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THE FOURTH ANNUAL ATLANTIC COAST PRAGMATIST MEETING
 
Workshop hosted by
The University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina
March 28-29, 2009

 
All events on Saturday and Sunday will take place in the James F. Byrnes Building, Room 413. The Friday colloquium will be held in Wardlaw College, Room 126 (across the street from Byrnes).
 
Great Text Discussion: Jane Addams
    " The Chicago Settlements and Social Unrest,"
    " Americanization," &
    " Our National Self-Righteousness,"
in The Jane Addams Reader (ed. J. B. Elshtain).
 
Discussion to be led by: Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University.
 
PROGRAM:
 
FRIDAY
3/27/2009
3:30-5:30 USC Philosophy Department Colloquium
Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Purdue University
"Jane Addams: Sympathetic Interpretation as Democratic Practice"
Wardlaw College, room 126

SATURDAY  
3/28/2009
9:00-9:45 Coffee and bagels
Welcoming remarks
Tom Burke, USC Columbia
Session 1 Moderator: Mark Sanders, UNC Charlotte
9:45-10:15 Michael Eldridge, UNC Charlotte
"Mixing Pragmatism and Religion: Some Do, Some Don't"
10:15-10:45 Jayne Tristan, UNC Charlotte
"A Response to Charlene Haddock Seigfried's 'Ghosts Walking Underground: Dewey's Vanishing Metaphysics'"
Break 10:45-11:00
Session 2 Moderator: Daniel Kruidenier, USC Columbia
11:00-11:30   Rachel Herdy, University of Miami
"'Of Three Minds': A Categorical Analysis of Peirce's Conceptions of Ethics"
11:30-12:00 Andrew Garnar, Clemson University
"Peirce's Habits and Scientific Realism"
Lunch 12:00-1:00
Session 3 Moderator: Tom Burke, USC Columbia
1:00-2:45 Great Text Discussion: Jane Addams
led by Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Purdue University
Break 2:45-3:00
Session 4 Moderator: Stephen Everett, USC Columbia
3:00-3:45 Marilyn Fischer, University of Dayton
"Interpretation as Settlement Discourse: A Context for Addams's Analysis of Averbuch"
Comments: Jayne Tristan, UNC Charlotte
3:45-4:30 Mike Jostedt, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
"Addams and James: Fundamental Possibilities of Pragmatism"
Business Meeting   4:30-5:30 ... including plans for next year
Dinner 6:30-... Ristorante Divino, 803 Gervais Street, across the street and down a bit from Hampton Inn.

SUNDAY
3/29/2009  
9:00-9:45 Coffee and bagels
Session 5 Moderator: ...
9:45-10:15 Seth Vanetta, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
"Formalism, Scientism, and Historicism: Law as a Synthesis of Social Time in Legal Pragmatism"
10:15-10:45   Brian Butler, UNC Asheville
"A Constructed Account of Dewey's Philosophy of Law"
Break 10:45-11:00
Session 6 Moderator: ...
11:00-11:30 Dina Mendonça, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
"Pattern of Emotion — Following a Deweyan Suggestion"
11:30-12:00   Michael Brady, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
"Reductionistic, Deterministic, and Politically Dangerous: Early American Feminist Critiques of Darwin"

All sessions on Saturday and Sunday will take place in the Byrnes Building (901 Sumter Street), room 413.
 
SOME HOTELS NEAR THE UNIVERSITY (with rate estimates):  
Local organizer: Tom Burke, burket@mailbox.sc.edu.
 
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