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2025 Program

Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics 2025 Program

Thursday, January 16

5:30 - 6:30 pm

Hannah Tierney (UC Davis)

The Risky Business of Forgiveness
   Chair:  

7:00 pm

Dinner | TBA

Friday, January 17

10:00 - 11:00 am

Mark Budolfson (University of Texas at Austin)

Why Morality and Other Forms of Normativity are Sometimes Dramatically Directly Collectively Self-Defeating
   Chair:  

11:15 - 12:15 pm

Helen Frowe (Stockholm University)
The Comparative Claims of Victims
   Chair:  

12:30 pm

Lunch | TBA

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Zoë Johnson King (Harvard University)

Working on Yourself
   Chair:  Justin Snedegar (University of Virginia)

3:15 - 4:15 pm

Caleb Perl (Australian Catholic University)
Causal Discounting Away from Longtermism
   Chair:  Paul Hurley (Claremont McKenna College)

4:15 pm

Refreshments

5:00 - 6:30 pm

Jean Hampton Lecture

Tamar Shapiro (MIT)
Heteronomy as Reactivity
   Chair:  

7:00 pm

Dinner | TBA

Saturday, January 18

9:00 - 10:00 am

Julie Tannenbaum (Pomona College)

(Almost) No Excuses 
   Chair:  

10:15 - 11:15 am

Douglas W. Portmore (Arizona State University)       

Time and the Duty of Beneficence
   Chair:  

11:30 - 12:30 pm

Sarah McGrath (Princeton University)

Backgrounding "Ought"
   Chair:  

12:30 pm

Lunch | TBA

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Ralph Wedgwood (USC)
Three Bulwarks of Non-Consequentialist Axiology
   Chair:  

3:15 - 4:15pm

Cheshire Calhoun (Arizona State University)

Kindnesses
   Chair:  Ryan Doody (Brown University)

4:15 pm

Refreshments

5:00 - 6:30 pm

Joel Feinberg Lecture

Johann Frick (UC Berkeley)

The Value of Life, the Value of Virtue
   Chair:  Max Lewis (Yale University)

7:00 pm

Dinner | TBA

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