British Society for Ethical Theory Annual Conference 2008

Monday 14th July - Wednesday 16th July


Provisional Programme


 

Mon 14th July

 

11-12.30 registration (Coffee provided)

12.30-1.30 Lunch

1.45-3 Krister Bykvist and Jonas Olson

(Jesus College and Brasenose College,

University of Oxford)

Expressivism and Certitude

3-3.30 Tea

3.30-4.45 Carla Bagnoli

(University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Practical Reflection and Agential Authority

4.45- 5.15 Tea

5.15-6.30 Wlodek Rabinowicz
(Lund University)
Utilitarianism by Way of Preference Revision: Making Sense of Hare's Argument

6.30-7.30 AGM

7.45 Dinner

 


 


Tue 15th July

 

9.30 -10.45 Martin Peterson
(University of Cambridge)
The Asymmetry Argument

10.45-11.15 Coffee

11.15-12.30 Ulrike Heuer

(University of Leeds)

Wrongness and Reasons

12.30-1.45 Lunch

1.45-3.00 Jonathan Way

(University of California Santa Barbara)

Defending the wide-scope approach to instrumental reason

 

3-3.30 Tea

3.30-4.45 Alan Strudler

(University of Pennsylvania)

The Distinctive Wrong in Lying

 

4.45-5.15 Tea

5.15-6.30 Barbara Herman
(UCLA)
Kant and the necessary lie:
how “good” ends can (sometimes) justify "bad” means


7.30 Dinner


Wed 16th July

 

9.30 -10.45 Mark Schroeder
(University of Southern California)
Holism, Weight and Undercutting

10.45-11.15 Coffee

11.15-12.30 William Dunaway

(University of Southern California)

Minimalist Semantics and the Problem of Creeping Minimalism

12.30-1.45 lunch

1.45-3 Campbell Brown

(University of Edinburgh)

The Composition of Reasons

 

3pm End of conference

 

 
 

 

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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