Our presenters this year will be

Vivian Feldblyum (Southern Illinois, Edwardsville) "An Aristotelian Account of Victim Blaming"

Ashley Purdy (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville) "Do Good Friends Act Loyally?"

Macalester Bell (Bryn Mawr College) "On Being All Over the Place: Emotional Lability and the Moral and Epistemic Work of Emotions"

Sieun Sienne Park and Randall R. Curren (University of Rochester) "Do Virtuous People Take Pleasure in Virtuous Acts?"

Our keynote will be

Lawrence Blum (University of Massachusetts, Boston) "Schopenhauer, Scheler, Murdoch, feminist care ethics, Dorothy Emmet, the Dalai Lama, Tommie Shelby, Charles Johnson, and Martin Luther King Jr: Historical Adventures in the ‘Egoism/ Altruism’ Framework"

Abstracts can be found here.

All sessions, except the keynote, will be held in-person in Muserlian Lab in Noreen Reale Falcone Library, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY 13214. 

Sessions are read-ahead. After a brief summary of the paper's main claims and arguments, the session will be spent in discussion. 

To attend in-person RSVP by Nov 8 to John Monteleone (montelj@lemoyne.edu).