2013 Pacific APA

Holly Anderson (Simon Fraser University), "Patterns, Information, and Causation"

Sara Bernstein (Duke University), "Actual and Counterfactual Redundancy"

Marco Nathan (University of Denver), "Causation and Causal Explanation: Which is More Fundamental?"

Cory D. Wright (California State University Long Beach), "Causes in Causal Explanations: The Problem of Abstract Relata"

2012 Central APA

Topic: Kinds: Natural and Scientific

Chair: Carl Gillett (Northern Illinois University)

Speakers: Anjan Chakravarty (University of Notre Dame), “Perspectival Frameworks for Scientific Taxonomy”

Matthew H. Slater (Bucknell University), “Is Our Epistemology Writing Checks That Our Metaphysics Can’t Cash?”

Neil E. Williams (University at Buffalo (SUNY)), “‘Disease’ Is Not a Natural Kind Term: A Tale of Two Diseases”

2011 Central APA

Topic: Metaphysics and Science

Chair: Carl Gillett (Northern Illinois University)

Speakers: Michael Silberstein (Elizabethtown College), “Metaphysics and Science or Science and Metaphysics: I Know the Lines but What’s Our Motivation?”

Alan C. Love (University of Minnesota–Twin Cities), “Pluralism, Hierarchical Explanations, and the Metaphysics of Science”

2011 Pacific APA

Topic: Abstraction, Idealization, and Multiple Realization

Chair: Thomas W. Polger (University of Cincinnati)

Speakers:

Matthew Haug (College of William and Mary), “Abstraction and Explanatory Relevance”

Colin Klein (University of Illinois–Chicago), “Against Scientific Levels: The Problem of Within-Theory Abstraction”

Angela Potochnik (University of Cincinnati), “Idealizing the Realizers”

2009 Central APA

Topic: Reduction in the Sciences

Chair: Carl Gillett, Norther Illinois University

Colin Klein, University of Illinois, Chicago, "Abstraction and the Shape of Reduction"

Robert Bishop, Wheaton College, "Reductionism Meets Complexity"

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Topic: Author Meets Critics: James Ladyman & Don Ross's Every Thing Must Go

Critic 1: Andrew Melnyk, University of Missouri, Columbia

Critic 2: D. Gene Witmer, University of Florida

Author: Don Ross, University of Alabama at Birmingham & University of Cape Town

2009 Pacific APA

Topic: New Waves in Metaphysics I

Chair: Allan Hazlett (Fordham University)

Thomas Hofweber, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Ontology and the Domain of Metaphysics"

Ross Cameron, University of Leeds, "Quantification, Naturalness, and Ontology"

Doug Kutach, Brown University, "Real and Ordinary Language Metaphysics"

Alyssa Ney, University of Rochester, "No Property is Intrinsic"

Carolina Sartorio, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "The Prince of Wales Problem for Counterfactual Theories of Causation"

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Topic: New Waves in Metaphysics II

Chair: Alyssa Ney, University of Rochester

Sarah Chant, University of Missouri-St. Louis, "The Metaphysics of Collective Action"

Mari Mikkola, Lancaster University, "Is Everything Relative? Anti-realism, truth and feminism"

Joshua Glasgow, Victoria University of Wellington, "Another Look at the Reality of Race, by which I Mean RaceF"

Allan Hazlett, Fordham University, "Post-Essentialism"

2008 Central APA

Topic: Metaphysics, Science, and the Social World

Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh), "The Folk Concept of Race"

Robert A. Wilson (University of Alberta), "Normalcy and Sociality"

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Topic: Mechanistic Functionalism

Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri, St. Louis), "Mechanistic Functionalism"

Ronald Endicott (North Carolina State University), "Improving Nonreductive Functionalism by Taking Mechanisms Seriously: Causal Versus Total Nomic Roles"

Carl Gillett (Illinois Wesleyan University), "The Third Way for Functionalists"

2007 Central APA

Topic: Mechanistic Understanding in the Sciences

Ernan McMullin, (University of Notre Dame), "Inferring to Things Unobserved: Historical Notes"

Jonathan Waskan, (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign), "Modeling Counterfactual Interventions"

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Topic: The Investigation of Concepts: Getting Out of the Armchair?

Andrew Melnyk (University of Missouri-Columbia), "Conceptual Analysis: A Two-Step Program"

Shaun Nichols (University of Arizona), "Intuitions about Agency: Experimental Approaches"