Friday, August 8
On-Site Registration, Humanities 1B50: 8:00 - 3:00
Session Room Numbers
A Sessions - Humanities 1B50
B Sessions - Humanities 150
C Sessions - Humanities 250
		Speaker	Paper Title	Commentator	Chair
8:45 - 10:00	A	Stephanie Partridge and Andrew Jordan	A Defense of Sentimentalism about Humor	Eva Dadlez	Dave Hysom
				Central Oklahoma
		Otterbein College
	B	Richard Galvin	The Fact of Reason	Bob Hanna	Jason Wyckoff
		Texas Christian University		CU Boulder
	C	Aaron Smuts	The Feels Good Theory of Pleasure	Chris Heathwood	David Boonin
		Temple		CU Boulder
10:05 -11:20	A	Hallie Liberto	Animals and the Veil of Ignorance	Ben Hale	Dave Hysom
		University of Wisconsin		CU Boulder
	B	Steve Sverdlik	Hurka on the Intrinsic Value of Attitudes	Jyl Gentzler	Jason Wyckoff
		Southern Methodist University		Amherst
	C	Mark van Roojen	Consequents of True Practical Conditionals Detach	Clayton Littlejohn (SMU) and Michael Huemer (CU Boulder)	Devon Belcher
		University of Nebraska-Lincoln
11:25 - 12:40	A	Govind Persad	Authority Without Identity: Defending Advance Directives via Posthumous Rights Over One's Body	Eric Chwang	David Boonin
		National Institutes of Health		CU Boulder
	B	John Ku, Howard Nye, David Plunkett	Fitting Attitudes, Reasons for Action and the Rejection of Consequentialism	Mylan Engel	Matt Frank
				Northern Illinois University
		University of Michigan
	C	Hanoch Sheinman	Joint Promises	Ian Stoner	John Maier
		Rice		University of Minnesota
Lunch
12:40 - 2:30pm
		Speaker	Paper Title	Commentator	Chair
2:30 - 3:45	A	Kathleen Dougherty	Respect the One You Love?	Claudia Mills	Bob Pasnau
		College of Notre Dame-Maryland		CU Boulder
	B	Kelly Sorenson	The Actual and the Expected	Arvi Pakaslahti	Brad Monton
		Ursinus		University of Turku
	C	David Etlin	Cognitivism, Decision Theory, and Relativism	Graham Oddie	Eric Chwang
		MIT		CU Boulder
4:00 - 5:15	A	Paul Kelleher	Justice in Health Care	Justin Ho	Bob Pasnau
		Harvard		Rice
	B	Jennifer Hawkins	Well-Being, Time, and Dementia	Jason Wyckoff	Brad Monton
		University of Toronto		CU Boulder
	C	Ben Sachs	A Paradox of Practical Rationality	Scott Forschler	Eric Chwang
		National Institutes of Health		Northland Community & Technical College
Plenary		Welcoming Remarks
5:30 - 7:00		Graham Oddie,
		Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences
		Keynote: Bonnie Steinbock
		University at Albany-SUNY
		Designer Babies: Choosing Our Children's Genes
Reception		Koenig Center
7:00-8:00		(In the Alumni House)
Saturday, August 9
On-site registration: 8:00 - 12:00
		Speaker	Paper Title	Commentator	Chair
8:45 - 10:00	A	Jeremy Garrett	A Prima Facie Case Against Civil Marriage	Chad Kautzer	Dan Demetriou
		Rice		CU Denver
	B	Ben Eggleston	Utilitarian Adjudication	Kendy Hess	Duncan Purves
		University of Kansas		CU Boulder
	C	Douglas Portmore	Imperfect Reasons and Rational Options	John Maier	Chris Heathwood
		Arizona State		Princeton
10:05 -11:20	A	Elizabeth Brake	Minimizing Marriage	Chad Kerst	Dan Demetriou
		University of Calgary		Colorado State
	B	Dale Dorsey	Equality-Tempered Prioritarianism	Nathaniel Jezzi	Duncan Purves
		University of Kansas		Cornell
	C	Bob Johnson and Rusty Jones	What Good's a Good Example? A New Objection to Counterfactual Exemplar-Based Virtue Theories	Uri Leibowitz	Dom Bailey
				University of Massachusetts
		Oklahoma
11:25am - 12:40	A	Evan Kreider	Mill on Happiness	Dale Miller	Dan Demetriou
		University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley		Old Dominion University
	B	Michael Moehler	The (Stabilized) Nash Bargaining Solution as a Principle of Distributive Justice	Michael Buckley	Jason Hanna
		UNC-Chapel Hill		CUNY
	C	Jean-Paul Vessel	Supererogation for Utilitarianism	Henry West	Dom Bailey
		New Mexico State University		Macalaster College
Lunch, 12:40 - 2:30
Poster Session 1 (presenters on back page), 1:20pm - 2:20pm
		Speaker	Paper Title	Commentator	Chair
2:30 - 3:45	A	David Shoemaker	What's Identity Got to Do With it? The Unimportance of Personal Identity for Bioethics	Sara Bernstein	Dave Barnes
		Bowling Green		Arizona
	B	Eric Wiland	On Some Limits of Trying to (Try to) Do the Best	Jeff Sebo	Jen Kling
		University of Missouri - St. Louis		NYU
	C	Adam Hosein	How Hard Are the Numbers?	David Boonin	Brad Monton
		MIT		CU Boulder
4:00 - 5:15	A	David Shikiar	Notes on Hegel's Conception of Reconciliation	Robb Eason	Ben Hale
		Boston University		MIT
	B	Andrew Jason Cohen	Hard-Headed Economics Capturing the Soft Side of Life and Improving Two Models of Obligation	Johann Klaassen	Dave Barnes
		Georgia State		First Affirmative Financial Network, LLC
	C	Tamler Sommers	Metaskepticism about Moral Responsibility	Moti Gorin	Tony Smith
		University of Houston		Rice
Plenary		Introduction of speaker
5:30 - 7:00		David Boonin, Chair of the Philosophy Department
		Keynote: Fred Feldman
		Umass-Amherst
		Happiness: Empirical Research, Philosophical Conclusions
Reception		Heritage Center
7:00 - 8:00		(3rd floor of Old Main)
Sunday, August 10
		Speaker	Paper Title	Commentator	Chair
8:45 - 10:00	A	Brad Skow	Preferentism and the Paradox of Desire	George Backen	Mike Huemer
		MIT		Adams State College
	B	Ian Deweese-Boyd	Collective Self-Deception, Collective Injustice	Steve Vanderheiden	Ben Hale
		Gordon College		CU Boulder
	C	Bruce Russell	Moral Intuitions and Skysight	Christina van Dyke	Alastair Norcross
		Wayne State		Calvin College
10:05 -11:20	A	Nicole Hassoun	Why Libertarians Should be Welfare Liberals	Luc Bovens	Mike Huemer
		Carnegie Mellon		London School of Economics and Political Science
	B	Mark Lukas	Desire Satisfactionism and the Irrelevant Desires Problem	Luke Robinson	Chris Heathwood
		Longwood University		Southern Methodist University
	C	Erin Flynn	On the Impertinence of Frankfurt-Style Argument	Alexander Jech	Ben Hale
		Ohio Wesleyan		Notre Dame
11:25am - 12:40	A	Kristi A. Olson	Incentives and Special Burdens: When Are Greater Rewards to the Talented Justified?	John Harris	Michael Tooley
		Harvard		Texas Christian
	B	Pekka Vayrynen	Thick Evaluative Terms and Gradability	Dan Boisvert	Alastair Norcross
		University of Leeds		UNC-Charlotte
	C	Michael McKenna	Conversation and Responsibility	Daniel Speak	Tony Smith
		Florida State		Loyola Marymount
Lunch, 12:40 - 2:30
Poster Session 2 (presenters on back page), 1:20pm - 2:20pm
2:30 - 3:45		Speaker	Paper Title	Commentator	Chair
	A	Saul Smilansky	Moral Paradoxes and the Idea of a "Crazy Ethics"	Alastair Norcross	David Boonin
		Haifa		CU Boulder
	B	Daniel Brudney	Marx's New Man	Henry Pickford	Sheralee Brindell
		University of Chicago		CU Boulder
	C	David Drebushenko	Prefrontal Cortical Deficit and (In)Compatibilsm: Can Neuroscience Resolve the Free Will Problem?	Mikhail Valdman	Jen Kling
		University of Southern Indiana		Virginia Commonwealth
Plenary		Announcement of the Young Ethicist Prize and Introduction of Speaker:
4:00 - 5:40
		Alastair Norcross, Conference Co-Organizer
		Keynote: Geoffrey Sayre-McCord
		University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
		Rational Agency and Normative Concepts
Session Room Numbers
A Sessions - Humanities 1B50
B Sessions - Humanities 150
C Sessions - Humanities 250
		Poster Session 1		Poster Session 2
		Sara Bernstein		Jyl Gentzler
		Moral Overdetermination		What Should I do?
		Michael Buckley		Jeff Sebo
		Facts and Principles in PC	Posters will be displayed on the main floor lobby of Humanities	A Consequentialist Account of Public and Private Morality
		Alexander Jech		Moti Gorin
		The Tragic Character of Frankfurt's Moral Theory		Moral Fictionalism
		Ian Stoner		George Blacken
		Kant and the Competitive Spirit		A Pragmatic Defense of Moral Realism
		Arvi Pakaslahti		Clayton Littlejohn
		Act-Utilitarianism, Relationships and Cheating		Ought', 'Can', and Practical Reasons
		Jason Wyckoff		Chad Kerst
		A Problem for (Some) Social Contract Theories		Beyond the Ethics Code
		Justin Ho		Nathaniel Jezzi
		A New Justification for Informed Consent		Moral Constructivism, Autonomy, and the Original Position
		Mikhail Valdman		Scott Forschler
		Outsourcing Self-Government		Frankfurt and Rationalism