Program of the 2016 Iowa Philosophical Society Conference Saturday, November 5, 2016 Simpson College Indianola, Iowa All sessions are in Carver Science Hall at 206 W. Clinton Ave., Indianola, IA 50125 Please see our campus map here: tinyurl.com/SimpsonMap More conference information available at: tinyurl.com/iowaphilsoc

9:3010:00 a.m.

Location

10:0010:50am

Registration: $5 graduate students, $20 faculty Coffee, Fruit, and Pastries available in the Atrium Jordan Lecture Hall

Carver 205

Carver 231

Paul Hamilton University of Missouri-Columbia

Terence J. Kleven Central College

Gordon Knight Iowa State University

Nudging is an Achievement that Diminishes Others

11:0011:50am

12:00-1:30pm

Alfarabi on the Syllogistic Presentism and Change Art of Dialectic

Rachel A. Johnson Trinity University (Texas)

Michael Otteson University of Kansas

Practical Deliberation and Background Conditions for Normative Reasons for Actions

Augustine and Constructive Memory

Lunch on your own

Jill Graper Hernandez University of Texas at San Antonio Atrocious Harms and Transmuted Goods: A Love Story

Carver 233 Leah Kalmanson Drake University

Qi-Cosmology and the Feminist Sage: The Limits and Power of Agency

Allison Wolf Simpson College

Where are We? Reflecting on Women’s Identity in the Age of “Black Lives Matter” and “Say Her Name”

Location

Jordan Lecture Hall

Carver 205

Carver 231

Carver 233

1:30-2:20pm

Asia Ferrin Kansas State University

Joshua Smith University of Houston

Elanor Taylor Iowa State University

Undergraduate Session Matthew Wells Central College

Nonhuman Animals are Morally Responsible

Commonly Misunderstood: Aquinas on Common Nature

Explanatory Distance

An Examination of Modernity: A Look at Machiavelli and Nietzsche

Liz Jackson University of Notre Dame

Laura Matthews University of Georgia

Meghan Masto Lafayette College

Undergraduate Session Zoe Muehleip Simpson College

Three More Reasons Permissivism is True

Corporate Personhood and Corporate Responsibility

Knowing wh- and Knowing What-It’sLike

Impediments to Progress within the Agricultural Paradigm

Stephen Herman University of Missouri Columbia

Elizabeth Bell University of WisconsinMadison

Lauren Woomer De Paul University

Undergraduate Session Maggie Long Simpson College

Epistemic Blameworthiness and Demandingness

How Special Relations Can Provide Agentneutral Reasons

Affective Insensitivity, Ignorance, and the Criminalization of Black Girls

Herbicide Resistant Weeds and ‘The Wicked Problem’

2:30-3:20pm

3:30-4:20pm

4:40-4:55 p.m.: Carver 202

Iowa Philosophical Society Business Meeting 5-6:30 Jordan Lecture Hall, Carver Science Hall

Keynote Address: Michael Titelbaum (University of Wisconsin at Madison) "How Common are Reasons?" Abstract: Suppose that a set of facts, together, make it the case that you ought to phi. In some cases, some of those facts will be reasons to phi, some will be reasons not to, and the obligation to phi will arise from their conflict. But how often is this the case? Can there be cases in which a set of facts obligates you to phi, even though none of the facts is a reason to phi? Can your total evidence require you to believe p, even if no individual piece of evidence supports p? And if so, what does this say about our theory of reasons, and the prospects for reasons-first ethics and epistemology?