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Posted by Stephen Boydstun on 11/03, 8:31am

Here are some APA sessions with subjects of likely interest to RoR readers. I post them for anyone who may be able to attend the meeting, but also to introduce scholars in these topics and leads to their publications on these topics.

Eastern Division 2010
Marriott/Westin-Copley, Boston
27–30 December

28th /2:00–5:00 p.m.
Author Meets Critics: Gary Chartier’s Economic Justice and Natural Law
Critics: Jennifer Baker / Kevin Carson / Douglas Den Uyl / David Gordon / Douglas Rasmussen

28th /5:15–7:15 p.m.
Society for Machines and Mentality
Mark McEvoy* – “What Difference Does It Make? The Computer and the Epistemology of Mathematics”
Whit Schoenbein – “The Epistemology of Computational Models”
Carrie Figdor* – “Is the Mind a Machine?”

29th /9:00–11:00 a.m.
Perception and Concepts
Anne Jaap Jacobson – “Problems for Similarity-Based Kind Concepts” (Includes comments on E. Machery’s Doing without Concepts.)
Kevin Connolly* “Do Perceptions Outstrip Concepts in Fineness of Grain?”

29th /9:00–11:00 a.m.
Jennifer Baker* – “The Market as Ethical Norm”
Shawn Klein* – Commentator

29th /1:30–4:30 p.m.
Teleological Thinking in Scientific Explanations
Devin Henry – “Teleology and Optimization in Ancient Greek Science”
Jeffrey McDonough – “The Kingdom of Wisdom and the Kingdom of Power: Teleology, Early Modern Science, and Optimal Form”
Abstracts
Jim Lennox – Commentator

30th /9:00–Noon
Author Meets Critics: Jan Narveson and James Sterba’s Are Liberty and Equality Compatible?
Critics: John Christman / Douglas Rasmussen / Douglas Den Uyl

30th /11:15–1:15 p.m.
Aristotle on Language and Thought
Ian Flora – “Aristotle on Rational thought: Believing at Will, Aiming at Truth”
Gregory Salmieri – Commentator
Phil Corkum – “Aristotle on Existence”
Tim Clarke – Commentator
Abstracts of these two papers are here on pages 105–6 and 102–3. Related: A, B
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