THE 2010 JOINT MEETINGS OF THE
ILLINOIS PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION AND THE
INDIANA PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION:
EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY: CHARLESTON, IL
NOVEMBER 5 AND 6, 2010

Keynote Address by Dr. PETER VAN INWAGEN
(John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy, Notre Dame University)

Complete Program (MS WORD format):   SEE PROGRAM HERE (NOW COMPLETE!)

Download Pre-Registration form here:  PRE-REGISTRATION FORM

Conference information:

Meetings:    Paper sessions on Friday will be held on the third floor of the MLK, Jr. University Union on the EIU
campus.  Paper sessions on Saturday, as well as the Presidential and Keynote Addresses, as well as the Banquet,
will be held in the Doudna Fine Arts Center. 

Registration and Dues:  The advanced registration fee is $40 for faculty, $30 for graduate students until October 31st. Payment after that date is $50 for faculty and $40 for graduate students. All payments may be made in advance, or collected at the door.   PLEASE DOWNLOAD AND RETURN THE PRE-REGISTRATION FORM ABOVE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

Banquet: The banquet will cost $18. It will will take place in the Theater at the Doudna Fine Arts Center.  Entree choices will be:
1.  Grilled Chicken with Feta, Tomatoes, and Greek Spices served over Bowtie Pasta with grilled fresh vegetables.
2.  Golden Tilapia served over couscous with grilled fresh vegetables.
3.  Eggplant Napoleon- with bulgur wheat, soy mozzarella and marinara served with fresh grilled vegetables.

All meals will include a dinner salad and rolls.    Everyone is strongly encouraged to attend the banquet.

Hotel: There are two hotels in Charleston: the Worthington Inn (where we have a block of rooms reserved) and the Days Inn.  In addition, there are two bed-and-breakfasts: The McGrady Inn and Queen Anne's.  I think the B&B's offer nicer accomodations, but space is limited.  In addition, Mattoon (10 miles away) has numerous hotels of various sizes and prices, so there should be no trouble with lack of vacancies.  All these places have websites that will give you more information than I could provide here.  Prices for the rooms reserved (under the name "Philosophy") at the Worthington: rooms with one double bed are $45, two double beds are $49, and one king bed are $49 (taxes not included). The local hotel phone number is (217) 348-8161.  For other questions concerning lodging, please contact the IPA local organizer, Grant Sterling (gcsterling@eiu.edu).

Directions:

Paper Sessions, Parking, and Keynote Address: For a downloadable map of the EIU campus and directions, go to http://www.eiu.edu/map/.  Both the University Union and the Doudna Center are located near the center of campus.  Unfortunately, visitor parking fills quickly, and finding other parking is difficult on Fridays, but sometimes
street parking can be found either to the east or west of campus.  Saturday parking should be much easier.

Banquet:  The banquet will be held in the Doudna Center.  

Commentators, Chairs, and abstracts of Accepted Papers:  E-mail Grant Sterling at at gcsterling@eiu.edu
if you would like to serve as a session chair or commentator. Sessions that still require commentators
are marked below.

Presidential Address: Grant Sterling See Text [forthcoming]

Keynote Address:  What is an Ontological category?  Peter van Inwagen See Text [forthcoming]

Title                                                     Author       Link to paper/abstract Needs Commentator?

Special Session on the Philosophy of Peter van Inwagen:

A Better Basis for Modal Skepticism                          Fischer See Abstract

Peter van Inwagen and the Problem of Evil                    Gwaizda See Abstract

Temporally Restricted Mereology                              Steen, Mark See Abstract

Temporal Wholes, Constitutent Ontology, and the
Special Composition Question                                 Taylor See Abstract

Counting and Composition Wallace See Abstract

Other Papers:

Do Particles Have Free Will? Allori See Abstract        NO

Suicide Terrorism and the Hobbesian Sovereign                 Anderson See Abstract        NO

A Priority Problem for the Constituent Solution               Bailey See Abstract        NO

Emotivism and Inconsistency                               Berntsen See Abstract        NO

Toward Understanding Lincoln at Charleston               Carson See Abstract        NO

Solving Sellarsian Dilemmas                           Dickinson See Abstract        NO

If I were in the shoes of a Non-Cognitivist...                Flummer See Abstract        NO

Epistemic Altruism and the Demand for One Thought too Many    Gabriel See Abstract        NO

Autism and Moral Indifferance                   Gaier   See Abstract        NO

Van Inwagen and the Indeterminacy of Identity                 Gallegos See Abstract        NO

Actualism, Contingency and the Brouwerian Axiom Grummons See Abstract        NO 

The Moral Status of Innocent Threats Hanna See Abstract        NO

Is Anarchism Inevitable?  Kalumba See Abstract        NO

Semanticism versus the Schmenglish Argument         Kovacs See Abstract        NO

Are Analyticity and Necessity A Posteriori Mutually Exclusive?  Lee See Abstract        NO

Two-Conceptual-Scheme Compatibilism                 Machina See Abstract        NO

Epistemic Descent Principles Murphy See Abstract        NO 

Heidegger's Phenomenology Modernity, and Sexual Objectification Nenadic See Abstract        NO

Defending the Implication Analysis                        Pynn See Abstract        NO

Objects, Worldmaking, and Nihilism in Nietzsche           Remhof See Abstract        NO

Causal Powers of Composites                              Steen, Irem Kurtsal See Abstract  NO 

Descartes' Argument for the Creation Doctrine                 Stencil See Abstract        NO

Soft Facts and Ontological Dependence                    Todd   See Abstract        NO  

Identifying Inconsistencies in Plato's account of Eros        Wang See Abstract        NO