The topic for the 2018 Central APA session of AAPSS is “Arguments for and against Liberalism”
Friday, February 23, 7-10 pm
Chair: Shawn E. Klein (Arizona State University)
Speaker: Stephen Hicks (Rockford University)
Commentators:
AAPSS has two sessions again this year at the Eastern APA meeting in Savannah, GA.
Session 1: Wednesday, January 3, 6:30 – 9:30 pm
Topic: Modern Stoicism and the Resurgence of Applied Virtue Ethics
Chair: Jennifer Baker (College of Charleston)
Speaker: Massimo Pigliucci (City College of New York)
“Modern Stoicism and the Resurgence of Applied Virtue Ethics”
Commentators:
Session 2: Thursday, January 4, 7:30 – 10:30 pm
Topic: Biomedical Ethics
Chair: Jennifer Baker (College of Charleston)
Speakers:
AAPSS is hosting an Author Meets Critics session on William Irwin’s Free Market Existentialist at the 2017 Central APA in Kansas City, MO.
Thursday, March 2, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
Topic: Author Meets Critics: William Irwin’s Free Market Existentialist: Capitalism without Consumerism
Chair:
Shawn E. Klein (Arizona State University)
Critics:
Skye Clearly (Columbia University and City College of New York )
Jason Walker (George Mason University)
Mark D. White (College of Staten Island/CUNY)
Response:
William Irwin (King’s College)
AAPSS has two sessions at the Eastern APA this year. Both are Author Meets Critics sessions on Douglas Rasmussen and Douglas Den Uyl’s new book: The Perfectionist Turn: From Metanorms to Metaethics.
Thursday Evening, 5:15–7:15 p.m.
Authors Meet Critics: The Perfectionist Turn: From Metanorms to Metaethics by Doug Rasmussen and Doug Den Uyl
Chair: Jennifer Baker (College of Charleston)
Critics:
Authors:
Friday Evening, 7:00–10:00 p.m.
Authors Meet Critics: The Perfectionist Turn: From Metanorms to Metaethics by Doug Rasmussen and Doug Den Uyl
Chair: Jennifer Baker (College of Charleston)
Critics:
Authors:
AAPSS is hosting an Author Meets Critics session at the Central Division APA in Chicago, IL.
Topic: Author Meets Critics, Andrew J. Cohen’s Toleration
Thursday Evening, March 3: 5:30–7:30 p.m
Chair:
Shawn E. Klein (Arizona State University)
Critics:
Emily M. Crookston (Coastal Carolina University)
David Kelley (The Atlas Society)
Response:
Andrew J. Cohen (Georgia State University)
AAPSS is happy again to host two sessions at this years Eastern APA meeting in Washington, D.C.
Topic: Personal Identity and Attribution
January 8: 11:15 a.m.–1:15 p.m
Chair: Jennifer Baker (College of Charleston)
Speaker: Nina Strohminger (Duke University)
“Personal Identity and Attribution: A Battle to the
Death”
Commentators: Robert Charles Bingle (Georgia State University)
Javier Gómez-Lavin (Graduate Center–CUNY)
Topic: Kant and the Cultivation of Virtue
January 8: 1:30–4:30 p.m.
Chair: Jennifer Baker (College of Charleston)
Speaker: Chris Surprenant (University of New Orleans)
“Kant and the Cultivation of Virtue”
Commentators: Larry Krasnoff (College of Charleston)
Charles Johnson (Molinari Institute)
Eric Schliesser (University of Amsterdam and
Ghent University)
(*Note: Since the Eastern APA was moved from December to January this year, there is no 2015 meeting.)
This year, AAPSS is happy to have two sessions at the Eastern APA meeting in Philadelphia, PA.
Topic: Moral Reasoning
Saturday Evening, December 27, 2014: 6:30 – 9:30 pm. GI-1
Chair: J. A. Baker (College of Charleston)
Speakers:
Topic: Moral Reasoning
Sunday Evening, December 28, 2014: 5:15–7:15 pm. GV-12.
Chair: Anthony Williams (Yale University)
Speaker:
Commentator:
SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28th GIII-1, 11:15 a.m. — 1:15 p.m.
Chair: Jennifer Baker (College of Charleston)
Speakers:
Please join us for two sessions that concern how we might relate virtue to issues of the marketplace.
Chair for both sessions: Shawn E. Klein (Rockford College)
FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28th GII – 1. 9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 29th GVIII – 3. 11:15 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.
American Association for the Philosophic Study of Society 