The conference will be held online. Registration is required, but free of charge.
Note well: Days, Dates and Times listed are per UTC – 8 (Pacific Standard Time)
Friday, January 7th Session 1 | |
1A | Chair, John Weymark |
8:00am – 9:00am | Keynote Matthew Adler, “Person-Affecting Consequentialism: Equity-Regarding, Desert-Neutral, and Repugnant” [Duke University School of Law] |
1B | Chair, Dean Spears |
9.15am – 9.45am 9.45am – 10.15am | Justin Bruner, “Equality, Priority and Collective Decision-Making” [University of Arizona] Sven Neth, “Rational Aversion to Information” [University of California, Berkeley] |
1C | Chair, Eleonora Cresto |
10.30am – 11.00am 11.00am – 11.30am | Melinda Roberts, “Why Population Ethics Should Reject the Principle of Anonymity” [College of New Jersey] Eric Pacuit and Steven Kuhn, “Advocacy Games” [University of Maryland and Georgetown University] |
Saturday, January 8th Session 2 | |
2A | Chair, Conrad Heilmann |
8.00am – 8.30am 8.30am – 9.00am | Ralph Wedgwood, “The Reasons Aggregation Theorem” [University of Southern California] Dean Spears and Mark Budolfson, “Why Variable-Population Social Orderings Cannot Escape the Repugnant Conclusion: Proofs and Implications” [University of Texas and Rutgers School for Public Health and Center for Population-Level Bioethics] |
2B | Chair, Ralph Wedgwood |
9.15am – 9.45am 9.45am – 10.15am | Eleonora Cresto and Diego Tajer, “Neurotic Cake-Cutting” [Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy] Paul McNamara, “Some Conservative Extensions of the DWE Framework for Supererogation and Kindred Notions” [University of New Hampshire] |
Thursday, January 13th Session 3 | |
3A | Chair, Hendrik Rommeswinkel |
4.00pm – 4.30pm 4.30pm – 5.00pm | Pamela Robinson and Katie Steele, “Moral Uncertainty, Noncognitivism, and the Multi-Objective Story” [Australian National University] Hayden Wilkinson, “Infinite Aggregation and Risk” [University of Oxford] |
3B | Chair, Katie Steele |
5.15pm – 5.45pm 5.45pm – 6.15pm | Robert Beddor, “Noncognitivism without Expressivism” [National University of Singapore] Hendrik Rommeswinkel, “Measuring Freedom in Games” [National Taiwan University] |
Friday, January 14th Session 4 | |
4A | Chair, Olivier Roy |
8.00am – 8.30am 8.30am – 9.00am | Dmitry Ananyev, “There Are No Cases in Which You Don’t Make a Difference” [London School of Economics] Jake Nebel and H. Orri Stefansson, “Calibration Dilemmas in the Ethics of Distribution” [University of Southern California and Stockholm University] |
4B | Chair, Paul McNamara |
9.15am – 9.45am 9.45am – 10.15am 10.20am | Nicolas Côté, “On the Role of Diversity in the Measurement of Freedom” [University of Toronto] Kevin Leportier, “On the Meaning of Freedom of Choice in Interactive Contexts” [University Paris 1 Pathéon-Sorbonne] Final Remarks, Constanze Binder [Erasmus University Rotterdam] |