2008 Workshop

5th Annual Wisconsin Metaethics Workshop (2008)

Dates

SEPTEMBER 12-14, 2008

Keynote Speakers

Simon Blackburn (Cambridge University & University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Joseph Raz (Columbia University & Oxford University)

Program

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 12

9am - 10:15am MELISSA BARRY (Williams)

Humean Theories Of Motivation

Chair: Christian Miller (Wake Forest)

10:30am – 11:45am JULIA MARKOVITS (Harvard)

Why Be An Internalist About Reasons?

Chair: Tristram McPherson (UM-Duluth)

1:30pm - 2:45pm JAMIE DREIER (Brown)

When Do Goals Explain The Norms That Advance Them?

Chair: Jon Tresan (Florida)

3:00pm - 4:30pm JOSEPH RAZ (Oxford/Columbia)

Reason & Normativity ***KEYNOTE ADDRESS***

4:45pm - 6pm MARK SCHROEDER (USC)

Value And The Right Kind Of Reason

Chair: Robert Mabrito (NC State)

8pm -11 pm RECEPTION (Memorial Union, Room TBA)

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 13

9am - 10:15am JUSSI SUIKKANEN (Reading)

Non-naturalism: The Jackson Challenge

Chair: Melis Erdur (NYU)

10:40am - Noon CATHERINE WILSON (CUNY)

“It’s Better Than It Was”: Theory Change In Ethics

Chair: Gunnar Bjornsson (Gothenburg)

1:30pm - 2:45pm DAVID ENOCH (Hebrew University)

How Objectivity Matters

Chair: Simon Rippon (Harvard)

3:00pm - 4:30pm SIMON BLACKBURN (Cambridge/UNC-Chapel Hill)

Is the Good Predicate a Device of Generalization? ***KEYNOTE ADDRESS***

4:45pm - 6pm ANTTI KAUPPINEN (St. Andrews)

A Sentimentalist Solution To The Moral Attitude Problem

Chair: Jyl Gentzler (Amherst)

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 14

9:30am - 10:45am JULIE TANNENBAUM (CSU-Northridge)

Categorizing Goods

Chair: Matt Bedke (Arizona)

11:00am -12:15pm STEPHEN FINLAY (USC)

Normativity, Necessity and Tense

Chair: Carla Bagnoli (UW-Milwaukee)