2012 Workshop

9th Annual Wisconsin Metaethics Workshop (2012)

Dates

September 28-30, 2012

Keynote Speaker

Jonathan Dancy (Texas)

Program

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 28

9am - 10:15am

HILLE PAAKKUNAINEN (Syracuse)

Vindicating Practical Norms

Chair: Eric Wiland (UMSL)

10:45am - Noon

JOHN BRUNERO (UMSL)

Cognitivism about Practical Rationality

Chair: Jennifer Morton (CCNY)

1:45pm - 3pm

SARAH McGRATH (Princeton)

Relax! Don't Do it! Why Moral Realism Won't Come Cheap

Chair: Jeff Behrends (Wisconsin)

3:25 - 4:45pm

CHRIS HEATHWOOD (Colorado)

Irreducibly Normative Properties

Chair: Christian Coons (Bowling Green)

5:15pm – 6:30pm

MATT BEDKE (UBC)

No Coincidence?

Chair: Kelly Heuer (Georgetown)

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 29

9am - 10:15am

CHRISTIAN CONSTANTINESCU (Birbeck)

Moral Vagueness, Realism, and Non-Cognitivism

Chair: Adam Cureton (UT-Knoxville)

10:45am - Noon

GUNNAR BJÖRNSSON (Umea & Gothenburg)

The Empirical Implausibility of Absolutist Ethical Cognitivism

Chair: Andrew Sepielli (Toronto)

1:45pm - 3pm

JUSTIN D'ARMS (Ohio State) & DANIEL JACOBSON (Michigan)

Wrong Kinds of Reason and the Opacity of Normative Force

Chair: Brad Cokelet (Miami)

3:20pm – 4:50pm

JONATHAN DANCY (Reading & Texas) **KEYNOTE ADDRESS**

From Thought to Action

5:15pm – 6:30pm

BRIAN LEITER (Chicago)

Moral Skepticism and Moral Disagreement in Nietzsche

Chair: Billy Dunaway (Michigan)

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 30

9:30am - 10:45am

KATIA VAVOVA (Mt. Holyoke)

Debunking Evolutionary Debunking

Chair: Barry Maguire (Princeton)

11:15am -12:30pm

ERNESTO GARCIA (U Mass)

Explaning Constitutive Norms

Chair: David Plunkett (Dartmouth)