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 15

9am - 10:15am      CHRIS HEATHWOOD (Colorado)
                          Fitting Attitudes and Welfare
                             Chair: Christian Miller (Wake Forest)

10:35am - Noon     WILLIAM FITZPATRICK (Virginia Tech)
                           Robust Ethical Realism, Non-Naturalism and Normativity
                               Chair: Jon Garthoff (Northwestern)

Noon - 1: 30PM LUNCH

1:30 pm - 2:45pm   NICK ZANGWILL (Durham)
                         Moral Dependence and Supervenience
                            Chair: Simon Kirchin (Kent)

3:05pm - 4:20pm   GEOFF SAYRE-McCORD (UNC-Chapel Hill)
                          Hume on Practical Morality and Inert Reason ***KEYNOTE ADDRESS***

4:40pm - 6pm      MARION HOURDEQUIN (Brandeis/Colorado College)
                       A Naturalist Account of External Reasons
                         Chair: Matthew Chrisman (Edinburgh)

8pm -11 pm RECEPTION (Tripp Commons, 2^nd floor, Memorial Union)

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 16

9am - 10:15am        TOM BALDWIN (York)
                         Rawls and Moral Psychology
                           Chair: Gunnar Bjornsson (Göteborg)

10:35am - Noon     SHARON STREET (NYU)
                         Constructivism about Reasons
                            Chair: Theo van Willigenburg (Utrecht/Oxford)

Noon - 1:30 pm LUNCH

1:30 pm - 2:45pm     CAJ STRANDBERG (Lund)
                         Particularism and Supervenience
                           Chair: Tom Carson (Loyola)

3:00pm - 4:30pm DAVID BRINK (UC-San Diego)
The Significance of Desire ***KEYNOTE ADDRESS***

4:45pm - 6pm        DON LOEB (Vermont)
                         Why Should I Care What I Value?
                             Chair: Luca Ferrero (Stanford)

DINNER

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 17

9:30am - 10:45am MATTHEW HANSER (UC-Santa Barbara)
Action, Acting, and Acting Well

11:00am -12:15pm     WILLIAM TOLHURST (Northern Illinois University)
                          Perceiving Normativity
                             Chair: Brad Majors (Wisconsin)

Registrants

A complete list of 2006 workshop registrants is available here

Photos

A great many photos from this year's workshop are available here. Thanks very much to this year's able shutterbugs, Nicole Smith, Jim Sias, and Rob Streiffer for providing the content.

Past Workshops

Program information, a list of registrants, and a great many photos from previous workshops are available here:

2005

2004

Acknowledgments

The 2006 Metaethics Workshop has been underwritten by the University of Wisconsin's Anonymous Fund. We are very grateful to its trustees for their continued support.

Sincere thanks to this year's Program Committee: Mike Ridge (Edinburgh), Connie Rosati (Arizona), David Sobel (Bowling Green), Nick Sturgeon (Cornell), and Mark Timmons (Arizona)