The North American Society for

Social Philosophy

34th International Social Philosophy

Conference

Justice: Social, Criminal & Juvenile

July 13 to July 15, 2017 Loyola University

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Welcome. Just a few things before we begin. We would like to remind you that our accessibility guidelines for the conference stipulate that under no circumstances may the lighting be changed in any of the rooms and that powerpoint or other projected light may not be used unless your session is already specified on the printed program as one in which this sort of technology will be used. Chairs, it will be part of your job to make sure that presenters follow these guidelines during your sessions. For chairs who are moderating sessions that are not marked on the program as containing powerpoint or video, please make sure that projector screens are up and projectors are off at the beginning of the session and remain this way. For chairs who are moderating sessions that are already marked on the program as containing powerpoint or video, we ask that you make sure to turn off the overhead projector and put the projector screen up at the end of the presentation that is using this technology. Our sessions are in several different buildings: Klarcheck Information Commons, 4th Floor ICC, 4th Fl. Cudahy Science Hall Cudahy Cuneo Hall Cuneo Damen Student Center Damen Coffey Hall, McCormick Lounge McCormick Dumbach Hall Dumbach Crown Center for the Humanities Crown

* Using Powerpoint ** Due to Academic Boycott of International Conferences held in the US, will be Skyping in.

Thursday, July 13

Registration & Book Display: 8:15 am - 12:00 pm (ICC, 4th Fl.)

Session I: 9:00 - 10:20 am

I-A. Mass Incarceration and Justice (Damen 216) Chair: Corwin Aragon, Cal Poly Pomona

Toward a Discourse Democratic Critique of the American Criminal Justice System ⋅ Seth Mayer, Manchester University, Indiana Mass Incarceration, Functionalism, and Game Theory*

⋅ Jeffrey R. Hastings, Binghamton University I-B. Corporate Responsibilities (Cudahy 202) Chair: Jonathan Peterson, Loyola University New Orleans

Does it Matter Whether Corporations are Part of the Basic Structure of Society? ⋅ Brian Berkey, University of Pennsylvania Bioethics, Complementarity, and Corporate Criminal Liability

⋅ Ryan Long, Philadelphia University

I-C. Justice in Education (Cuneo 324) Chair: Katrina England, Binghamton University

Substantive Reciprocity and Educational Justice* ⋅ Jenn Dum, Binghamton University, SUNY Religious Schools, Indoctrination and the Broader Scope of Harm ⋅ Michael Merry, University of Amsterdam

I-D. Oppression and Underrepresentation (McCormick)

Chair: Andrea C. Westlund, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee The Unique Injustice of Underrepresentation in Videogames* ⋅ Joshua Crabill, University of Indianapolis The Game is Rigged: Responsibility Under Oppression ⋅ Nicole Dular, Franklin College

Refreshment Break: 10:20 - 10:40 am (ICC, 4th Fl.)

Session II: 10:40 am - 12:00 pm II-A. Nietzschean Perspectives (Cuneo 324)

Chair: Jenn Dum, Binghamton University, SUNY Intersubjectivity and Deep Possession: Nietzsche on Liberating Education ⋅ Katrina England, Binghamton University ISIS in the Afterlife? ⋅ Geoffrey Karabin, Neumann College

II-B. Epistemic Wrongness and Badness (McCormick)

Chair: Nancy Arden McHugh, Wittenberg University

Identity-Prejudice Belief's Unique Epistemic Badness* ⋅ Eric Bayruns Garcia, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Toward Restorative Justice in Epistemic Justice ⋅ Ben Almassi, Governors State University

Lunch: 12:00 - 1 pm, on one’s own

Session III: 1 - 3 pm

III-A. The Ethics of Policing (ICC, 4th Fl.) Chair: Kathryn Norlock, Trent University Policing and Virtue Ethics: A Means for Reform ⋅ Jennifer A. Baker, College of Charleston Police Identity and Affirmative Action ⋅ Vita Emery, Fordham University Restoration and Democratic Justice

⋅ Richard M. Buck, Mount St. Mary’s University

III-B. Structural Epistemic Injustice (Damen 216)

Chair: Eric Bayruns Garcia, The Graduate Center, CUNY Resisting Structural Epistemic Injustice* ⋅ Michael D. Doan, Eastern Michigan

University Faces of Epistemic Oppression ⋅ Corwin Aragon, Cal Poly Pomona Ending Life: Incarceration, Health and Institutional Epistemic Injustice* ⋅ Nancy Arden McHugh, Wittenberg University

III-C. Public Reason and Discourse on Justice (Cuneo 324) Chair: Seth Mayer, Manchester University, Indiana

Just Wide Enough: Public Reason and Indeterminacy ⋅ James Boettcher, Saint Joseph's University The Irreducible Sociality of Public Reason: Why Sharing is Not Enough ⋅ Joshua Keton, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Is, Ought, and Justice ⋅ Matt Silliman, Massachusetts College of

Liberal Arts

III-D. Families and Criminal Justice (Cudahy 202) Chair: Caroline Perry, University of Michigan Weighing in the Balance: Reflections on the Sentencing Process from a Children's Rights Perspective ⋅ Aisling Parkes, University College Cork,

Ireland [empty slot] Conjugal Visits and Skype Calls from Prison: The Moral Importance of Enabling Inmates to Maintain Special Relationships

⋅ Alida Liberman, University of Indianapolis

III-E. Bias and its Effects (McCormick) Chair: Ann Levey, University of Calgary

Baskets Full of Biases: A Continuum of Biases and Their Differentia ⋅ Eric Chelstrom, St. Mary's University Does Voir Dire Undermine the Epistemic Purpose of Criminal Trials? ⋅ John R. Harris, Texas Christian University Does Ideology Critique Rest on a Mistake?

⋅ Kirun Sankaran, Brown University Refreshment Break: 3 – 3:30 pm (ICC, 4th Fl.)

First Plenary Session: Criminal Justice in Cook County

3:30 – 5:30 pm (ICC, 4th Fl.)

Chair: Ann Levey, University of Calgary

Superintendent Leonard B. Dixon, Cook County Juvenile Detention Center

Karen Daniel, Esq., Clinical Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law; Director, Center on Wrongful Convictions.

Laura Caldwell, J.D., Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law; Founder and Director, Loyola’s Life after Innocence Project

Reception and Banquet: 6:15 – 9:15 pm (Uncommon Ground, 1401 W. Devon Ave.)

Friday, July 14 Breakfast: On one’s own Registration & Book Display: 8:15 am - 12:00 pm (ICC, 4th

Fl.)

Session IV: 9:00 - 10:20 am IV-A. Immigration, Marginalized Communities and Justice (Cudahy 206)

Chair: Tracey Nicholls, Lewis University Decolonizing “Colonias”: Naming Neighborhoods on the US-Mexico Border ⋅ Ian Werkheiser, University of Texas Rio

Grande Valley Identitarian/Communitarian: Immigration Justice and the Alt-Right ⋅ Kyle Thomsen, Saint Francis University

IV-B. Responsibilities to Trauma Survivors (Dumbach 118) Chair: Lavender McKittrick-Sweitzer, Ohio State University

Trauma, Transformation, and the Rationality of Desire ⋅ Amber Rose Carlson, Vanderbilt University Willing Grief Otherwise: Stories of Unscripted Interpreting in Cases of Sexual Violence ⋅ Kit Connor, University of Oregon

IV-C. Immigration and Identity (Dumback 229)

Chair: Mark Navin, Oakland University Passing and Authentic Selves: An Immigrant's Philosophical Reflections ⋅ Roksana Alavi, University of Oklahoma To Have or Not to Have a World: Hannah Arendt on Refugees ⋅ Florian Johannes Grosser, UC Berkeley /

University of St. Gallen

IV-D. Options to Current Criminal Sanctions (Crown 140)

Chair: Emily McGill-Rutherford, Keene State College

Pedophilia and the Legal Implications of “Significant Volitional Impairment”*

⋅ Caroline Elizabeth Perry, University of Michigan

Prostitution and Social Justice: Alternative Legal Approaches ⋅ Jeffrey Gauthier, University of Portland

IV-E. Trusting Relationships and Trusting Groups (Crown 142)

Chair: Joshua Keton, The Graduate Center, CUNY Blame, Trust, and Epistemic Injustice* ⋅ Kayleigh A. Doherty, University of Sheffield Trusting Groups and Group Trustworthiness* ⋅ Caleb Andrew Harrison, University of North

Carolina at Chapel Hill

Refreshment Break: 10:20 - 10:40 am (ICC, 4th Fl. )

Session V: 10:40 am - 12:00 pm V-A. The Role of Empathy (Cudahy 206)

Chair: Caleb Harrison, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Should We Care About Empathy?

⋅ Elizabeth Ann Sperry, William Jewell College Empathy and Its Central Role in Racial Justice ⋅ Atabak Akhlaghi, University of Oklahoma

V-B. Relational Autonomy (Dumbach 118) Chair: Aisling Parkes, University College Cork, Ireland

Relational Autonomy and Practical Authority ⋅ Andrea C. Westlund, University of Wisconsin-

Milwaukee You Say Autonomy, I Say Justice ⋅ Emily McGill-Rutherford, Keene State

College V-C. Immigration and Exclusion (Dumbach 229)

Chair: Ian Werkheiser, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

An Argument for a Historicized Intersectional Analysis of the Treatment of Undocumented Populations ⋅ Zahra Meghani, University of Rhode Island Injustices from the Institutions: Denial to Be Considered as a Subject of Justice

⋅ Irene Ortiz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

V-D. Boundaries of Compassion and of Slurs (Crown 140) Chair: I. Larry Udell, West Chester University The Limits of Compassion: Why One Should Not Have Compassion for Nazis ⋅ Barrett Emerick, St. Mary's College of

Maryland Who’s Afraid of Slurs? (co-authored with Matthias Jenny, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ⋅ Nicole Dular, Franklin University)

V-E. Combining Nussbaum (Crown 142) Chair: Sarah MacIntosh, West Chester University

Identifying Exploitation and Providing Care: Unifying the Capabilities Approach and Feminist Contractarianism ⋅ Lavender McKittrick-Sweitzer, Ohio State

University How to Combine Nussbaum and Rawls

⋅ Chris Lowry, University of Waterloo**

V-E. Mental and Terminal Illness and Choice (ICC 4th Fl.) Chair: Ann Levey, University of Calgary

Mental Illness Stigma and Epistemic Credibility ⋅ Abigail Gosselin, Regis University Disability Discrimination in Laws Governing Assistance in Dying and Organ Donation ⋅ Heidi Malm, Loyola University Chicago

Lunch: 12:00 – 1:15 pm, on one’s own Executive Committee Meeting: 12 – 1 pm (Damen Student Center 114)

Second Plenary Session: 1:15 – 3:15 pm (ICC, 4th Fl.)

Chair: Elizabeth Sperry, William Jewell College

“Unmaking and Remaking the World in Long-Term Solitary Confinement”

Lisa Guenther, Vanderbilt University

Refreshment Break & Graduate Student Award Presentation: 3:15 – 3:45 pm (ICC, 4th Fl.)

Session VI: 3:45 – 5:15 pm VI-A. Punishment and Injustice (Cudahy 206) Chair: Carol Gould, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Criminal Punishment and Privatization ⋅ Jonathan Peterson, Loyola University New

Orleans Punishment and Transformation* ⋅ Jennifer Lackey, Northwestern University The Felony Murder Rule as an Unjustifiable Regime of Strict Liability ⋅ Sira Grosso, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna /

University of Florida

VI-B. Examinations of Racism (Dumbach 119) Chair: Barrett Emerick, St. Mary's College of Maryland What Accounts of “Racism” Do* ⋅ Alberto G. Urquidez, Purdue University On The Connection Between Racist Ideology and Institutional Racism ⋅ César Cabezas, Columbia University

To Be Seen: Bryan Stevenson, Michel Foucault, and the Power of Political Visibility ⋅ Margaret Allison Betz, West Chester University

VI-C. The Election: . . . (Dumbach 229)

Chair: Matt Silliman, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Democratic Authorization in a Time of Injustice ⋅ Jennifer Szende, Trent University Reading Masha Gessen in the Age of IDGAF Politics ⋅ Tracey Nicholls, Lewis University Against the Ally Identity ⋅ Suzanne Neefus, Michigan State University

VI-D. Children and Choices (Crown 140) Chair: Michael Merry, University of Amsterdam

Trading Chickenpox for Shingles?: Intergenerational Ethics, Political Justification, and The Exogenous Boosting Hypothesis* ⋅ Mark Navin, Oakland University [empty slot] Donor Dilemmas: On Making Meaning and Choosing for a Child

⋅ Amanda Roth, SUNY Geneseo

VI-E. Rawls: Global and Domestic Questions (Crown 142) Chair: Robert Michael Farley, Hillsborough College Legitimacy and Revolt: A Realist Alternative ⋅ Adam Burgos, Bucknell University Rawlsian Justice and the Social Determinants of Health ⋅ Douglas MacKay & Jayna Fishman, UNC-

Chapel Hill Further Notes on Rawls and the Libertarians

⋅ I. Larry Udell, West Chester University

Book Award: 5:30 - 7:00 pm (Crown Center Auditorium)

NASSP 2016 Book Award

Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent and Reform By Tommie Shelby

Chair: Gregory Hoskins, Villanova University Commentators: Patrick Taylor Smith Emily McGill Rutherford Greg Hoskins

Author’s Response Reception: 7:00 – 8:00 (Crown Center Lobby) Dinner: on one’s own

Saturday, July 15

Session VII: 9:00 - 10:20 am VII-A. Animal Ethics (Cuneo 117)

Chair: Timothy Weidel, Gonzaga University Coercion, Direct Action, and Justice for Animals ⋅ Robert Michael Farley, Hillsborough College Non-Human Animal Exploitation* ⋅ Michael Barnes & Hailey Huget, Georgetown

University

VII-B. Just War Theory (Cuneo 202) Chair: Kayla Grace Bohannon, University of Kentucky Why Punishment is Not a Just Cause for War ⋅ Jordy Rocheleau, Austin Peay State University Walzer's Soldiers: Gender and Discrimination in War ⋅ Graham Parsons, United States Military

Academy VII-C. Restorative Justice in Theory and Practice (Cuneo 203)

Chair: Joan Woolfrey, West Chester University The Restorative Blind Spot in Philosophy* ⋅ Shane Epting, University of Nevada, Las

Vegas Indirect Victims and Restorative Justice: With regard to the Post-Agreement in Colombia (co-authored with Yuber Hernando Rojas Ariza & Ledis Bohorquez Farfan) ⋅ Mary Angélica Ramirez Salazar, Pontificia

Bolivariana University, Colombia

VII-D. Philosophy and Disability (Cuneo 218) Chair: Christine Wieseler, University of Texas Health Science Center Rethinking Reasonable Accommodations ⋅ Jeffrey M. Brown, University of Northern

Colorado Intersectionality and (Intellectual) Disability ⋅ Sean P. Wilson, Duquesne University

VII-E. Rethinking Accepted Paradigms (Cuneo 302)

Chair: Zach Hoskins, University of Nottingham

Climate, Capitalism, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus ⋅ David Schweickart, Loyola University

Chicago Is Information Co-Produced by Indigenous Peoples and Scientists Admissible as Evidence? ⋅ David Isaac, University of Western Ontario,

Faculty of Law**

Refreshment Break: 10:20 - 10:40 am (ICC, 4th Fl.)

Session VIII: 10:40 am - 12 noon

VIII-A. Injustice within Criminal Justice (Cuneo 117) Chair: Robert Michael Farley, Hillsborough College A Kantian Argument Against Solitary Confinement ⋅ Krista Thomason, Swarthmore College The Case Against Life Without Parole Sentences in the U.S* ⋅ Kevin Liu, The George Washington University

VIII-B. Justice and Sentencing (Cuneo 202)

Chair: Benjamin Kenofer, Michigan State University Sex Offender Registration as (Cruel and Unusual) Punishment ⋅ Albert D. Spalding, Wayne State University Why Limiting Abortion to Instances of Rape is Problematic* ⋅ Kayla Grace Bohannon, University of

Kentucky

VIII-C. Justice for Ignored Categories (Cuneo 203) Chair: Ann Levey, University of Calgary New Directions in Elder Justice ⋅ Tim R. Johnston, Services and Advocacy for

GLBT Elders Justice for (and by) Philosophers: Professional Ethics and Punishing our Own ⋅ Timothy Weidel, Gonzaga University

VIII-D. Anti-Carceral and Intersectional Feminisms (Cuneo 218)

Chair: Jeffrey M. Brown, University of Northern Colorado Anti-Carceral Feminism and Sexual Assault: A Defense ⋅ Chloë Taylor, University of Alberta The Relational Definition of Punishment ⋅ Luke Maring, Northern Arizona University

VIII-E. Status of (and as) Offenders (Cuneo 302) Chair: Krista Thomason, Swarthmore College Double Jeopardy and Collateral Restrictions on Offenders ⋅ Zach Hoskins, University of Nottingham Are Criminal Offenders a Despised Minority? Status-Abolition and Status-Consciousness in James Whitman and Michelle Alexander's Analysis of America's Harsh Justice ⋅ Christopher Barker, Southwestern College

Lunch: 12 - 1 pm on one’s own

Business Meeting: 12:15 - 1 pm (ICC, 4th Fl.)

Attendees with new books are especially encouraged to attend, announce their publication and provide additional information (2-3 min. ea.)

Third Plenary Session: 1:00 - 2:30 pm (ICC, 4th Fl.)

Chair: James Boettcher, St. Joseph’s University

“Prison Abolition? The Uses and Abuses of Incarceration"

Tommie Shelby, Harvard University

Session IX: 2:45 - 4:45 pm

IX-A. Contemplating Borders and (non sequitur) Contemplating Contempt (Cuneo 117)

Chair: Elizabeth Ann Sperry, William Jewell College

A People's Legitimacy and the Qualified Right to Control Borders ⋅ Jonathan Kwan, The Graduate Center, CUNY Immigration and Freedom of Association: A Presumptive Right to Open Borders ⋅ Steve Viner, Middlebury College Contempt: Moral Friend or Foe?

⋅ Joan Woolfrey, West Chester University

IX-B. Benefits for/of: Minors, Self-respect (Cuneo 202) Chair: Tim R. Johnston, Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders

The Subjection of Minors: Lessons from the Fight for Women's Enfranchisement

⋅ Molly Beth Wilder, Georgetown University Social Justice and Self-Respect ⋅ Colena Sesanker, University of Connecticut [empty slot]

IX-C. Commitment and Ideals (Cuneo 203)

Chair: Kathryn Norlock, Trent University Where Should We Ground the Feminist Potential of Political Liberalism? ⋅ Elizabeth Edenberg, Georgetown University Re-Thinking the Unthinkable ⋅ Benjamin Kenofer, Michigan State University Challenging Conceptions of the “Normal” Subject in Phenomenology ⋅ Christine Wieseler, University of Texas Health

Science Center Dinner: on one’s own

Dining Suggestions. (LUC website lists many more: http://www.luc.edu/conference/visitor-info/localrestaurants/ .) BREAKFAST: Starbucks, 6350 N. Devon (drive thru) Starbucks, 6738 N. Sheridan, many food items, indoor/outdoor

seating. ArrivaDolce, 6451 N. Devon, full service coffee shop and café. Open

at 6:30 am. Go Grocer, 6435 N. Sheridan, fruit, nectars, yogurts, prepared

sandwiches, etc. Clarke’s Diner, 6431 N. Clark St., full restaurant, dine-in, great

reputation. See menu at https://www.clarkesrogerspark.com/ Campus dining hall, Damen Student Union, full breakfast buffet,

< $10, http://www.luc.edu/damenstudentcenter/dining/ Campus Coffee bar and a grab-and-go refrigerated section of Damen

Center FAST LUNCH: Blaze Pizza, 6550 N. Sheridan, fast fired, thin crust, unlimited

toppings, < $10 Potbelly Sandwich Shop, 6464 N. Sheridan Road Chipotle, 6600 N. Sheridan Road Subway, 6449 N. Sheridan Road Clark’s Diner, 6431 N. Clark St.,

https://www.clarkesrogerspark.com/. Dining Hall, Damen Student Union, buffet, decent range of lunch

options < $10.00 incl. drinks Campus coffee and sandwiches & salads, Damen Center, interesting

combinations. DINNER (walking distance): *Twisted Tapas—1146 W Pratt Blvd, Chicago, IL 60626. Wide range

of eclectic tapas, full bar. Menu at http://www.twistedtapas.us/. *Bulldog Ale House—6606 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60626,

outdoor seating, interesting variety, not much for vegans. See menu at http://www.bulldogalehouse.com/.

Broadway Cellars—5900 N Broadway St, Chicago, IL 60660, https://cellarsbarandgrill.com/.

Ethiopian Diamond—6120 N. Broadway. https://www.ethiopiandiamondrestaurants.com/.

Heartland Café—7000 N. Glenwood, mostly organic, ample vegan options, hippie vibe, outdoor dining. Approx. one mile from campus.

ALSO CONSIDER: *Band of Bohemia—4710 N. Ravenswood. This is the first Michelin

rated brewpub!!!! Food is coordinated to their in-house brews. See the menu and story at http://www.bandofbohemia.com/

Anteprima—5316 N. Clark St, Chicago. Anteprimachicago.net Lady Gregory—5260 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640,

ladygregorys.com Mia Francesca Bryn Mawr—Edgewater—1309 Bryn Mawr. Italian.

http://www.miafrancesca.com/menus/lunch/ Argyle Street (Block of 4900 N.), for a wide range of Vietnamese and

Thai restaurants. West Devon Avenue for a wide range of Indian restaurants * Highly recommended!

Special Thanks

Local Arrangements at Loyola University: Heidi Malm

Program Committee: Joan Woolfrey (chair)

Kathryn Norlock Ann Levey

(with added thanks to graduate assistant Sarah MacIntosh)

Book Award Committee: Greg Hoskins (chair)

Emily McGill-Rutherford Patrick Taylor Smith

Karen Adkins

Graduate Award Selection Committee: Barrett Emerick (chair)

Jeffrey M. Brown Michael Doan

NASSP Executive Committee: Sally Scholz, President

Margaret Crouch, Past President Beth Sperry, Vice President

Zach Hoskins, Archivist James Boettcher, Treasurer