Saturday, September 23, 2006

Please join us on Friday 10/27/06

Please join us on Friday 10/27/06 at the 80th. annual meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association for our annual satellite session. We have two very interesting papers lined up. The details are listed below. Please note the *early meeting time* if you are currently making travel plans.

Location: Wales Room, Granville Inn
Time: 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Chair: Gavin T. Colvert, Assumption College

Speakers:
Matthews Grant, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota
"God and Human Freedom”

Trent Dougherty, University of Rochester
“Realizing Virtue: A Unified Virtue Epistemology”

Thursday, September 21, 2006

2006 ACPA Satellite Session

ACPA Annual Meeting, October 27-29, 2006
Denison University, Granville Ohio

Intelligence and Philosophy of Mind

Chair: Gavin T. Colvert, Assumption College


Matthews Grant, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota
"God and Human Freedom”

Trent Dougherty, University of Rochester
“Realizing Virtue: A Unified Virtue Epistemology”

2005 ACPA Satellite Session

ACPA Annual Meeting, October 28-30, 2005
University of Notre Dame

Social Justice: Its Theory and Practice

Chair: Gavin T. Colvert, Assumption College

Michael Gorman, Catholic University of America
“Re-Thinking Essence and Substance: An Attempt to Overcome an Impasse in Analytic Metaphysics.”

Christopher Brown, University of Tennessee at Martin,
"Aquinas and the Problem of Material Constitution"

Patrick Toner, University of Virginia

2004 ACPA Satellite Session

ACPA Annual Meeting, November 5 – November 7, 2004
Miami, FL


Chair: Gavin Colvert (Assumption College)



John O'Callaghan (University of Notre Dame)
"Putnam and the Plurality of forms"

Patrick Toner (University of Virginia)
"Thomistic Theories of Aggregates and Eliminativism"

2003 ACPA Satellite Session

ACPA Annual Meeting, October 31 – Nov. 2, 2003
Houston, Texas

Philosophy and Intercultural Understanding

Chair: Tony Lisska, Denison University

Phil Devine, Providence College
“The Structure of Conventional Morality”

Gavin T. Colvert, Assumption College
“Aquinas and Contemporary Challenges in Meta-Ethics”


2002 ACPA Satellite Session

2002 ACPA Annual Meeting, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH
Philosophy at the Boundary of Reason

Chair: Gavin T. Colvert, Assumption College

Speaker: Alexander R. Pruss, Georgetown University
“Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit: Arguments New and Old for the Principle of Sufficient Reason”

Commentator: David Manley, Rutgers University

2001 ACPA Satellite Session

ACPA Annual Meeting, November 9-11, 2001
Crowne Plaza Albany Hotel, Albany, New York

Person, Soul, and Immortality

Chair: Gavin T. Colvert, Assumption College

Anthony J. Lisska, Denison University
"Nussbaum, Putnam, and Functionalism in Aristotle and Aquinas"

Michael Gorman, The Catholic University of America
"Two Senses of Essence"








2000 ACPA Satellite Session

ACPA Annual Meeting, November 3-5, 2000
Dallas Grand Hotel, Dallas TX

Philosophical Theology: Reason and Theological Doctrine

Session I: Religious Pluralism

Chair: Gavin T. Colvert, Assumption College

Linda Zagzebski, University of Oklahoma

"Religious Diversity and Social Responsibility"

Philip Quinn, University of Notre Dame
"Religious Diversity and Political Toleration"

Session II: Fundamental Concerns

Chair: Gavin T. Colvert, Assumption College

john Haldane, University of St. Andrews
"Philosophy’s Uncertain Identity"

Gyula Klima, Fordham University
"On Whether id quo nihil maius cogitari potest is in the Understanding?"

1999 ACPA Satellite Session

ACPA Annual Meeting, November 5-7, 1999
University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota
Insight and Inference

Session I: Philosophy of Mind, Action & Metaphysics

Chair: Gavin T. Colvert, College of the Holy Cross


Christopher O. Tollefsen, University of South Carolina

"Direct and Indirect Action Revisited"

Michael Gorman, Catholic University of America

"A Searlean Approach to Brentano's Problem"


Thomas Sullivan, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota &

Russell Pannier, William Mitchell College of Law
"In Search of the Philosophies of Thomas Aquinas:
A Defense of Systematic Reconstruction"

Session II: Analytic Approaches to the Interrelation Between Reason & Faith


Chair: Gavin T. Colvert, College of the Holy Cross


John Haldane, University of St. Andrews, Scotland

"Philosophy and the Spiritual Life"


Michael Pakaluk, Clark University

"An Analytic Philosopher Looks at Fides et Ratio"

Sunday, September 10, 2006

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