Program

22nd Annual Madison Metaethics Workshop

September 12 - 14, 2025

All sessions held in room 325/6, Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St.

FRIDAY          SEPTEMBER 12

9am – 10:15am      MEREDITH SHEEKS (UNC)

                                 Trusting Morality’s Authority

                                 Chair: Bart Streumer (Groningen)

10:45am – 12pm    DAN WEBBER (Stanford)

                                 What is a Moral Law? Ask the Normative Ethicists Chair: Harjit Bhogal (Maryland) 

1:30pm – 2:45pm  KENNY WALDEN (Dartmouth)

                                 Normative Creation

Chair: TBA

3:15pm – 4:30pm  SHAMIK DASGUPTA (Berkeley)

                                 Practical Nihilism

Chair: Abby Concha (Notre Dame) 

5pm – 6:15pm         MARGARET SHEA (UNC)

                                 Dilemmatic Deliberative ‘Oughts’

Chair: Stan Husi (UW Milwaukee) 

SATURDAY   SEPTEMBER 13

9am – 10:15am      JONATHAN WAY (Southampton)

                             The Normativity Challenge

Chair: Ashley Purdy (Arkansas) 

10:45am – 12pm    THOMAS SCHMIDT (Humboldt)

                                 Reasons First, Deontic Logic Second

Chair: Sofia Berinstein (Pittsburgh) 

1:30pm – 2:45pm  CHRISTINE TIEFENSEE (Frankfurt)

                       Neat and Tidy—Conceptual Supervenience for

    Inferentialists

Chair: Stefan Sciaraffa (McMaster)

3:15pm – 4:30pm  JAMES BROWN (Sheffield)

                                 Prudential Discourse and Time

Chair: Ayo Ajimoko (Harvard)

5pm – 6:15pm   TRISTRAM McPHERSON (Ohio State) &

                                 DAVID PLUNKETT (Dartmouth)

                                 Ethical Inquiry with Non-Epistemic Aims?

Chair: Conor Downey (MIT)

SUNDAY         SEPTEMBER 14

10am – 11:15am    TEZ CLARK (NYU)

                                 Towards a Relational View of Incoherence

Chair: Andrew Sepielli (Toronto)

11:45am – 1pm      ELLIOT SALINGER (Providence College)

                                 Normative Concepts for Expressivists

Chair: TBA