Brian E. Butler, The University of North Carolina at Asheville Introduction The political philosophy of John Rawls has dominated discussions of liberal justice for the last thirty years. The ideals elaborated in his theory have without doubt greatly influenced everyday ideas of justice and political reasoning. His A Theory of Justiceis one of a very short […]

On Self-Deception Unmasked (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton UP, 2001) Alfred R. Mele, Florida State University I am grateful to my three friendly commentators for presentations that are bound to promote lively discussion. In the interest of leaving ample time for that, I will keep my reply brief. I will proceed in reverse order and start […]

Presidential Address of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association Martin Schonfeld, University of South Florida and National Taiwan University  Introduction It is time to take another look at Kant. His philosophy took quite a battering in the past century. First analytic critics bruised and pummeled it, and then postmodern critics tried to […]

When a “W” is not a “W” James Roper, Michigan State University Without a healthy public dialogue, democracy cannot reflect the will of the people. They may have the right to vote, but they will not be in a position to make informed choices. In our mass media culture, that healthy dialogue must be reflected […]

Winner of the Gerrit and Edith Schipper Undergraduate Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Paper at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association Christian Williams, University of North Florida Introduction There has recently been a great deal of debate in philosophy concerning the cogency of Hume’s thesis that only a desire may constitute a moral […]

Graduate Essay Prize Winning Paper of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association Elisabeth K.I. Shortsleeve, University of Florida Introduction In this essay, I present two thought experiments that respectively cast doubt on the adequacy of the coherentist and reliabilist approaches to epistemic justification. Next, I propose an account of justified belief that […]

Ramón G. Vela, University of Puerto Rico (Río Piedras) Introduction In Bush v. Gore, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a portion of Florida’s electoral law in the name of political equality. The law required local election officials, when counting votes manually, to examine the ballot and determine the “intent of the voter.” Because this standard […]

Charles Guignon, Co-Author, University of South Florida I am very pleased to have the opportunity to say a few words about Re-envisioning Psychology. The book is a collaborative effort by three authors: Frank Richardson, a professor in Educational Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin, Blaine Fowers, in Educational and Psychological Studies at the […]

D.A. Masolo, University of Louisville The point of this symposium is to address some of the features of contemporary African philosophy. Sometimes it is quite difficult determining precisely what time period terms like “recent” or “present” actually mean. So I want to assume some freedom here in defining for the purposes of this meeting what […]

Kwasi Wiredu, University of South Florida I would like to mention that Professor Masolo is the author of the first full-length history of contemporary African philosophyand Professor Hallen has just recently written A Short History of African Philosophy that brings us right up to today. So we have two historians and one layman on this panel. […]