From the President
(Call for papers)
May 2011

Dear Colleagues and Members of the ACPA:

I am delighted to have the pleasure of inviting you to the Eighty-sixth Annual Meeting of the ACPA in Los Angeles, California, to take place in the Fall of 2012 (late October or early November). This meeting is generously hosted by Loyola Marymount University.

Our theme will be Philosophy in the Abrahamic Traditions.

Classical and Post-Classical Philosophy in the Greek tradition played powerful roles in the formation of philosophical, scientific and theological thought produced in the religious and cultural milieux of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The scriptures, theologies and fundamental concerns of these Abrahamic religious traditions have reciprocally enriched the development of both religious thought and secular philosophy and science, by prompting ethical, metaphysical and epistemological questions that have continued to challenge philosophers from the time of Philo up to the present day. While political conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries have led to a public emphasis on distinctions and differences among these faiths, the history of philosophy shows over the centuries that thinkers of each tradition share in the common purpose of seeking to reconcile the principles and insights of their beliefs with the truths of secular natural reason. Through argument and counter argument philosophers and theologians have engaged their peers and predecessors inside and outside their own faith traditions, in order to advance to more and more sophisticated and penetrating analyses of faith principles, philosophy, and truth. For our 2012 meeting I propose that we take the occasion to enter into the same sorts of engagements within and across specific historical and religious boundaries, without topical restriction, so that we may come to better understand the richness of our own tradition and the commonalities of thinkers of the religions of the Abrahamic traditions.

Everyone is cordially invited to make a submission for this meeting. While the Program Committee is particularly interested in submissions addressing issues of the theme, papers in any area of philosophy are most welcome.

Please see the attached guidelines for information on how to submit.

Yours sincerely,
Richard C. Taylor
Professor of Philosophy
Marquette University,
Visiting Research Professor 2010-11
DeWulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy,
Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

ACPA National Office
Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas
3800 Montrose Blvd., Houston, TX 77006
Phone: (713) 525-3596 Fax: (713) 942-3483
E-mail: houser@stthom.edu, acpa@stthom.edu
Web: www.acpaweb.org

ACPA Subscription and Membership Services
Philosophy Documentation Center
P.O. Box 7147, Charlottesville, VA 22906-7147
Phone: (800) 444-2419
E-mail: order@pdcnet.org
Web: www.pdcnet.org

Revised Guidelines for Submitting Papers
for the ACPA Annual Meeting, 2—4 November 2012
Los Angeles, CA (hosted by Loyola Marymount University)
Marina Del Rey Marriott
4100 Admiralty Way
Marina Del Rey, CA 90292

(Deadline for Submissions: April 12, 2012)

Please note that our procedure for submitting papers has changed. We now ask you to submit papers electronically, as email attachments.

1) The theme of the 2012 meeting is Philosophy in the Abrahamic Traditions; however, papers on all topics are welcome.

2) Papers should be received no later than 12 April 2012, at one of the following email addresses: acpa@stthom.edu or houser@stthom.edu

3) Submissions must be received through email. Please save your paper in Microsoft Word or pdf. (Other formats are not acceptable.) Send your paper as an email attachment to us at acpa@stthom.edu or houser@stthom.edu. Your paper should not exceed 15 typed, double-spaced pages, 12 pitch (30 minutes reading time). The paper must begin with a short abstract (150 words), suitable for inclusion in the conference program. (The abstract will not be counted against the overall length of your paper.)

4) The format of the paper should be appropriate for blind reviewing, that is, nothing in the paper itself should reveal the author’s identity. (We will take care that your paper is not identifiable in the way it is saved by us, as blind review is one of the strengths of our conference papers and our proceedings.)

5) In the body of your email, please include:

Author’s name,
University affiliation,
Complete postal address,
Home phone number,
Work phone number,
Fax number,
E-mail address that will be good from 2 April 2012 through 1 September 2012.
(If you use more than one email address, please include all of them.)

6) It is understood that, by submitting material for possible presentation at the 2012 Annual Meeting, authors agree to allow the ACPA to hold the copyright to such material, should it be accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting and publication in the Annual Proceedings. If the paper is accepted, you will be asked to sign a publication agreement with us.

7) Those authors who wish to have their papers considered for the ACPA Young Scholar’s Award (scholars 35 years of age or younger, regardless of academic position, are eligible) should indicate as much in the body their email.

8) We will acknowledge receipt of your paper by email, shortly after it is submitted. Then between 1 and 15 July 2012, we will inform you if your paper has been accepted for the conference, and for publication in the ACPA Proceedings.

9) If you would like to comment on a paper or to chair a session, please let the ACPA Secretary know by sending a separate e-mail to acpa@stthom.edu or houser@stthom.edu or by writing to the ACPA’s National Office. Be sure to provide your e-mail address, as well as your fax, home, and work telephone numbers, and your area of philosophical expertise.

Secretary's Letter: May 2010 May 2010
Enclosed you will find a dues notice for the upcoming year, along with the President-Elect's "Letter and Call for Papers" for the 2011 Annual Meeting (to be held in St. Louis, Missouri, and hosted by Saint Louis University). Please pay your dues on time, since the timely payment of your dues will eliminate the need for reminder notices and thereby help to reduce the ACPA's overall costs.
Herewith I am also sending you a memo containing a number of announcements and reminders.
Be Sure to Update Your Membership Information on the Dues Renewal Notice
There are two ways to pay your dues: online by clicking on the link on the Dues Renewal Notice (above), or by sending in the notice to the Philosophy Documentation Center. All members are asked to update any membership information (including mailing address, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, etc.) that may have changed over the past year or two. Since we are moving over to sending notices by email, it is imperative that we have your current email address(es). Life members are also asked to update their membership information in the same manner, even though they do not pay dues.

2009 Proceedings
The Proceedings from the ACPA's 2009 annual meeting (hosted by Loyola of New Orleans) are being edited and will be mailed out to members early in the fall.

ACPA Meeting hosted by Loyola University of Maryland, Baltimore, 5 - 7 November 2010: "Philosophy and Language"
Don't forget that the 2010 Annual Meeting of the ACPA will take place 5 - 7 November, in Baltimore, Maryland, at the Doubletree Inn at the Colonnade. As usual, the complete conference program, along with registration materials for the 2010 Annual Meeting, will be sent out to members in September of 2010. Earlier than that, you will be able to register for the conference and to inspect the conference program online, at the ACPA website. In order to whet your philosophical appetites, let me mention here that the plenary speakers for the 2010 Annual Meeting are:

Therese-Anne Druart (The Catholic University of America):
Ann Hartle (Emory University):
Stephen Brown (Boston College):
Daniel Dahlstrom (Boston University):

At the 2010 Meeting, the Association's Aquinas Medal will be presented to Alasdair MacIntyre.

Commentators and Chairs at the Baltimore meeting
If you would like to be on the program of the 2010 Annual Meeting (either as a commentator or as a chair), please send your name and contact information (including phone number, FAX number, e-mail address, and regular mailing address) to me. Be sure to do so by 15 June 2010. If you are interested in serving as a commentator, be sure to indicate your area(s) of interest and/or expertise.

Satellite Sessions at the Baltimore meeting
There were twenty satellite sessions at New Orleans in 2009. We hope there will be even more this year. Satellite session organizers are reminded that final information regarding planned satellite sessions (session title, names of organizer, session chair, and speakers, and the titles of papers) should be received at the National Office no later than 1 July 2010.

Election Results
The complete results of this year's ACPA election (concluded April 1, 2010) are as follows:
Vice-President/President-Elect: Richard C. Taylor (Marquette University)

Executive Council Members:

Carlson, John W. (Jack) (Creighton University)
Foster, David (Seton Hall)
Garcia, J. L. A. (Boston College)
Kent, Bonnie (University of California, Irvine)
Murray, Elizabeth A. (Loyola Marymount University)

On behalf of the Association, the Secretary would like to congratulate our newly-elected Council members, and to thank all who were willing to stand for election. The new members will take office at the conclusion of the 2010 meeting and will be on the Executive Council through the 2013 meeting.

2011 ACPA Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri (hosted by St. Louis University): "Science, Reason, and Religion"
The Executive Committee of the ACPA has determined that the theme of the 2011 conference (to be held in the fall of 2011 and to be hosted by St. Louis University will be "Science, Reason, and Religion." For further details about the meeting, please see the enclosed letter from President-Elect Dominic Balestra.

Hosts for 2012 and 2013
We are looking for volunteers to host the 2012 meeting, and are still open to applications for hosting the 2013 meeting. If you are interested, please contact the National Secretary at houser@stthom.edu.

Call for Nominations for the Office of ACPA Secretary: Nominations due 1 October 2010.
The current term of the Secretary of the ACPA will end after the Annual Meeting in 2010. The next term will commence at the end of the Annual Meeting in 2010 and finish at the end of the Annual Meeting in 2013. Nominations for the office of Secretary (2010-2013 term) are hereby solicited. Nominating materials should include a full curriculum vitae of the nominee, along with a statement of the nominee's relevant qualifications. These nominating materials should be received at the National Office no later than 1 October 2010.

   Respectfully submitted,
   R. E. Houser, Interim ACPA Secretary

Secretary's Letter: May 2011 Enclosed you will find a dues notice for the upcoming year, the President-Elect's "Letter and Call for Papers" for the 2012 Annual Meeting (to be held in Los Angeles, California, and hosted by Loyola Marymount University), and "Guidelines for Submitting Papers" for 2012. Please pay your dues on time, since the timely payment of your dues will eliminate the need for reminder notices and thereby help to reduce the ACPA's overall costs. Herewith I am also sending you a memo containing a number of announcements and reminders.
For the 2011 Meeting:

1. Be Sure to Update Your Membership Information on the Dues Renewal Notice
There are two ways to pay your dues: online by clicking on the link on the Dues Renewal Notice, or by sending in the notice to the Philosophy Documentation Center. All members are asked to update any membership information (including mailing address, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, etc.) that may have changed over the past year or two. Since we now send this notice by email, it is imperative that we have your current email address(es). Life members are also asked to update their membership information in the same manner, even though they do not pay dues.

2. 2010 Proceedings
The Proceedings from the ACPA's 2010 annual meeting (hosted by Loyola of Maryland) have been edited, sent off to the publisher, and they should be mailed out to members early in the fall.

3. ACPA Meeting hosted by St. Louis University, St. Louis, 28 - 30 October 2011: "Science, Reason, and Religion"
Don't forget that the 2011 Annual Meeting of the ACPA will take place 28 - 30 October 2011, in St. Louis, Missouri, at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel, St. Louis, which is not far from St. Louis University. As usual, the complete conference program, along with registration materials for the 2011 Annual Meeting, will be sent out to members in September of 2011. By June you will be able to register for the conference at the ACPA website, and by September you will be able to inspect the conference program online. In order to whet your philosophical appetites, let me mention here that the plenary speakers for the 2010 Annual Meeting are:

John Cottingham, Professor Emeritus, University of Reading, Professorial Research Fellow, Heythrop College, University of London. "Confronting the Cosmos: Scientific Rationality and Human Understanding."
Michael Ruse, Florida State University, "Making Room for Faith: Does Science Have Limits?"
John F. Haught, Georgetown University "Darwin, Faith and Critical Intelligence."
Dominic J. Balestra, Fordham University, "Galileo's Legacy: Getting the Relationship In-Between Scientism and Literalism Right"

At the 2011 Meeting, the Association's Aquinas Medal will be presented to J.L.A. Gracia.

4. Commentators and Chairs at the St. Louis meeting
If you would like to be on the program of the 2011 Annual Meeting (either as a commentator or as a chair), please send your name and contact information (including phone number, FAX number, e-mail address, and regular mailing address) to me (email addresses below). Be sure to do so by 15 June 2011. If you are interested in serving as a commentator, be sure to indicate your area(s) of interest or expertise.

5. Satellite Sessions at the St. Louis meeting
There were twenty satellite sessions at New Orleans in 2009 and nineteen in Baltimore, the maximum capacity of the hotel each year. Judging from the large number of submissions for the "contributed papers," we hope there will be even more this year. Satellite session organizers are reminded that final information regarding planned satellite sessions (session title, names of organizer, session chair, and speakers, and the titles of papers) should be received at the National Office no later than 1 July 2011.

For the 2012 Meeting:

1. Election Results:
The complete results of this year's ACPA election (concluded April 2, 2011) are as follows:

Vice-President/President-Elect: John O'Callaghan (Notre Dame University)

Executive Council Members:

Arthur Madigan, SJ (Boston College)
Janet Smith (Sacred Heart Major Seminary)
Mary C. Sommers (University of St. Thomas, Houston)
Alice Ramos (St. John's University)
Joshua Hochschild (Mt. St. Mary's University)

On behalf of the Association, the Secretary would like to congratulate our newly-elected Council members, and to thank all who were willing to stand for election. The new members will take office at the conclusion of the 2011 meeting and will be on the Executive Council through the 2014 meeting:

2. 2012 ACPA Meeting in Los Angeles, California (hosted by Loyola Marymount)
The Executive Committee of the ACPA has determined that the theme of the 2012 conference (to be held in the fall of 2012 and to be hosted by Loyola Marymount University) will be Philosophy in the Abrahamic Traditions. For further details about the meeting, please see the enclosed letter from President-Elect Richard C. Taylor.

For the 2013 Meeting

1. Hosts for 2013 and 2014
We are looking for volunteers to host the 2013 and 2014 meetings. If you are interested, please contact the National Secretary.

Respectfully submitted,
   R. E. Houser, ACPA National Secretary
   houser@stthom.edu acpa@stthom.edu

ACPA National Office
Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas
3800 Montrose Blvd., Houston, TX 77006
Phone: (713) 525-3596 Fax: (713) 942-3483
E-mail: houser@stthom.edu, acpa@stthom.edu
Web: www.acpaweb.org

ACPA Subscription and Membership Services
Philosophy Documentation Center
P.O. Box 7147, Charlottesville, VA 22906-7147
Phone: (800) 444-2419
E-mail: order@pdcnet.org
Web: www.pdcnet.org

Vice President's Letter: May 2011 May 2011

Dear Colleagues and Members of the ACPA:

I am delighted to have the pleasure of inviting you to the Eighty-sixth Annual Meeting of the ACPA in Los Angeles, California, to take place in the Fall of 2012 (late October or early November). This meeting is generously hosted by Loyola Marymount University.

Our theme will be Philosophy in the Abrahamic Traditions.

Classical and Post-Classical Philosophy in the Greek tradition played powerful roles in the formation of philosophical, scientific and theological thought produced in the religious and cultural milieux of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The scriptures, theologies and fundamental concerns of these Abrahamic religious traditions have reciprocally enriched the development of both religious thought and secular philosophy and science, by prompting ethical, metaphysical and epistemological questions that have continued to challenge philosophers from the time of Philo up to the present day. While political conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries have led to a public emphasis on distinctions and differences among these faiths, the history of philosophy shows over the centuries that thinkers of each tradition share in the common purpose of seeking to reconcile the principles and insights of their beliefs with the truths of secular natural reason. Through argument and counter argument philosophers and theologians have engaged their peers and predecessors inside and outside their own faith traditions, in order to advance to more and more sophisticated and penetrating analyses of faith principles, philosophy, and truth. For our 2012 meeting I propose that we take the occasion to enter into the same sorts of engagements within and across specific historical and religious boundaries, without topical restriction, so that we may come to better understand the richness of our own tradition and the commonalities of thinkers of the religions of the Abrahamic traditions.

Everyone is cordially invited to make a submission for this meeting. While the Program Committee is particularly interested in submissions addressing issues of the theme, papers in any area of philosophy are most welcome. All submissions should be sent via email attachment to the following address:

ACPA Paper Submissions
acpa@stthom.edu or houser@stthom.edu
We look forward to receiving your submissions and to seeing you in Los Angeles.

Yours sincerely,
Richard C. Taylor
Professor of Philosophy
Marquette University,
Visiting Research Professor 2010-11
DeWulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy,
Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

ACPA National Office
Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas
3800 Montrose Blvd., Houston, TX 77006
Phone: (713) 525-3596 Fax: (713) 942-3483
E-mail: houser@stthom.edu, acpa@stthom.edu
Web: www.acpaweb.org

ACPA Subscription and Membership Services
Philosophy Documentation Center
P.O. Box 7147, Charlottesville, VA 22906-7147
Phone: (800) 444-2419
E-mail: order@pdcnet.org
Web: www.pdcnet.org

Program

Friday, October 28, 2011

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Sunday, October 30, 2011

7:30am – Holy Mass

Empire

8:30am-12:30am – Book Exhibit

Lenox

9:30-11:30am – Plenary Session

Empire

Chair: Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University

Speaker: John F. Haught, Georgetown University

“Darwin, Faith and Critical Intelligence.”

Speaker: Dominic J. Balestra, Fordham University

“Galileo’s Legacy: Getting the Relationship In-Between Scientism and Literalism Right”

Abstracts of Contributed Papers

Session I: The Beginning of the World

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Session II: Sensation and the Neural System

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Session III: Lessons from the History of Philosophy

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Session IV: Contemporary Philosophy and Two Classical Doctrines

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Session V: The Logic of Science

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Session VI: Replies to Two Contemporary Arguments

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Session VII: Science: Modern and Ancient

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Session VIII: A Living Thomism

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Satellite Sessions

Friday, October 28, 2011 - 2:00 - 4:00 pm

Friday, 28 October 2011 – 4:30 - 6:30 pm

Saturday, October 29, 2011 – 1:00-3:00pm

ACPA 2011-2012 Nominees for Office


For VP/ President-Elect




For Executive Council

Secretary's Letter: September 2011

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