PROGRAM

Friday, Nov. 17th
Provisional Campus Facilities 1
Saturday, Nov. 18th
Humanities Building 117
9:30-10:50 Panel 1 : Moral Emotions
Chair: Mustafa Aghahosseini

Seo Young (Sera) Kong, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Attention, Emotion, and Virtue

Jordan Myers, University of Houston
Anger, Injustice, and Affective Pluralism 

Panel 1: Voluntarism and Moral Responsibility
Chair: Jie Chen

Dallas Havens, Rice University
Unconscious Willing and Ordinary Blameworthiness

Zain Raza, University of Toronto
Voluntary Inference and Rational Responsibility 

11:00-12:20  Panel 2: Mind and Emotions
Chair: Dallas Havens

Patrick McKee, Brown University
Many Minds Swamps Most Moral Theories

Anna Hotter, University Center of the City University of New York
Unruly Bodies, Unruly Shame: Emotional Recalcitrance and Overcoming Body-Shame with Roxane Gay’s Hunger

Panel 2: Moral responsibility and luck
Chair: Jordan Myers

Mustafa Aghahosseini, Rice University
Taking Responsibility as Pretense

Giovanni Katzaroff, Loyola Marymount University
A Reckoning of Moral Luck, Culpability, and Virtuous Acknowledgements

12:30-14:00

 

Lunch Break Lunch Break

14:00-15:20 

Panel 3: Existential perspective
Chair: Nahum Shemi

Weiwei Mo, Rice University
Selfhood and Meaning in Life 

Sue McRae, University of North Texas
Levinas, Moral Psychology, and the Question of the Animal: The Case for Extending Levinasian Ethics of Radical Alterity to Animals 

Panel 3: Moral judgment and justifications
Chair: Anthony Gardner

Alina Khamatdinova, Washington State University
Epistemic Virtues and Resistance to In-Group Immorality

William Evan Welchance, University of Virginia
Justification, bias, and epistemic blame 

15:30-17:30 Faculty Roundtable
Chair: Heidi Munson

Tim Schroeder; Maria Botero; Marlon Mooijman; Bryan Denny; 

Keynote Address
Chair: Logan Wigglesworth

John Doris

18:30-19:30 Poster Session/Wine Reception

Location: Humanities Building, 

1st floor Lobby

Wan Zhang; Anthony Gardner;  Rose Sanchez; Elise Johnston

Closing Reception

(Location TBD)

 

*We are expecting 25 min presentation plus 15 min Q&A