2006 Workshop

3rd Annual Wisconsin Metaethics Workshop (2006)

September 15-17, 2006

David Brink (UC-San Diego)

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 15

9am - 10:15am CHRIS HEATHWOOD (Colorado)

Fitting Attitudes and Welfare

Chair: Christian Miller (Wake Forest)

10:35am - Noon WILLIAM FITZPATRICK (Virginia Tech)

Robust Ethical Realism, Non-Naturalism and Normativity

Chair: Jon Garthoff (Northwestern)

Noon - 1: 30PM LUNCH

1:30 pm - 2:45pm NICK ZANGWILL (Durham)

Moral Dependence and Supervenience

Chair: Simon Kirchin (Kent)

3:05pm - 4:20pm GEOFF SAYRE-McCORD (UNC-Chapel Hill)

Hume on Practical Morality and Inert Reason ***KEYNOTE ADDRESS***

4:40pm - 6pm MARION HOURDEQUIN (Brandeis/Colorado College)

A Naturalist Account of External Reasons

Chair: Matthew Chrisman (Edinburgh)

8pm -11 pm RECEPTION (Tripp Commons, 2nd floor, Memorial Union)

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 16

9am - 10:15am TOM BALDWIN (York)

Rawls and Moral Psychology

Chair: Gunnar Bjornsson (Göteborg)

10:35am - Noon SHARON STREET (NYU)

Constructivism about Reasons

Chair: Theo van Willigenburg (Utrecht/Oxford)

Noon - 1:30 pm LUNCH

1:30 pm - 2:45pm CAJ STRANDBERG (Lund)

Particularism and Supervenience

Chair: Tom Carson (Loyola)

3:00pm - 4:30pm DAVID BRINK (UC-San Diego)

The Significance of Desire ***KEYNOTE ADDRESS***

4:45pm - 6pm DON LOEB (Vermont)

Why Should I Care What I Value?

Chair: Luca Ferrero (Stanford)

DINNER

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 17

9:30am - 10:45am MATTHEW HANSER (UC-Santa Barbara)

Action, Acting, and Acting Well

11:00am -12:15pm WILLIAM TOLHURST (Northern Illinois University)

Perceiving Normativity

Chair: Brad Majors (Wisconsin)