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ISSN 1089-294X

ASA Pacific Division Meeting Program

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April 11-13, 2012, Pacific Grove, California

Wednesday 11th April

4:00-6:00 Panel on Aesthetic Properties of Persons
Chair: Lauren Ware, University of Edinburgh

"What is an Aesthetic Property of Persons? An Ontological Analysis"
Carol S. Gould, Florida Atlantic University

"Wit's End: Wit as an Aesthetic Property of Persons"
Eva Dadlez, University of Central Oklahoma

"Extended Embodiment, Ventriloquism and the Prosthetic Identification of Persons"
David Goldblatt, Denison University

7:30-8:40 Art, Science and Nature
Chair: Alison Denham, Tulane

"Norms and Nature Appreciation"
Robert Stecker, Central Michigan University
Comment: Jon Cogburn, Louisiana State University

"Aesthetic and Other Theoretical Virtues in Science"
Jason Boaz Simus, Texas A&M University-Commerce
Comment: Taylor Davis, University of British Columbia

8:30 to Eviction: Reception

Thursday 12th April

8:30-10:10 Film and Dance
Chair:

"What Moves at the Movies? The Priority of the Recognitional Fold"
Edward Winters, West Dean College
Comment: Nicholas Diehl, Sacramento City College

"The Problem of 'Lost' Dance Works"
Anna Pakes, University of Roehampton
Comment: Jennifer Judkins, UCLA

10:30-12:10 Philosophy and Literature
Chair:

"There Are No Fields of Fiction: The Nature of Fiction and Tragedy"
Michelle Saint, Western Washington University
Comment: James Hamilton, Kansas State University

"Stop Over-Analyzing It: The Puzzle of Historical Inaccuracy and the Pragmatic Interpretation of Imaginative Resistance"
Mary Beth Willard, Weber State University
Comment: Mark Silcox, University of Central Oklahoma

1:30-4:00 Ethics and Aesthetics
Chair:

"Moral and Aesthetic Contextualism"
Stephanie Patridge and Andrew Jordan, Otterbein University
Comment: Jillian Isenberg, University of British Columbia

"Non-Branching Moderate Moralism"
W. Scott Clifton, University of Washington-Seattle
Comment: Lauren Ware, University of Edinburgh

"Relativism and Expressivism in Ethics and Aesthetics"
James Harold, Mount Holyoke
Comment: Peter Kivy, Rutgers

4:15-6:15 Panel on Art and Science
Chair and Commentator: Renee Conroy, Purdue University

"Kinds of Mind/Brain Modularity and Their Relevance to Connecting Art to Evolution"
Stephen Davies,University of Auckland Title TBC
Amy Coplan, Fullerton

"'This Is Your Brain on Art:' What Can Philosophy of Art Hope to Learn from Neuroscience?"
David Davies, McGill

Friday 13th April

8-8:30: Business meeting

8:30-10:10 David Hume
Chair: Donald W. Crawford, University of California at Santa Barbara

"The Two Tastes" Christopher T. Williams,University of Nevada at Reno
Comment: Jacqueline A. Taylor, University of San Francisco

"How Can a Skeptic Have a Standard of Taste?"
Susan Songsuk Hahn, Concordia University -- Montreal
Comment: James W. Mock, University of Central Oklahoma

10:20-12:00 Aesthetic Judgment
Chair: Russell Quacchia, Indedendent Scholar

"Aesthetic Judgments: the Agency View"
Josh Johnston and Oisin Deery, University of British Columbia
Comment: Keren Gorodeisky, Auburn University

"The Architecture of Aesthetic Judgment"
Emma Esmaili, University of British Columbia
Comment: Nicole Hall-Elfick, University of Edinburgh