Ninth Annual Conference of the Felician Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Felician College Rutherford Campus
223 Montross Ave.
Rutherford, NJ 07070
(Please park in Lot D on Montross Ave. directly across from Martin Hall, also the parking lot for the “Little Theater.”)
Registration begins 8:45 am in the lobby of Martin Hall (pictured at the bottom of this page, but pictured there facing the building from the quad rather than the street). Continental breakfast served 9 am in 105 Martin Hall.
Note: There is a $20 registration fee payable at the door (check or cash, please), $10 for graduate students. There is no registration fee for members of the Felician College community.
FIRST MORNING SESSION: 9:30-11 am, Martin Hall
1. Meta-Ethics I (201 Martin)
Chair: Irfan Khawaja, Felician College
Robert Hartman (St. Louis University), “Against Luck-Free Morality”
David Kaspar (St. John’s University), “Stout Non-Naturalist Intuitionism,” (substituting for Moti Mizrahi [St. John’s University], “Ought, Can, and Presupposition: An Experimental Study,” cancelled due to illness).
2. Bioethics and Distributive Justice (205 Martin)
Chairs: Donald Casey and George Abaunza, Felician College
Eric Vogelstein (Duquesne University), “Why Is Medical Paternalism Wrong?”
Tammy Harel Ben Shahar (Columbia University Law School), “Equality in Education: Why We Must Go All the Way”
SECOND MORNING SESSION: 11:15 am-12:45 pm, Martin Hall
1. Meta-Ethics II (201 Martin)
Chair: Richard Burnor, Felician College
David Kaspar (St. John’s University), “Intuitionism and the Queerness Problem”
Gary Santillanes (SUNY Binghamton), “A Worry for Pluralistic Relativism”
2. Evil and Harm (205 Martin)
Chair: Irfan Khawaja, Felician College
Mollie Gerver (London School of Economics), “Positive Discrimination with Negative Intent”
Paul Boswell (University of Michigan), “Evil Demons, Holy Fools”
3. Living Well and the Meaning of Life (207 Martin)
Chair: George Abaunza, Felician College
Christine Vitrano (Brooklyn College/CUNY Graduate Center), “Living Well”
Kirsten Egerstrom (Syracuse), “Immortality and Meaninglessness”
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LUNCH 1-2 pm in “The Falcon’s Nest” (walk straight out the main door of Martin Hall for about 50 yards, then make a hard left and go approximately 50 yards to the Falcon’s Nest, to the right of “The Castle”)
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PLENARY 2:15-3:45 pm, Main Lecture Hall, Sammartino Hall
Introduction: Irfan Khawaja, Director, Felician Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs
Plenary:
James Stacey Taylor (The College of New Jersey)
“Markets in Political Votes: A Moral Defense”
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AFTERNOON SESSION: 4-5:30 pm, Martin Hall
1. Virtue Ethics (205 Martin)
Chair: Irfan Khawaja, Felician College
Travis Timmerman (Syracuse University) and Yishai Cohen (Syracuse University), “Virtue Ethics as a Substantive Normative Ethical Theory”
Philip Reed (Canisius College), “Virtue Ethics and Empirical Adequacy”
2. Moral Psychology: Historical Perspectives (206 Martin)
Chair: Joseph Biehl, Gotham Philosophical Society
Michael Dale (Brandeis University), “On Seneca’s Consequentialist Case Against Anger”
Ryan Ross (Ohio University), “The Source of Sidgwick’s Pessimism”
3. Ethics and Literature (207 Martin)
Chair: Ryan Nardi, Felician College
Robbie Kubala (Columbia University), “Could It Be Worth Thinking about Proust on Love?”
Robert McParland (Felician College), “Baptism of the Will: Kierkegaard’s Either/Or and Living Our Choices”
4. Money Matters: Rawlsian Liberalism and Bleeding Heart Libertarianism (Martin 201)
Chair: James Stacey Taylor, The College of New Jersey
Jeppe von Platz (Suffolk University), “A Rawlsian Theory of Economic Rights”
Jacob Sparks (Bowling Green State University), “Can’t Buy Me Love – Corruption and Semiotics: A Response to Jaworski and Brennan”
Reception 5:30-6 pm, The Castle, first floor reception room
Post-Conference Dinner
Location: Mambo’s Tea House, 6:45 pm.
Please direct any questions about the Felician Ethics Conference to Irfan Khawaja, felicianethicsconference@gmail.com.
Last revised: April 27, 2015 (NB: Living Well and Virtue Ethics sessions switched; 9:30 Bioethics and Distributive Justice sessions consolidated; some room numbers changed)
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If you’re interested in doing a Felician Current Research Workshop during the 2015-2016 academic year, please contact Irfan Khawaja at khawajai@felician.edu.
Last revised, May 5, 2015.
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