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2026 Program

Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics 2026 Program

Thursday, January 15

5:30 - 6:30 pm

Grant Rozeboom (Saint Mary’s College of California)

Equality: Basic and Relational  
   Chair:  Sarah Stroud (UNC, Chapel Hill)

7:00 pm

Dinner at Wildflower - 7037 N. Oracle Rd

Friday, January 16

9:00 - 10:00 am

Benjamin Lange (LMU, Munich & MCML)

Agent-Relative Prerogatives to Harm Enemies
   Chair:  Jacob Blitz (University of Arizona)

10:15 - 11:15 am

Dan Webber (Stanford)
Deeply Relational Contractualism
   Chair:  Aaron Segal (Kansas City University)

11:30 - 12:30 pm

Rachel Higginbotham (USC)
The Limits of Self-Sacrifice     
   Chair:  Mark van Roojen (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)

12:30 pm

Lunch at Fentonelli's - 7262 N. Oracle Rd

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Nolan Whitaker (UNC, Chapel Hill)

The Aptic View of Moral Worth
   Chair:  Shyam Nair (Arizona State University)

3:15 - 4:15 pm

Max Lewis (Yale)
Gratitudeworthiness without Praiseworthiness
   Chair:  Milan Mosse (Berkeley)

4:15 pm

Refreshments

5:00 - 6:30 pm

Jean Hampton Lecture

Julia Markovits (Cornell)
Praise and Blame in the Absence of Moral Knowledge
   Chair:  Abbie Livingston (University of Arizona)

7:00 pm

Dinner at El Charro Café - 7725 N. Oracle Rd

Saturday, January 17

10:00 - 11:00 am

Z Quanbeck (NYU)     

The Plurality of Ethical Norms on Belief
   Chair:  Meredith Sheeks (UNC, Chapel Hill)

11:15 - 12:15 pm

Eden Lin (Ohio State University)    

The Subjective Good on the Objective List  
   Chair:  Douglas Portmore (Notre Dame)

12:30 pm

Workshop Sponsored Lunch Buffet at Westward Look

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Macalester Bell (Bryn Mawr)
“Your (Hostile) Emotions are Valid”: Emotions of Protest and the Culture of Affective Validation
   Chair:  Robert Johnson (University of Missouri, Columbia)

3:15 - 4:15 pm

Justin D’Arms (Ohio State University)

Emotional Duration, Proportionality and the Half-Life of (Un)Happiness
   Chair:  Kyle Kirby (University of Arizona)

4:15 pm

Refreshments

5:00 - 6:30 pm

Joel Feinberg Lecture

Irene Bosco and Mark Schroeder (USC)

Utilitarianism, Impartial Sympathy, and Contractualism
   Chair:  Stan Husi (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

7:00 pm

Dinner at Tavolino - 2890 E. Skyline Dr

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