Divisional and Affiliated Group Sessions
WED JAN 13, SESSION 1, 9:00 AM-10:50 AM
Divisional Program
Invited Symposium: Metaphysics of Mind
Invited Symposium: Emilie du Chatelet
Invited Symposium: Language and Power
Invited Book Symposium: Disability, Non-Identity, and Bioethics: In Honor of David Wasserman
Symposium: Epistemic Accessibility, Conceivability, and Self-Evidence
Symposium: Gabrielle Suchon’s Philosophical Anthropology and the Theological Foundations of her Critique of Patriarchy
Colloquium: Proof, Notation, and Representation
Colloquium: Nonideal Theory and Structural Injustice
Colloquium: AI as Epistemic Tool and Interlocutor
Colloquium: Categories, Essence, and Identity in Ancient Metaphysics
Colloquium: Safety, Sensitivity, and Modal Epistemology
Colloquium: Promises, Trust, and Relational Obligation
Colloquium: Art Criticism, Ethics, and Aesthetic Value
Affiliated Group Program
American Society for Value Inquiry
Topic: Themes in Stoic Ethics
Society for LGBTQ Philosophy
Topic: Reassembly & Reception
WED JAN 13, SESSION 2, 11:00 AM-12:50 PM
Divisional Program
Invited Panel: Philosophy with AI
Invited Symposium: The Perspectival Nature of Perception
Invited Symposium: Metaphysics of Mind, Then and Now
Symposium: Two Faces of Love
Symposium: Worthy Opponents: A Defence of the Value of Rivalries
Symposium: Hylomethodism: Subject Matter and Method in the Nicomachean Ethics
Colloquium: Responsibility and Freedom in 20th-Century Continental Philosophy
Colloquium: Manipulation, Mental Disorder, and Responsibility
Colloquium: Recognition, Agency, and Social Pathology
Colloquium: Knowledge, Belief, and Doxastic Deliberation
Colloquium: Merleau-Ponty and Sartre: Value and Imagination
Colloquium: Democracy, Autonomy, and Disobedience
Affiliated Group Program
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
Topic: Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 2
International Association for the Philosophy of Humor
Topic: Session I: Symposium, the Palgrave Handbook for the Philosophy of Humor, edited by Lydia Amir (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026).
Philosophy, Politics and Economics Society
Topic: Against democratic deliberation on health policy
Association of Chinese Philosophers in America
Topic: Reimagining the Internal and the External
Papers in Progress Workshops
Workshop Group: Plato: Epistemology
Workshop Group: Epistemology: Mind, Cognition, Narrative
Workshop Group: Epistemology: Social Epistemology and Injustice
Workshop Group: Epistemology: Inquiry, Science, Assertion
Workshop Group: Metaphysics: Essence, Truthmaking, Abstracta
Workshop Group: Metaphysics: Science, Physics, Identity
Workshop Group: Metaphysics: Objects, Values, Possibility
Workshop Group: Plato: Normative
Workshop Group: Early Modern: Canon, Education, Slavery, Politics
Workshop Group: Political Philosophy: Democracy, Contestation, Public Reason
WED JAN 13, SESSION 3, 2:00 PM-3:50 PM
Divisional Program
Other: This Is the Way: Live Show in Boston
Invited Symposium: Are Neo-Confucians Wrong about Confucius?
Invited Book Symposium: Alexandra Plakias' Awkwardness: A Theory
Invited Symposium: Computational Methods and Workflows for the Modern Philosopher
Invited Book Symposium: Hanna Pickard's What would you do alone in a cage with nothing but cocaine?
Symposium: Thinking About Praise with Emerson
Symposium: Zetetic Scientific Representation
Symposium: Action and Authorship
Symposium: Forgiveness and Narrative
Colloquium: Lotteries, Margins, and the Limits of Knowledge
Colloquium: Aesthetic Judgment and Aesthetic Language
Colloquium: Perception and Mental Representation
Colloquium: Grounding, Properties, and Ontological Commitment
Colloquium: The Moral and Social Meaning of Money
Affiliated Group Program
International Society for Chinese Philosophy
Topic: ISCP Book Panel: Debating Transcendence: Creatio ex Nihilo and Sheng Sheng
Conference of Philosophical Societies
Topic: Transformative Philosophy: A New International Association
Association of Chinese Philosophers in America
Topic: 2025 Dao Annual Best Essay: "A More Confucian Path to Equality"
Papers in Progress Workshops
Workshop Group: Aesthetics, Art, Fiction, and Games
Workshop Group: Mind, Cognition, Perception, Memory
Workshop Group: Language, Pragmatics, Social Meaning
Workshop Group: Continental Philosophy
Workshop Group: Philosophy of Science
Workshop Group: Metaethics and Value Theory
Workshop Group: Feminist Philosophy
Workshop Group: Non-Western Philosophy
Workshop Group: Mind and Action
WED JAN 13, SESSION 4, 4:00 PM-5:50 PM
Divisional Program
Invited Symposium: Metaphysics and Ethics in Indian Philosophy
Invited Book Symposium: Invited Book Symposium: James Kreines, Hegel and Spinoza
Invited Symposium: Degrees of free will and moral responsibility
Invited Symposium: Rule Following
Symposium: Not Only “This Brain”: Why Center Indifference Should Hold But I Am Still Not A Boltzmann Brain
Symposium: Moral Responsibility Under Conditions of Oppression
Symposium: Genre Conventions and Suppositional Reasoning in Fictive Discourse
Colloquium: Spinoza on Identity and Freedom
Colloquium: Creativity, Meaning, and Poetic Transformation
Colloquium: Social Kinds and Social Metaphysics
Colloquium: What Is It to Decide?
Colloquium: Attention, Perception, and Visual Representation
Colloquium: Personites, Person-Stages, and Moral Status
Affiliated Group Program
Society for the Study of Women Philosophers
Topic: Organizational & Organizational Meeting
Richard Rorty Society
Topic: Religion and Irony in Richard Rorty
Philosophical Antiquities Group
Topic: New Readings of Old Texts: Plato & Aristotle
Papers in Progress Workshops
Workshop Group: Political Philosophy: Justice, Oppression, Distribution
Workshop Group: Political Philosophy: History, Alienation, Public Life
Workshop Group: Ethics: AI, Technology, Moral Status
Workshop Group: Ethics: Responsibility, Blame, Character
Workshop Group: Ethics: Welfare, Life, Population
Workshop Group: Ethics: Consent, Autonomy, Action
Workshop Group: Ethics: Love, Relationships, Agency
Workshop Group: Ethics: Moral Theory and Reasons
Workshop Group: Ethics: Applied, Environmental, Disability
WED JAN 13, SESSION 5, 7:00 PM-10:00 PM
Affiliated Group Program
Society for Philosophy of Agency
Topic: Agency, Individualism, and Executive Representations
Society for Philosophy and Disability
Topic: Disability, Love, and Interdependency
North American Korean Philosophy Association
Topic: Indigenous Traditions of Korean Philosophy and Religion
New England Society for Continental Philosophy
Topic: Critical Theory Today
Molinari Society
Topic: Markets and Freedom
Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love
Topic: Philosophies of Sex
North American Society for Social Philosophy
Topic: Author-Meets-Critics session on Mark Schroeder's When Things Get Personal: A Philosophical Guide to Conflict
International Institute for Field-Being
Topic: Comparing Asian and Anglo Philosophy
Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
Topic: Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
Hume Society
Topic: Hume's Moral and Political Philosophy
Society of Christian Philosophers
Topic: Miracles
Radical Philosophy Association
Topic: Author Meets Critics: Philosophical Interventions in Neoliberal Higher Education
Charles S. Peirce Society
Topic: Conversations in Metaethics: Peirce, Spinoza, and Moral Realism
Society for Realist-Antirealist Discussion
Topic: Realism and Anti-Realism after Machine Learning
Philosophy of Time Society
Topic: Philosophy of Time Society
International Society for Chinese Philosophy
Topic: ISCP 2: Confucianism, Practice, and Contemporary Social Challenges
THU JAN 14, SESSION 6, 9:00 AM-10:50 AM
Divisional Program
Invited Symposium: AI and Science
Invited Symposium: "Reasonably Polarized: A Bayesian Theory of Bias," by Kevin Dorst
Invited Symposium: Moral Change
Symposium: No Work For the Social in a Theory of Intentionality
Symposium: Going "no contact"
Symposium: The Gendered Automation Curse
Symposium: The Experience of Free Play
Symposium: Non-Binary: Just Another Gender Binary? A Modal Analysis
Colloquium: Trust and Agency in the Digital Age
Colloquium: Grounding Modality: Essence, Potentiality, Contingency
Colloquium: The Moral Psychology of Shame
Colloquium: Certainty, Credence, and Belief Revision
Colloquium: Action Movies and Games
Affiliated Group Program
Society for Mexican-American Philosophy
Topic: U.S. Latinx/e Identity and Translatability
International Association for the Philosophy of Humor
Topic: Session II: Classical American Philosophy and the Comic, edited by Jonathan Weidenbaum, contracted by de Gruyter Studies in Philosophy of Humor
THU JAN 14, SESSION 7, 11:00 AM-12:50 PM
Divisional Program
Invited Symposium: Recent Work in Philosophy of Science
Invited Symposium: Social Cognition
Invited Book Symposium: Kristin Gjesdal's "Unruly Women: 200 Years of Philosophers, Romantics, and Revolutionaries"
Invited Symposium: Praise
Invited Symposium: Kant on Infinity
Invited Symposium: Math-First Approaches to Physics and Metaphysics
Invited Panel: Do we still need journals?
Symposium: Agency-First Sexual Ethics
Symposium: Love in the Time of the Breakup Era
Colloquium: Collective Intentionality, Group Agency, and Political Membership
Colloquium: Trust and Epistemic Deference
Colloquium: Laws of Nature and Physical Theory
Colloquium: Phenomenology of Formation and Flourishing
Affiliated Group Program
North American Neo-Kantian Society
Topic: Felix Hausdorff and Twentieth-Century Philosophy
International Society for Chinese Philosophy
Topic: ISCP 3: Confucian Contemplation, Relational Personhood, and Moral Cultivation
Karl Jaspers Society of North America
Topic: The Question of AI Guilt
THU JAN 14, SESSION 8, 2:00 PM-3:50 PM
Divisional Program
Invited Symposium: AI and Epistemology
Invited Book Symposium: Invited Book Symposium: Newton's Metaphysics of Substance: God, Bodies, Minds, Patrick Connolly
Invited Symposium: New flickers of freedom
Invited Symposium: Philosophy of Mind meets the Philosophy of Religion
Symposium: The Racial Contract as a "Kantian Nudum Pactum"
Symposium: (When) Can Victim-Blaming be Apt under Conditions of Oppression?
Symposium: Algebraic Pluralism
Colloquium: Causation, Counterfactuals, and Overdetermination
Colloquium: Kant on Right, History, and Exclusion
Colloquium: Citizenship, Immigration, and Relational Equality
Colloquium: Generics and Attitude Reports
Colloquium: Aesthetic Perception and Embodied Experience
Colloquium: Pragmatic Encroachment: Knowledge and Action
Colloquium: Punishment, Forgiveness, and Family Ethics
Affiliated Group Program
International Hobbes Society
Topic: International Hobbes Society (two sessions)
International Society for Environmental Ethics
Topic: International Society for Environmental Ethics
THU JAN 14, SESSION 9, 4:00 PM-5:50 PM
Divisional Program
Invited Symposium: How Does Art Benefit Us?
Invited Symposium: Self and Perspectives
Invited Book Symposium: Rethinking Metaphysics
Invited Symposium: Methodology in Metaphysics and Epistemology
Invited Symposium: Book Symposium: Mauricio Suárez, Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science
Symposium: Must You Vote for the Lesser Evil?
Symposium: Belief is Ineliminable: Lessons from Placebo Research
Colloquium: AI, Art, and Companionship
Colloquium: Continuity, Quantity, and Physical Law
Colloquium: Moral Risk and the Ethics of Defensive Harm
Colloquium: Blame, Reasons, and Responsibility
Colloquium: Treating Things as Reasons
Affiliated Group Program
Center for New Narratives in Philosophy
Topic: “Ideas for Teaching Slavery and Related Topics: Power, Justice, and Human Nature”
International Association for Transformative Philosophy
Topic: Introducing The Transformative Philosophy Handbook, edited by Lydia Amir (Springer, 2026)
Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs
Topic: Session in Honor of Virginia Held
FRI JAN 15, SESSION 11, 9:00 AM-10:50 AM
Divisional Program
Invited Symposium: Ideology, Injustice, and Conceptually Engineering Social Kinds
Invited Book Symposium: The Right to Oblivion: Privacy and the Good Life
Invited Symposium: The Practical Turn in Epistemology
Invited Symposium: Formal Hermanetics (= the use of lopic/formal methods in the interpretaton of historical texts)
Invited Symposium: Racial Realism, Racism, and Genomics
Symposium: Gender for the Beasts
Symposium: Liberal Anarchism
Symposium: Non-Binary: Just Another Gender Binary? A Modal Analysis
Symposium: Where the Veil Thins: The Aesthetic Condition of Socratic Thinking
Colloquium: Information, Content, and Rational Belief
Colloquium: Decision and Embodiment Across Species
Colloquium: The Moral Psychology of Hope and Anger
Affiliated Group Program
The Milton K. Munitz Society Inc
Topic: Spinoza, Munitz and the Nature of "Scientia Intuitiva"
Society for Mexican-American Philosophy
Topic: Under-studied Women in the History of Mexican Philosophy
Josiah Royce Society
Topic: Community, Loyalty, and Selfhood: The Boston Ethics Tradition
International Association for Philosophy of Meaning in Life
Topic: Philosophy of Meaning in Life
FRI JAN 15, SESSION 12, 11:00 AM-12:50 PM
Divisional Program
Invited Book Symposium: The Score by Thi Nguyen
Invited Symposium: ‘Enjoying the Good’ Theories of Well-being
Invited Symposium: Reading Being and Time at 100
Invited Symposium: Justice in Plato and the Platonist Tradition
Invited Symposium: Recent Work on Fitch's Knowability Paradox
Symposium: Outsourcing Our Practical Reason: Artificial Intelligence and Interpersonal Relationships
Symposium: Truth's Content
Symposium: Perspectival Gaslighting
Symposium: Spinoza, Leibniz, and Modal Collapse Arguments
Colloquium: Hypocrisy, Complicity, and Moral Responsibility
Colloquium: Philosophy of Disability
Colloquium: AI, Intention, and Agency
Colloquium: Indeterminacy and Insight in Self-Knowledge
Colloquium: Love, Reciprocity, and the Value of Relationships
Poster Session
Affiliated Group Program
North American Nietzsche Society
Topic: Nietzsche on Fanaticism and Redemption
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Topic: Philosophy in an Age of Authoritarianism
Radical Philosophy Association
Topic: Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: Perspectives from the Global North and South
FRI JAN 15, SESSION 13, 2:00 PM-3:50 PM
Divisional Program
Invited Book Symposium: Yong LI, Confucian Comparative Political Philosophy
Invited Panel: Black Women in Philosophy: Current Themes
Invited Symposium: Essence and Modality
Invited Symposium: Cultivating AI: A Cross-Cultural, Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Invited Symposium: Philosophy and the Brain
Symposium: Women in Islamic Philosophy?
Symposium: Don’t stage the notes: Regulating vision in classical music performance
Symposium: Standing to Forgive: Metaphysical or Moral?
Symposium: The Responsible Architect: An Existential-Hermeneutic Ethics for AI in Design
Colloquium: The Soul as Substance: Teresa of Ávila and Kant
Colloquium: Epistemic Norms and the Aims of Inquiry
Colloquium: Belief, Imagination, and Emotion
Colloquium: Meaning by Rule: Inferentialism and Cooperativity
Colloquium: The Moral Life of Social Structures
Affiliated Group Program
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
Topic: Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 1
APA Graduate Student Council
Topic: Applications and Challenges for AI in Science
Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World
Topic: Oppression in the Contemporary World
FRI JAN 15, SESSION 15, 7:00 PM-10:00 PM
Affiliated Group Program
Molinari Society
Topic: Rethinking Libertarian Theory and Theorists
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
Topic: Temporal Dimensions of Buddhist Philosophy
North American Korean Philosophy Association
Topic: Philosophy of Mind and Moral Psychology of Korean Confucianism
Heidegger Circle
Topic: Learning Teaching From Heidegger
Society for LGBTQ Philosophy
Topic: New Books Salon & Slumber Party
International Society for Socratic Studies
Topic: Xenophon's Socrates
Richard Rorty Society
Topic: Author-meets-critics on Carlos Montemayor’s “Knowledge and Freedom in the Work of Luis Villoro: Emancipatory Intelligence”
George Santayana Society
Topic: Santayana and Royce
North American Kant Society
Topic: Author Meets Critics Session: Jessica Tizzard’s Kant’s Moral World
Society for the Metaphysics of Science
Topic: Neo-Aristotelian Quantum Mechanics
Society for the History of Political Philosophy
Topic: The Art of Writing in Plato & Aristotle: Political, Psychological, Philosophic
North American Society for Social Philosophy
Topic: Author-Meets-Critics session on Michael Doan’s Rehearsing the Future: The Thought and Practice of James and Grace Lee Boggs
North American Kant Society
Topic: Kant's Theory of Freedom
International Society for Chinese Philosophy
Topic: ISCP 1: Confucian Ethics, Moral Psychology, and Human Flourishing
North American Neo-Kantian Society
Topic: Freedom and Agency in Post-Kantian Philosophy
SAT JAN 16, SESSION 16, 9:00 AM-10:50 AM
Divisional Program
Invited Book Symposium: Invited Book Symposium
Invited Symposium: The Body in Greek Philosophy
Invited Symposium: Jonathan Lear's Legacy
Invited Symposium: Buddhist Perspectives on Consciousness and AI
Symposium: Lawlike Universal Statements and Modality
Symposium: Kant, Conspiracy, and the Crisis of Reason in the Post-Truth Era
Colloquium: Moral Character and Moral Appraisal
Colloquium: Algorithmic Fairness and Access
Colloquium: Disorder, Dysfunction, and the Ethics of Diagnosis
Colloquium: The Limits of Reliabilism and Non-Evidentialism
Colloquium: Reciprocity and Moral Responsibility
Affiliated Group Program
William James Society
Topic: William James and the Politics of Warfare
SAT JAN 16, SESSION 17, 11:00 AM-12:50 PM
Divisional Program
Other: Amanda Askell
Symposium: Jokes as a source of moral knowledge
Colloquium: Ancient Logic, Modality, and Aboutness
Colloquium: Epistemology: Memory and Perception
Colloquium: Aggregation and Nonconsequentialist Normativity
Colloquium: Time, Narrative, and Historical Experience
Colloquium: Distrust, Discrimination, and Social Epistemology
Colloquium: Sentience, Moral Standing, and Welfare
Affiliated Group Program
Deep South Philosophy and Neuroscience Workgroup
Topic: Non-mechanistic approaches in philosophy of neuroscience
SAT JAN 16, SESSION 18, 2:00 PM-3:50 PM
Divisional Program
Invited Symposium: Being at Home in the World
Invited Symposium: Meta-Aesthetics
Invited Symposium: Trying as Inquiry
Invited Symposium: Reasoning With Images
Invited Symposium: Book Symposium: Laura Ruetsche, The Physics of Ignorance: Representation, Realism, and “the” Renormalization Group
Colloquium: Friendship, Ideals, and Moral Reasons
Symposium: Intellectual Pride as Virtuous Self-Centering
Symposium: Reactive Attitudes and Demands
Symposium: Kant’s Paradox of Inner Sense: Self-Intuition and the Synthesis of Apprehension
Symposium: Causal Implicatures and Conditional Reasoning
Colloquium: Moral Influence and Political Belief
Colloquium: Disability, Environment, and Difference
Colloquium: Post-Truth and the Limits of Public Reason
Affiliated Group Program
Philosophical Antiquities Group
Topic: Ancient Philosophy as Living Tradition