The Metaphysical Society of America
Founded in 1950
Constituent of the American Council of Learned Societies
66th Annual Meeting
Self-Determination and Metaphysics
University of Georgia
April 17-19, 2015
Conference Details
- Call for Papers
(revised 01.06.2014)
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Conference Program
(revised 04.17.2015)
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Conference Travel Details
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Conference Registration Form
(revised 01.22.2015)
- Online conference registration
All sessions will be held in Room 115 Peabody Hall
Thursday, April 16
7:00–9:30 PM “Process Philosophy, Self Determination, and
Ideology” Panel of the Society for the Study of Process Philosophies
(all MSA members are welcome)
Moderator: George R. Lucas, Jr. (Reilly Center, University
of Notre Dame)
Speakers: Derek Malone-France (George Washington
University) and George Allan (Dickinson College, emeritus)
Respondent: Hollis Phelps (University of Mount Olive)
Friday, April 17
3:30 PM Welcome by Pamela Whitten, Provost & Senior Vice
President for Academic Affairs (University of Georgia)
3:40-4:55 PM Session I
Moderator: Donald Phillip Verene (Emory University)
Speaker: May Sim (College of the Holy Cross), “Self-determination
and the Metaphysics of Human Nature in Aristotle and Mencius”
Commentator: Jonathan Sanford (Franciscan University)
5:05–6:20 PM Session II
Moderator: Francis P. Coolidge, Jr. (Loyola University New
Orleans)
Speaker: Jude Dougherty (Catholic University), “Maimonides
on Free Will”
Commentator: Phillip Stambovsky (Fairfield University)
6:30–7:45 PM Session III
Moderator: Brian Henning (Gonzaga University)
Speaker: Andrew German (Ben Gurion University, Be'er Sheva
Israel), “Speculari Aude: Self-Consciousness and Post-Kantian
Metaphysics in Dieter Henrich”
Commentator: Michelle Mahoney (Memorial University of
Newfoundland)
8-10:00 PM Dinner Reception
Saturday, April 18
8:45–10:00 AM Session IV
Moderator: Laura Landen (Providence College)
Speaker: Kris Klotz (Pennsylvania State University), “Autonomy
and Abstraction”
Commentator: Anne M. Wiles (James Madison University)
10:00-10:15 AM Coffee Break
10:15-11:30 AM Session V
Moderator: Carl Rapp (University of Georgia)
Speaker: Lawrence Cahoone (College of the Holy Cross),
“Self-, Social-, or Neural-Determination?”
Commentator: C. Wesley DeMarco (Clark University)
11:35–12:50 AM Session VI
Moderator: Nastassja Saramago de ar Pugliese (University of
Georgia)
Speaker: Eric v. d. Luft (Gegensatz Press), “On Free Will: Pols versus Ravven”
Commentator: Heidi Ravven (Hamilton College)
12:50-2:05 PM Lunch Break
2:05–3:20 PM Session VII
Moderator: Oliva Blanchette (Boston College)
Speaker: Melvin Woody (Connecticut College), “Freedom and
Trauma”
Commentator: Eric Helleloid (Augsburg College)
3:25–4:40 PM Session VIII
Moderator: Dilek Huseyinzadegan (Emory University)
Speaker: Sean McGrath (Memorial University of
Newfoundland), “The
Logic of Schelling's Freedom Essay”
Commentator: Richard Velkley (Tulane University)
4:40-5:00 PM Coffee Break
5:00–6:30 PM Presidential Address: “Self-determination in
Logic and Reality”
Introduction: President-Elect George R. Lucas Jr. (Reilly
Center, University of Notre Dame)
Speaker: Richard Dien Winfield (University of
Georgia)
6:35-7:45 PM Business Meeting
8:00-10:00 PM Banquet at Cine (234 West Hancock Avenue)
catered by The National
Sunday, April 19
9:00–10:15 AM Session IX
Moderator: Rene Jagnow (University of Georgia)
Speaker: Daniel Stambovksy (USAF), “Self-Determination
of the Emergent: Formal Essence, Reinvention, and Downward Causation”
Commentator: Joseph Paul Carter (University of
Georgia)
10:25–11:40 AM Session X
Moderator: Thomas R. Flynn (Emory University)
Speaker: Edward Halper (University of Georgia), “Self-determination
as a First Principle”
Commentator: William Maker (Clemson University)
11:50–1:05 PM Session XI Aristotle Prize Winner
Moderator: Bradley Alan Patty (University of Georgia)
Speaker: Gregory Moss (Clemson University), “The
Concept as Self-Determination: Hegel on the Conceivability of
Self-Determination”
Commentator: Kenneth Lambert (Washington and Lee
University)
