Felician College
Ethics Conference Program
Felician College, Lodi Campus
March 17, 2007
Note: The Conference is happening, despite the snow. But our morning schedule has been pushed back a little!!
10:00 AM—10:30 AM Registration and Coffee – Kirby Hall 3rd Floor
10:30 AM—12:30 AM CONCURRENT SESSIONS 1 – Kirby Hall
- History of Ethics, Chair: Don Casey, Felician College Kirby Hall 333
- “The Morality of Mill’s On Liberty”, James Mahon, Princeton University
Commentator: Damien Dupont, CUNY Graduate Center
- “Can Francis Hutcheson’s Moral Sense Theory Explain the Reasons an Agent Should Act Morally?”, Douglas Paletta, University of Pennsylvania
Commentator: David Morrow, CUNY Graduate Center
- Analytic Ethics, Chair: Yvonne Raley, Felician College Kirby Hall 334
- “Putnam and the Objectivity of Moral Values”, Sergio Gallegos, CUNY Graduate Center
Commentator: Paul Eckstein, BCC
- “What’s Right with the Open Question Argument”, Susana Nuccetelli and Gary Seay, University of Texas Pan-American
Commentator: Carl Hammer, CUNY Graduate Center
- Consequentialism and its Critics, Chair: Lisa Cassidy, Ramapo Kirby Hall 335
- “Consequentialism and Doing and Allowing”, Robert Muhlnickel, University of Rochester
Commentator: Christine Vitrano, CCNY
- “Is the Right Prior to the Good?”, Julian Fink, Oxford University
Commentator: Richard Burnor, Felician College
12:30 AM—1:15 PM LUNCH – Cafeteria, Albin Obal Hall
1:15 PM—3:00 PM PLENARY SESSION (Albin Obal Hall):
Virginia Held (CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College)
“Terrorism and Military Intervention”
Commentator: Lisa Cassidy, Ramapo College
3:15 PM—5:15 PM SECOND CONCURRENT SESSIONS 2 – Kirby Hall
D. Justice and War, Chair: Don Casey, Felician College Kirby Hall 333
1. “Some Problems with a Certain Conception of Just War as Law Enforcement”, Jake Blair, University of California at Santa Barbara
Commentator: Vicente Medina, Seton Hall University
2. “A Hybrid Approach to Transitional Justice”, Morton Winston, TCNJ
Commentator: David Gethings, Felician College
E. Activist Ethics, Teaching Ethics, Chair: George Abaunza, Felician College Kirby Hall 334
“Unification as an Ethical Principle in the Pragmatism of Dewey and James”, William Caspary, New York University
Commentator: Robert Talisse, Vanderbilt University
“Incorporating Ethics into the General Education Curriculum”, Kenneth Stunkel, Monmouth University
Commentator: Rick Kamber, TCNJ
F. Ancient Ethics, Chair: David Robertson, Felician College Kirby Hall 335
1. “Stoic Bearishness”, Michael Holowchak, Kutztown University
Commentator: Thomas Riggins, NYU
2. “Aristotle’s Regime of the Americans”, Peter Simpson, CUNY Graduate Center
Commentator: Mary Mulhern, Brookside Institute
G. Ethics, Applied Ethics: Chair TBA Kirby Hall 206
1. “Truth in Perjury”, Joanne Lau, Western Michigan University
Commentator: Kristian Kemptrup, CUNY
2. “The Dogmatic Objection in Moral Theory, Including a Case Study in Butler and Anscombe”, Chris Sula, CUNY Graduate Center
Commentator: Lily Frank, CUNY
5:15 PM WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION – Kirby Hall Faculty Lounge (3rd Floor)