2015 Annual Conference Program
Preliminary schedule – subject to change (Updated June 15, 2015)
32nd International Social Philosophy Conference
Education & Social Justice
Thursday, July 16
Registration: 8:15 am – 12:00 pm, Yates-Gill Lobby
Breakfast: 8:15 – 9:00 am College Cafeteria
Book Display: Yates-Gill 222
Session I: 9:00 – 10:20 am
I-A. Corporations & Culture *
Chair: Dee Dee Mower, Weber State University
The Corporatized University as a Hostile Educational Environment
James Edward Roper, Michigan State University
The Concept of “Bildung” and Contemporary Education
Velimir Stojkoski, Marquette University
I-B. Education & Emotion
Chair: Chris Lowry, University of Waterloo
The Tao of Resistance: Humanity and the Education of the Emotions.
Colena Sesanker, University of Connecticut
Learning as Learning How to Feel
Matt Silliman, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
I-C. Public Force
Chair: David Reese, Georgetown University
Coercion, Enforcement, Public Justification
James W. Boettcher, St. Joseph’s University
Alcoholic Beverages Should be Banned
Donald W. Bruckner, Penn State University, New Kensington
I-D. Women & Philosophy
Chair: Ian Werkheiser, Michigan State University
Philosophy in Schools: Can Early Exposure Help Solve Philosophy’s Gender Problem?
Gina Schouten, Illinois State University
When is Being a Woman Enough?
Larry Busk, University of Oregon
Refreshment Break: 10:20 – 10:40 am Yates-Gill Lobby
Session II: 10:40 am – 12:00 pm
II-A. Panel: Teaching Justice Through Service Learning
Chair: Jennifer Szende, University of Montreal
Karen Adkins, Regis University
Abigail Gosselin, Regis University
Jason Taylor, Regis University
II-B. Indigenous Justice
Chair: Ericka L. Tucker, Marquette University
Parental Decision-Making and the Aboriginal Right to Pursue Traditional Medicine
Chris Lowry, University of Waterloo
Can Anderson’s Imperative of Integration Accommodate Native American’s Right to Self-Determination?
Kayleigh A. Doherty, Arizona State University
II-C. Community & Disparity
Chair: Donald W. Bruckner, Penn State University, New Kensington
Communities and Collective Capabilities
Ian Werkheiser, Michigan State University
Deviance to Diminish Educational Disparity
Dee Dee Mower, Weber State University
II-D. Tradition & Resistance
Chair: Colena Sesanker, University of Connecticut
Peripheral-Being-in-the-World and Epistemological Resistance
Jesus Ramirez, University of South Florida
The Traditionalists and Challengers-to-Traditionalists Positions in Philosophy of Education
Ernesto Rosen Velasquez, University of Dayton
II-E. Paths to Social Justice
Chair: Larry Busk, University of Oregon
Love and Resistance
Barrett Emerick, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Transformative Mainstreaming: Placing Intersectionality at the Heart of Development
Audra L. King, Central Connecticut State University
Lunch: 12:00 – 1 pm, on one’s own (cafeteria serves 11:30 – 1 pm, Yates-Gill Union)
Session III: 1 – 3 pm
III-A. Tom Digby’s Love and War; How Militarism Shapes Sexuality and Gender (a conversation with the author)
Chair: Richard Oxenberg, Endicott College
Sarah Clark Miller, Pennsylvania State University
David Reese, Georgetown University
Anna Gotlib, Brooklyn College CUNY
Tom Digby, Springfield College
III-B. Vulnerability & Disability
Chair: Gina Schouten, Illinois State University
Autonomy, Sexuality, and Intellectual Disability
Andria Bianchi, University of Waterloo
The Vulnerable Body in Feminist Self-Defense Classes
Anna Cook, University of Oregon
III-C. Race, Disparity, & Belonging
Chair: Donald W. Bruckner, Penn State University, New Kensington
Racism, Racial Discrimination and Racial Injustice: How They Are, and Are Not, Related
D.C. Matthew, York University
Being Brown in Academia and Epistemic Insecurity
Saba Fatima, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
Reflecting on Rocky Choices: Justice, School Discipline, and Classroom Membership
Jacob Fay, Harvard Graduate School
III-D. Epistemologies of Ignorance
Chair: Kayleigh A. Doherty, Arizona State University
Exploring Possibilities: Epistemic Responsibility and Education
Ezgi Sertler, Michigan State University
Epistemic Issues in Biomedical Ethics: Ignorance, Knowledge, and Disability
Christine Wieseler, University of South Florida
III-E. Inequalities in Education
Chair: Matt Waldschlagel, University of North Carolina
Equality in Education: Why We Must Go all the Way
Tammy Harel Ben-Shahar, Columbia University Law School
Education and the Imaginary Public
Michael S. Merry, University of Amsterdam
Refreshment Break: 3 – 3:30 pm Yates-Gill Lobby
Graduate Student Award Presentation: Yates-Gill Lobby
First Plenary Session: 3:30 – 5 pm
Chair: Margaret Crouch
Who Do We Think We Are?
Lorraine B. Code, York University
Reception: 5:15 – 6:15 pm, Morning Day Café
(Liberty Town Square)
Dinner: on one’s own (cafeteria serves 6:15 – 7:15)
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Friday, July 17
Registration: 8:15 am – 12:00 pm *
Breakfast: 8:15 – 9:00 am *
Book Display: Yates-Gill 222
Session IV: 9:00 – 10:20 am
IV-A. Issues of Justice
Chair: Michael S. Merry, University of Amsterdam
Global Justice, Environmental Justice; Bridging the Gap
Jennifer Szende, University of Montreal
International Trade as a Subject of Justice
Sabrina Martin, Oxford University
IV-B. Gender Issues
Chair: Dennis Arjo, Johnson County Community College
The Normative Implications of Transnational Sexual Violence for Global Gender Justice
Sarah Clark Miller, Pennsylvania State University
Regulation of Bodies as Gendered Nationalistic Ideology: Physically Wounded Veterans as Political Props
David Matthew Reese, Georgetown University
IV-C. Education & Equality
Chair: Andria Bianchi, University of Waterloo
Inequalities and Educational Justice
Krassimir Stojanov, Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt
Compelled Concessions: the movement among egalitarians and sufficientarians toward a shared conception of educational justice
Ian McDaniel, The University of Kansas
IV-D. Culture & Critical Reasoning
Chair: Marilea Bramer, Minnesota State University, Moorhead
Bloodthink, Doublethink, and Socratic Dialectic: Critical Thinking and the Duplicitous Mind
Richard Oxenberg, Endicott College
Honnethian Critical Education
Jenn Dum, Binghamton University
IV-E. Public Reason, Public Speech, Alliances
Chair: Ezgi Sertler, Michigan State University
Political Performativity and Public Speech in Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem
Lillian Cicerchia, Fordham University
Alliances and Virtue: Beyond Friendships and Collaborations
Barry DeCoster, Albany College of Pharmacy
Refreshment Break: 10:20 – 10:40 am, Yates-Gill Lobby
Session V: 10:40 am – 12:00 pm
V-A. Empathy & Care
Chair: Lillian Cicerchia, Fordham University
Can Empathy and Solidarity with Distant Others be Taught?
Carol C. Gould, Hunter College & the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Criminal Justice, Restitution, and the Ethic of Care
Joseph H. Kupfer. Iowa State University
V-B. Epistemic Injustice & Self Defense
Chair: Anna Cook, University of Oregon
Epistemic Injustice & Culpability
Eric Banyuns, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Justifying the State Right of Self-Defense
Jennifer Kling, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
V-C. Civic Engagement, Civic Reason
Chair: Michael D. Doan, Eastern Michigan University
How public is just right? Public reason in the classroom
Joshua Keton, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Education and Civic Involvement
Gordon B. Mower, Brigham Young University
V-D. Morality and Social Media
Chair: Ruth Groenhout, Calvin College
Informal Discourse and Student Anonymity: Yik-Yak’s Role in the University Public Sphere
Kyle Thomsen, St. Francis University
Measuring the Moral Dimensions of Infrastructure
Shane Epting, University of North Texas
V-E. Assessment & Transformation
Chair: Maurice Hamington, University of Oregon/Lane Community College
Human Resource and Citizen: The Paradox of Educational Assessment
Rein Staal, William Jewell College
Enactivism, Affectivity, and Transformative Learning
Michelle Maiese, Emmanuel College
Lunch: 12:00 – 1:15 pm, on one’s own (cafeteria serves 11:30 – 1)
Executive Committee Meeting: 12 – 1 pm Yates Dining Room
Session VI: 1:15 – 3:15 pm
VI-A. Panel on the work of Nel Noddings
Chair: Nancy Snow, Marquette University
Noddings Among the Philosophers
Ruth Groenhout, Calvin College
Reciprocity as Developmental Virtue and Ideal of Justice in the Care Ethic of Nel Noddings
Maureen Sander-Staudt, Southwest Minnesota State University
The Student is More Important Than the Subject: Nel Noddings, Care, and Emergent Normativity
Maurice Hamington, University of Oregon/Lane Community College
VI-B. The Marginalized
Chair: Roxanne K. Smith, University of Illinois Springfield
Spiritual Violence and Gender Based Oppression
Theresa Tobin, Marquette University
Three hypotheses for explaining the so-called oppression of men: teaching Marilyn Frye’s “Oppression”
Peter W. Higgins, Eastern Michigan University
Invisible Punishment?
Zack Hoskins, University of Nottingham
VI-C. Education for Citizens
Chair: Miranda Pilipchuk, Villanova University
Cultivating Citizenship: Student-Initiated Civic Engagement Projects
Ramona Ilea, Pacific University, Monica Janzen, Anoka-Ramsey Community College
Civil Service and Education: Changing our View of Dependency
Laura Wildemann Kane, The Graduate Center, CUNY
VI-D. Objectivity & Impartiality
Chair: Julian Roel Gonzalez, University of Kansas
Ideal Theory, Oppression, and the Aims of Political Theorizing
Lisa H. Schwartzman, Michigan State University
Education and the Failure of “Objectivity” as an Epistemic Ideal
Devora Shapiro, Southern Oregon University
James, Hobhouse, and the Rational Good
Randall Morris, William Jewell College
VI-E. Education & Action
Chair: Karen Adkins, Regis University
Educating the Educators: What activists can teach academics
Trevor William Smith, Marquette University
Acting in the Dark, Together
Michael D. Doan, Eastern Michigan University
Imagining Adorno’s ‘Education after Auschwitz’
Catlyn Origitano, Marquette University
Refreshment Break: 3:15 – 3:30 pm, Yates-Gill Lobby
Second Plenary Session: 3:30 – 5 pm
Chair: Sally Scholz, Villanova University
Care Ethics and Social Policy
Nel Noddings, Stanford University (Emerita)
Reception: 5:15 – 6:15 pm, Morning Day Café
Banquet: 6:30 – 8:30 pm, Yates-Gill 222
Presidential Address:
Why Can’t We Behave?–with Apologies to Cole Porter
Margaret Crouch, Eastern Michgan University
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Saturday, July 18
Registration: 8:15 am – 12:00 pm, Yates-Gill Lobby
Breakfast: 8:15 – 9:00 am, College Cafeteria
Book Display: Yates-Gill 222
Session VII: 9:00 – 10:20 am
VII-A. Human Nature & Reflective Equilibrium
Chair: Shane Epting, University of North Texas
Human Nature, the Normativity Objection and the Practical Reason Response: No Cigar
Max G. Parish, Marquette University & University of Oklahoma
Scanlon’s Misguidance in Rawls’ Reflective Equilibrium
Julian Roel Gonzalez, University of Kansas
VII-B. Hope & Other Virtues
Chair: Karl Martin Adam, Oakland University
The Primacy of Hopefulness
Joan Woolfrey, West Chester University
Becoming Just: Law and Virtue in Aristotelian Ethics
David K. Chan, University of Wisconsin
VII-C. Moral Education & Politics
Chair: Peter W. Higgins, Eastern Michigan University
The Politics of Moral Education
Dennis Arjo, Johnson County Community College
How Epistemic Responsibility Carries over into Moral Responsibility
Jan Narveson, University of Waterloo (Emeritus)
VII-D. Spinoza & the Philosophy of History
Chair: Jim Boettcher, St. Joseph’s University
Power, Dissent and Social Change in Spinoza’s Social and Political Theory
Erica L. Tucker, Marquette University
Taking Care of the Past: Materiality and Representation in the Philosophy of History
David J. Leichter, Marian University
VII-E. Forgiveness & Human Nature
Chair: Matt Silliman, Mass. College of Liberal Arts
How Not to Think About Forgiveness
Matt Waldschlagel, University of North Carolina
The Sticky Question of Human Nature: stumbling-block or resource for Aristotelian Feminist Eudaimonism?
Celeste Harvey, Marquette University
Refreshment Break: 10:20 – 10:40 am, Yates-Gill Lobby
Session VIII: 10:40 am – 12 noon
VIII-A. Liberty & Limits
Chair: Monica Janzen, Anoka-Ramsey Community College
A Left Libertarian Philosophy of Social Justice
Norman Arthur Fischer. Kent State University
Democracy and the Informal Sphere
Seth Mayer, Auburn University
VIII-B. Curiosity & Climate Change
Chair: Catlyn Origitano, Marquette University
Curiosity’s Potential in Education for Social Justice: Freire, Dewey, and Flexible Epistemology
Jordan Stewart-Rozema, Emory University
The Duty to Assist, Political Feasibility, and Global Climate Change
Sarah Brigid Kenehan, Marywood University
VIII-C. Animals
Chair: Ramona Ilea, Pacific University
He Eats Me, He Eats Me Not: Violence Against Women and Animals, and the Construction of the Political Subject
Miranda Pilipchuk, Villanova University
The Impossibility of Vegetarianism
Andrew F. Smith, Drexel University
VIII-D. Gamification & Equality
Chair: Randall Morris, William Jewell College
Leveling Up Education: A Constructive Critique of Gamification
Matt Ross, Independent Scholar
Talent, Circumstances, and Equality of Opportunity in Education
Kirsty Leanne Macfarlane, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Lunch: 12 – 1 pm on one’s own (cafeteria serves 11:30 – 1)
Business Meeting: 12:15 – 1 pm (College Cafeteria)
Third Plenary Session – Book Award 1 – 2:30 pm
Bottlenecks; A New Theory of Equal Opportunity
By Joseph Fishkin
Chair: Jeff Gauthier, University of Portland
Jeff Brown, University of Denver
Barry DeCoster, Albany College of Pharmacy
Author’s Response
Session IX: 2:45 – 4:45 pm
IX-A. Judith Andre’s Worldly Virtue (a conversation with the author)
Chair: Lisa H. Schwartzman, Michigan State University
Barrett Emerick, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Celeste Harvey, Marquette University
Nancy Snow, Marquette University
Judith Andre, Michigan State University
IX-B. Reflective Teaching
Chair: Kyle Thomsen, St. Francis University
Towards a Critical-Analytic Philosophy of Education
Paul McLaughlin, University of Limerick
A Voice of One’s Own: Reflective Teaching, Bioethics, and the Underprivileged Student
Anna Gotlib, Brooklyn College CUNY
How to Conceive of Infant Autonomy: The Structure and Uses of Infant Autonomy in a Moral Framework
Marilea Bramer, Minnesota State University, Moorhead
IX-D. Problematizing Aristotle
Chair: David K. Chan, University of Wisconsin
Why Virtue Ethicists Parent Poorly: The threat of developmental psychology for childrearing in virtue ethics
Jill B. Delston, University of Missouri St. Louis
Inventing Virtue Metaphysics
Roxanne K. Smith, University of Illinois Springfield
IX-E. Rights, Others, & Credibility
Chair: Jenn Dum, Binghamton University
Types, Tokens, and Brands; Credibility Excess as Epistemic Vice
Emmalon Davis, Indiana University
The Slippery Slope to Justice: An Argument for the Recognition of Polygamy
Karl Martin Adam, Oakland University
Prioritizing Religion: The Case of Vaccine Exemption Policies
Mark Navin, Oakland University
Dinner: on one’s own (cafeteria serves 5 – 6 pm)
Special Thanks
Local Arrangements:
Elizabeth Sperry
Darlene Atkinson
Kiki Strecker
William Jewell College
Program Committee:
Matt Silliman (chair)
Joan Woolfrey
Mark Navin
Book Award Committee:
Jeff Gauthier (chair)
Jeff Brown
Barry DeCoster
Graduate Award Selection Committee:
Karen Adkins (chair)
Jacob Affolter
Melissa Mosko
NASSP Executive Committee:
Margaret Crouch, President
Alistair Macleod, Past President
Sally J. Scholz, Vice President
Nancy Snow, Archivist
James Boettcher, Treasurer