2013 Workshop

10th Annual Wisconsin Metaethics Workshop (2013)

Dates

September 27-29, 2013

Keynote Speaker

Jamie Dreier

Professor of Philosophy, Brown University

Program

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)