NPTA Conference Schedule for Spring 2004

Starting time is 9:00 am, with coffee and donuts beginning at approximately 8:30 am.

9:00

Session A
Session B

"The Problem of Freedom in the Third Antinomy"
Will Smith, Rice University
Comments: Charles Nussbaum, University of Texas at Arlington

"Aesthetic Implications of the New Paradigm in Ecology"
Jason Boaz Simus, University of North Texas
Comments: Dale Wilkerson, University of North Texas

10:00

"Moral Consensus and the Public-Private Distinction"
Michael Daniels, Trinity University
Comments: Steve Hiltz, Southern Methodist University
"Wholes Within the Whole:
A Study of the Posterior Analysis"
Matthew Hansbauer, University of Dallas
Comments: Jamey Findling, Newman University

11:00
"Quine on the Interpretation of Necessity and the
Necessity of Interpretation"
Roberta Ballarin, Southern Methodist University
"Reflections on Heraclitus"
Robert E. Wood, University of Dallas
Comments: Charles Bambach, University of Texas at Dallas

Noon: Lunch Break

1:30: Business Meeting

2:00: Keynote Address

"The Language of the Heart in Augustine's Confessions"
Carl G. Vaught
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
Baylor University

3:00
"Valuing as Non-Arbitrary Higher Order Desiring"
Jeremy Garrett, Rice University
Comments: Chris Meyers, Southern Methodist University
"Why Spinoza's Ethics Is Called The Ethics:
The Coincidence of the Order of Cognition and the Order of Nature"
Joshua Parens, University of Dallas
Comments: Mark Arandia, University of Dallas

4:00
"Anaxagoras to Plato: Immanent Properties"
JoAnn Carson, Texas State University
"Harmon's Unknown Evidence"
James Robert Newman, Texas Tech University
Comments: Mark Webb, Texas Tech University

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