Presidential Address of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association, 2016 Michael Strawser, University of Central Florida I would like to start by expressing my gratitude to Jon Matheson not only for his very kind introduction but also for putting together an excellent program this year. Thank you to Andrew Aberdein for making […]

Winner of the Outstanding Graduate Paper at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association Adam Hauptfeld, University of Miami The Expert and the Novice Consider two people looking at an oak tree. One of them is an expert arborist who can tell by looking at the tree that it is an oak; the […]

Winner of the Gerritt and Edith Schipper Undergraduate Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Paper at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association Joshua Myers, University of Miami Introduction Are you phenomenally conscious of the sensation of your clothes against your skin? Surely you are now, but were you before you read the question? Or, […]

Ofelia Schutte, University of South Florida In this essay I focus on two prominent female thinkers from Latin American intellectual history in order to broaden the understanding of the history of philosophy. This is not meant to detract from the field as currently understood, but simply to expand on the habitual ways through which we […]

Rocco A. Astore, The New School for Social Research I. Introduction Throughout the history of philosophy, many theorists have attempted to explain the meaning and cause of people’s sorrows. One philosopher, Spinoza, claimed that everything ultimately follows from God and that sadness is a person’s passage from a greater degree of perfection to a lesser […]

Anthony F. Crisafi, Valencia College Introduction Hegel’s dialectical movement from the subjective to the objective in his Phenomenology of Spirit is one of the first real attempts in western thought to articulate a theory of embodied and extended mind. Whereas before Hegel Descartes would situate a problem between the mind and the body and whereas […]

Stephen Faison, Florida A&M University Introduction According to Johannes de silentio, Søren Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous author of Fear and Trembling, faith is paradoxical in that it consists of belief in the possibility of the impossible. Johannes uses the example of Abraham’s unquestioning obedience to God’s command that he sacrifice Isaac to support his position. Abraham’s readiness […]

Sally Ferguson, University of West Florida In their essay, “Darwin in the Madhouse,” Dominic Murphy and Stephen Stich make a case for taking the perspective of evolutionary psychology in order to improve the taxonomy, diagnosis, and treatment of mental disorders as currently laid out in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, or DSM. Murphy and Stitch […]

Presidential Address of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association, 2009 Marina Oshana, University of Florida By way of introduction, let me assure you that I will not be speaking this evening of out of body experiences, states of semi-consciousness, reincarnation, or teletransportation. Nor will I touch on, except indirectly, multiple personality disorder […]

Winner of the Gerritt and Edith Schipper Undergraduate Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Paper at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association Chandra Kethi-Reddy, University of Central Florida Introduction Paleonymy is the art of recycling a word from the archives of history in the event that the words of our time are insufficient for […]