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Value Inquiry Network

34th Conference on Value Inquiry

Social Justice and Individual Responsibility

April 12-15, 2007

Adrian College, Adrian Michigan

Sponsored by

Adrian College

The Michigan Council for the Humanities

The American Society for Value Inquiry

The International Society for Value Inquiry

The Journal of Value Inquiry

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 13

 

8:00-8:45 a.m., Shuttle from Hotels to Adrian College

The Adrian Tobias Room, Registration and Breakfast

 Welcoming Remarks: Rev. Chris Momany

 

Session 1 Friday, 9:00-10:15 a.m., Arrington A

Topic: Topics in Feminist Thought

Chair:  Stephanie Jass

Speakers:

Cynthia D. Coe
Domestic Violence & Personhood: Two Conceptions of Agency

David Garren
Submission, Subservience & Social Justice

 

Session 2 Friday, 9:00-10:15 a.m., Arrington B

Topic: Moral Theory

Chair:  James H. Spence

Speakers:

Monica Gerrick
An Introduction to Normative Sentimentalism

Helen Frowe
Wolves, Passers-By and Obstructors 

 

Session 3 Friday, 9:00-10:15 a.m., Arrington C

Topic: Applied Ethics

Chair:  Matthew Altman

Speakers:

Ali Brown
National Defense as Self Defense 

Matt Tedesco
Some Moral Concerns About Practical Joking

 

Session 4 Friday, 9:00-10:15 a.m., North Hall 329

Topic: Faith and Social Justice

Chair:  Chris Momany

Speakers:

Mary Albert Darling
How Spirituality Fuels Justice Work

Brandon Donelson-Sims
Holy Spirit Peacemaking: A Case Study of the Pentecostal Charismatic Peace Fellowship

 

Session 5 Friday, 10:30-11:45 a.m., Arrington A

Topic: Philosophy and Gender

Chair:  Melissa Stewart

Speakers:

Natalie Nenandic
Hegel, Heidegger, and the Historical-Scientific Task of Ethics In Our Time

Meredith Verrochi 
Feminism & Alienation: Why some are “turning away” & what to do about it

 

Session 6 Friday, 10:30-11:45 a.m., Arrington B

Topic: Moral Responsibility

Chair:  Isaiah O'Rear 

Speakers:

Elise Springer
Responsibility as a Virtue

Kristin Schaupp
Moral Responsibility, Supererogation, & The Practice of Making Excuses

 

Session 7 Friday, 10:30-11:45 a.m., Arrington C

Topic: Contractarianism

Chair:  Walter Brand

Speakers: 

Julinna Oxley
Empathy and Contractual Moral Theory

Fred Harrington
The Inadequacy of Contractarian Grounding of Rights

 

Session 8 Friday, 10:30-11:45 a.m., North Hall 329

Topic: Higher Law and Social Solidarity

Chair:  Mary Albert Darling

Speakers:

Chris Momany
Theonomy and Higher Law: History and Hope

Shelby Weitzel
Forgiveness, Solidarity & Social Justice

 

Session 9 Friday, 10:30-11:45 a.m., Dawson Auditorium Lobby

Topic: Photojournalism Exhibit

Photographer: Lad Strayer

Author: Jennifer Burd

Conversation Pieces: A Portrait of Poverty and Homelessness in Lenawee County, Michigan

 

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

Lunch Reception, Adrian Tobias Room

Session 10 Friday, 12:45-1:45 p.m., Adrian Tobias Room

Plenary Session

Chair: James S. Taylor

Speaker: George Agich

Revisiting the Ethics of Managed Care

 

Session 11 Friday, 2:00-3:15 p.m., Arrington A

Topic: Military Ethics

Chair:   Lars Lindblom

Speakers:

Sharika Thirangama
In Praise of Traitors: Treason and Individual Responsibility in Civil War

Mark Rigstad
Just Causes, Proportionality, and Responsible Military Leadership

 

Session 12 Friday, 2:00-3:15 p.m., Arrington B

Topic: Moral Motivation

Chair:  Julinna C. Oxley

Speakers:

Katie Padgett Walsh
Responsibility, Motivation, and Normativity

Walter Brand
Curiosity and Motivation in Hume’s Treatise

 

Session 13 Friday, 2:00 – 3:15 p.m., Arrington C

Topic: Justice and Social Institutions

Chair:  Agnes Caldwell

Speakers:

Cecilia San Luis
A Treatise on Filial Obligation and Caring Relationships Between Elderly Children and Adult Children

William Tregea

Prison Growth vs. Pragmatic Reentry Concerns: The Ethics of Hyperghetto to Hyperincarceration- and the Ethics of Prison Downsizings

 

Session 14 Friday, 2:00 – 3:15 p.m., North Hall 329

Topic: Faith and Social Justice Round Table Discussion

Chair:  Melissa Stewart

Speakers:

Chris Momany, Mary Albert Darling, Sister Durstyne Farnan

 

Session 15 Friday, 3:30-5:00 pm., Arrington A

Topic: Terrorism

Chair:  David Garren

Speakers:

Chris Alen Sula
Terrorism, Innocence & Individual Responsibility

Shawn Kaplan
Terrorism as a Legitimate Means Towards Social or Political Justice?

 

Session 16 Friday, 3:30-5:00 pm., Arrington B

Topic: Applied Ethics

Chair:  Ezra Rosser

Speakers:

Martin Sandbu
Hijacked by Ownership - a Hobbesian Theory of the Business Corporation

Ben Almassi
Pogge on Human Rights, Negative Duties, & the Lockean Proviso

 

Session 17 Friday, 3:30-5:00 pm., Arrington C

Topic: Responsibility

Chair:  Fritz Detwiler

Speakers:

Robert Bass
Small Contributions

John Scott Gray
Generating Voter Responsibility if Individual Votes Don’t Matter

 

Session 18 Friday, 3:30-5:00 pm., North Hall 329

Topic: Undergraduate Session

Chair:  George Aichele

Speakers:

Kate Fassett
Hume on Is and Ought

Peter Bornschein
A Kantian Interpretation of Justice as Entitlement

Mary Hagley
Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Jesus

 

Session 19 Friday, 6:00-9:30 p.m., Adrian Tobias Room

Dinner and Plenary Session

Chair: David Garren

Speaker: Thomas Magnell

 Social Justice and Individual Responsibility

 

 

SATURDAY, APRIL 14

 

8:00-8:45 a.m., Shuttle from Hotels to Adrian College

The Adrian Tobias Room, Breakfast

 

Session 20 Saturday, 9:00-10:15 a.m., Arrington A

Topic: Wealth and Need

Chair:  James S. Taylor

Speakers:

Ezra Rosser
Obligations of Privilege

Sarah Miller
Global Need: Global Responsibility

 

Session 21 Saturday, 9:00-10:15 a.m., Arrington B

Topic: Medical Ethics

Chair:  George Agich

Speakers:

David Hurlburt
Facial Transplantation and Challenges of Informed Consent

Mark Moller
Why We Must Create Stem Cell Banks: An Argument from Social Justice

 

Session 22 Saturday, 9:00-10:15 a.m., Arrington C

Topic: Integrity and Self Respect

Chair:  Walter Brand

Speakers:

John Zillmer
Integrity: Persons, Acts, & Morality

Matt Ferkany
Social versus Individual Responsibility for Self-Respect

 

Session 23 Saturday, 10:30-11:45 a.m., Arrington A

Topic: Kantian Ethics

Chair:  Piers Norris Turner

Speakers:

Matthew Altman
Individual Maxims & Social Justice: Why Kant Cannot Make Sense of a Duty to Reduce Poverty

Geoffrey Manzi
The Intrinsic Evil of Slavery Revealed through Kant’s Categorical Imperative

 

Session 24 Saturday, 10:30-11:45 am., Arrington B

Topic: Applied Ethics

Chair:  Leanne Kent

Speakers:

David Gilboa
Pro Life for Philosophers

Galen Foresman
Deterrence and the Limits of Punishment

 

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

Topic: Political Philosophy

Chair:  Shelby Weitzel

Speakers:

Nate Metzger
The Dualism of Ethics: Why Moral and Political Theory Need A Realist Metaphysics

Isaiah O'Rear 
Desert and Policy Analysis

 

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

Lunch Reception, Adrian Tobias Room

 

Session 26 Saturday, 12:45-1:45 p.m., Adrian Tobias Room

Plenary Session

Chair: Thomas Magnell

Speaker: James S. Taylor

Autonomy and Choice

 

Session 27 Saturday, 2:00-3:15 p.m., Arrington A

Topic: Law and Politics

Chair:   Matt Ferkany

Speakers:

Shahin Izadi
When is Harm to Self-Worth Politically Weighty?

Paul M. Hughes
Internet Stings and the Creation of Thought Crimes

 

Session 28 Saturday, 2:00-3:15 p.m., Arrington B

Topic: Liberty

Chair:  Thomas Magnell

Speakers:

William Kline
Liberty Studies: Mapping Liberty in Curriculum

Piers Norris Turner
Mill on Liberty & Epistemic Responsibility

 

Session 29 Saturday, 2:00 – 3:15 p.m., Arrington C

Topic: Partiality and Happiness

Chair:  Tyler Paytas

Speakers:

James Hudson
Partiality and Special Duties in Utilitarian Perspective

Kathleen Dougherty
Personal Relationships, Moral Obligations & Individual Happiness

 

Session 30 Saturday, 3:30-5:00 p.m., Arrington A

Topic: Applied Ethics

Chair:  Michael McGrath

Speakers:

Wang Zeying
On the Moral Responsibilities of Enterprises

Nie Weijun
On the Moral Limit of Informed Consent

 

Session 31 Saturday, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m., Arrington B

Topic:  Political Philosophy

Chair:   Loren Lomasky

Speakers:

Lars Lindblom
Combining Democratic Equality and Luck Egalitarianism

Chris Lowry
Sen’s Capabilities & Liberal Neutrality

 

Session 32 Saturday, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m., Arrington C

Topic: Virtue

Chair:   George Aichele 

Speakers: Stephen Kershnar
Virtue & Sexual Fantasies

Leanne Kent
Virtue Ethics, Tragic Dilemmas, & Right Action

 

Session 33 Saturday, 6:00-9:30 p.m., Adrian Tobias Room

 

Dinner and Plenary Session

Chair: Thomas Magnell

Speaker: Loren Lomasky

Is It Wrong to Eat Animals?

 

SUNDAY, APRIL 15

 

8:30-9:15 a.m., Shuttle from Hotels to Adrian College

 

Session 34 Sunday, 9:30-10:45 a.m., Arrington A

Topic: Political Philosophy

Chair:  Helen Frowe

Speakers:

J. Miles
Free Speech and the Minimal State

Katherine Erbeznik
Yet Another Left-Libertarian Critique

 

Session 35 Sunday, 11:00 12:15 a.m., Arrington A

Topic: Moral Theory

Chair:  Ben Almassi

Speakers:

Chris Metivier
Enhancing Reason, Enhancing Judgment

Tyler Paytas
Acknowledged Desire Fulfillment Theory

 

 

Participants

 

George Agich, Bowling Green State University

George Aichele, Adrian College

Ben Almassi, University of Washington

Matthew C. Altman, Central Washington University

Robert Bass, Coastal Carolina University

Peter Bornschein, Albion College

Walter Brand, New York City College of Technology

Ali Brown, Florida State University

Jennifer Burd

Agnes Caldwell, Adrian College

Cynthia D. Coe, Central Washington University

Mary Albert Darling, Spring Arbor University

Fritz Detwiler, Adrian College

Brandon Donelson-Sims, Antioch University: McGregor Conflict Resolution Program

Kathleen Dougherty, Bowie State University

Katherine Erbeznik, Bowling Green State University

Sister Durstyne Farnan, Adrian Dominican Sisters

Kate Fassett, Adrian College

Matt Ferkany, Michigan State University

Galen Foresman, Bowling Green State University

Helen Frowe, University of Reading, UK

Dr. David Garren, United States Naval Academy

Monica Gerrek, University of Kansas

David Gilboa, Silver Lake College

John Scott Gray, Ferris State University

Mary Hagley, Adrian College

Fred Harrington, University of Wisconsin-Madison

James Hudson, Northern Illinois University

Paul M. Hughes, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Michael Hurlburt, University of Miami

Shahin Izadi, University of Wisconsin- Madison

Stephanie Jass, Adrian College

Shawn Kaplan, Adelphi University

Leanne Kent, Bowling Green State University

Stephen Kershnar, SUNY-Fredonia

William Kline, Center for Liberty Studies

Lars Lindblom, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Loren Lomasky, University of Virginia

Chris Lowry, Queens University, Canada

Thomas Magnell, Drew University

Geoffrey Manzi, Loyola Marymount University

Chris Metivier, Bowling Green State University

Nate Metzger, CUNY- Graduate Center, Dept. of Philosophy

Michael McGrath, Adrian College

J. Miles, Bowling Green State University

Sarah Clark Miller, University of Memphis

Mark Moller, Denison University

Rev. Chris Momany, Adrian College

Natalie Nenadic, Yale University

Isaiah O’Rear, University of Georgia

Julinna C. Oxley, Coastal Carolina University

Tyler Paytas, University of Missouri- St. Louis

Mark Rigstad, Oakland University

Ezra Rosser, Washington College of Law, American University

Cecilia San Luis, University of the Philippines

Martin Sandbu, Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Wharton School of Business

Kristin Schaupp, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

James H. Spence, Adrian College

Elise Springer, Wesleyan University

Melissa Stewart, Adrian College

Lad Strayer

Chris Alen Sula, CUNY Graduate Center; Lehman College, CUNY

James S. Taylor, College of New Jersey

Matt Tedesco, Beloit College

Sharika Thiranagama, University of Edinburgh, UK

William Tregea, Adrian College

Piers Norris Turner, UNC-Chapel Hill

Meredith Verrochi, Michigan State University

Katie Padgett Walsh, Northwestern University

Shelby Weitzel, College of the Holy Cross

Nie Wenjun, Hunan Normal University

Wang Zeying, Hunan Normal University

John Zillmer, Michigan State University

 

 

Thomas Magnell

Executive Director

The Conference on Value Inquiry

Philosophy Department

Drew University

Madison, NJ 07940

 

 

James H. Spence

Conference Coordinator

34th Conference on Value Inquiry

Department of Philosophy and Religion

Adrian College

Adrian, MI 49221

 

 

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