Yale Working Group in Moral Philosophy

Spring 2011 Schedule

February 16, 4:00-6:00pm

Johann Frick (Harvard)

Title: What We Owe to the Hypocrites: Contractualism and the Speaker-Relativity of Justification

Location: 

April 19, 12-2:00pm

Thom Brooks (University of Newcastle)

Title: Why Save the Planet?

Location: WHC 208

Fall 2010 Schedule

September 1, 12:00PM -2:00 PM 

Joshua Kleinfeld (University of Frankfurt)

Title: Victims and Victimizers: A Study of the Normative Order of Criminal Law

September 28 Double Header:

1:00-2:30pm: David Enoch(Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Title: TBA
4:00-6:00pm: Henning Hahn (Univ. of Kassel)
Title: Justifying Feasibility Constraints on Social Human Rights

November 9, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Tina Rulli (Yale)

Title: TBA

November 30, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Josh Knobe (Yale)
Title: TBA



Spring 2010 Schedule

January 29, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM 

Katja Vogt (Columbia)

Title: Desiring the Good: A Socratic Reading of Aristotle

N.B.: This talk is co-sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy and takes place in CT 104

March 3, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Gilad Tanay (Yale)
Title: Moral Disagreements - an Epistemological Question?

March 24, 2:00 - 4:00 PM
Oran Moked (Columbia)
Title: Options, Constraints, and the Doing/Allowing Asymmetry
N.B.: This talk takes place in YK220 004

March 31, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Jesse Prinz (CUNY)

Title: An Empirical Case for Moral Relativism
N.B.: This talk takes place in YK220 004

April 9, 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Jens Timmermann (St. Andrews)
Title: Moral Conflict in Kant's Ethical Theory
N.B.: This talk is co-sponsored by SEMPY

April 14, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tina Rulli (Yale)
Title: Preferring a Child of One's Own

April 22, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tienmu Ma (Yale Law School)
Title: Does Genetic Enhancement Threaten Autonomy?
N.B.: This talk takes place in LC 209

Fall 2009 Schedule

September 30, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Laura Biron (Cambridge)
Title: Immanuel Kant and the Personality Theory of Intellectual Property

October 28, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Samuel Freeman (Pennsylvania)
Title: The Luck Egalitarian Critique of the Difference Principle

November 11, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Mike Morgan (Indiana)
Title: Levinas and Darwall on the Second Person Standpoint

November 12, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Luigi Caranti (University of Catania)
Title: A Critique of Joshua Cohen’s View of Human Rights and Democracy

December 2, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Gwen Bradford (Yale)
Title: Achievement


Spring 2009 Schedule

January 21, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Stephen Darwall (Yale)

Title: But It Would Be Wrong

February 18, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Matthew Noah Smith (Yale)

Title: On the Limits of Political Philosophy

March 4, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Thomas Pogge (Yale)

Title: Indices of Poverty, Development, and Gender Equity

April 29, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Gabe Mendlow (Yale Law School)

Title: Repentance, Guilt, and Punishment


Fall 2008 Schedule

October 29, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Gabe Mendlow (Yale Law School)

Title: Caring and Weakness of Will

November 19, 4:00 – 6:00 PM

Markus Labude (Yale)

Title: Deserved Pre-punishment

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