Program

23rd Annual Madison Metaethics Workshop

September 25- 27, 2026

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

FRIDAY           SEPTEMBER 25

9am – 10:15am      EDEN LIN (Ohio State)

                                 Basic Goodness and Derivative Goodness

10:45am – 12pm    JORDAN WALTERS (Oxford)

                                 Naïve Humanism

1:30pm – 2:45pm  HARJIT BHOGAL (Maryland)

                                 Moral Theories as (Merely) Metaphysical

3:15pm – 4:30pm  RACHEL ACHS (Santa Cruz)

                                 No Priority for Fear or the Fearsome

5pm – 6:15pm         DAVID SOBEL (Syracuse) & 

 STEVEN WALL (Arizona)

                                 Enjoying the Good and Warrantless 

Attitudes

SATURDAY     SEPTEMBER 26

9am – 10:15am      JESSICA FISCHER (Kings College London)

                             A Contractualist Answer to the Question of

  Acceptance

10:45am – 12pm    ALISON HILLS (Oxford)

                                 Moral Testimony, Moral Responsibility and 

Distributed Agency

1:30pm – 2:45pm  WOO RAM LEE (Seoul National University)

                             The Wrong Kind of Reasons as Useless

                    Reasons

3:15pm – 4:30pm  BILLY DUNAWAY (UMSL)

                                 Rethinking Creeping Minimalism

5pm – 6:15pm   ERIC SAMPSON (Purdue)

                         Ideally Coherent Plato: A Challenge to 

Metaethical Constructivism

SUNDAY          SEPTEMBER 27

10am – 11:15am    ALEX HORNE (Vienna)

                                 Hermeneutic Humean Constructivism

11:45am – 1pm      ALEXANDER (SASHA) ARRIDGE (Oxford)

                                 Moral Worth and Conflicted Motivation