SECOND ANNUAL
METAETHICS WORKSHOP
University of Wisconsin--Madison
SEPTEMBER 16-18, 2005

 

Keynote Speakers

T.M. Scanlon (Harvard)

Judith Thomson (MIT)

About the Workshop

This workshop is designed to provide an annual forum for new work in metaethics, broadly construed to range across issues in the metaphysics, semantics, and epistemology of morality, as well as issues concerning moral motivation and the relation between morality and practical reason.  The workshop is designed to provide an opportunity for speakers to receive constructive feedback from interested colleagues, and for other participants to become acquainted with new work in the field.

Program

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 16

9am - 10:15am            MARK SCHROEDER (Maryland)
                                    The Humean Theory of Reasons
                                            Chair: Matt Boyle (Harvard)

10:35am - 11:50am     MARGARET LITTLE (Georgetown) & MARK LANCE (Georgetown)
                                    Where the Laws Are
                                            Chair: William FitzPatrick (Virginia Tech)

1:30 pm - 2:45pm         SARAH McGRATH (Brandeis)
                                      Moral Beliefs and Moral Disagreement
                                              Chair: Paul Bloomfield (Connecticut)

3:05pm - 4:20pm         STEPHEN DARWALL (Michigan)
                                     Moral Obligation and Accountability
                                              Chair: Sarah Buss (Iowa)

4:40pm - 6pm             ROBERT JOHNSON (Missouri)
                                    Irrealism, Intrinsic Value, Universality
                                             Chair: Doug Lavin (Harvard)

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 17

9am - 10:15am         PATRICIA GREENSPAN (Maryland)
                                 Practical Reasons and Moral > Ought=  (corrected file)
                                            Chair: Phil Clark (Toronto)

10:35am - Noon       T.M. SCANLON (Harvard)
                                 Wrongness & Reasons: A Re-examination **KEYNOTE ADDRESS**

1:30 pm - 2:45pm     MICHAEL RIDGE (Edinburgh)
                                  Ecumenical Expressivism: The Best of Both Worlds?
                                            Chair: Gunnar Bjornsson (Stockholm)

3:00pm - 4:30pm     JUDITH THOMSON (MIT)
                                Normativity **KEYNOTE ADDRESS**

4:45pm - 6pm         DAVID ENOCH (Hebrew University)
                                An Outline of an Argument for Robust Metanormative Realism
                                            Chair: Christian Miller (Wake Forest)

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 18

9am - 10:15 am     STEPHEN FINLAY (University of Southern California)
                               No Pretender is Wanting: Desire= s Legitimate Claim to Authority
                                            Chair: Fred Schueler (New Mexico)

10:35 -11:50 am     JOSHUA GERT (Florida State)
                                Normative Notions and Agreement in Response
                                            Chair: Rob Shaver (Manitoba)

Registrants

For a complete list of workshop participants, including academic affiliation and email addresses, please click here.

Photos

A great many photos of the 2005 workshop are available here.  Kudos to Rob Streiffer and David Sobel for their supererogatory efforts in serving as the weekend's photographers.

Another dozen photos are available at Pekka Vayrynen's webpage.

2004 Workshop

Program information, a list of registrants, and a great many photos from the inaugural gathering are available here.

Acknowledgments

The Second Annual Metaethics Workshop is supported by the University of Wisconsin Anonymous Fund.  We thank the Fund's trustees for their generosity.

Sincere thanks to this year's Program Committee:  David Brink (UC San Diego), David Copp (Florida), Jamie Dreier (Brown), David Sobel (Bowling Green), Nick Sturgeon (Cornell), and Mark Timmons (Arizona).