2010 Workshop
7th Annual Wisconsin Metaethics Workshop (2010)
Keynote Speaker
Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy, Yale University
Program
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 24
9am - 10:15am KENNY WALDEN (MIT)
How to Ground Normativity in the Demands of Agency
Chair: Ryan Millsap (Maryland)
10:45am - Noon VALERIE TIBERIUS (Minnesota)
Open-Mindedness and Normative Contingency
Chair: Justin Clarke-Doane (NYU)
1:45pm - 3pm MATT EVANS (NYU) & NISHI SHAH (Amherst)
Chair: Paul Bloomfield (Connecticut)
3:15pm - 4:30pm JACOB ROSS (USC)
Rationality, Normativity, and Commitment
Chair: Eric Wiland (UM-St. Louis)
4:45pm - 6pm DAVID COPP (UC-Davis)
Experiments, Intuitions and Methodology in Moral and Political Theory
Chair: Robert Mabrito (N.C. State)
8pm -11 pm RECEPTION (Memorial Union, Room TBA)
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 25
9am - 10:15am JANICE DOWELL (Nebraska)
Contextualist Solutions to Three Puzzles about Practical Conditionals
Chair: Bart Streumer (Reading)
10:45am - Noon MATTHEW CHRISMAN (Edinburgh)
Chair: David Sobel (Nebraska)
1:30pm - 2:45pm PEKKA VÄYRYNEN (Leeds)
Thick Concepts and Presupposition
Chair: Teemu Toppinen (Helsinki)
3:00pm - 4:30pm STEPHEN DARWALL (Yale) ***KEYNOTE ADDRESS***
4:45pm - 6pm SEAN McKEEVER (Davidson) & MICHAEL RIDGE (Edinburgh)
Chair: Christine Tappolet (Montreal)
6:30pm DINNER (University Club 803 State Street)
Advanced registration required. Email Russ Shafer-Landau (shaferlandau@wisc.edu) to reserve a spot by Sept. 20th
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 26
9:30am - 10:45am TRISTRAM McPHERSON (Minnesota-Duluth)
Ethical Non-Naturalism and the Metaphysics of Supervenience
Chair: Fred Schueler (Delaware)
11:00am -12:15pm KARL SCHAFER (Pittsburgh)
How to be a Modern Moral Anti-Realist
Chair: Carla Bagnoli (UW-Milwaukee)