Lightsey Conference Center
160 Calhoun Street (between King Street and St. Philip Street)

Registration starts at 3:00 outside Room 220 4:00–4:15 Welcoming Remarks, Room 228E
Philosophy of Science 4:15–6:30, Room 220 Chair: Hugh Wilder Some Anti-Essentialist Considerations Regarding Chemical Kinds Veronica Ponce Duke University Farewell to Darwin, and Dawkins Too M.J. Shaffer UNC Wilmington Biological Regularities, Natural Kinds, and Molecular Biology Shane Oakley UNC-Wilmington	Applied Ethics 4:15–6:30, Room 228E Chair: Phil Schneider A Hybrid conception of Privacy: Can an Ethical Account of Legal Privacy Address the Feminist Critique? David Meeler Winthrop University Codes and Cases, Student Paradigms and Ethics in Professional Practice Daniel E. Wueste Clemson University Employment-at-Will in the Context of Catholic Higher Education Janette Blandford Belmont Abbey College	Social and Political Philosophy 4:15–6:30, Room 228W Chair: Larry Krasnoff Representative Individuals in the Public Sphere: Emerson's Theory of Political Representation Hans v. Rautenfeld USC Columbia Reconciliation through Pluralism: Toward a Post Enlightenment Conception of Public Reason Eric A. Anderson Furman University Shotgun Community: Political Obligations as Associative Obligations Win-Chiat Lee Wake Forest University
6:30–8:00, Dinner (on your own)
Philosophical Logic 8:00–9:30, Room 226 Chair: Tom Burke What First-Order Logic Can't Do Ulrich Meyer Davidson College The Modal Perfection Argument Robert E. Maydole Davidson College	Epistemology 8:00–9:30, Room 228E Chair: Michael Ruse From Fiction to Knowledge John Plecnik Belmont Abbey College Bivalence, Buried Secrets, and the Regulative Assumptions of Inquiry Adrian M. Viens University of Toronto Winner of Undgraduate Prize	Applied Ethics 8:00–9:30, Room 228W Chair: Richard Nunan Why Straight People Should Not Marry? Lisa J. McLeod Guilford College If Biodiversity is Good, Should We Affirm Ethicodiversity? Edwin Bagley Wingate University

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9

8:00–9:00 Coffee, Snacks, Late Registration
History of Philosophy 9:00–11:30, Room 220 Chair: Malcolm Munson Pascal and the Human Incapacity for Certainty Mark Stone Furman University Reconstructing Berkeley's View of Time Theodore M. Cooke Belmont Abbey College Kant's Commentary on Soemmerring's On the Organ of the Soul: A Symptom for an Epistemological Turning Point for the Study of the Brain on the Eve of the 19th Century. Urs Pohlman Duke University	Philosophy of Action 9:00–11:30, Room 226 Chair: Irwin Goldstein Personality and Pretense Richard C. Prust St. Andrews Presbytarian College Motivational Strength and the Causal Theory of Action Jason Dickenson UNC Chapel Hill Negotiating Buridan's Bridge Joseph W. Ulatowski University of Mississippi	Philosophy of Language 9:00–11:30, Room 228W Chair: TBA Truth Conditional Pragmatics Anne Bezuidenhout USC-Columbia Frege and Leibniz on Analyticity Dorothea Lotter Wake Forest University Impossible Conditionals Jan Hauska UNC Chapel Hill	Panel Discussion: Reviving Vitalism 9:00–11:30, Room 228E Chair: Todd Grantham Vitalism, Holism and Mechanism: What's a Developmental Guy to Do? Kelly Smith Clemson University On the Possibility of a Scientific Vitalism Alfred Nordman USC Columbia Vitalism, "Lock In," and the Reductionist Assumptions of Modern Ethical Discourse George Khushf USC Center for Bioethics
11:30–1:00 Lunch Break
Metaphysics and Agency 1:00–2:30, Room 228W Chair: Richard Prust Understanding Overridingness: Breaking Free From the Kantian Dichotomy of Reasons Lorraine Besser-Jones UNC Chapel Hill Nature vs. Free Will: Kant, Hegel, Woyzeck Nikola Ristic USC Columbia	History of Philosophy 1:00–2:30, Room 226 Chair: Mark Stone Speaking, Writing, and Truth in Plato Daniel Malloy USC Columbia Nietzsche's Immoralism: Clark contra Foot Malcolm Munson Greenville Technical College	Moral Philosophy 1:00–2:30, Room 228E Chair: David Meeler Moral Guidance through the Charity Gauntlet P. Eddy Wilson Shaw University The Moral Relevance of Love Andrew Terjesen Duke University	Panel Discussion on Teaching Philosophy 1:00–2:30, Room 220 Chair: Jim Griffis What are Students Learning in Introductory Philosophy Classes? Jim Griffis, USC Spartanburg Kelly Smith, Clemson Ed Munn, USC Columbia Laurie Gordy, USC Spartanburg
2:30–3:00, Coffee Break
Philosophy of Mind 3:00–5:30, Room 220 Chair: Daniel Wueste Pleasure as an Intussusception of Activity Clint Corcoran High Point University Might There be a Synthetic Identity Between Pleasure's Goodness and Some Material Property of a Neural State? Irwin Goldstein Davidson College Phenomenal and Access Consciousness: Adding Some "Blocks" to Ned Block's Typology Bill Faw Brewton-Parker College Realism and Representation RIG Hughes USC Columbia	Metaphysics and Self 3:00–5:30, Room 226 Chair: Nils Rauhut Experience Machines, Dreams, and Quasi-Prudence Chris Tollefsen USC-Columbia Denying Free Will: A Response to P. F. Strawson Tamler Sommers Duke University Edification and Rorty's Anti-Essentialist Understanding of Self Chad Lykins College of Charleston	Value Theory 3:00–5:30, Room 228E Chair: Richard Combes Traversing the Fantasy: The (Im)Possibility of Subversion Sid Littlefield USC Columbia On the Genealogy of Norms: A Case for the Role of Emotion in Cultural Evolution Shaun Nichols College of Charleston The Aesthetics of Architecture from a Heideggerian Perspective: Questions About Space and Place Katherine W. Robinson USC Columbia Body Practices and Personal Identity Eric Mullis USC Columbia	Panel Discussion: Instinct, Intelligence, and Reason 3:00–5:30, Room 228W Chair: Güven Güzeldere Dolphins' Understanding of Modus Ponens: A Test for Mental Representation Kristin Andrews Appalachian State University Hume on Animal Reason Deborah Boyle College of Charleston Too Many Instincts: Constrasting Philosophical Views on Intelligence in Humans and Non-Humans Susan G. Sterrett Duke University
5:40 SCSP Business Meeting, Room 226 6:30 Banquet, Conference Center Room 220. 7:30 SCSP Presidential Address: Logic and Ontology. Tom Burke, USC Columbia 9:00 Djoliba Dave and the Dundun Bobs (Drum Performance).