APA 2009 Central Division Session

February 18-22, 2009
Palmer House Hilton
Chicago, IL

"Roycean Egoism and Social Hope"

Thursday, Feb. 19, Group Session III-6 (7:30 – 10:30 p.m.)

Greg Aldin, Fordham University “Royce and Social Hope”

Bonnie Meyer, Indiana University/Purdue University–Indianapolis “Royce’s Theory of Self: A New Face for Egoism”

Jason Bell, Vanderbilt University “Royce’s War Ethics”

Chair: Dwayne Tunstall, Grand Valley State University

APA 2008 Eastern Division Session

December 27-30, 2008
Marriott Hotel
Philadelphia, PA

"Roycean Atonement and Contemporary Thought"

Sunday, Dec 28, Group Session III (11:15am-1:15pm)

Kelly Parker, Grand Valley State University "Atonement and Eidetic Extinction"

J. Brent Crouch, University of Oregon "The Topology of Atonement: Connection via Creation and Sacrifice"

Respondent: Celia Bardwell-Jones, Towson University

Chair: Michael Brodrick, Vanderbilt University

International Conference on Josiah Royce

June 24-28, 2008
Instytut Filozofii
Opole University
Opole, Poland

"American and European Values IV"

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APA 2008 Central Division Session

April 19, 2008
Palmer House Hilton
Chicago, Illinois

"Philosophy of Race"

Jacquelyn Ann Kegley, California State University--Bakersfield “Race as a Factor in the Personal and Social Narrative of the Contextual Human Person”

Tommy J. Curry, Southern Illinois University--Carbondale, “The Lil’ White Man Who Could: Josiah Royce’s Anti-Black Racism as Cultural Perpetuation of White Supremacy”

Commentator: Dwayne Tunstall, Grand Valley State University

Chair: Randall E. Auxier, Southern Illinois University--Carbondale

APA 2008 Pacific Division Session

March 19, 2008
Hilton Pasadena
Pasadena, CA

"Josiah Royce and the Origins of Modern Logic"

Scott L. Pratt, University of Oregon “On the Politics of Disjunction”

J. Brent Crouch, San Diego City College “Royce and the Origins of Logicism”

Commentator: Robert Burch, Texas A&M University

Chair: Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley, California State University-- Bakersfield

SAAP 2008 Annual Meeting Session

Thurs. March 13, 2008
4:15-6:00pm
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI

Panel Discussion: "One Hundred Years of Loyalty: A Critical Re-examination"

Frank M. Oppenheim, Xavier University

Jacqueline Kegley, California State University--Bakersfield

John J. McDermott, Texas A&M University

Kelly Parker, Grand Valley State University

Chair: Bette J. Manter, Curry College

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APA 2007 Eastern Division Meeting Session

Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
11:15am -1:15pm
Marriott Waterfront Hotel
Baltimore, MD

"Josiah Royce and the Origins of Modern Logic"

J. Brent Crouch, San Diego City University, "Frege, Peirce's Reduction Thesis, and the Logic of Tetrads"

Scott Pratt, University of Oregon, "On the Politics of Disjunction: Russell and the Logic of Action"

Robert Burch, Texas A&M University, "Royce, Boolean Rings, and the T-Relation"

Chair: Kelly Parker, Grand Valley State University

The papers linked above are in PDF (Adobe Acrobat reader) format.

William James and Josiah Royce a Century Later: Pragmatism and Idealism in Dialogue

Lowell Lecture Hall
Harvard University
May 25-27, 2007

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Pre-Conference Session

May 25, 2007

"Perspectives of Graduate Students on William James and Josiah Royce"

Congratulations to Alexander V. Stehn, recipient of the Outstanding Essay Award for this session!
Award sponsored by the Josiah Royce Society, the William James Society, and the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy

Gregory Aldin: "Late Royce: An Interpretative Formulation"

Michael Brodrick: "Spirituality and Moral Struggle"

Mathew A. Foust: "William James and the Promise of Pragmatism"

Masato Ishida: "James on Unsmooth Transitions of Events"

Alexander V. Stehn: "William James on the Reality of the Ideal Socius: God's Creation as Our Ethical Task"

The papers linked above are in PDF (Adobe Acrobat reader) format.

2006 APA Eastern Division Session Papers

Robert Innis, University of Massachussetts--Lowell "Royce and Religious Naturalism"

William Elkins, Drew University "As Time Goes By: Nature and Spirit in the Later Royce"

Commentator: Roger Ward, Georgetown College

The papers linked above are in PDF (Adobe Acrobat reader) format.