2014 Annual Conference
31st International
Social Philosophy Conference
Power, Protest, and the Future of Democracy
July 17 to July 19, 2014
Southern Oregon University
Ashland, Oregon
Thursday, July 17
Registration: 8:15 am – 12:00 pm (Lobby of Stevenson Union)
Breakfast: 8:15 – 9:00 am (Lobby of Stevenson Union)
Session I: 9:00 – 10:20 am
- Conceiving of Harm (SU 319)
Chair: David K. Chan, University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point
Disability, Harm, and the Law, Jeff Brown, University of Denver
Defending the Counterfactual Comparative Account of Harm, Nathan Hanna, Drexel University - Grasping Gandhi (Rogue River Room, SU)
Chair: Antoinette DeMotta, University of Maine
Civil Disobedience, Democracy and the 21st Century Citizen: A Gandhian Approach, Prakash Chenjeri, Southern Oregon University
Gandhi’s Choice: Function of Convenience? Shweta Singh, University of Delhi - The Nature of Power (SU 313)
Chair: Patricia Omamomo Agboro, University of Lagos
A Brief Argument Against Activist Views of Power, Mark Schranz, University of Toronto
The Fiction of Sovereign Power, Torsten Menge, Georgetown University - Education and Justice (SU 330)
Chair: Crista Lebens, University of Wisconsin – Whitewater
Is Diversity Necessary for Educational Justice? Michael Merry, University of Amsterdam
Improvisational Pedagogy, David Kenneth Johnson and Matt Silliman, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Refreshment Break: 10:20 – 10:40 am
Session II: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
- Speech and Consent (SU 330)
Chair: Jeff Brown, University of Denver
Hate Speech as Oppressive Acts: Challenging Dworkin on the First Amendment and Democratic Legitimacy, John M. Ramsey, Scripps College
Yes Means Yes: Does MacKinnon’s View of Sexuality Allow for Sexual Consent? Amanda Huminski, The Graduate Center, City University of New York - Neoliberal Globalization (SU River Rouge Room)
Chair: Max G. Cherem, Kalamazoo College
The Effects of GATS on Higher Education and Democracy, Margaret A. Crouch, Eastern Michigan University
The Undemocratic Institutions and Unequal Outcomes of Global Capitalism: A Deweyan Reflection on the Principles and Practices of Globalization, Michael Thomas Schleeter, Pacific Lutheran University - Marginalization of the Political (SU 313)
Chair: Susan Dieleman, Dalhousie University
What Do They Want? A Critique of Democratic (Non)Relations in the United States, George N. Fourlas, University of Oregon
Depoliticization and Genetically Modified Foods, Daniel Hicks, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Western University - Reasoning about Rawls (SU 319)
Chair: Nathan Hanna, Drexel University
Shelby, Mills and the Debate Over Rawls and Race, D.C. Matthew, York University
Is There a Rawlsian Duty to Engage in Civil Disobedience? Karin R. Howe, Binghamton University
Lunch (on one’s own): 12:00 – 1:45 pm
Snacks: 1:30 – 3:50 pm (Lobby of Stevenson Union)
Session III: 1:45 – 3:45 pm
- Immigration Justice (Library 352)
Chair: Melissa A. Mosko, Canisius College
The Ethics of Immigration and the Justice of Immigration Policies, Peter W. Higgins, Eastern Michigan University
Migrant Rights and Obligations to Community: A Perspective on Open Borders, Jessica V. Wielgus, Binghamton University
Due Process and Refugee Human Rights: Against the Unilateral Right to Exclude, Max G. Cherem, Kalamazoo College - Democracy and Knowledge (SU 319)
Chair: John M. Ramsey, Scripps College
Toward a Feminist Theory of Democratic Legitimacy, Susan Dieleman, Dalhousie University
Democracy, Deliberation and Ignorance, James Boettcher, Saint Joseph’s University
Democracy in the Selva Selvaggia: Ortega y Gasset on Democratic Practice in Times of Excessive Information, Justin Pack, University of Oregon - Medicalization of Social Phenomena (SU 330)
Chair: Kayleigh A. Doherty, Arizona State University
From Dementia Praecox to Split Personality to Paranoid Schizophrenia: Injustice and the Contingency of Schizophrenia, Abigail E. Gosselin, Regis University
Towards a Phenomenology of Autism, Antoinette DeMotta, University of Maine
Medicalizing Queer Bodies: From Diseased to Equal and Back Again, Barry DeCoster, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences - Feminist Progress (SU Rogue River Room)
Chair: Daniel Hicks, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Western University
Women’s Issues and Equality in the Public Sphere: The Nigerian Experience, Patricia Omamomo Agboro, University of Lagos
Does the Demand for Political Justification Grounded in Actual Consent Lead to a Politics of Coercion? Celeste D. Harvey, Marquette University
Stand-Up Women: Lessons from the History of Women-led Protests, Caroline Rebecca Lundquist, Lane Community College - Sovereign Masculinity: Gender Lessons from the War on Terror: A Conversation with the Author, Bonnie Mann (Library 305)
Chair: David Matthew Reese, University of Oregon
Tom Digby, Springfield College
Devora Shapiro, Southern Oregon University
Bonnie Mann, University of Oregon
Refreshment Break: 3:45 – 4:00 pm
First Plenary Session: 4:00 – 5:30 pm (Library 305)
- Thomas Christiano, University of Arizona, “Democracy, Migration, and International Institutions”
Chair: Sally J. Scholz, Villanova University
Reception: 5:30 – 6:30 pm (Library 305)
Friday, July 18
Registration: 8:15 am – 12:00 pm (Lobby of Stevenson Union)
Breakfast: 8:15 – 9:00 am (Lobby of Stevenson Union)
Session IV: 9:00 – 10:20 am
- Intersectionality (SU 330)
Chair: Alison Bailey, Illinois State University
Defending Society from Abnormality: The Intersectionality of Race, Sex and Sexuality, Jordan Liz, University of Memphis
The Problem with Progress: Recognition, Community, and Nonvisible Disability, Kelsey N. Borrowman, Villanova University - Appreciating Arendt (SU Rogue River Room)
Chair: Ramona Ilea, Pacific University
In Search of the Good Revolution: Arendt’s On Revolution Revisited, Florian J. Grosser, University of California – Berkeley, University of St. Gallen
Sleepwalker: Arendt, Thoughtlessness, and the Question of Little Eichmanns, Larry Busk, University of Oregon - Ownership (SU 313)
Chair: Barrett Emerick, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Who is Entitled to What?: Rawls and Nozick on Entitlement, Ownership, and Justice, Alan Preston Reynolds, University of Oregon
Defending the Labor-Mixing Theory of Property, Tim Tung-Ying Wu, University of Missouri – Columbia - The Meaning of Protest (SU 319)
Chair: Ashley C. Acosta-Fox, University of Kansas
How Do We Protest? – Confluence and Not Consensus in Deliberative Democracy, Joel Chow, University of Arizona
Protest As Compassionate Dialogue: A Buddhist Response to the Globalization of Alienation, Jen Abbe Miller, Millersville University
Refreshment Break: 10:20 – 10:40 am
Session V: 10:40 am – 12:00 pm
- Violence and Protest (SU 330)
Chair: Jen Abbe Miller, Millersville University
Camus’ The Just Assassins & Islamic Suicide Bombing, Geoffrey G. Karabin, Neumann University
Eco-Sabotage, Eco-Terrorism, and Civil Disobedience, Matthew Pamental, University of Tennessee - Individual Responsibility for Structural Injustice (SU Rogue River Room, SU)
Chair: Wenwen Fan, University of Missouri – Columbia
Personal Responsibility for Systemic Injustice, Cullen Padgett Walsh, Iowa State University
Meeting One’s Structural Responsibilities, Corwin Aragon, Concordia College - Parental Obligations (SU 319)
Chair: Michael D. Doan, Eastern Michigan University
Vaccine Refusal and Conscientious Objection, Mark Navin, Oakland University
Voluntarism and Parental Obligations: Concerns for Children, Nikoo Najand, Queen’s University - Transnational Solidarity (Library 352)
Chair: Jordan Liz, University of Memphis
Transnational Feminist Solidarity and Lessons from the 2011 Protests in Tahrir Square, Sally J. Scholz, Villanova University
Power-with and Participatory Politics, National and Transnational, Carol C. Gould, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York - Epistemic Injustice and Race (SU 313)
Chair: Jacob Affolter, University of Kentucky
Know Thyself: Self-Knowledge and Resistance, Kayleigh A. Doherty, Arizona State University
Political Disenfranchisement via the Rumor Mill, Karen C. Adkins, Regis University
Lunch (on one’s own): 12:00 – 1:45 pm
Executive Committee Meeting: 12:15 – 1:45 pm (SU 315)
Session VI: 1:45 – 3:45 pm
- In Honor of Jean Harvey (Library 352)
Chair: Maurice Hamington, University of Oregon and Lane Community College
Judith Andre, Michigan State University,
Barrett Emerick, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Sally J. Scholz, Villanova University - Social Epistemology (SU Rogue River Room)
Chair: Bonnie Mann, University of Oregon
Community Epistemic Capacities and Structured Decision-Making, Ian Werkheiser, Michigan State University
Rorty, Hermeneutic Gaps, and Feminist Justice, Elizabeth Ann Sperry, William Jewell College
Democratizing Epistemologies, Gaile Pohlhaus, Miami University - Forms of Activism (Library 305)
Chair: Larry Busk, University of Oregon
Foundations for a Philosophy of Activism, Ashley C. Acosta-Fox, University of Kansas
Philosophy and Activism: Compatible or In Tension? Ramona Ilea, Pacific University
The Normalized Technique of Protest and Power Relations: A Foucauldian Analysis, Jesus Ramirez, University of South Florida - Issues in International Justice (SU 319)
Chair: Celeste D. Harvey, Marquette University
An Analysis of Equality: Respecting Women and Respecting Cultural Diversity, Chong Un Choe Smith, Georgetown University and University of Massachusetts – Lowell
Duties to Compatriots, Wenwen Fan, University of Missouri – Columbia
War Crimes and Limited Interventions in Civil Wars, David K. Chan, University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point - Applications of Pragmatism (SU 330)
Chair: Florian J. Grosser, University of California Berkeley, University of St. Gallen
Liberation Pragmatism: Dussel and Dewey in Dialogue, Alex Sager and Albert R. Spencer, Portland State University
Problems of Immigration and Warfare for Jane Addams and Pragmatist Pacifism, John Kaiser Ortiz, Millersville University
Critique without Judgment in Pragmatist Political Theory: Political Philosophy after the Collapse of Metaphysics, Colin Koopman, University of Oregon
Refreshment Break: 3:45 – 4:00 pm
Second Plenary Session – Book Award: 4:00 – 5:30 pm (Meese Auditorium, Art Building)
- No Citizen Left Behind (Harvard University Press, 2012) Meira Levinson, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Chair: James Boettcher, Saint Joseph’s University
Speakers: Zach Hoskins, University of Minnesota; David Leichter, Marian University; Krista Thomason, Swarthmore College
Reception: 5:30 – 6:30 pm (Schneider Art Museum)
Banquet: 6:30 – 8:30 pm (SU Rogue River Room)
Business Meeting: 8:30 – 9:30 pm (SU Rogue River Room)
Saturday, July 19
Session VII: 9:00 – 11:00 am
- Heteromasculinism (SU 330)
Chair: Barry DeCoster, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Demolishing the Empire of Fear: Affective Transformations, Queer Trajectories, and Eroticism in 2013 Protests in Turkey, Fulden Ibrahimhakkioglu, University of Oregon
Abu Ghraib, Ideology, and Hyper-Masculinity: A Critique of Puar, David Matthew Reese, University of Oregon
How to Make a Warrior for the ‘Battle of the Sexes’: Fear, Toughness, and Misogyny in the Construction of Masculinity, Tom Digby, Springfield College - Minding Mill (SU 319)
Chair: Colena P. Sesanker, University of Connecticut
The Protest of Cultivating Care Skills: Insights from J. S. Mill, Asha Bhandary, University of Iowa
Truth in Mill’s On Liberty, Eric James Helleloid, University of Georgia
Millian Social Tyranny and the Costs of Dissent, Dan Threet, Georgetown University - Political Virtues and Vices (Library 305)
Chair: Karen C. Adkins, Regis University
Defiance as Political Virtue, Melissa A. Mosko, Canisius College
Shaken Out of Complacency: Rereading King’s “Letter”, Michael D. Doan, Eastern Michigan University
Political Compassion and Paradoxes of Definition, Judith Andre, Michigan State University - Conceptions of Freedom and Agency (SU 313)
Chair: Karin R. Howe, Binghamton University
Love as Freedom in Frankfurt and Hegel, Kate Padgett Walsh, Iowa State University
Care as Power and Subversion: A Relational Approach to Freedom and Resistance, Maurice Hamington, University of Oregon and Lane Community College
Punishment and the Social Nature of Crime and Agency, Jenn E. Dum, Binghamton University - Class Inequality and Democracy (Library 352)
Chair: Michael Thomas Schleeter, Pacific Lutheran University
Poverty and Hunger in 21st-Century America: A Challenge to Democracy and the Civil Rights Movement, Jean-Marie Makang, Frostburg State University
Human Dignity, Democracy and Economics, Joan Woolfrey, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
A Republican Marxist Approach to Democracy and Protests against Power, Norm Fischer, Kent State University
Refreshment Break: 11:00 – 11:15 am
Third Plenary Session: 11:15 am – 12:45 pm (Library 305)
- Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University, “The Mentality of Democracy: Some Philosophical Reflections”
Chair: Margaret Crouch, Eastern Michigan University
Lunch (on one’s own): 12:45 – 2:00 pm
Snacks: 1:30pm – 3:50pm (SU Lobby)
Session VIII: 2:00 – 3:20 pm
- Duties to Resist Injustice (SU 313)
Chair: Norm Fischer, Kent State University
De-Trivializing The Kantian Duty To Resist Oppression, Colena P. Sesanker, University of Connecticut
Risks for Angels: Skeptical Doubts about Resistance from Montaigne and Hume, Gordon B. Mower, Brigham Young University - The Efficacy of Protest (SU 319)
Chair: Ian Werkheiser, Michigan State University
Protest, Parasitism, and Community: Reflections on the Boycott, David A. Borman, Nipissing University
Protests and the Limits of Democracy- the Case of Brazil, Maria de Lourdes Alves Borges, University de Santa Catarina - Disability and Justice (SU 330)
Chair: Kelsey N. Borrowman, Villanova University
Can Nussbaum’s Capabilities Approach Ground Political Surrogacy for Citizens with Cognitive Disabilities? Kacey Warren, University of Colorado – Boulder
Disability and The Social Contract, Timothy W. Allen, University of Cincinnati
Refreshment Break: 3:20 – 3:40 pm
Session IX: 3:40 – 5:00 pm
- Limits on Protest (SU 313)
Chair: David A. Borman, Nipissing University
Staging Political Protest: Violence, Contestation, and Creativity, Fuat Gursozlu, Loyola University of Maryland
“You’ve No Sense of the Place”: An Argument for Protest-Free Space, Jacob Affolter, University of Kentucky - Legitimacy and Justice (SU 319)
Chair: Eric James Helleloid, University of Georgia
The Primacy of Legitimacy in Global Contexts, Michael Buckley, Lehman College, City University of New York
Beyond Legitimacy: Deliberative Democracy and Justice, Amelia Marie Wirts, Boston College - Talking Race (SU 330)
Chair: Gaile Pohlhaus, Miami University
Calling White People on Racism is not Racist: Representing Marginalized Perspectives in the Classroom, Crista Lebens, University of Wisconsin – Whitewater
White Talk and Epistemic Closure, Alison Bailey, Illinois State University
Special Thanks To
Devora Shapiro, Local Arrangements at Southern Oregon University
The Program Committee: Mark Navin (chair), Peter Higgins, Elizabeth Ann Sperry
The Book Award Committee: Zach Hoskins (chair), David Leichter, Krista Thomason
The Graduate Award Selection Committee: Marilea Bramer, Saba Fatima, Jennifer Szende
The NASSP Executive Committee: Margaret Crouch, President; Alistair Macleod, Past President; Sally J. Scholz, Vice President; Nancy Snow, Archivist; James Boettcher, Treasurer