am-12:30pm

ED191 ED193 ED114 EA106.1 CK187 EA106.2-CSEP/SCPE P: Robert Piercey, Campion College, UofR “Failed Traditions: A Ricoeurean Approach” C: Pierre-François Noppen, St. Thomas More College, UofS Chair: Ravit Dotan, UC Berkeley

P: Dwayne Moore, USask “Reconciling Appraisal Love and Bestowal Love” C: Jasper Heaton, UBC Chair: Dylan Ludwig, York

P: Monte Forster, UofC “Intergenerational justice: Do we really need reciprocity?” C: Howard Nye, UofA Chair: David Elliott, UofR

P: Sherry Ya-Yun Kao, Rice University “How Should I Live?” C: Samantha Wesch, UofA Chair: Nicholas Dunn, McGill

P: Karl Laderoute, ULethbridge “The Meaning of Life and the Veridicality Requirement” C: Mark Migotti, UCalgary Chair: Emer O’Hagan, USask

P: Eric Desjardins (UWO): Novel Ecosystems as Transition Events: Understanding the Controversy C: Justin Bzovy (MacEwan) Chair: TBA

Lunch Break 12:30-2pm See “Food on Campus” under Special Conference Notes

Session VI 2-3pm

ED191 ED193 ED114 EA106.1 CK187 EA106.2-CSEP/SCPE P: Ravit Dotan, UC Berkeley “Resilience in the face of counter-evidence in religion and science” C: Jillian McIntosh, Simon Fraser Chair: Dustin Olson, Rochester

P: Travis Lacroix, UC Irvine “On Salience and Signaling in Sender-Receiver Games” C: Ryan Doran, UofR Chair: Ron Wilburn, University of Nevada

P: Paul Simard Smith, UWindsor “Indigenous Oral Histories and Deep Disagreement” C: Katharina Stevens, ULethbridge Chair: Susan Dieleman, USask

P: Howard Nye, UofA “In Defense of a Harm-Based Account of the Default Wrongness of Killing” C: Sherry Ya-Yun Kao, Rice University Chair: Samantha Wesch, UofA

P: Mark Migotti, UCalgary “Schopenhauer, Pessimism, Intelligibility, and the External World” C: Karl Laderoute, ULethbridge Chair: Nathan Todd, McMaster

P: Aaron Crowe (College of the North): Can Environmental Economics Coexist with Environmental and Social Justice Even In Theory C: David Elliot, UofR Chair: TBA

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Break 3-3:15pm Session VII

3:15-4:15pm ED191 ED193 ED114 EA106.1 EA106.2-CSEP/SCPE P: James Young, UVic & Margaret Cameron, UVic “A French Source for Hume's Treatise” C: David Elliott, UofR Chair: Robert Piercey, Campion College, UofR

P: Jonah Nagashima, UC Riverside “Semi-incompatibilism” C: Amanda Bryant, Trent Chair: Bryson Brown

P: Katharina Stevens, ULethbridge & Dan Cohen, Colby College “The Attraction of the Ideal has no Traction on the Real: On Adversariality and Roles in Argument” C: Paul Simard Smith, UWindsor Chair: Travis Lacroix, UC Irvine

P: Whitney Lilly, Northwestern “Constitutive Reasons & Suspension of Judgement” C: Aaron Ancell, UofT Chair: Ryan Doran, UofR

P: Byron Williston (Wilfrid Laurier): Geoengineering and the Auto-Poietic C: Adam Scarfe (Winnipeg) Chair: Jenny Welchman (UofA)

Break 4:15-4:30pm

Session VIII 4:30-5:30pm

ED191 ED193 ED114 EA106.1 CK187 P: Mark Novak, McMaster “Eschatological Erotic Enfleshment: Incarnation as Nuptial Nexus of Human and Divine” C: Grant Poettcker, Briercrest Chair: Roger Petry, Luther College, UofR

P: Michael Szlachta, UofT “An Intellectualist Conception of Human Freedom” C: Michael Siebert, UofT Chair: Don Oxtoby, Rice University

P: Bryson Brown, ULethbridge “Inconsistency Measures and Paraconsistent Consequence” C: Amanda Bryant, Trent Chair: Paul Simard Smith, UWindsor

P: Samantha Wesch, UofA “Drinking Dutifully: Consumption of Alcohol and Duties to Self in Kant’s Ethics” C: Nicholas Dunn, McGill Chair: Sherry Ya-Yun Kao, Rice University

P: Ron Wilburn, University of Nevada “Contextualism and Continua” C: Ryan Doran, UofR Chair: Jonah Nagashima, UC Riverside

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Break 5:30-5:45pm

Keynote Address 5:45-7:00pm

"The Duty to Object"

Jennifer Lackey Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy

Northwestern University

Education 191 8:00-10:30pm Banquet at Crave Kitchen and Bar, 1925 Victoria Avenue (downtown)

See Ryan, Anna, or Rob if you would like help organizing taxi rides or carpooling downtown

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Sunday, October 25

Breakfast 9-10am, Education Hallway

Session IX 10-11am

ED191 ED193 ED114 EA106.1 P: Wooram Lee, USC “A New Way Out of the Preface Paradox” C: Bryson Brown, ULethbridge Chair: Dustin Olson, Rochester

P: Neil Campbell, WLU “Contrastive Explanations of Choice as Appeals to Structuring Causes: A Defence of Kane’s Libertarianism” C: Jonah Nagashima, UC Riverside Chair: Roger Petry, Luther College, UofR

P: Don Oxtoby, Rice University “‘Understanding’ in the Philosophy of Science” C: Whitney Lilly, Northwestern Chair: Anna Mudde, Campion College, UofR

P: Megan Henricks Stotts, McMaster “From Context to Mental States” C: Peter Alward, USask Chair: Chris Tillman, UManitoba

Break

11-11:15am

Session X 11:15am-12:15pm

ED191 ED193 P: Amanda Bryant, Trent “Why Care About Constraint: Theoretical Constraint as an Epistemic Good” C: Dustin Olson, Rochester Chair: Robert Piercey, Campion College, UofR

P: Peter Alward, USask “Between Not Pretending and Pretending Not Speech Acts, Shared Pretense, and Existence” C: Chris Tillman, UManitoba Chair: Megan Henricks Stotts, McMaster

12:15pm Finish up

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This conference has had the generous financial support of

The Dean’s Office, Faculty of Arts, University of Regina The Dean’s Office, Campion College

The Dean’s Office, Luther College

A special note of appreciation, for various and sundry support Doreen Thompson

Linda Morin Nadine La Haye, Conference Services

Avash Ghimire and Chartwells Catering Kelsey Halbach Linden Kohut

Alex Obrigewisch Bella Moolla James Noble

All of our paper referees!