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Value Inquiry Network

33rd Conference on Value Inquiry

 

Market Values and Moral Values

 

APRIL 6–8, 2006

MOLLOY COLLEGE

ROCKVILLE CENTRE, NEW YORK

 

Sponsored by

Molloy College, Center for Business Ethics

The American Society for Value Inquiry
The International Society for Value Inquiry
The Journal of Value Inquiry

 

THURSDAY, APRIL 6

11:15-11:45 Shuttle from Hotels to Molloy College

12:00-1:15 p.m., The Multi-Purpose Room, Lunch Reception

 

Welcoming Remarks: William Kline

 

Session 1 Thursday, 1:30-2:45 p.m., Siena 107

Topic: Regulation

Chair:  Ken Shockley

Speakers:

José G. Vargas-Hernández
Cooperation and Conflict between Firms, Communities, New Social Movements and the Role of Government

Benjamin Sachs
Should We Limit Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis to the Prevention of Serious Disabilities?

 

Session 2 Thursday, 1:30-2:45 p.m., Reception Room

Topic: Value and Plurality

Chair:  Michael Russo

Speakers:

Joseph Palencik
Cosmopolitanism and Identity:  How to Speak to Others as “Rooted" Cosmopolitans

Elise Springer
Affordance-Concepts for Moral Interaction and a Problem about Truth

 

Session 3 Thursday, 1:30-2:45 p.m., Amphitheater

Topic: Teaching Value

Chair:  William Kline

Speakers:

Gerald J. Erion
Relativism and the Teaching of Value Inquiry

Cynthia McWilliams
Teaching Business Ethics Utilizing Critical Thinking and Cooperative Learning Techniques

 

Session 4 Thursday, 3:00-5:00 p.m., Siena 107

Topic: Determining Value

Chair:  Stephen Mayo

Speakers:

Alessandro Lanteri
Some Reflections on Economics and the Scope of the Market

Peter Celello
Interpreting Rawls’s Challenges to Desert in A Theory of Justice 

 

Session 5 Thursday, 3:00-5:00 p.m., Reception Room

Topic: Change and Value

Chair:  Gerald J. Erion

Speakers:

Kenneth W. Stikkers
The Transvaluation of Moral into Market Values

Andy Gustafson
Ethical Theories as Normative Narratives Rorty, Caputo, and Business Ethics Without Metaphysics

John Van Houdt
Two-Truths, Two-Worlds: Defining Moral Identity under Demand-Based Systems of Market Value
 

Session 6 Thursday, 3:00-5:00 p.m., Amphitheater

Topic: Sources of Value

Chair:  Joseph Palencik

Speakers: Kenneth Shockley
The Practice Dependence of Respect

James Hudson
Reasons for the Non-Epistemic

Josef Thomas Simpson
Intuitions and Moral Inquiry

 

5:10-5:40 p.m., Shuttle from Main College Entrance to Hotels for Dinner

 

Session 7 Thursday, 6:00-9:30 p.m., Crowne Ballroom, Best Western Hotel

Dinner and Plenary Session

Chair: William Kline

Speaker: David Schmidtz

Morality in the Marketplace

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 7

8:15-8:45 a.m., Shuttle from Hotels to Molloy

Session 8 Friday, 9:00-10:15 a.m., Reception Room

Topic: Competition

Chair:  Ken Stikkers

Speakers:

David I. Gandolfo
Human Responsibility and the Invisible Hand

Paul Gaffney
Competition as Moral and Market Value

 

Session 9 Friday, 9:00-10:15 a.m., Siena 107

Topic: Value in Action

Chair:  Michael Russo

Speakers:

Hugh P. McDonald
Creative Actualization as a Theory of Value

Eric Cave
Manipulation and Autonomy

 

Session 10 Friday, 9:00-10:15 a.m., Amphitheater

Topic: Subjective Value and Ethics

Chair:  William Kline

Speakers:

David Kaspar
Markets and Morality

Edward Hudgins
Objective Ethics at the Base of Subjectivist Austrian Economics

 

Session 11 Friday, 10:30-11:45 a.m., Reception Room

Topic: Consumerism

Chair:  David Gandolfo

Speakers:

Lisa Cassidy
Reflections on Women Shopping and Women Sweatshopping: Consumerism as a Moral Dilemma 

Roderic L. Owen
The Afflictions of Affluence and the Appeal of Simplicity

 

Session 12 Friday, 10:30-11:45 a.m., Siena 107

Topic: Politics and Value

Chair:  Ken Amman

Speakers:

John Draeger
Must We Care about Racial Injustice?

Shelby Weitzel
Remembering Benevolence: Forgiveness, Resentment, and Letting Go

 

Session 13 Friday, 10:30-11:45 a.m., Amphitheater

Topic: Markets and Primary Goods

Chair:  Anita Ho

Speakers:

David Shein
Markets, Morals, and Higher Education

Kevin J. Valadares
The Slippery Slope of Market-Driven Health Care

 

Friday, 11:50-12:45 p.m.,

Lunch Reception, Multi-Purpose Room

Session 14 Friday, 12:45-1:45 p.m., Multi-Purpose Room

Plenary Session

Chair: William Kline

Speaker: Douglas Rasmussen

Rights: Meta-Norms for Market and Moral Values

 

Session 15 Friday, 2:00-3:15 p.m., Board Room

Topic: Bioethics and Business Ethics

Chair:  Paul Gaffney

Speakers:

Byron Kaldis
From Business Ethics to Bioethics: Divergence and Interconnection

Anita Ho
Patents, Property Rights, and the HIV-AIDS Epidemic

 

Session 16 Friday, 2:00-3:15 p.m., Reception Room

Topic: Chinese Perspectives on Ethics

Chair:   Thomas Magnell

Speakers:

Gong Qun
Confucian Ethics from the Perspective of a Civil Society

Ge Chenhong
Morality, Reason, and Wisdom

 

Session 17 Friday, 2:00-3:15 p.m., Amphitheater

Topic: Applied Ethics

Chair:  William Kline

Speakers:

Donald Bruckner
The Morality of Meat Consumption: Hunted Game versus Farm Animals

Paul Dunn
The Ethics of Receiving and Keeping Tainted Donations

 

Session 18 Friday, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m., Amphitheater

Topic: Commodification

Chair:  Nancy Mardas

Speakers:

Louis Tietje
What Is Wrong with Universal Commodification?  

Erik Schmidt
Universal Commodification, Normative Incomparability, and the Axiom of Invariance

Shawn D. Kaplan
On the Concept of Terrorism

 

Session 19 Friday, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m., Reception Room

Topic: Markets and Value Frameworks

Chair:  Joseph Kupfer

Speakers:

Douglas B. Rasmussen
The Moral and Cultural Climate of Entrepreneurship

William Kline
What is a Market Value?

Eric Thomas Weber
Political Dimensions of Traditional Economic Liberalism

 

Session 20 Friday, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m., Reception Room

Topic: Morality in a Market Economy

Chair:   Thomas Magnell

Speakers:

Chen Zhen
Moral Considerations in China's Transition to a Market Economy

Han Pugeng 
Trading and the Value of Honesty in a Market Economy

Gao Zhaoming
Transnational Corporations:  Fortune and Responsibility

 

5:10-5:40 p.m., Shuttle from Main College Entrance to Hotels for Dinner

 

Session 21 Friday, 6:00-9:30 p.m., Crowne Ballroom, Best Western Hotel

 

 Dinner and Plenary Session

Chair: William Kline

Speaker: Thomas Magnell

 Market Values and Education within Dimensions of Value

 

SATURDAY, APRIL 8

 

8:15-8:45 a.m., Shuttle from Hotels to Molloy

 

Session 22 Saturday, 9:00-10:15 a.m., Board Room

Topic: Ethics and Assessment

Chair:  David V. McFarland

Speakers:

Nancy Mardas
A Roadmap for Locating the Intersection between Market Values and Moral Values

Steve Kershnar
Do Profits Measure a Firm's Contribution to Making the World a
Better Place?

 

Session 23 Saturday, 9:00-10:15 a.m., Siena 107

Topic: Institutions and Value

Chair:  William Kline

Speakers:

Steven Sheinberg
Law and the Market

Michael Buckley
Principles of Broadcast Media Ownership for a Democratic Society

 

Session 24 Saturday, 9:00-10:15 a.m., Amphitheater

Topic: Autonomy

Chair:  Dan Kern

Speakers:

James Stacey Taylor
Personal Autonomy and Market Coercion

Simon Clarke
Paternalism, Endorsement, and Aversion

 

Session 25 Saturday, 10:30-11:45 a.m., Amphitheater

Topic: Normative Ethics

Chair:  Matt Altman

Speakers:

Liam Harte
The Mirage of Allocative Justice: A Critique of Friedrich A. Hayek

Jim Skidmore
Does Ought Imply Might? 

 

Session 26 Saturday, 10:30-11:45 a.m., Board Room

Topic: Valuing Life

Chair:   Thomas Magnell

Speakers:

Zhang Zhicang
On the Aesthetic Value of Life

Xiao Qunzhong
Life Ethics

 

Session 27 Saturday, 10:30-11:45 a.m., Siena 107

Topic: Moral Realism

Chair:  William Kline

Speakers:

Daniel Kern
R.M. Hare on the New Wave

Jorn Sonderholm
Moral Realism, Supervenience, and Logic

 

Saturday, 11:50-12:45 p.m.,

Lunch Reception, Multi-Purpose Room

 

Session 28 Saturday, 12:45-1:45 p.m., Multi-Purpose Room

Plenary Session

Chair: Thomas Magnell

Speaker: Jan Narveson

Markets and Morals: The Twain Shall Meet

 

Session 29 Saturday, 2:00-3:15 p.m., Amphitheater

Topic: Ethics and Corporate Bodies

Chair:  James Stacey Taylor

Speakers:

Morton Winston
Cooperation in the Extractive Industries between Non-Governmental Organizations and Trans-National Corporations

Ian B. Lee
Citizenship and the Corporation

 

Session 30 Saturday, 2:00-3:15 p.m., Multi-Purpose Room

Topic: Art and Value

Chair:  Steven Sheinberg

Speakers:

Peter A. Redpath
A Contemporary Reflection on Hesiod on the Dignity of Work

Joseph H Kupfer
Dangerous Liaisons: Lessons in the Moral Value and Market Value of Sex

 

Session 31 Saturday, 2:00-3:15 p.m., Siena 107

Topic: Duty and Value

Chair:  Shelby Weitzel

Speakers:

Brian Armstrong
Moral Psychology and the Dilemma of Value in Business Ethics

Matthew C. Altman
Corporate Responsibility and the Categorical Imperative

 

Session 32 Saturday, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Multi-Purpose Room

Topic: Stakeholder Theory

Chair:  Morton Winston

Speakers:

Cynthia McWilliams
Small Businesses and the Stakeholder Theory

Andy Gustafson
Markets and Morals: In Support of a Social Utilitarian Stakeholder Business Ethic

 

Session 33 Saturday, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Amphitheater

Topic: Human Rights

Chair: William Kline

Speakers:

David V. McFarland
Human Dignity and Global Institutions  

Miguel Alzola
Three Principles for Ensuring Human Rights through Non-State Institutions

 

5:00-5:30 p.m., Shuttle from Main College Entrance to Hotels

 

PARTICIPANTS

 

Matthew C. Altman, Central Washington University

Miguel Alzola, Rutgers University

Brian Armstrong, The Pennsylvania State University

Donald Bruckner, The Pennsylvania State University

Michael Buckley, Emory University

Lisa Cassidy, Ramapo College of New Jersey

Eric Cave, Arkansas State University

Peter Celello, Bowling Green State University

Zhen Chen, Nanjing Normal University, China

Simon Clarke, University of Canterbury, England

John Draeger, State University of New York at Buffalo

Paul Dunn, Brock University

Gerald J. Erion, Medaille College 

Paul Gaffney, St. John's University

David I. Gandolfo, Marymount Manhattan College

Zhaoming Gao, Nanjing Normal University, China

Chenhong Ge, Renmin University of China

Qun Gong, Renmin University of China

Andy Gustafson, Creighton University

Pugeng Han, Nanjing Normal University, China

Liam Harte, Westfield State College

Anita Ho, College of St. Catherine

John Van Houdt, Gonzaga University 

Edward Hudgins, The Objectivist Center, Washington, D.C.

James Hudson, Northern Illinois University

Byron Kaldis, University of Athens, Greece

Shawn D. Kaplan, The State University of New York at Stony Brook

David Kaspar, University of Nevada at Reno

Daniel Kern, Riverside Community College

Steve Kershnar, State University of New York at Fredonia

William Kline, Molloy College

Joseph H. Kupfer, Iowa State University

Alessandro Lanteri, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Ian B. Lee, University of Toronto, Canada

Thomas Magnell, Drew University

Nancy Mardas, Saint Joseph College

Stephen Mayo, Molloy College

Hugh P. McDonald, New York City College of Technology

David V. McFarland, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

Cynthia McWilliams, University of Texas – Pan American 

Jan Narveson, University of Waterloo, Canada

Roderic L. Owen, Mary Baldwin College

Joseph Palencik, State University of New York at Buffalo 

Douglas Rasmussen, St. John’s University

Peter A. Redpath, St. John’s University

Michael Russo, Molloy College

Benjamin Sachs, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Erik Schmidt, Gonzaga University

David Schmidtz, University of Arizona

David Shein, Bard College 

Steven C. Sheinberg, Outten & Golden LLP

Kenneth Shockley, State University of New York at Buffalo

Josef Thomas Simpson, Fordham University

Jim Skidmore, Idaho State University

Jorn Sonderholm, Louisiana State University

Elise Springer, Wesleyan University

Kenneth W. Stikkers, Southern Illinois University

James Stacey Taylor, The College of New Jersey

Louis Tietje, Metropolitan College of New York

Kevin J. Valadares, University of Southern Indiana

José G. Vargas-Hernández, Instituto Tecnologico de Cd. Guzman, Mexico

Eric Thomas Weber, Southern Illinois University

Shelby Weitzel, College of the Holy Cross

Morton Winston, The College of New Jersey

Qunzhong Xiao, Renmin University of China

Zhang Zhicang, Nanjing Normal University, China

 

 

Thomas Magnell

Executive Director

The Conference on Value Inquiry

Philosophy Department

Drew University

Madison, NJ 07940

 

 

William Kline

Conference Coordinator

33rd Conference on Value Inquiry

Center for Business Ethics

Molloy College

Rockville Centre, NY 11571

 

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