ASA Pacific Division Meeting Program

ISSN 1089-294X

ASA Pacific Division Meeting Program

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March 26 - 28, 2008, Pacific Grove, California

Program Chair: Dustin Stokes (University of Toronto)

Wed 26 March

4:00-5:40 FICTION, IMAGINATION, AND TRUTH
Chair: Stephanie Ross (University of Missouri, St. Louis)
4:00-4:50 Jillian Isenberg (University of British Columbia), ‘Fiction, Truth, and Inference’
Commentator: Jonathan Weinberg (Indiana University)

4:50-5:40 Nicholas Diehl (UC Davis), ‘Imagining De Re and the Symmetry Thesis of Narration’
Commentator: Dustin Stokes (University of Toronto)
7:15-9:15 SYMPOSIUM: THE PHILOSOPHY OF AND IN RIDLEY SCOTT’S BLADERUNNER
Colin Allen (Indiana University), ‘Why Humans Dream of Emotional Machines’
Amy Coplan (California State University, Fullerton), ‘Can Cinematic Style Be Philosophical? Form and Content in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner’
David Davies (McGill University), ‘Imagining through Cinema: Blade Runner as Philosophical Inquiry’
Thurs. 27 March

8:30-10:10 CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS
Chair: James Mock (University of Central Oklahoma)
8:30-9:20 Rafael De Clercq (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), ‘Aesthetic Ideals’
Commentator: Lee Brown (Ohio State University)

9:20-10:10 Andrew McGonigal (University of Leeds), ‘Why Define Art?’
Commentator: Graham McFee (University of Brighton/Cal. State Fullerton)
10:30-12:30 AUTHOR MEETS CRITICS-NICK ZANGWILL, AESTHETIC CREATION
Chair: Dabney Townsend (Armstrong Atlantic State University)
Nick Zangwill (Durham University)
Critics: Daniel Nathan (Texas Tech University)
Gary Iseminger (Carleton College)

1:30-4:00 PICTURES, MUSIC, AND PSYCHOPATHS
Chair: Jennifer Judkins (UCLA)
1:30-2:20 Heidi Maibom (Carleton University) and James Harold (Mt. Holyoke College), ‘Without Taste: Psychopaths and the Appreciation of Art’
Commentator: Eva Dadlez (University of Central Oklahoma)

2:20-3:10 Derek Matravers (Open University), ‘Expression in music and in painting’
Commentator: Michael Rings (Indiana University)

3:10-4:00 John Kulvicki (Dartmouth College) ‘Pictorial Diversity’
Commentator: Edward Winters (West Dean College)
4:15-6:15 SYMPOSIUM: TRIBUTE TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF ROBERT SOLOMON
Stephen Davies (Auckland University), ‘Bob, Little Jim, Bluebottle, and the Three Stooges’
Peter Goldie (University of Manchester), ‘Aesthetic Bootstrapping’
Jenefer Robinson (University of Cincinnati) ‘Solomon on Sentimentality in Art and Literature’
Commentator: Kathleen Higgins (University of Texas, Austin)
Friday 28 March

8:30-10:10 THEATRE, FICTION, AND LANGUAGE
Chair: Justin London (Carleton College)
8:30-9:20 Anton Alterman, (Independent Scholar) ‘Higher-order Meaning in Fiction for Young Children’
Commentator: Gemma Celestino (University of British Columbia)

9:20-10:10 Peter Alward (University of Lethbridge), ‘On-Stage Illocution’
Commentator: Jim Hamilton (Kansas State University)
10:20-12:00 THE AESTHETIC, THE UGLY, AND JUNK
Chair: Jason Simus (University of North Texas)
10:20-11:10 Alix Cohen (Cambridge University), ‘Kant on the Ugly: A Re-Evaluation’
Commentator: Don Crawford (University of California, Santa Barbara)

11:10-12:00 Tom Leddy (San Jose State University), ‘Roadside Clutter’
Commentator: Flo Leibowitz (Oregon State University)