Northwestern Society for the Theory of Ethics and Politics

 

5th Annual Conference

          

Program

 

The conference will take place at the John Evans Alumni Center (1800 Sheridan Road, Evanston).

 

Thursday, May 19

 

9:00 – 10:25

Is ‘Human Being’ a Moral Concept?

   

Douglas MacLean (University of North Carolina)

   

Commentator: Richard Kraut (Northwestern University)

 

10:35 – 12:00

Trust and Reasonable Partiality

   

Nolan Ritcey (Queen’s University)

   

Commentator: Eric Jonas (Northwestern University)

 

Lunch

 

2:00 – 3:25

In Defense of Prima Facie Duties

   

Philipp Schwind (University of Miami)

   

Commentator: Lee Goldsmith (Northwestern University)

 

3:35 – 5:00

Moral Principles and Moral Judgment

   

Maike Albertzart (Cambridge University)

   

Commentator: Mary Coleman (Illinois Wesleyan University)

 

Dinner

 

Friday, May 20

 

9:00 – 10:25

Constitutivism About Norms

   

Nate Sharadin (University of North Carolina)

   

Commentator: Seth Mayer (Northwestern University)

 

10:35 – 12:00

Republican Foundations for Liberal Restraint

   

Christopher McCammon (University of Nebraska)

   

Commentator: Carlos Pereira Di Salvo (Northwestern University)

 

Lunch

 

2:00 – 3:25

Independence and Equal Freedom

   

Jonathan Peterson (University of Toronto)

   

Commentator: Japa Pallikkathayil (New York University)

 

3:35 – 5:30

Keynote address: “Modally Demanding Values”

   

Philip Pettit (Princeton University)

   

Commentator: Antti Kauppinen (University of Amsterdam and Trinity College Dublin)

 

Reception

 

Saturday, May 21

 

10:30 – 12:00

Moral Agency Sans Volitionism

   

Roman Altshuler (Stony Brook University)

   

Commentator: Brad Cokelet (University of Miami)

 

Lunch

 

2:00 – 3:25

Deliberation and Acting for Reasons

   

Nomy Arpaly (Brown University) & Timothy Schroeder (Ohio State University)

   

Commentator: Reid Blackman (Colgate University)

 

3:35 – 5:30

Keynote address: “Internalism About Responsibility

   

R. Jay Wallace (University of California at Berkeley)

   

Commentator: Coleen Macnamara (University of California at Riverside)

 

Dinner