2006 Pacific Society of Christian Philosophers

“Selves, Souls and Survival”

University of San Diego

Thursday, 16 February

4:00–5:00 pm: Registration

Rotunda, IPJ

5:00–6:55 pm: Welcome Reception

Garden of the Sea Patio, IPJ

7:00–9:00 pm: Plenary Session

Theatre, IPJ

“The Journey of the Spirit in a World of Matter and Energy”

Paul Churchland (University of California, San Diego)

Friday, 17 February

8:00–8:55 am: Registration

Rotunda, IPJ

9:00–9:55 am: Concurrent Sessions

Room 1, IPJ

“Neural Synchrony, Attention, and Unified Consciousness”

Eric LaRock (Oakland University)

Commentator: James Van Slyke (Fuller Theological

Seminary)

Room 2, IPJ

“A Dilemma for Exclusivism”

Daniel Kern (Marquette University)

Commentator: Daniel Murphy (St. Anselm College)

Room 3, IPJ

“Why There are Still People: A Response to Stone”

Christopher Buford (University of California, Santa

Barbara)

Commentator: Faith Pawl (Saint Louis University)

10:00–10:55 am: Concurrent Sessions

Room 1, IPJ

“Physicalistic Functionalism and the Possessive Form of

the First-Person Indexical”

Ed Luk (Western Michigan University)

Commentator: Christopher Franklin (University of

California, Riverside)

Room 2, IPJ

“Escapism and Luck”

Rusty Jones (University of Oklahoma)

Commentator: Allen Plug (Malone College)

Room 3, IPJ

“Personal identity across temporal gaps: an Islamic view

of the problem”

Sophia Vasalou (Cambridge University)

Commentator: Ioan Muntean (University of California, San

Diego)

11:00–11:55 am: Concurrent Sessions

Room 1, IPJ

“Indexical Thisness as a Basic Property”

Kevin Vallier (University of Arizona)

Commentator: Kevin Corcoran (Calvin College)

Room 2, IPJ

“Personal Identity and Purgatory”

David Hershenov (University of Buffalo) and Rose Koch

(Niagara University)

Commentator: Aaron Schiller (University of California, San

Diego)

Room 3, IPJ

“Troubles with Hypothetical Incompossibility”

Paul Pistone (University of California, San Diego)

Commentator: Bana Bashour (City University of New

York)

12:00–1:25 pm: Lunch

1:30–2:25 pm: Concurrent Sessions

Room 1, IPJ

“Evidentialism and Faith”

John Zeis (Canisius College)

Commentator: Tim Mosteller (University of San Diego)

Room 2, IPJ

“Material Being and the Survival of Death: A Dilemma for

the Religiously Oriented Materialist”

Paul Anders (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Commentator: Alicia Finch (Saint Louis University)

Room 3, IPJ

“Miracles and Historical Investigation”

James Taylor (Westmont College)

Commentator: Rick Sorenson (Assumption College)

2:30–3:25 pm: Concurrent Sessions

Room 1, IPJ

“Owens on Belief and Control”

Joshua Bright (University of California, Riverside)

Commentator: Jack Crumley (University of San Diego)

Room 2, IPJ

“Essential Individuality: On the Soul of a Person”

Roberta DeMonticelli (Universitá Vita-Salute San Raffaele)

Commentator: Michelle Gilmore-Grier

Room 3, IPJ

“How to Make Good on a Bad Problem: Divine Command

Theory and the Problem of Evil”

Manuel Vargas (University of San Francisco)

Commentator: Sean Choi (University of California, Santa

Barbara)

3:30–4:25 pm: Concurrent Sessions

Room 1, IPJ

“Omniscience and Cognitive Power”

David Hunt (Whittier College)

Commentator: Mike Rea (University of Notre Dame)

Room 2, IPJ

“Animals, Brainstems, and Persistence”

William Bauer (University of Nebraska)

Commentator: Trent Dougherty (University of Rochester)

Room 3, IPJ

“Some Neutral Reasons Why The Kalam Philosophical Cosmological Argument Fails For Theists And

Non-Theists”

Arnold Guminski (Independent Scholar)

Commentator: To Be Announced

4:30–6:20 pm: Plenary Session

Theatre, IPJ

“I Look for the Resurrection of the Dead and the Life of the

World to Come”

Peter van Inwagen (University of Notre Dame)

6:30–8:00 pm: Banquet and Business Meeting

Rooms 1-3, IPJ

8:15–9:00 pm: Service

Founders Chapel, Founders Hall

Saturday, 18 February

8:00–8:25 am: Registration

Rotunda, IPJ

8:30–9:25 am: Concurrent Sessions

Room 1, IPJ

“Free Will and Moral Responsibility: A Reply to Fischer”

Daniel Fogal (Cal Poly State University)

Commentator: Neal Tognazzini (University of California,

Riverside)

Room 2, IPJ

“A Neglected Puzzle About Persistence in Aristotle’s

Physics”

John Bowin (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Commentator: Matt Brown (University of California, San

Diego)

Room 3, IPJ

“Law, Religion and Conflict”

Henrique Schneider (Swiss Textile College)

Commentator: Chris Callaway (Westmont College)

9:30–10:25 am: Concurrent Sessions

Room 1, IPJ

“Some Unsound Arguments for Incompatibilism”

Andrew Bailey (Biola University)

Commentator: Tim Pawl (Saint Louis University)

Room 2, IPJ

“Is Hume a Skeptic with Regard to Personal Identity and

Ontology in General?”

J. Anthony Williams (Claremont Graduate University)

Commentator: Rich Graziano (Cal Poly State University)

Room 3, IPJ

“Personal Survival, Community, and Abortion”

Jake Noland (Texas A&M University)

Commentator: Diana Moxley (University of South Florida)

10:30–11:25 am: Concurrent Sessions

Room 1, IPJ

“Breakin' the Law”

Michael Nelson (University of California, Riverside)

Commentator: Matt Talbert (University of California, San

Diego)

Room 2, IPJ

“Kant, God and Community”

Michael Feola (University of California, Berkeley)

Commentator: John McAteer (University of California,

Riverside)

Room 3, IPJ

“Is it True that ‘Evolution is a Theory, Not a Fact’?”

Todd Long (Cal Poly State University)

Commentator: Dwight Yao (University of California,

Riverside)

11:30–1:25 pm: Lunch

1:30–3:30 pm: Plenary Session

Theatre, IPJ

“'But What, Then, Am I?'  Persons and the Metaphysics of

Resurrection”

Lynne Rudder Baker (University of Massachusetts,

Amherst)