Notre Dame-ACU International Ethics Conference
Co-Directors: Robert Audi (Notre Dame) and Stephen Finlay (Australian Catholic University)
April 10th through 12th, 2022, University of Notre Dame
McKenna Hall, 205
Sunday April 10
9:45: Welcome and opening information (Robert Audi and Stephen Finlay)
10:00-11:00: Sarah Stroud (UNC), “How Do Personal Relationships Make a Moral Difference?
Chair: Stephen Finlay (ACU); Commenting, Mike Zhao (Notre Dame)
11-noon: Philip Stratton-Lake (Reading), “Ross and the Problem of Permissibility"
Chair: Anthony Skelton (University of Western Ontario); Commenting, Dale Dorsey (Kansas)
Break: noon-12:30)
12:30-1:30: Thomas Hurka and Bowen Chan (Toronto), “Ross on Virtue and Vice”
Chair: Noell Birondo (University of Texas, El Paso); Commenting, Selim Berker (Harvard)
Lunch: 1:30-3:30
3:30-4:30: Roger Crisp (Oxford), “The Prima Facie/Overall Distinction: What is it? Where does come from? Why does it matter?”
Chair: Paul Weithman (Notre Dame); Commenting, Sarah Buss (Michigan)
Break: 4:30-5
5:00-6:00: Brad Hooker (Reading), “Ross on Justice”
Chair: Anthony Skelton (UWO); Commenting, Stephanie Collins (Monash)
6:00-7:00: Garrett Cullity (ANU), “Ross and the Foundations of Morality”
Chair: Robert Audi (Notre Dame); Commenting, Nandi Theunissen (Pittsburgh)
Monday April 11
9:30-10:30: David Phillips (University of Houston), “Can Sidgwick and Ross Converge in Moral Theory?”
Chair: Georges Enderle (Notre Dame); Commenting, Marta Soniewicka (Jagiellonian University)
10:30-11:30: Renée Jorgensen (Michigan), “Objective Rights & Epistemic Risks: Beyond Subjective Permissibility”
Chair: Brian Cutter (Notre Dame); Commenting, Laura Callahan (Notre Dame)
Break: 11:30-noon
noon-1:00: Zoë A. Johnson-King (USC), “The Slow Clap Phenomenon”
Chair: Don Howard (Notre Dame); Commenting, Elizabeth Jackson (Ryerson University)
Lunch: 1:00-3:00
3:00-4:00: Tamar Schapiro (MIT), “What Makes Weak-Willed Action Weak?”
Chair: David Cory (Notre Dame); Commenting, Patrick Kain (Purdue)
Break: 4:00-4:30
4:30-5:30: Stephen Finlay (ACU), “Beyond Normativity”
Chair: Patricia Blanchette (Notre Dame); Commenting, Hille Paakkunainin (Syracuse)
6:30-8:15: Dinner (for speakers), Morris Inn (cash bar opens at 6—for all participants)
8:30-10:00: Terence Cuneo (Vermont), and Russ Shafer-Landau (Wisconsin), “Why Be Moral?"
Co-Chairs: Robert Audi (Notre Dame) and Stephen Finlay (ACU); Commenting, Nevin Climenhaga (ACU) and Dustin Crummett (Seattle Pacific University)
Tuesday, April 12
10:00-11:00: David Copp (UC—Davis), “Ethical Realism and Robust Normativity”
Chair: Feraz Azhar (Notre Dame); Commenting, Declan Smithies (Ohio State)
11:00-noon: Ralph Wedgwood (USC), “Decision-Theoretic Virtue Ethics”
Chair: Haley Dutmer (Notre Dame); Commenting, Joshua Gert (William & Mary)
Break: noon-12:30
12:30-1:30: Caleb Perl (ACU), “Justifying Thresholds”
Chair: Joseph Mendola (University of Nebraska, Lincoln); Commenting, Christopher Kulp (SCU)
Lunch: 1:30-3:30
3:30-4:30: Clayton Littlejohn (King’s London and ACU), “Count the Numbers"
Chair: Rachel Dichter (Notre Dame); Commenting, Victoria Costa (William & Mary)
Break: 4:30 - 5:00
5:00-6:00: Mark Timmons (Arizona), co-authoring with Terry Horgan (Arizona), “Gratitude as What’s Morally Expected: A Phenomenological Approach”
Chair: Blake Roeber (Notre Dame); Commenting, Isabel Canfield (Notre Dame)
6:00-6:15: Short closing remarks led by directors