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Eastern Division Meeting Session Details


Friday, December 28 
 
APA Committee Session: Cognitive Diversity, Inference, and Language
Arranged by the APA Committee on Inclusiveness a ndthe APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies
9:am-noon
Chair: Omar Mirza (St. Cloud State University)
Speakers: Ho Mun Chan and Hektor K. T. Yan (City University
of Hong Kong)
Title TBA
Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh)
“What if Kripke and Gettier were Asian?”
Susana Nuccetelli (St. Cloud State University)
“Some Doubts about the Evidence of Cognitive
Diversity”
Hagop Sarkissian (Baruch College–City University
of New York)
“Culture, Cognition, and Philosophical Ethics”

Colloquium: Social Attitudes
9:00 a.m.-noon
Chair: Celina Bragagnolo (Elon University)
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Speaker: Joshua Mugg (York University-Ontario)
“What are the Cognitive Costs of Racism? A Reply
to Gendler”
Commentator: Luvell Anderson (University of Memphis)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Speaker: Alexander Madva (Columbia University)
“The Structure of Implicit Social Attitudes”
Commentator: Alejandro Arango (Vanderbilt University)
11:00 a.m.-noon
Speaker: Yasha Rohwer (University of Missouri–Columbia)
“Thinking About Coalitions: The Third Man”
Commentator: Lori Gallegos de Castillo (Stony Brook University–
State University of New York)

Information Session: The Two-Body Problem
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: George Rainbolt (Georgia State University)
Speakers: Holly Smith (Rutgers University)
George Rainbolt (Georgia State University)
Susan Brison (Darmouth College)
(This session may end before 5 p.m.)

Saturday, December 29

APA Committee Session: Women and Power in Academia
Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chairs: Carrie Figdor (University of Iowa) and Yolonda
Wilson (Duke University)
Speakers: Karen Hanson (University of Minnesota)
Marjorie Hass (Austin College)
Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College)

Symposium: On Making the Profession Better for Women
1:30-4:30 p.m.Chair: Lauren Ashwell (Bates College) 
Speakers: Peggy DesAutels (University of Dayton) 
Mark Lance (Georgetown University) 
Lynne Tirrell (University of Massachusetts–Boston)

Presidential Address: Linda Martín Alcoff
4:45 p.m., Marquis Ballroom B (Marquis Level)
Introduction: Sally Haslanger (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology)
Speaker: Linda Martín Alcoff (Hunter College/Graduate
Center–City University of New York)
“Philosophy’s Civil Wars”
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