Main Program Papers

1. Selim Berker (Harvard):
“Can Normative Conclusions be Wrung from Neural Bases?”

2. David Rhys Birks (Manchester):
“Well-being, Schizophrenia, and Experience Machines”

3. Ben Bradley (Syracuse):
“Analyzing Harm”

4. Helena de Bres (Wellesley):
“The Many, Not the Few: Pluralism about Global Distributive Justice”

5. John Brunero (Missouri-Saint Louis):
“Rational Intentions: A Unified Account”

6. Alan Carter (Glasgow):
“A Solution to the Purported Non-Transitivity of Normative Evaluation”

7. Michael Cholbi (CSPU-Pomona):
“Kant and Moral Dilemmas”

8. Thomas Christiano (Arizona):
“Is there a Human Right to Democracy?”

9. Randolph Clarke (Florida State):
“Because She Wanted To”

10. Daniel Cohen (U Miami):
“Love, Friendship, and Well-Being: A Reply to the "Moral Schizophrenia" Argument against Modern Ethical Theories”

11. Christian Coons (Bowling Green):
“How to Prove that Some Acts are Right or Wrong (Without Using Substantive Moral Assumptions)”

12. Eva Dadlez (Central Oklahoma) and William L. Andrews (Central Oklahoma):
“Spinning the Harm Principle”

13. Dale Dorsey (Kansas):
“What is Instrumental Value?”

14. Mathieu Doucet (Queen’s University):
“What’s Wrong with Hypocrisy?”

15. Mylan Engel Jr. (Northern Illinois):
“Ethics without a Net: How to do Practical Ethics without a Moral Theory”

16. Ryan Fanselow (Maryland):
“Dogmatism and Reflective Equilibrium”

17. Michael Ferry (Spring Hill College):
“Does Morality Demand our Very Best? On Moral Prescriptions and the Line of Duty”

18. Steve Finlay (U of Southern California):
“Metaethical Contextualism Defended”

19. Richard Galvin (Texas Christian) and John Harris (Texas Christian):
“Pass the Cocoamone, Please": Causal Impotence, Opportunistic Vegetarianism and Act-Utilitarianism”

20. Jon Garthoff (Northwestern):
“Meriting Concern and Meriting Respect”

21. Jyl Gentzler (Amherst College):
“On the Track of the Good Life: An Objectivist, Reductionist Account of What We Ought to Do”

22. Margaret Gilbert (UC-Irvine):
“Giving Claim Rights Their Due”

23. Elizabeth Harman (Princeton):
“'I'll Be Glad I Did It' Reasoning and the Significance of Future Desires”

24. Elisa Hurley (Western Ontario) and Coleen Macnamara (UC-Riverside):
“Toward a Theory of Reactive Attitudes”

25. Stan Husi (Rice):
“Promising—A Practice and Nothing More?”

26. Andrew Johnson (Missouri State):
“The Trouble with Kant’s Humanity Formula”

27. Andrew Jordan (U Washington):
“Virtues, Particularism, and Reasons for Action”

28. Paul Katsafanas (New Mexico):
“Activity and Passivity in Reflective Agency”

29. Daniel Kelly (Purdue):
“The Ethics of Disgust”

30. Brent Kious (UCLA):
“Impermissibility, Consent, Coercion”

31. Charlie Kurth (UCSD):
“Fashion Models and Moral Realists”

32. Christian Lee (CU-Boulder):
“Grounding Evaluative Properties”

33. Clayton Littlejohn (UT-San Antonio):
“Psychologism Strikes Back (and Out)”

34. Kris McDaniel (Syracuse):
“The Metaphysics of Axiology and the Welfare of Animals”

35. Jonas Olson (Stockholm):
“In Defense of Moral Error Theory”

36. Martin Peterson (Technical University of Eindhoven):
“A Computer Simulation of the Argument from Disagreement”

37. Matt Pianalto (Truman State):
“Moral Conviction & Character”

38. Matjaž Potrč and Vojko Strahovnik (U Ljubljana, Slovenia):
“The Meinongian Theory of Moral Judgments”

39. Ryan Preston (UNC-Chapel Hill):
“Faith in Humanity”

40. Jason Raibley (CSU-Long Beach):
“Health and Well Being”

41. Rebecca Reilly-Cooper (Manchester):
“The Role of Emotions in Democratic Deliberation”

42. Mark van Roojen (Nebraska-Lincoln):
“Moral Intuitionism, Experiments and Skeptical Arguments”

43. Brook Sadler (U South Florida):
“Shared Intentions and the Kingdom of Ends”

44. Jeff Sebo (NYU):
“The Personal is Political”

45. Hanoch Sheinman (Rice):
“The Priority of Practice”

46. Saul Smilansky (Haifa):
“How Repugnant is the Repugnant Conclusion? A Reply to Michael Huemer”

47. Matthew Noah Smith (Yale):
“The fact-sensitivity of political principles”

48. Caj Strandberg (UNC-Chapel Hill):
“An Internalist Dilemma”

49. Jussi Suikkanen (Leeds):
“Act Consequentialism and Options”

50. Sharon Sytsma (Northern Illinois):
“The ‘Best and Most Irrefutable’ Ethical Internalism”

51. Sergio Tenenbaum (Toronto):
“Intention and Commitment”

52. Mike Valdman (Virginia Commonwealth University):
“The Deep Problem with Voluntaristic Theories of Political Obligation”

53. Helga Varden (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign):
“The Priority of Rightful Care to Virtuous Care: A Kantian Critique of the Care Tradition”

54. Manuel Vargas (U San Francisco):
“Desert and Moral Responsibility”

55. Justin Weinberg (South Carolina):
“Capability Satisficing: Doing Enough for Future People”

56. Henry West (Macalester):
“Value Realism and Moral Constructivism”

57. Eric Wielenberg (DePauw):
“On the Evolutionary Debunking of Morality”

58. Reginald Williams (Bakersfield College):
“Global Poverty: A Long-Term Approach”

59. Christopher Woodard (U Nottingham):
“The Common Structure of Kantianism and Act
Consequentialism”

60. Fiona Woollard (U Sheffield):
“A Defence of the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing”