The Metaphysical Society of
America
Founded: 1950
Member: American Council of Learned Societies
60th Annual Meeting
Emory University
Imagination, Reason, and the Real
March 13–14, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009 Location: White Hall 205, on Emory Quad
11:00 AM — 2:30 PM Registration. Fee $15.00
Society for the Study of Process Philosophies
1:00 — 2:30
Chair: Brian G. Henning Gonzaga University
Topic: Imagination in Process: Realization and the Unrealized
Vincent Colapietro The Pennsylvania State University
Routes of Inheritance: Paradigmatic Instances and Unexplored
Possibilities
Jude Jones Fordham University
“Imagine There’s No Heaven”: The Urgency of the Actual World
2:30 — 2:45 Break
Metaphysical Society of America
2:45 — 3:45 Session 1
Chair: Thora Ilin Bayer Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans
Jeffrey Dirk Wilson Mount St. Mary’s University
The Metaphysics of Poetic Wisdom
3:45 — 4:00 Break
4:00 — 5:30 Keynote Address
The Critical Role of Imagination
Richard J. Bernstein
New School for Social Research
5:30 — 7:00 Reception to follow
Saturday, March 14, 2009 Location: Carlos Museum, 3rd floor
on Emory Quad
9:00 AM — 9:15 Welcome
9:15 — 10:15 Session 2
Chair: Raymond Barfield Duke University
C. Wesley DeMarco Clark University
Reason, Imagination, and Reality
10:15 — 10:30 Break
10:30 — 11:30 Session 3
Chair: Frederick R. Marcus Emory University
James W. Felt Santa Clara University
Novelty in the Possible and the Actual
11:30 — 12:00 Business Meeting
12:00 — 2:00 Lunch (See list of nearby restaurants)
2:00 —3:00 Session 4
Chair: Charlotte Thomas Mercer University
Dennis L. Sepper University of Dallas
The Being of Imagination’s Motions in Aristotle and Saussure
3:00 — 3:15 Break
3:15 — 4:15 Session 5
Chair: Ann Hartle Emory University
Owen Goldin Marquette University
Aristotle on First Philosophy and the Imagination
4:15 — 4:30 Break
4:30 — 6:00 Location: White Hall 205
Presidential Address
Myth and Metaphysics
Donald Phillip Verene
Emory University
7:00 Banquet Location: Carlos Museum, 3rd floor