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75th Annual Meeting of the Virginia Philosophical Association, November 7 & 8

November 7, 2014 - November 8, 2014

2:45 PM - 7:00 PM

Northen Auditorium, Leyburn Library

Sharon Kirk

Please contact Nathaniel Goldberg at goldbergn@wlu.edu to register for the 2 day event.

FRIDAY, November 7, 2014

2:15 Registration

2:45-3:40 Platonic Personal Immortality and Psychological Continuity

Doug Reed (University of Virginia)

Commenter: Jonah Goldwater (College of William and Mary)

3:45-4:40 Health, Harm and Potential

David Hershenov (SUNY Buffalo) and Rose Hershenov (Niagara University)

Commenter: Mark Piper (James Madison University)

4:40-5:05 Break

5:05-6:00 The Thresholds for Knowledge

Michael Hannon (Fordham University)

Commenter: Adam Tiller (University of Virginia)

6:05-7:00 The Development of Justice

Mark LeBar (Ohio University/Florida State University)

Commenter: Eric Moore (Longwood University)


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SATURDAY, November 8, 2014

9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:30-10:25 Citizens United, Liberty, and John Stuart Mill

Melina Bell (Washington and Lee University)

Commenter: Chris Melenovsky (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

10:30-11:25 Linguistic Habit as Perceptual Habit

Victor Bruzzone (Ryerson University)

Commenter: Carl Sachs (Marymount University)

11:25-11:40 Break

11:40-12:40 Invited Lecture

Self-Interpretation as Software

Tadeusz Zawidzki (George Washington University)

12:45-1:00 Resolution of Gratitude and elections