ACPA2023: CPA CONGRESS 2023 / CONGRèS DE L'ACP 2023
PROGRAM

Days: Monday, May 29th Tuesday, May 30th Wednesday, May 31st Thursday, June 1st

Monday, May 29th

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08:30-11:30 Session 1A: Social and Political Philosophy
Location: HNE 031
08:30
A Pragmatist Approach to Regulating Hate Speech (abstract)
09:30
Slurs and Slurring Beyond Prohibitions (abstract)
10:30
Figleaves for Falsehood (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 1B: Philosophy of Law
Location: HNE 032
08:30
Legal Proof is Rational Belief of Guilt (abstract)
09:30
Machine Learning in Bail Decisions and Judges’ Trustworthiness (abstract)
10:00
Legal Rationalism without Robust Normativity (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 1C: Logic, Philosophy of Math
Location: HNE 033
08:30
Mathematical SETIbacks: Open Texture as a new problem for Messaging Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (abstract)
09:30
Wittgenstein’s letter to Russell and the significance of ‘N(ξ)’ (abstract)
10:30
A Logic of Epistemic Obligations and the Ethics of Belief (abstract)
11:00
Hegel and Mathematics: Towards the Resolution of a Dilemma (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 1D: History of Philosophy
Location: HNE 034
08:30
Recovering Classical Indigenous Philosophy (abstract)
09:30
From homo economicus to homo aestheticus: a critique of Foucault’s Reading of Adam Smith (abstract)
10:30
ENTRE TAUTOLOGIE ET HOMOLOGIE : L’ACCÈS À LA VÉRITÉ CHEZ HEIDEGGER (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 1E: Feminist Philosophy
Location: HNE 035
08:30
Old Ideas Die Hard: How Generative Entrenchment Can Explain Pernicious Ignorance in the Science and Politics of Sexuality (abstract)
09:00
Mapping the Epistemic and Ethical Landscape of Intersex Medicine (abstract)
09:30
How do victims of epistemology achieve epistemic advantages? Standpoint theory revisted (abstract)
10:00
Refining Self-Trust (abstract)
10:30
Dialling down excessive self-trust as a social epistemic virtue (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 1F: Epistemology
Location: HNE 101
08:30
Conspiracism, Self-Identity, and Epistemic Territory (abstract)
09:30
A Dilemma for Inferentialism About Self-Knowledge (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 1G: Normative Ethics
Location: HNE 037
08:30
Kant, Korsgaard, and Duties to Non-Human Animals (abstract)
09:30
No New Friends! The Partiality Problem for Deontologists (abstract)
10:00
Thinking Systematically about Social Responsibility (abstract)
10:30
Naive Humanism (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 1H: Metaphysics
Location: HNE B11
08:30
A Way of Seeing Ways of Being: Building a Case for Ontological Pluralism (abstract)
09:00
A Puzzle for Fundamentality (abstract)
09:30
Why There Is No Such Thing As Spacetime (According To B-Theory) (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 1I: Aesthetics
Location: HNE B10
08:30
The Paradoxical Transcendence and Aesthetic Connections of Conceptual Art (abstract)
09:30
Rough Heroes and the Gap Between Fiction and Non-Fiction (abstract)
10:30
Bridging Hermeneutical Gaps: Artworlds as Sites for Feminist Engagement (abstract)
11:00
Marinella’s Reclamation of Dress and Outward Beauty (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 1J: Applied Ethics
Location: HNE 036
08:30
Unequal Probative Burdens: How normative statuses interact in the course of philosophical argumentation (abstract)
09:30
In Praise of Responsibility Gap-Fillers (abstract)
10:30
Right for our Family: The Less Acknowledged Harms of Parental Rights to Paternalism (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 1K: Social and Political Philosophy
Location: HNE 102
08:30
Political Random Selection: Rebutting Lafont’s Critique of Deliberative Mini-Publics (abstract)
09:30
Territorial Boundaries and Christiano's 'Common World' (abstract)
10:00
Reconstructivism, Abolitionism, and the Risk of Conservatism (abstract)
10:30
Marx, Robots, and Social Reproduction (abstract)
Tuesday, May 30th

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08:30-11:30 Session 2A: Social and Political Philosophy
Location: HNE 032
08:30
What's Wrong With Adaptive Preferences? (abstract)
09:00
Problematizing the social expectations view of social norms (abstract)
09:30
Cost-Benefit Analysis, Moral Preferences, and a "Taste" for Fairness (abstract)
10:30
Neorepublican civic virtue (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 2B: Philosophy of Religion
Location: HNE 109
08:30
A Cleanthean Theodicy? The Contribution of Justus Lipsius to the Stoic Doctrines of Providence and Fate. (abstract)
09:30
The Value of Mystical Experiences (abstract)
10:30
THE VEDANTIC ORIGIN OF HUMAN GREATNESS IN NIETZSCHE: THE INFLUENCE OF VEDANTA IN FORMULATION OF THE ÜBERMENSCH (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 2C: Contemporary European Philosophy
Location: HNE 105
08:30
Deleuze’s Dramatization: Dramas-Poetries of Ideas in Difference and Repetition (abstract)
09:30
Death and Apperception: Heidegger and Kant on the Bounds of the Self (abstract)
10:30
Shared Memory, Collective Intentionality, and Alterity (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 2D: History of Philosophy
Location: HNE 104
08:30
Trust and Inquiry: Clifford's Side of the James-Clifford Debate (abstract)
09:30
Wittgenstein and Russell's 1913 Theory of Knowledge (abstract)
10:30
Desubstantializing Nyāya Inference: A Dialogical Approach (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 2E: Feminist Philosophy
Location: HNE 103
08:30
Against Desire: On the Anti-Black Coloniality of Luce Irigaray’s and Hélène Cixous’ Accounts of (Feminine) Desire (abstract)
09:30
Conceptualizing Responsive Solidarity as an Answer to #MeToo (abstract)
10:30
Afterdeath: Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Funerary Practices and the Corpse (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 2F: Applied Ethics
Location: HNE 102
08:30
Barriers and biases: Informed consent with family members as medical interpreters (abstract)
09:30
Thresholds for Consent: Phenomenological Experience and Denials of Tubal Sterilization (abstract)
10:30
Can the Depressed Appreciate the Choice to Die? (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 2G: Philosophy of Science
Location: HNE 101
08:30
First-person perspectives and scientific inquiry of autism: towards an integrative approach (abstract)
09:00
Reductionist explanation, psychiatric disorders, and health care policy (abstract)
09:30
Scientific explanation in context: the case of explanatory asymmetry (abstract)
10:30
WITHDRAWN Equilibrium Explanation, Scientific Understanding, and the Facts (abstract)
11:00
Peirce on a Role for History: A Comparison with Kuhn on the Logic of Science (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 2H: Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Location: HNE B10
08:30
Pictorial Syntax (abstract)
09:30
Skilled Action Guidance: A Problem for Intellectualism about Skill (abstract)
10:00
Habitus and affordance: Towards an Embodied Cognitive Social Science (abstract)
10:30
Do Reason and Emotion Compete in Autonomous Decision-Making? Korsgaard’s Theory of Autonomy and Recent Advances in Neuroscience (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 2I: Metaethics
Location: HNE B11
08:30
The Good, the Bad, and the Sinful (abstract)
09:30
Evaluating: Some Ways to Do It (abstract)
10:30
The Moral Virtue of Social Consciousness (abstract)
11:00
On Huemer’s Ethical Intuitionism: Asymmetries in Justification across Non-formal, Formal, and Meta-discursive Intuitions (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 2J: Normative Ethics
Location: HNE 030
08:30
On Being Bad at Things (abstract)
09:30
On the egoism objection to neoAristotelian virtue ethics (abstract)
10:30
The Case Against Demoralizing Trust (abstract)
11:00
Trust in Classical Chinese Thought (abstract)
Wednesday, May 31st

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08:30-11:30 Session 3A: Social and Political Philosophy
Location: HNE B10
08:30
Liberal Legitimacy and Future Citizens (abstract)
09:30
The Liberal Principle of Legitimacy in Settler Colonial Contexts (abstract)
10:30
Why democrats should be committed to future generations (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 3B: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
Location: HNE B11
08:30
The 'intentio' of pastness in Aquinas' theory of memory (abstract)
09:30
Utilizing the Gods as Analogues for Epicurean Friendships (abstract)
10:30
On Apophasis and the Clearing of Obscurations in Mādhyamika Philosophy (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 3C: Moral Psychology
Location: HNE 001
08:30
Emotion Regulation and Emotional Injustice (abstract)
09:30
Is There Akrasia in Games? (abstract)
10:00
Shame and the Scope of Moral Responsibility (abstract)
10:30
Shared Feelings: Extended emotion and responsibility for social media content (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 3D: History of Philosophy
Location: HNE 030
08:30
They’ll Always be With You: Spinoza, Love, and Eternal Minds (abstract)
09:30
Kant on Consciousness of Invisible Things (abstract)
10:00
Cudworth's Conscious Self (abstract)
10:30
G. H. Lewes: Emergentism and The Vitalist Roots of Non-Reductive Physicalism (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 3E: Feminist Philosophy
Location: HNE 032
08:30
Consent is Not as Simple as Tea: How simplified sexual consent discourse manufactures ignorance (abstract)
09:30
Is This What I Really Want?: Murky Wants, A Problem for Consent (abstract)
10:00
Playfulness, Control, and Microbiomes (abstract)
10:30
Pornography, Reasonableness, and Criminal Culpability (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 3F: Applied Ethics
Location: HNE 033
08:30
The reluctant aspirant: Helping a friend overcome racial prejudice (abstract)
09:00
Learning from Queer Community Responses to Mpox: Solidarity during Public Health Crises (abstract)
09:30
Vulnerability Theory to Improve Healthcare Policy (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 3G: Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Location: HNE 035
08:30
Rethinking the Perception–Cognition Border (abstract)
09:30
Inattentional Blindness and Cognitive Penetration (abstract)
10:30
Tracing the synesthetic memory advantage (abstract)
11:00
Depression, Intelligibility, and Non-Rational Causation (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 3H: Epistemology
Location: HNE 036
08:30
Brains in Vats and Skepticism about Objectivity (abstract)
09:30
Subjective Indistinguishability is Not Necessary for Effective Sceptical Hypotheses (abstract)
10:30
The epistemic value of Imagination (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 3I: Philosophy of Mind
Location: HNE 037
08:30
Is there an upper limit on consciousness? (abstract)
09:30
Lemos on the Physical Indeterminism Luck Objection (abstract)
10:30
An Argument for Virtual Veridicalism (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 3J: Normative Ethics
Location: HNE 101
08:30
What Third-Party Forgiveness Has To Offer (abstract)
09:30
Helping in Solidarity with a Movement: The Practical Importance of a Hybrid Approach to the Ethics of Collective Action (abstract)
10:30
A Communicative View of Holding Others Accountable (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 3K: Social and Political Philosophy
Location: HNE 102
08:30
Badiou’s Anti-Humanist Humanism: The Problem of the Pre-Evental Individual and the Possibility of a Non-Objective Subjectivity (abstract)
09:00
Autonomy through inquiry: Reevaluating the personal autonomy of children and youth qua children and youth (abstract)
10:00
The Accessibility of Religious Reasons (abstract)
10:30
Fairness in Energy Transitions: Confronting Ecologically Tragic Situations (abstract)
Thursday, June 1st

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08:30-11:30 Session 4A: Social and Political Philosophy
Location: HNE 032
08:30
Psychologisation de la justice sociale ? Une relecture de la conception honnethienne de la justice (abstract)
09:30
L’autodétermination des minorités nationales : entre Allen Buchanan et Will Kymlicka (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 4B: Moral Psychology
Location: HNE 033
08:30
Approaching the world with a Zhuangzian, two-sided consciousness (abstract)
09:30
Grounding moral debiasing within a scientific context: What is the criterion of moral error? (abstract)
10:30
How to Straddle the Objective and Participant Stances (abstract)
11:00
Against emotions as feelings. Towards an attitudinal profile of emotion. (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 4C: Feminist Philosophy
Location: HNE 034
08:30
Gender Euphoria (abstract)
09:00
Costs of Coping in a Non-Ideal World: Affective Injustice (abstract)
09:30
A Feminist Naturalized Approach to Oppression-Related Emotions (abstract)
10:30
A Feminist Account of Harm (abstract)
11:00
On Femininity: What Is It? Why Do We Need It? (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 4D: Applied Ethics
Location: HNE 035
08:30
A Conceptual Analysis of Technological Assistance and Substitution (abstract)
09:30
Is AI Art Theft? (abstract)
10:30
“I’m Sorry, Dave”: A Just War Theory of AI (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 4E: Philosophy of Science
Location: HNE 036
08:30
How representations provide understanding (abstract)
09:00
Necessity and Distinguishing states in Newcomb's Problem (abstract)
09:30
A New Direction for Quantum Ontology (abstract)
10:00
The Practice of Relativistic Cosmological Modeling as an Entifying Technology of Theory (abstract)
10:30
WITHDRAWN - The Condorcet Jury Theorem in an Ambiguous World (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 4F: Philosophy of Language
Location: HNE 037
08:30
Properties and the Concept Horse Paradox (abstract)
09:30
On Wright’s Account of Wittgenstein’s Quietism about Following a Rule (abstract)
10:00
The possibility of linguistic agency (abstract)
10:30
Meaning and Social Conventions (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 4G: Philosophy of Mind
Location: HNE 101
08:30
Remembering as a Mental Action and the (Dis)continuism Debate (abstract)
09:30
Joint Attention and Rational Coordination (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 4H: Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Location: HNE 102
08:30
Animal Rationality and Animal Consciousness: The Importance of Clear Explananda (abstract)
09:30
A Limited Defense of Anthropocentrism (abstract)
10:30
What really lives in the swamp? Examples and illustrations of scientific reasoning (abstract)
11:00
The Metaphysics of Words Beyond Bundles and Lineages: Exactly how does the analogy with biological species help? (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 4I: Metaphysics
Location: HNE 103
08:30
Direct Manipulation as a Threat to Intentional Agency (Not Just Free Agency) (abstract)
09:30
Haji, Kane, and Lemos on Libertarian Free Will and Luck (abstract)
10:00
Hanks's Dilemma of Necessity (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 4J: Epistemology
Location: HNE B10
08:30
Inquiry and Metacognitive Feelings (abstract)
09:30
Rational Inquiry: What does it take? (abstract)
10:00
See The Way I Do: Understanding and Testimony (abstract)
10:30
Track Record: A Cautionary Tale (abstract)
08:30-11:30 Session 4K: Social and Political Philosophy
Location: HNE B11
08:30
Academic Freedom and the Duty of Care (abstract)
09:30
What’s Wrong with Calling COVID-19 "The Chinese Virus": Microinvalidations, Negligence, and a Duty of Care (abstract)
10:00
The Puzzle of Solidarity (abstract)
10:30
WITHDRAWN Medical Triage Beyond the Battlefield (abstract)