British Society for Ethical Theory Annual Conference 2008

Monday 14th July - Wednesday 16th July

Invited Speakers

Barbara Herman (UCLA)

Kant and the Necessary Lie:
How “Good” Ends Can (sometimes) Justify "Bad” Means

Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund University)

Utilitarianism by Way of Preference Revision:
Making Sense of Hare's Argument

Program Speakers

Carla Bagnoli
(University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Practical Reflection and Agential Authority

Campbell Brown
(University of Edinburgh)
The Composition of Reasons

William Dunaway
(University of Southern California)
Minimalist Semantics and the Problem of Creeping Minimalism

Ulrike Heuer
(University of Leeds)
Wrongness and Reasons

Krister Bykvist and Jonas Olson
(Jesus College and Brasenose College,
University of Oxford)
Expressivism and Certitude

Martin Peterson
(University of Cambridge)
The Asymmetry Argument

Mark Schroeder
(University of Southern California)
Holism, Weight and Undercutting

Alan Strudler
(University of Pennsylvania)
The Distinctive Wrong in Lying

Jonathan Way
(University of California Santa Barbara)
Defending the wide-scope approach to instrumental reason

This is a 3 day residential conference including all meals. To register please fill out the registration form and return it with a cheque to:

Dr Elinor Mason
University of Edinburgh
Dept of Philosophy
David Hume Tower
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9JX

The deadline for registrations is 4th July 2008.

Main Page & Registration | Provisional Programme | Travel and Accommodation

Conference Organiser: Elinor Mason
Conference Assistants: Ana Barandalla Ajona, Liz Ellis, Mog Stapleton
Conference Editors: Elinor Mason, David McCarthy, Mike Ridge.

Thanks to the Mind Association for their generous support of this conference