Value Inquiry Network

32^nd Conference on Value Inquiry

Louisiana State University

Sponsored by

The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Ethics Initiatives
The LSU Regents Grant for the Applied Ethics Project
The Baton Rouge Health Forum
The Cecile and Philip Barbier Fund
The Baton Rouge Area Foundation

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, APRIL 8th

All sessions will take place in the Lod Cook Conference Center

9.00--10.20am: Abell Board Room

WELCOME

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

David Copp

(University of Florida)

“Moral Necessities”

Session 1:

A) 10.30—11.45: Cook Conference Room

Rawls

Chair: Paul Hughes

1) “Probabilistic Knowledge of the Status Quo Under the Veil of Ignorance”
   Mike Farnsworth, University of Wyoming

2) “Rawls’s Presupposed Conception of the Good”
   William J. Melanson, The Ohio State University

B) 10.30—11.45: Abell Board Room

Desire and Value

Chair: Michael Modarelli

1) “Justifying Desires”
   Uriah Kriegel, University of Arizona

2) “Robert Nozick’s Radical Value Realizationism”
   Toni Ronnow-Rasmussen, Lund University, Sweden

C) 10.30—11.45: Clemons Conference Room

Ethics in Theory and Practice

Chair: William Russell

1) “The Doctrine of Double Effect in Medical Practice”
   Mitchell Thomas, Louisiana State University

2) “The Virtue of Transparency”
   John Elia, The University of Georgia

D) 10.30—11.45: Anderson Conference Room

Foundations of Ethics

Chair: Jeffrey Medina

1) “Fundamentals of Common Sense Ethics”
   Gerald J. Erion, Medaille College

2) “The Ethic of Foundation and Principles, The Ethics of Criteria and Possibilities”
   Andrea Amato, University of Bari, Italy

E) 10.30—11.45: Shelton Room

Animals and Environmental Ethics

Chair: Brian Huschle

1) “Sifting Through the ‘Soil’ of Callicott’s Land Ethic: Reason Within the Bounds of Sentimentalism?”
   Ronald Godzinski, Jr., Southern Illinois University

2) “Understanding Speciesism”
   Roger Wertheimer, Agnes Scott College

LUNCH

Session 2

A) 1.30—2.45pm: Cook Conference Room

Rationality and Autonomy

Chair: Uriah Kriegel

1) “Foot on Practical Rationality and Acting Well”
   David Chan, University of Wisconsin—Stevens Point

2) “Ambivalence, Volitional Incapacity and Legal Culpability: Reflections on the Role of Temptation in Criminal Law”
   Paul Hughes, University of Michigan--Dearborn

B) 1.30—2.45pm: Abell Board Room

Epigenesis and Cloning

Chair: Jay Hollman

1) “Ethics, Embryos, and Epigenesis: Valuation of the Human Embryo in Light of Epigenetic Research”
   Kevin Elliott, Louisiana State University

2) “Reason, Thought Experiments, and Literature in the Cloning Context”
   Brian Huschle, Northland Community and Technical College

C) 1.30—2.45pm: Clemons Conference Room

Therapy and Biological Limitation

Chair: Mike Farnsworth

1) “Drawing the Line: Rational Cognitive Therapy, Information, and Boundary Issues”
   William Angelette, Deakin University, Australia

2) “On Biological Limits”
   Jeffrey Medina, Birkbeck College, London University, UK

D) 1.30—2.45pm: Anderson Conference Room

Paternalism

Chair: Mike Rolfsen

1) “The ‘You’ll Thank Me Later’ Defense of Paternalism”
  Benjamin Sachs, University of Wisconsin--Madison

2) “Paternalism and Trust”
  Simon Clarke, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

E) 1.30—2.45pm: Shelton Room

Applied Ethics

Chair: Ronald Godzinski, Jr.

1) “A Kantian Approach to the Adjunct Dilemma in Universities”
   Michael Modarelli, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

2) “Weak Affirmative Action”
   Stephen Satris, Clemson University

Session 3

A) 3.00—5.00 pm: Abell Board Room

Chair: Roger Wertheimer, Chair of APA Committee on Practical Philosophy

APA Discussion on Practical Philosophy

B) 3.00 – 5.00 pm: Cook Conference Room

Marriage and Sexuality

Chair: Gerald J. Erion

1) “Sexuality in the Original Position: Not Knowing Who Your Partners Are”
   John Scott Gray, Southeastern Illinois College

2) “Marriage, Autonomy, and the State”
   Deirdre Golash, American University

3) “Same-Sex Marriage in a Free Society”
   David Gilboa, University of Wisconsin--Oshkosh

C) 3.00—5.00pm: Anderson Conference Room

Virtue

Chair: William J. Melanson

1) “Applied Virtue Epistemology?”
   Robert Johnson, University of Oklahoma, Norman

2) “Between Theory and Anti-Theory: The Relevance of Contemporary Virtue Ethics”
   James Dunson, Emory University

3) ‘“You Could Do Better!”: On the Prospects for a Virtue-Ethical Account of Moral Improvement”
   Jesse Duarte, The Ohio State University

D) 3.00—5.00 pm: Shelton Room

Rationality and Desire

Chair: Toni Ronnow-Rasmussen

1) “Socrates, the Rational, and the Non-rational Which Binds Them”
   Andrew Catalano, Wesleyan University

2) “Maximizing, Satisficing and the Normative Distinction Between Means and Ends”
   Robert Bass, University of North Florida

3) “Reason and Evaluation”
   Jan Narveson, University of Waterloo, Canada

E) 3.00—5.00 pm: Clemons Conference Room

Ethics and Values

Chair: Dan Palmer

1) “Derrida's Aporetic Ethics”
   Francois Raffoul, Louisiana State University

2) “Kantian Disinterestedness and the Sublime: A Lacanian Perspective”
  Scott Contreras-Koterbay, East Tennessee State University

3) “On Intimate Relations between Fact and Three Types of Values”
  Gong Qun, Renmin University, China

Conference Banquet, Faculty Club Main Dining Room

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Thomas Magnell

(Drew University)

“Delimiting Rights and Duties: The Transactional Model and The Principle of Correlativity”

SATURDAY 9^th APRIL

All sessions will take place in the LSU Union

Session 4

A) 9.00—10.15am: Atchafalaya Room

Autonomy and Informed Consent

Chair: Steve Taylor

1) “Inadequacy of Cognitive Understanding in Informed Consent”
   Anita Ho, College of St. Catherine

2) “Reasons, Autonomy, and the Ethics of Evaluative Practices Within Managed Health Care Organizations”
    Dan Palmer, Kent State University

B) 9.00—10.15am: Barataria Room

Business Ethics and Competition

Chair: Garret Merriam

1) “Business Ethics and Human Freedom”
   Francisco Benzoni, Duke University

2) “’Let Them Fight It Out’—How Competitive Structures Resolve Evaluative Impasses”
  Paul Gaffney, St. John’s University

C) 9.00—10.15am: Castilian Room

State Neutrality?

Chair: Jan Narveson

1) “Dangerous Intersections: Two Theories of Neutrality and State Responsibility”
   Philip Robichaud, Rice University

2) “State Paternalism and the Neutrality-Perfectionism Debate”
   Simon Clarke, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

D) 9.00—10.15am: International Room

Desires and Preferences

Chair: Eric v.d. Luft

1) “Desired Desires”
   James Hudson, Northern Illinois University

2) “Preferences Schmeferences”
   Malcolm Murray, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada

E) 9.00—10.15am: Red River Room

Bernard Williams’s Philosophy

Chair: Chris Meyers

1) “From the Hypertraditional to the Foolhardy: A Critique of Williams”
   John Zillmer, Michigan State University

2) “Reason and Sympathy”
  Andreas Pantazatos, University of Durham, UK

F) 9.00—10.15am: Feliciana Room

Political Philosophy

Chair: Iddo Landau

1) “Just States? A Pragmatist Argument for Broadening the Scope of Concern in Social and Political Philosophy”
   Mary Lynn Stoll, Muskingum College

2) “Liberalism and Human Rights”
  Jon Mahoney, Kansas State University

G) 9.00—10.15am: Vieux Carre Room

Philosophy of Biology

Chair: Jesse Duarte

1) “Moral vs. Biological Explanations”
   Joseph Millum, University of Toronto, Canada

2) “The Statement ‘This lion’s heart works badly’ Is Not Evaluative”
   Marcel Scheele, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
   Marco Schikhof, Leiden University, Netherlands

Session 5

A) 10.30—11.45: Atchafalaya Room

Clinical Ethics

Chair: Robert Bass

1) “Medicalization and the Ends of Medicine”
   Garret Merriam, Rice University

2) “Conflict of Interest in Right-to-Die Cases"
  Eric v.d. Luft, SUNY Upstate Medical University

B) 10.30—11.45: Vieux Carre Room

Freedom and Punishment

Chair: Jon Mahoney

1) “Libertarian Freedom, Determinism, and Adaptive Goal Migration”
   Richard Montgomery, West Virginia University

2) “The Ultimate Guilt Trip: A Puzzle for Retributivism”
   Chris Meyers, University of Southern Mississippi

C) 10.30—11.45: Barataria Room

Practical Reason and Motivation

Chair: Anita Ho

1) “Implications of the Dispositional Account of Belief for the Humean Theory of Motivation”
   Danielle Bromwich, University of Toronto, Canada

2) “The Euthyphro Dilemma: Susan Wolf, Christine Korsgaard and Harry Frankfurt on Practical Reason and Value”
   Katrien Scaubroeck, K.U. Leuven, Belgium

D) 10.30—11.45: Castilian Room

Moral Responsibility

Chair: Francisco Benzoni

1) “Blameworthiness and Ignorance: Evaluating Adolf Eichmann and Huck Finn”
   David W. Concepcion, Ball State University

2) “Mitigation and Responsibility”
   Zac Cogley, The Ohio State University

E) 10.30—11.45: International Room

Values

Chair: Paul Gaffney

1) “Values, Interests and Androcentricity”
   Iddo Landau, University of Haifa, Israel

2) “Reason, Evidence, Evaluation, and Christianity”
   Kenneth Cust, Central Missouri State University

F) 10.30—11.45: Red River Room

Emotion and Morality

Chair: Robert Johnson

1) “Feelings of Import: The Role of Emotion in Decision and Moral Evaluation
   Michelle Maiese, University of Colorado, Boulder

2) “Experience and Moral Understanding”
   Kathleen Poorman Dougherty, Bowie State University

G) 10.30—11.45: Feliciana Room

Kantian Ethics and Excuses

Chair: James Hudson

1) "Middle Theory, Manipulation, and Inner Freedom in Kantian Ethics”
   Donald Wilson, Kansas State University

2) “Excuse, Justification, and Agent-Evaluation”
   Matt King, University of Maryland

LUNCH

2.00—3.15pm Atchafalaya Room

KEYNOTE ADDRESS:

Alan Kors

(University of Pennsylvania)

“Intellectual History, Philosophy, and Inquiry into Values: The Different Sources of Debate”

Session 6

A) 3.30--5.00pm: Atchafalaya Room

Cooperation and Psychology

Chair: Danielle Bromwich

1) “Strategic Cooperative Rationality and Moral Evaluation”
   Jeremy Koons, American University of Beirut

2) “Psychology and the Meaningful Life”
   Shlomo Sher, University of Southern California

B) 3.30—5.00pm: Barataria Room

Contemporary Kantianism

Chair: Kathleen Poorman Dougherty

1) “The Reasons We Cannot Share”
   Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco, University of Birmingham, UK

2) “From Conditional to Intrinsic Value: What Is Wrong with Kant’s Source of Value?”
   Oliver Sensen, Tulane University

C) 3.30—5.00pm: Castilian Room

Practical Reason and Normative Competence

Chair: Matt King

1) “Practical Reason and the Character Dimensions of Distributional Conflict”
   Ron Weed, Tyndale University College, Toronto, Canada

2) “Situationism and Normative Competence”
   Jeremy Garrett, Rice University

D) 3.30—5.00pm: International Room

Virtue Ethics

Chair: Michelle Maiese

1) “Reliability, Rationality, and Virtue”
   Jason S. Baehr, Loyola Marymount University

2) “Traits, Dispositions, Intentions, and Virtues”
   Liam Monahan, University of Missouri--Columbia

E) 3.30—5.00pm: Red River Room

Moral Theory

Chair: Kenneth Cust

1) “The Best Moral Theory Ever”
   Jason Brennan, University of Arizona

2) “Facing Fears of Relativism: A Response to Scanlon’s Critique of Relativism”
   Eric Weber, Southern Illinois University

F) 3.30—5.00pm: Vieux Carre Room

Value Comparability

Chair: Zac Cogley

1) “Comparability: A Puzzle for Value Monism”
   Galen Foresman, Bowling Green State University

2) “Comparativism and Covering Values”
   James M. Okapal, Southern Methodist University

G) 3.30—5.00pm: Feliciana Room

Justice

Chair: David W. Concepcion

1) “Global Justice in a Globalizing World”
   Nicole Hassoun, University of Arizona

2) “Bootstrapped Justice”
   Alec Walen, University of Baltimore

Conference Banquet: Magnolia Room, LSU Union

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Marina Oshana

(University of Florida)

 “Moral Taint”

SUNDAY 10^th APRIL

All sessions will take place in the LSU Union

Session 7

A) 10.00am –11.15:

Value Inquiry and the Meaning of Life

Chair: Michael Jordan

1) “The Double Status of Autonomy as Value and as Principle: Rorty’s Literary Culture as a Case Study in Value Inquiry”
  Keith Peterson, Saint Michael’s College

2) “Ethics and the Meaning of Life”
   Matthew C. Altman, Central Washington University

B) 10.00am –11.15: Truth and Speech

Chair: William Glod

1) “"Truth-Delivery vs. Truth-Telling,"”
   Zhenming Zhai, Sun Yat-sen University, China

2) “Reasoning About Value from Attending to One’s Illocutionary Speech Acts”
   Parker English, Central Connecticut State University 

C) 10.00am –11.15: Contemporary Ethics

Chair: Scott Forschler

1) “The ‘Reflex Arc’ Concept in Ethics”
   Christopher Collins, University of Virginia

2) “Against Naturalizing Morality”
   Daniel Kern, Marquette University

D) 10.00am –11.15: Vieux Carre Room

Moral Status

Chair: Kevin E. Dodson

1) “Moral Individualism and Our Duties to Animals”
Mylan Engel, Northern Illinois University

2) “Properties and the Structure of Moral Status Debates”
Russell DiSilvestro, Bowling Green State University

E) 10.00am –11.15: Philosophy and Religion

Chair: Marc Baer

1) “Public Reason and Religious Discourse Revisited”
   Aaron Lercher, St. Andrews Presbyterian College

2) “Faith, Reason, and Value: Kierkegaard and His Relation to Hegel”
   Michael J. Matthis, Lamar University

F) 10.00am –11.15: Love and Radical Ethics

Chair: Carol Hay

1) “The Moral Permissibility of Infanticide”
   Uriah Kriegal, University of Arizona
   Nicole Hassoun, University of Arizona

2) “Why Some Value Theorists Have Problem With Romantic Love”
   Toni Ronnow-Rasmussen, Lund University, Sweden

G) 10.00am –11.15: Responsibility and Forgiveness

Chair: Iskra Fileva

1) “Philosophy in the Square: Challenges and Responsibility”
   John Abbarno, D’Youville College

2) ‘“Who am I to Judge?” Epistemic Considerations and the Obligation to Forgive’
   Shelby Weitzel, College of the Holy Cross

LUNCH

Session 8

A) 1—3.00pm: Identify and Recognition

Chair: Shelby Weitzel

1) “Narrative Voice, Historical Understanding, and Social Identity”
   Kevin E. Dodson, Lamar University

2) “Recognizing Patient Rights: The value of the practice of recognition”
   Andrea Houchard, Tulane University

B) 1—3.00pm: Value Theory

Chair: Michael J. Matthis

1) “The Neutrality of Rightness and the Indexicality of Goodness: Beyond Objectivity and Back Again”
   Iskra Fileva, Boston University

2) “An Argument from Explanatory Inadequacy of Values: A Critical Explication”
   Shin Kim, Indiana State University

3) “The Irrationality of Fanaticism: Giving Universalization Tests Teeth”
   Scott Forschler, Minneapolis Community and Technical College

C) 1—3.00pm: Social and Impersonal Reasons

Chair: Zhenming Zhai

1) “The Social Component of Reasons for Action”
   Katie Padgett, Northwestern University

2) “On the Prospects of Perspective-Neutral Normative Claims”
   Elise Springer, Wesleyan University

D) 1—3.00pm: Moral and Political Philosophy

Chair: Nicole Hassoun

1) “Finding Neutralism: Defending a Circumscribed Liberal Neutrality Against Political Perfectionism”
   William Glod, Tulane University

2) “No Troubles of Moral Twin Earth”
   Jorn Sonderholm, Louisiana State University

3) “Whether to Ignore Them and Spin: Moral Obligations to Resist Sexual Harassment”
   Carol Hay, The Ohio State University

E) 1—3.00pm: Contemporary Ethics

Chair: Jeffrey Medina

1) “Difficulties With Swanton’s Two Arguments Against Non-Aretaic Value”
   Marc Baer, University of California, Irvine

2) “The Fool and Reasons for Morality: The New Hobbes vs. the Old Gauthier”
   Julinna C. Oxley, Tulane University

3) “Nietzsche, The Creative Lie, and the Garden of Eden: A Response to Hangman Metaphysics”
  Diran Lyons, Independent Scholar

F) 1—3.00pm: Ethics and Friendship

Chair: Margaret Taylor-Ulizio

1) TBA

2) “Foucault, Ethics, and Friendship”
   Chris Blakley, Louisiana State University

G) 1—3.00pm: Phronesis and Principles

Chair: Mylan Engel

1) “The Concept of Phronesis: A Modern Malady, A Classical Cure”
   Michael Jordan, Marquette University

2) “Using Principles as Reasons: A Many-Valued Critique of Morality Without Principles”
  Jill Graper Hernandez, University of Memphis

James Stacey Taylor

Conference Coordinator

32^{nd Conference on Value Inquiry}

Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies

Louisiana State University

Baton Rouge, LA 70803

USA