Saturday and Sunday, May 4 and 5, 1996
The New York Hilton & Towers


SATURDAY MORNING 
CHAIR: Jennifer Radden, University of Massachusetts, Boston



9:15 A.M.     Coffee



9:30 A.M.     WELCOME AND BUSINESS MEETING
              George J. Agich, President, AAPP



10:00 A.M.    KEYNOTE ADDRESS #1
              Weakness of Will And The Impulse Spectrum Disorders
              Eric Hollander, Mount Sinai School of Medicine



11:00 A.M.    KEYNOTE ADDRESS #2
              Political Sources of Akrasia
              Amelie O. Rorty, Brandeis University



12:00 P.M.    LUNCH BREAK





SATURDAY AFTERNOON        
Augustine, Aquinas, and Friends
CHAIR: David Pettigrew, Southern Connecticut State University


1:30-2:00     Weakness of Will, Aristotle, and Psychoanalysis
              Michael Stocker, New York City



2:00-2:30     Aristotelian Akrasia and Constructs of Belief
              Caleb Mason, Columbia University



2:30-3:00     Augustinan Autonomy: Weakness of Will and the 
	          Concept of the Person
              Charles Mathewes, University of Chicago



3:00-3:30     "Failure is the Key to the Kingdom Within." 
              Two 13th Century Voices on Willing the Good
              Laura Smits, Boston, Massachusetts



3:30-4:00     A Taste for Morals: Hume's Theory of Motivation
              Nancy Weiler, University of Illinois at Chicago



4:00-4:30     Virtue Theory's Account of Moral Error: 
	          Aristotle and Aquinas
              Robert Barry, Fordham University



4:30-5:00     Akrasia, Emotion, and Structured Rationality
              Craig DeLancey, Indiana University



5:00-6:00     RECEPTION





SUNDAY MORNING
Modern Commentaries on Akrasia
CHAIR:  Bradley Lewis, Washington, D.C.



9:00-9:30     Akrasia as Neurosis: A Sartrean Perspective
              Joseph Catalano, Kean College



9:30-10:00    Between Weakenss and Strength: A Comparison
	          of Charles Taylor's and Michael Foucault's
              Views of Agency
              Michael Heyns, University of Potchefstroom, South Africa



10:00-10:30   Treatment of Addictive Disorders and the Rejection of 
	          Akrasia: An Alliance Between Philosophy and Psychiatry
              Marilyn Nissim-Sabat, Lewis University



10:30-11:00   Suggestion, Akrasia, and Talking Cure
              Emilio Mordini, Psychoanalytic Institute 
	          for Social Research, Rome, Italy



11:00-12:00   KEYNOTE ADDRESS #3
              Alfred Mele Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, 
              Davidson University



12:00-1:30    LUNCH BREAK





SUNDAY AFTERNOON
Weakness of Will: Strict and Socratic Akratic Action
CHAIR: Donald Mender, New York City



1:30-2:00    The Ideals of Agency and the Problem of Akrasia
             Peter Campbell, University of Regina



2:00-2:30    Strenth and Weakness of Will in Relation to 
             the Freudian Drive
             Peter Caws, George Washington University



2:30-3:00    Akrasia and the Philosophy of Object Relatons
             Paul G. Sturdee, University of Warwick, United Kingdom



3:00-3:30    Deliberative Incontinence and Conceptions of the Self
             Karen Jones, Cornell University



3:30-4:00    Personality Disorders, Helath Insurance, and the Concept  
             of the Will
             James Sabin, Harvard Medical School



4:00-4:30    Weakness of Will and the Infelicities of Performative Statements: 
             Lessons from Philosophy of Language for Psychotherapy
             Nasser Ghaemi, Virginia Commonwealth University



4:30-5:00    The Human Animal's Freedom of Speech:A Non-Dual Interactionist 
             Model for Bioethical Medicine
             Joseph Loizzo, Mill Valley, California



 

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