Program
21st Annual Madison Metaethics Workshop
September 27 - 29, 2024
All sessions held in room 325/6, Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St.
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 27
9am – 10:15am Z QUANBECK (Princeton)
Enticing Emotions
Chair: Michelle Dyke (Tufts)
10:45am – 12pm ALISABETH AYARS (UBC)
Two Kinds of Desire and the Ground of Moral
Worth
Chair: Eric Sampson (Purdue)
1:30pm – 2:45pm KARL SCHAFER (Texas)
Alienation, Intelligibility, and Idealism in
Metaethics
Chair: Angela Sun (Washington & Lee)
3:15pm – 4:30pm CLAIRE KIRWIN (Northwestern)
Capturing Disagreement from the First-Person
Perspective
Chair: Michael Bruckner (UW)
5pm – 6:15pm BOB BEDDOR (Florida)
Moral Justification
Chair: Nicole Dular (Notre Dame of Maryland)
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 28
9am – 10:15am BENJAMIN KIESEWETTER (Bielefeld)
‘Ought’ and the Balance of Reasons
Chair: Eline Gerritsen (Hamburg)
10:45am – 12pm GUNNAR BJÖRNSSON (Stockholm) &
RAGNAR FRANCÉN (Gothenburg)
Reason Judgments—Political or Motivational?
Chair: Libby Southgate (Northwestern)
1:30pm – 2:45pm RACH COSKER-ROWLAND (Leeds) &
ROBBIE WILLIAMS (Leeds)
Fitting Action
Chair: Bart Streumer (Groningen)
3:15pm – 4:30pm JUSSI SUIKKANEN (Birmingham)
Resisting the New Contextualist Orthodoxy in
Metaethics
Chair: Sofia Berinstein (Pittsburgh)
5pm – 6:15pm STEPHANIE LEARY (McGill) &
CHRIS HOWARD (McGill)
Non-Naturalism without Contingentism
Chair: Andy Egan (Rutgers)
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 29
10am – 11:15am AUDREY POWERS (Rutgers)
Non-Naturalist Moral Causation
Chair: Conner Schulz (UNC)
11:45am – 1pm MATT LUTZ (Wuhan)
The Predictive Explanationist Argument for
Moral Skepticism
Chair: TBD