Confirmed Speakers for Invited Sessions
In nearly all cases, following FISP tradition, the session chair is one of
the regular speakers for that
session; his or her name is then indicated in italics. The date given for each session is
hyperlinked to that page of the Master Schedule. Below you will find the following:
| Invited Sessions | Confirmed Speakers |
| Origins and Philosophical Conceptions of Paideia (8/12) | Pierre Aubenque, Tu Wei-Ming, Paul Woodruff |
| Philosophy and the Future of Education (8/15) | Israel Scheffler, Leon Olive, John Silber |
| Paideia, Social Justice, and Human Rights (8/14) | Ioanna Kuçuradi, Karl-Otto Apel, Eduardo Rabossi |
| Philosophical Education and Cultural Diversity (8/11) | Martha Nussbaum, Olga Avtonomova, Lucius Outlaw |
| Invited Sessions | Confirmed Speakers |
| The Ideas of the Enlightenment and their Legacy (8/10) | Simone Goyard-Fabre, Paulin Houtondji, Morton White |
| Pragmatism, What it is and What it is not (8/11) | Risto Hilpinen, Sandra Rosenthal |
| Current Challenges in Ethics (8/14) | Gunter Patzig, Ricardo Maliandi, Margarita Valdes |
| Global Agenda for the Teaching of Philosophy (8/12) | David Evans, Adrian Miroiu, Margaret Chatterjee, Kung-Ming Wu |
| Science and the Humanities (8/13) | Evandro Agazzi, Robert S. Cohen, Jesus Mosterín; Leszek Nowak |
| Invited Sessions | Confirmed Speakers |
| Maimonides Lecture (8/10) | George Henrik Von Wright. Chair: Jaakko Hintikka |
| Special session on Philosophy and Language (8/12) | Donald Davidson, W.V. Quine Chair: Ernest LePore |
| Perelman Symposium: Reasoning and Argumentation (8/14) | Guy Haarscher, Neil MacCormick, John Woods |
| Special APA Session: Philosophy In American Life: Ideals and Reality (8/13) | Philip L. Quinn, Jorge Gracia, Robert Audi, John Perry |
| General Assemby: Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie (FISP) (8/13) |
| Intercultural Perspectives on Aesthetics (8/10) | Barry Hallen (USA) (African Perspective) Joseph Margolis (USA) (Western Perspective) Steve Odin (USA) (Oriental Perspective) |
| The Meaning of Democracy in the World Today (8/11) | Emmanuel Eze (USA) (African Perspective) Peter A. French (USA) (Western Perspective) Hossein Ziai (USA) (Islamic Perspective) |
| Communitarianism, Eastern, Western and African (8/12) | D. P. Chattopadhyaya (India) (Oriential Perspective) Dismas Masolo (USA) (African Perspective) TBA (Western Perspective) |
| The Philosophy of Violence in the Modern World (8/13) | Robert L. Holmes (USA) (Western Perspective) William R. Jones (USA) (African American Perspective) Tsenay Serequeberhan (USA) (African Perspective) TBA (Oriental Perspective) |
| Philosophy and Social Justice in the World Today (8/14) | Safro Kwame (USA) (African Perspective) Kwang-Sae Lee (USA) (Oriental Perspective) Lorenzo Simpson (USA) (African American Perspective) TBA (Western Perspective) |
India and Tibet |
|
Indian Orthodox Traditions (8/14) |
Arindam Chakrabarti (Hawaii), Brendan Gillon |
| Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy (8/14) | The Ven Geshe Ngawang Samten (Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, India), Guy Newland (Central Michigan) |
Japan and China |
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| Japanese Buddhist Philosophy (8/15) | Yoko Arisaka (Univ of San Francisco), Steve Odin (Hawaii) |
| Classical Chinese Philosophy (8/15) | Chung-ying Cheng (Hawaii) Chad Hansen (Hong Kong) |
| Round Table Discussion (8/15) |
Jay L. Garfield (The University of Tasmania, Australia), Co-Chair Mark Siderits, Co-Chair |
| Invited Sessions | Confirmed Speakers |
| A Priori Knowledge (8/11) | George Bealer, Laurence BonJour, Al Casullo |
| Abstraction and Abstract Objects (8/14) | Kit Fine, Bob Hale, E.J. Lowe |
| Applied Ethics (8/10) | Russell Hardin, So Heung-Yol |
| Causation and the Mind (8/12) | Fred Dretske, David-Hillel Ruben, Stephen Yablo |
| Cognition, Controversy, and Rationality (8/11) | Marcelo Dascal, Eduardo Flichman, Ryszard Wojcicki |
| Cognitive Fallacies (8/10) | Fernando Broncano, Gerd Gigenrenzer, Niels-Eric Sahlin |
| Comparative Philosophy of Religion (8/11) | Keith Yandell, John Clayton |
| Consciousness (8/11) | Ted Honderich, William Lycan, David Rosenthal |
| Contextualism in Epistemology (8/12) | Keith DeRose, Robert Fogelin, Michael Williams |
| Creativity and Discovery (8/12) | William Abraham, George Allan, Matti Sintonen |
| Deconstruction and Its Critics (8/11) | Rodolphe Gasche, Dale Jacquette |
| Dewey (8/15) | James Garrison, J. Campbell, Larry Hickman |
| Education and Epistemic Authority (8/12) | Jonathan Adler, Catherine Elgin, Dennis Charles Phillips |
| Empiricism (8/15) | Michael Ayers, Joao Paulo Monteiro, Kenneth Winkler |
| Ethics, Religion, and the Future of Humanity (8/10) | Robert Audi, Alasdair MacIntyre, Kai Nielsen |
| Feminist Approaches to Essentialism (8/10) | Cheryl Hall, Marilyn Myerson, Natalie Stoljar |
| Feminist Epistemology (8/10) | Linda Alcoff, Louise Antony, Sally Haslanger |
| Free Will (8/10) | John Martin Fischer, Robert Kane, Saul Smilansky |
| God and Evil (8/12) | Michael Levine, Richard Swinburne, Howard Wettstein |
| Historical Narrative (8/13) | Michael Bentley, Raymond Martin, Behan McCullagh, Arthur Danto |
| Is Set Theory the Right Foundation for Mathematics? (8/13) | J.E. Fensted, Stewart Shapiro |
| Kant, Paideia, and the Enlightenment Today (8/10) | Henry Allison, Zeljo Loparic, James Van Cleve |
| Knowledge and Being (8/11) | Debi Prasad Chattopadhaya, Arda Denkel, Stanley Rosen |
| Knowledge as a Cultural and Historical Phenomenon (8/11) | Vladislav Lektorsky, Tom Rockmore, V. Stepin |
| Leibniz and the Beginning of the Enlightenment (8/10) | Hans Poser, Robert Sleigh |
| Logic and Metaphysics (8/12) | Joao Branquinho, Terry Horgan, George Wilson |
| Mathematical Intuition (8/11) | Solomon Feferman, Charles Parsons, Mark Steiner |
| Medical Ethics (8/14) | Dan Brock, Norman Daniels, Bernard Gert |
| Mind/Body Problems (8/14) | Josep Corbi, Jaegwon Kim, Sydney Shoemaker |
| Minds and Computers (8/11) | John Pollock, Zenon Pylyshyn |
| Moral Epistemology (8/11) | Jonathan Dancy, Gilbert Harman, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong |
| Moral Psychology (8/12) | Michael DePaul, Olbeth Hansberg, Amelie Rorty |
| Objectivity (8/11) | Robert Brandom, Eli Hirsch, Oscar Nudler |
| Ontology (8/11) | Osvaldo Chateaubriand, Peter Simons, Peter Van Inwagen |
| Perception (8/11) | Brian MacLaughlin, Michael Pendlebury, Diana Raffman |
| Perspectives on Analytic Philosophy (8/12) | Burton Dreben, Pascal Engel, John Perry |
| Philosophical Situations in Eastern Europe (8/10) | James Scanlan, E. Swiderski, Evert Van der Zweerde |
| Philosophy, Death, and Dying (8/14) | Felicia Ackerman, Arthur Caplan, Jorge Garcia |
| Philosophy and Children (8/15) | Robert Coles, Katalin Havas, Matthew Lipman |
| Philosophy and the Environment (8/13) | Robin Attfield, John Passmore, Holmes Rolston |
| Philosophy and the Environment (8/14) | Robin Attfield, Azizan Baharuddin, Heta and Matti Hayvy Gunnar Skirbekk |
| Philosophy in the Education of Humanity (8/11) | Richard Feldman, Gary Matthews, Harvey Siegel |
| Philosophy of Action (8/13) | Michael Bratman, Carlos Moya, Joelle Proust |
| Philosophy of Art Today (8/14) | Noël Carroll, Arthur Danto, Mary Mothersill |
| Philosophy of Language (8/12) | Jerrold Katz, Mark Sainsbury, Stephen Schiffer |
| Philosophy of Law (8/12) | Jules Coleman, Brian Leiter, Olufemi Taiwo |
| Philosophy of Physics (8/14) | Alberto Cordero, John Earman, Larry Sklar |
| Philosophy of Psychology (8/10) | Jesus Ezquerro, Adolf Grünbaum, Stephen Stich |
| Philosophy of Science Today (8/12) | Arthur Fine, Elliott Sober, Bas Van Fraassen |
| Problems of Democracy in an Age of Globalization (8/13) | William McBride, Horacio Cerutti-Goldberg, Andrzej Kaniowski |
| Rationalism (8/15) | John Carriero, Edwin Curley, and Dan Garber |
| Reconsidering the Tradition of Metaphysics—the Medieval Example (8/11) | Brian Leftow, Ludger Honnenfelder, John Wippel |
| Reductionism (8/15) | Ulysses Moulines, Michael Ruse, Peter Smith |
| Religious Epistemology (8/13) | William Alston, Gary Gutting, Solomon Marcus |
| Religious Pluralism (8/13) | Philip Quinn, William Rowe, Merrold Westphal |
| Science and Metaphysics (8/13) | Daniel Bonevac, Barry Loewer, Brian Skyrms |
| Self Knowledge (8/13) | Bill Brewer, Martin Davies, John Gibbons |
| Semantics (8/11) | Manuel Garcia-Carpintero, Tim Williamson |
| Social, Cultural, and Historical Aspects of Minority Rights (8/12) | Thomas McCarthy, Maria Herrera, Shane O'Neill |
| Social Knowledge and Social Consensus (8/13) | Alvin Goldman, Keith Lehrer, Miriam Solomon |
| Structuralism and Poststructuralism (8/11) | Peter Caws, Stephen Watson, Edith Wyschogrod |
| Systematic Philosophy (8/12) | Jay Rosenberg, Gary Rosenkrantz, Beth Singer |
| Technology and Communication (8/10) | Janos Kristof Nyiri, Esa Saarinen, Barry Smith |
| The Conditions and Justification of Belief (8/13) | Richard Foley, Mark Leon, William Mann |
| The Explanatory Gap (8/14) | Robert van Gulick, Brian Loar, Joe Levine |
| The Inexpressibility of Truth and Truth Theories (8/12) | Paul Horwich, Lorenz Puntel, Gabriel Sandu |
| The Naturalization of Intentionality (8/12) | Ruth Millikan, Pierre Jacob |
| The Nature and Epistemology of Experience (8/13) | David Chalmers, Mark Johnston, Richard Fumerton |
| The Objectivity of the Social (8/14) | Thomas Flynn, Margaret Gilbert, Raimo Tuomela |
| The Pyrrhonian Problematic (8/12) | Luciano Floridi, Peter Klein, Paul Moser |
| Thinking and Computing (8/12) | James Fetzer, James Moor, John Searle |
| Truth and Postmodernism (8/12) | Daniel Dennett, Steven Fuller, James Tomberlin |
| Varieties of Ethical Theory (8/10) | Stephen Darwall, Virginia Held, Michael Slote |
| Varieties of Phenomenology (8/10) | Jitendra Mohanty, David W. Smith, Robert Sokolowski |
| Virtue Epistemology (8/12) | John Greco, Christopher Hookway, Linda Zagzebski |
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