[cross-posted at Liberty & Power]
The Molinari Society will be holding its fifth annual Symposium in conjunction with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in Philadelphia, December 27-30, 2008. Here’s the latest schedule info:
GIX-3. Monday, 29 December 2008, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
Molinari Society symposium: Authors Meet Critics:
Crispin Sartwell’s Against the State: An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory and
Roderick T. Long and Tibor R. Machan, eds., Anarchism/Minarchism: Is a Government Part of a Free Country?
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, 1201 Market Street, Room TBA
Chair: Carrie-Ann Biondi (Marymount Manhattan College)
Critics:
Nicole Hassoun (Carnegie Mellon University)
Jennifer McKitrick (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Christopher Morris (University of Maryland)Authors:
John Hasnas (Georgetown University)
Lester H. Hunt (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Charles Johnson (Molinari Institute)
Roderick T. Long (Auburn University)
Jan Narveson (University of Waterloo-Canada)
Crispin Sartwell (Dickinson College)
William Thomas (Atlas Society)
As part of the APA’s new policy to prevent free riders, they’re not telling us the name of the room until we get to the registration desk. As part of our policy of combating evil we will of course broadcast the name of the room far and wide as soon as we learn it.
Happily, we have once again avoided any schedule conflicts with either the American Association for the Philosophic Study of Society (Dec. 28th, 11:15 -1:15) or the Ayn Rand Society (Dec. 28th, 2:00-5:00).
In other news, the schedule for next month’s Alabama Philosophical Society meeting in Orange Beach is now online.
“As part of the APA’s new policy to prevent free riders, they’re not telling us the name of the room until we get to the registration desk. As part of our policy of combating evil we will of course broadcast the name of the room far and wide as soon as we learn it.”
Market failure.
Whoa, Philly represent!
Hi,
I’m the philosopher-intern from FEE; hopefully you remember me? In any case, do you know if it would be possible to get into that panel even though I’m not a member of the APA yet? Thanks!
-Me
That’s pretty close to Christmas. I’m not sure if I can make it.
Hi Danny,
Yes, I remember you. (It was only last month!)
do you know if it would be possible to get into that panel even though I’m not a member of the APA yet
You can register for the conference even though you’re not a member. But it’s something like $60.
Or you can find out where the room is (as soon as I find out, on Dec. 27th, I’ll blog it) and show up without registering. I certainly won’t kick you out, but I can’t guarantee that some APA apparatchik won’t kick you out (they have a policy of randomly stopping attendees and asking to see proof of registration; I think they overestimate how much extra revenue this policy will bring in, and underestimate how much damage it does to the spirit of the conference, but that’s just me).
So those are your suboptimal choices.
Maybe the APA listened to your lectures and decided this whole “private property” idea was neato. 🙂
Even if the APA leadership has the right to exclude free riders (which is debatable; the APA leadership is supposed to be the agent of us, the APA’s members; but I can’t recall their asking us whether we wanted to be subjected to bureaucratic hassles in order to gain whatever tiny increment of revenue cracking down on free riders would gain), the question is whether they should adopt such a policy, given the impact of this policy on what are supposed to be their more fundamental aims.
Thanks; I’m wondering if it would be a bad career move to get thrown out of an APA conference at this point, as I have yet to apply for graduate study…
In any case, I find it rather amusing that a group of philosophers would implement an insufficiently thought out policy…