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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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