Program of the conference on moral and political philosophy, Northwestern University 2009

	Northwestern Society for Ethical Theory and Political Philosophy
	3 ^rd Annual Conference
	Program
	The conference will take place in Norris University Center, Arch Room.
	Thursday, April 23 ^rd
	9:00 – 10:25	“ Scheffler’s Independence Thesis”
		Timothy Loughlin (University of Nebraska)
		Commentary: Daniel Groll (University of Chicago)
	10:35 – 12:00	“ What Lurks Beneath the Integrity Objection”
		Paul Hurley (Claremont McKenna College)
		Commentary: Patricia Marino (University of Waterloo)
		Lunch
	2:00 – 3:25	“ Practical Necessity and Agential Autonomy”
		Carla Bagnoli (University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee)
		Commentary: Paul Bloomfield (University of Connecticut)
	3:35 – 5:00	“ Skepticism About Desert”
		Steve Swartzer (University of Nebraska)
		Commentary: Wolfhart Totschnig (Northwestern University)
		Dinner
	Friday, April 24 ^th
	9:00 – 10:25	“ Doing/Allowing and Seeing Oneself as an Agent”
		Fiona Woollard (University of Sheffield)
		Commentary: Brad Cokelet (University of Miami)
	10:35 – 12:00	“ Paternalism as Non-Domination”
		Dana Howard (Brown University)
		Commentary: Max Cherem (Northwestern University)
		Lunch
	2:00 – 3:25	“ Can Shared Activity Simply Be Willed?”
		Abe Roth (Ohio State University)
		Commentary: Kyla Ebels Duggan (Northwestern University)
	3:35 – 5:30	Keynote address: “ Inducing Deliberation”
		Seana Shiffrin (University of California at Los Angeles)
		Commentary: Anthony Laden (University of Illinois at Chicago)
		Reception
	Saturday, April 25 ^th
	9:00 – 10:25	“ Choice, Value, and the Perfection of Distributive Justice”
		John Oberdiek (Rutgers University)
		Commentary: Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern University)
	10:35 – 12:00	“ Is Liberal Legitimacy Utopian?”
		Christopher McCammon (University of Nebraska)
		Commentary: Seth Mayer (Northwestern University)
		Lunch
	2:00 – 3:25	“ Conventions and Moral Requirements”
		Erin Taylor (Cornell University)
		Commentary: Jon Garthoff (Northwestern University)
	3:35 – 5:30	Keynote address: “ The Normativity of Tradition”
		Samuel Scheffler (New York University)
		Commentary: William FitzPatrick (Virginia Tech)
		Dinner