Presidential Address of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association, 2012 Nancy A. Stanlick, University of Central Florida  The combination of concepts in the title might seem a bit disjointed, but the plan is to be able to show that there is a connection between gratitude as a virtue, disability (whether constituted personally, […]

Presidential Address of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association Aron Edidin, New College of Florida If I speak somewhat briefly here tonight I hope you won’t wish I were briefer still.   In fall when first I’d left high school and home midway through that first fall of college life I traveled […]

Dwight Kiel, University of Central Florida For representative governments to work, citizens must have an abundance of two qualities not easily acquired, reason and proper temperament. The reason for reason seems obvious enough; we would like citizens to be informed and to vote consistently with their interests and their beliefs. Citizens don’t have to be […]

Presidential Address of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association Kirk Ludwig, University of Florida I have approached the task of giving this Presidential Address with some trepidation. It is, in any circumstance, a matter of some difficulty, occurring on the evening of a day full of long talks, when the last thing […]