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
10:45am – 12pm DAN WEBBER (Stanford)
What is a Moral Law? Ask the Normative Ethicists
1:30pm – 2:45pm KENNY WALDEN (Dartmouth)
Normative Creation
3:15pm – 4:30pm SHAMIK DASGUPTA (Berkeley)
Practical Nihilism
5pm – 6:15pm MARGARET SHEA (UNC)
Dilemmatic Deliberative ‘Oughts’
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 13
9am – 10:15am JONATHAN WAY (Southampton)
The Normativity Challenge
10:45am – 12pm THOMAS SCHMIDT (Humboldt)
Reasons First, Deontic Logic Second
1:30pm – 2:45pm CHRISTINE TIEFENSEE (Frankfurt)
Neat and Tidy—Conceptual Supervenience for
Inferentialists
3:15pm – 4:30pm JAMES BROWN (Sheffield)
Prudential Discourse and Time
5pm – 6:15pm TRISTRAM McPHERSON (Ohio State) &
DAVID PLUNKETT (Dartmouth)
Ethical Inquiry with Non-Epistemic Aims?
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 14
10am – 11:15am TEZ CLARK (NYU)
Towards a Relational View of Incoherence
11:45am – 1pm ELLIOT SALINGER (Princeton)
Normative Concepts for Expressivists