American Catholic Philosophical Association

Transcription

1 American Catholic Philosophical Association Executive Council Timothy B. Noone William Desmond Thomas Osborne William Jaworski Patrick Byrne David Foster Michael Gorman John O Callaghan M.C. Sommers John Deely Marie I. George Patrick Lee Kurt Pritzl Alice Ramos Patrick Brennan Mark Gossiaux Judith Green Patrick Murray Brian Treanor Anthony Lisska Eighty-First Annual Meeting Freedom, Will and Nature Marquette University Milwaukee, WI November 9-11, 2007 Program Committee Chris Arroyo Jonathan Sanford John Zeis Officers of the Association President.Timothy B. Noone Vice-President William Desmond Secretary. Thomas Osborne Treasurer William Jaworski

2 The ACPA wishes to thank the host institution, Marquette University for its very generous financial and organizational support.

3

4 ANNOUNCEMENTS On-site registration and pre-registration pick-up will begin Friday, November 9, at 2:00 p.m. The pre-registration fee is $60.00 (U.S.) if received by October 15, 2007, or $65.00 (U.S.) if received after October 15, The registration fee for students is $ Please register by mailing in the registration form included with the ACPA s conference mailing, or by using our online registration option at: Tickets for the Association banquet on Saturday evening, November 10, 2007, will be sold at $45 per person. Payment for the banquet must be received by October 15, Please purchase your banquet tickets by using the registration form included with the ACPA s conference mailing, or by using our online registration option at: Please call (800) if you have any questions about registration, or banquet tickets. In order to guarantee the lower conference-rate, be sure to register by September 30, Complete hotel information is provided at the back of this conference program. All resolutions to be acted upon at the annual Business Meeting of the Association must be received in writing by the National Secretary at the National Office at the University of St. Thomas by October 15, No resolutions will be entertained apart from those endorsed by the appropriate committee. Priests wishing to participate in the concelebrated Masses are asked to provide their own vestments. The ACPA would like to thank the host institution, Marquette University, for its very generous financial and organizational support, without which this meeting would not have been possible. Also, special thanks are due to the Program Committee for the 2007 Annual Meeting of the ACPA: Chris Arroyo, Jonathan Sanford, and John Zeis.

5 2007 Annual Meeting Program Most ACPA sessions will be held in meeting rooms at the Hilton. On Saturday, the concelebrated Mass will take place Friday, November 9, :40-10:00 am -- Executive Committee Meeting Oak Room 10:00 am 1:00 pm --Executive Council Meeting Oak Room 2:00-8:30 pm -- Registration Registration Counter 5:00-8:00 pm -- Book Exhibit Walker 4:00-6:00 pm -- Satellite Sessions: Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology Society for Catholicism and Analytical Philosophy ACPA Committee on Priestly Formation Philosophers in Jesuit Education Institute for St. Anselm Studies MacArthur Mitchell C Wright Pabst Miller Schlitz 8:30-10:30 pm -- A.C.P.A. Contributed Papers Session I (Pabst): Freedom in Augustine and Anselm, Chair: Mary Catherine Sommers John J. Davenport, Augustine on Liberty of the Higher-Order Will: Answers to Hunt and Stump Commentator: Christopher Anandale Gregory B. Sadler, Freedom, Inclination of the Will, and Virtue in Anselm s Moral Theory Commentator: Mark Pestana Session II (Mitchell): Freedom, Causation and Explanation, Chair: `Andrew Jaspers

6 Michael Rota, Infinite Causal Chains and Explanation Commentator: David Zinn Sharon Kaye, William of Ockham and the Unlikely Connection between Transubstantiation and Free Will Commentator: Justin Skirry Session III (Miller) : Aquinas on Purpose and Intention, Chair: Astrid O Brien Kevin White, Aquinas on Purpose Commentator: James M. Jacobs Andrew Jaspers, Intentio and Praeter Intentionem in the Constitution of the Moral Object in Thomas Aquinas Commentator: Anthony Giampietro Session IV (MacArthur): Conceptions of Freedom, Will and God in the Arabic / Islamic Tradition, Chair: Richard Taylor Luis Lopez Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, Determinism and Free Will in Alexander of Aphrodisias and the Arabic Tradition. Commentator: Terry Kleven, Central College in Pella, Iowa Shalahudin Kafrawi, Moravian College, What Makes an Efficient Cause Efficient? Ibn Sina s Notion of Will. Commentator: Jon McGinnis, University of Missouri St. Louis 10:00 pm - 12 midnight -- Reception hosted by Marquette University Monarch Saturday, November 10, 2007

7 7:30 am -- Concelebrated Mass Wright Ballroom 8:30 am - 6:00 pm Registration Registration Counter 8:30 am - 6:00 pm -- Book Exhibit Walker 9:00 am 11:30 am -- Plenary Session Wright Ballroom 11:45 am 12:15 pm Buisness Meeting Oak Room Chair: Thomas Anderson John Rist (Emeritus Professor of Classics and Philosophy at the University of Toronto; Visiting Professor at the Augustinianum, Rome): Freedom and Nature among the Greeks Timothy Noone (The Catholic University of America): Nature, Freedom and Will: Sources of Philosophical Reflection 1:30-3:30 pm -- Satellite Sessions: Society for Thomistic Natural Philosophy Lonergan Philosophical Society Society of Christian Philosophers (Miller) (Schlitz) (Kilbourn) Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (Pabst) Gabriel Marcel Society (Usinger) International Institute for Hermeneutics (Wright) 3:30-5:30 p.m. A.C.P.A. Contributed Papers Session V (Miller): Ancient Philosophy, Chair: Jack Carlson Mark Spencer, Full Human Flourishing: The Place of the Various Virtues in the Quest for Happiness In Aristotle s Ethics Commentator: David Carey James L. Wood, Freedom in the Philebus Commentator: Michael Bowler

8 Session VI (Pabst): Freedom and Nature, Chair: Steven Jensen Cruz Gonzalez-Ayesta, Scotus s Interpretation of Metaphysics 9.2: On the Distinction between Nature and Will Commentator: Mary Elizabeth Ingham Denis F. Sullivan, Anscombe on Freedom, Animals, and the Ability to Do Otherwise Commentator: Bernard Prusak Session VII (MacArthur): Self-Sacrifice and Friendship, Chair: Gene Fendt Kalynne Hackney Pudner, What s so bad about self-sacrifice? Immolation, abnegation, effacement and donation in ethics Commentator: Douglas Rasmussen Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Thomas Aquinas on the Ontology of Amicitia: Unio and Communicatio Commentator: Christopher Lutz Session VIII (Mitchell): Freedom and Will: A Seminar on the Work of Robert Kane, Chair: Timothy Noone Robert Allen, Central Michigan University, Self-Forming Actions. Katherin Rogers, University of Delaware, Libertarianism in Kane and Anselm. Robert Kane, UT-Austin, Free Will: New Directions for an Ancient Problem. 6:00-7:00 pm -- Concelebrated Mass Wright Ballroom 7:00-8:00 pm Reception hosted by Marquette University Foyer 8:15-10:15 pm -- ACPA Banquet Monarch Ballroom

9 Presentation of the ACPA Young Scholar s Award Awardee: Michael Rota Introduction of the Aquinas Medalist: Aquinas Medalist: Nicholas Rescher (University of Pittsburgh) Medalist s Address: Aquinas and the Principle of Epistemic Disparity. Sunday, November 10, :30 am -- Concelebrated Mass Wright Ballroom 8:30 am - 12:30 pm -- Book Exhibit Walker 9:30-11:30 am -- Plenary Session Wright Ballroom Chair: Timothy O Connor (Indiana University): "Human Freedom and the Emerging Sciences of Brain and Behavior" Daniel O. Dahlstrom (Boston University): Attitudes and Choices.

10