September 27-29, 2013
Professor of Philosophy, Brown University
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
9am - 10:15am
BARRY MAGUIRE (NYU)
Grounding the Autonomy of Ethics
Chair: Eric Wiland (UMSL)
10:45am - Noon
TRISTRAM McPHERSON (Virginia Tech) & DAVID PLUNKETT (Dartmouth)
Deliberative Indispensability Does not Justify Ontological Commitment
Chair: Andrew Alwood (Virginia Commonwealth)
1:45pm - 3pm
ELIZABETH HARMAN (Princeton)
The Irrelevance of Moral Uncertainty
Chair: Brad Cokelet (Miami)
3:30 - 4:45pm
ERROL LORD
Acting for the Right Reasons, Abilities and Obligations
**WINNER, Marc Sanders Prize in Metaethics**
Chair: Kathryn Lindeman (Pittsburgh)
5:15pm – 6:30pm
DAVID COPP (UC-Davis)
Rationality and Moral Authority
Chair: Andrew Reisner (McGill)
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
9am - 10:15am
KENNY WALDEN (Dartmouth)
Practical Reason Not As Such
Chair: Joshua Schechter (Brown)
10:45am - Noon
CONNIE ROSATI (Arizona)
Agents and “Schmagents”
Chair: Karl Schafer (Pittsburgh)
1:45pm - 3pm
KNUT OLAV SKARSAUNE (NYU)
How to be a Moral Platonist
Chair: Sam Asarnow (Stanford)
3:30pm – 4:45pm
JAMIE DREIER (Brown)
Explaining the Quasi-Real
**KEYNOTE ADDRESS**
5:15pm – 6:30pm
ALISON HILLS (Oxford)
Cognitivism about Moral Judgement
Chair: Daniel Wodak (Princeton)
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
9:30am - 10:45am
NICK ZANGWILL (Durham)
Expressivism and the Social Function of Morality
Chair: Stan Husi (UW-Milwaukee)
11:15am -12:30pm
JUSTIN CLARKE-DOANE (Birmingham & Monash)
Justification and Explanation in Mathematics and Ethics
Chair: Christian Coons (Bowling Green)