From Wednesday to Sunday next week Im going to be at the APA Pacific, in beautiful San Francisco. I like saying that to make people who are not going to be in SF jealous. The APA Pacific is always fun because (a) its on the Pacific coast, and (b) the papers are high quality. At risk of offending practically everyone, and of crashing Blogger, here is a table of the talks that look most interesting to Brian over the conference. (Note that for some sessions the division of people into speakers and commentators is rather arbitrary, but it was this or make the table even more complicated, and as you can see I dont really understand tables in HTML as it is.)
| Title | Speaker | Commentator | 2nd Comments | |
| 1-E | Epistemic Probability | Richard Fumerton | Jim Joyce | Jim van Cleve |
| 1-M | Second-Order Predication and the Metaphysics of Properties | Andy Egan | Peter Alward | … |
| 1-M | Distributional Properties | Josh Parsons | Troy Cross | … |
| 2-C | De Re Belief | David Kaplan | Robert Stalnaker | Kenneth Taylor |
| 2-G | Is There a Duty to Vote | Geoff Brennan & Loren Lomansky | Gerald Gaus | Eric Cave |
| 3-M | Refuting Scepticism in Style | Elijah Millgram | Stacie Friend | Daniel Jacobson |
| 4-B | Author Meets Critics: Hale and Wright | Gideon Rosen | Jamie Tappenden | John McFarlaine |
| 4-E | Contextualism in Epistemology | John Hawthorne | Jim Pryor | Jonathan Schaffer |
| 5-F | On Dialethicism; or Will no One Rid Me of This Accursed Priest | Hartry Field | … | … |
| 5-F | Paraconsistency and Dialethicisms | Graham Priest | … | … |
| 5-J | Tracking with Closure | Sherrilyn Roush | Robert Howell | … |
| 6-O | Asserting and Promising | Gary Watson | Michael Bratman | … |
| 6-W | Temporal Externalism and Epistemic Theories of Vagueness | Henry Jackman | Gary Ebbs | Brian Weatherson |
| 7-A | Author Meets Critics: Sider Four-Dimensionalism | Ned Markosian | Lynne Baker | Eric Olson |
| 7-D | Imitation, Media Violence and Freedom of Speech | Susan Hurley | Rae Langton | Phillip Pettit |
| 7-F | Philosophical Conversations in memory of James Tomberlin | Ernie Lepore | William Lycan | Peter van Inwagen |
| 7-G | The Role of Phenomenology in Philosophy of Mind | John Searle | Hubert Dreyfus | Amie Thommason |
| 8-A | Author Meets Critics: Adler Belief’s Own Ethics | Gilbert Harman | Richard Fumerton | … |
| 8-D | Author Meets Critics: Papineau Thinking about Consciousness | Ned Block | David Chalmers | … |
| 8-H | Temporal Parts and Superluminal Motion | Yuri Balashov | Hud Hudson | … |
| 8-H | Temporal Extension and Decomposition | Ryan Wasserman | Gabriel Uzquaino | … |
| 9-V | How to Russell the Incompleteness Argument | Richard Hanley | Kent Bach | … |
| Sat 6pm | Hume vs Wittgenstein (Hume Wins) | Jerry Fodor | … | … |
The real issue some days will be deciding which papers to go to. The worst clashes for me are in session 7, on Saturday morning. (Session 4, on Friday morning, is not much better.) That may put some dampner on the amount of socialising that can be done Friday (and maybe Thursday) night. Or it might not. If every session is such that I can reasonably miss it, then I can reasonably miss all sessions, so I can party all night Friday…Note that Ive left off all the interesting papers from Sunday, because I wont be there (flying back early Sunday sadly), so I dont have much motivation to search the program for the highlights. But it doesnt look like the program gets any lighter when I leave it.