OSU PGC

The Ohio State University
Philosophy Graduate Conference

May 2-3, 2008

Keynote Lecture by Robert Audi

Full Schedule

Note: Two concurrent presentations will take place during each normal session.

FRIDAY, MAY 2

11:00-12:00 - Registration

12:00-1:00 - Session One

Jussi Suikkanen (University of Reading)
"Moral Worth Externalism"
Commentator: Robby Newman (Ohio State)
Moderator: Robert Earle (SUNY Buffalo)

Joshua Crabill (Virginia Tech)
"Duties and Desires: A Critique of Michael Smith's Argument for Motivational Judgment Internalism"
Commentator: Lindsey Mason (Ohio State)
Moderator: Kevin Connor (Ohio State)

1:00-1:10 - short break

1:10-2:10 - Session Two

Travis N. Rieder (University of South Carolina)
"A Contractualism of Care: How to Save Scanlon for the Humeans"
Commentator: Nathan Smith (Ohio State)
Moderator: James McGlothlin (Ohio State)

John J. Craw (Biola University)
"Weakness of Will and the Ethics of Belief"
Commentator: Doug Dunsmoor (Ohio State)
Moderator: Alisa Wandzilak (Ohio State)

2:10-2:20 - short break

2:20-3:20 - Session Three

Marisol Brito (University of Minnesota)
"Developing Dignity: The duty of public education"
Commentator: Conrad Robinson (Ohio State)
Moderator: James MacPherson (Ohio State)

Alexander Jech (Notre Dame University)
"Moral Luck and Tragedy in Frankfurt's Moral Theory"
Commentator: Andy Choi (Ohio State)
Moderator: Audrey L. Anton (Ohio State)

3:20-3:30 - short break

3:30-5:30 - Special Colloquium

Robert Audi (Notre Dame University)
"Skepticism About the A Priori: Self-Evidence, Defeasibility, and Cogito Propositions"

SATURDAY, MAY 2

9:00-10:00 - Session Four

Mihailis E. Damantis (New York University)
"Moral Gambling: Solving the Problem of Moral Luck"
Commentator: Tyler Paytas (University of Missouri, St. Louis)
Moderator: Owen King (Ohio State)

Kelly Trogdon (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
"Integrity: Thick or Thin?"
Commentator: Jesse Duarte (Ohio State)
Moderator: Timothy Fuller (Ohio State)

10:00-10:10 - short break

10:10-11:10 - Session Five

David Morrow (CUNY)
"Saving Robert Audi from the Brain Scanners"
Commentator: Wesley Buckwalter (SUNY Buffalo)
Moderator: Patrick Hoffman (Ohio State)

11:10-11:20 - short break

11:20-1:20 - Keynote Address

Robert Audi (Notre Dame University)
"Intuition, Inference, and Rational Disagreement in Ethics"

1:20-2:00 - break for lunch

2:00-3:00 - Session Six

Jacob Kolman (Rice University)
"The Varieties and Limits of Ethical Contextualism"
Commentator: Cathleen Muller (Ohio State)
Moderator: Scott Brown (Ohio State)

Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin (University of California, Riverside)
"Two Worries about Current Methodology in Empirical Moral Psychology"
Commentator: Robert Earle (SUNY Buffalo)
Moderator: Craig Iffland (University of Virginia)

3:00-3:10 - short break

3:10-4:10 - Session Seven

Alex Sinha (University of Toronto)
"A Defense of Agent-Centered Restrictions"
Commentator: Craig Iffland (University of Virginia)
Moderator: Wesley Buckwalter (SUNY Buffalo)

David Jennings (Boston University)
"Love and Self-Interest in Plato's Lysis"
Commentator: Steven Brown (Ohio State)
Moderator: Audrey L. Anton (Ohio State)

4:10-4:20 - short break

4:20-5:20 - Session Eight

Simon Rippon (Harvard University)
"How to Have a Motive of Duty: A Reply to Zangwill in Defense of Response-dependence"
Commentator: Owen King (Ohio State)
Moderator: Robby Newman (Ohio State)

Mark Piper (St. Louis University)
"Hursthouse's Neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethics, the Slide into Consequentialism, and the Problem of Instrumentally Successful Vice"
Commentator: James MacPherson (Ohio State)
Moderator: Cathy Muller (Ohio State)

5:20-5:30 - short break

5:30-7:00 - Special Ohio State University Faculty Presentation

Timothy Schroeder (Ohio State)
"Explaining Virtue"

9:00 - Party

End-of-conference party, hosted by Kevin Scharp and Alison Duncan Kerr.

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