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SOCIETY FOR APPLIED PHILOSOPHY

Annual Conference 2010


St Anne's College, Oxford,
2 - 4 July

Friday 2| Saturday 3 | Sunday 4

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Friday 2 July
   
  10 - 12pm ECM  
   

Seminar Room 6

 
      SAP Executive Committee members only
       
  12 - 2pm JAP EBM  
   

Seminar Room 6

 
      JAP Editorial Board members only
       
 

12 – 2pm

Registration and Lunch

 

   

Marquee

 
       
 

2 – 3.10pm

Plenary Session I

 

 

 

Mary Ogilvie Theatre

 
     

Oughts and Cans: Demandingness and the Limits of Ethical Theory
Judith Lichtenberg
(Georgetown University)
Chair: Tom Sorell (University of Birmingham)

       
 

3.20 – 4.10pm

Concurrent Session I

 

 

 

Mary Ogilvie Theatre

     

Responding to Distress: mindreading deficits in psychopathic subjects
Alison Denham (Tulane University and Oxford University (Emeritus))
Chair-commentator:
Neil Manson (Lancaster University)

       
 

 

Seminar Room 1

The Family as Friend and Foe of Moral Development
Kate Moran (Brandeis University)
Chair-commentator: Anca Gheaus (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

     

 

 

 

Seminar Room 2

 
     

Geoengineering and the Precautionary Principle
Kevin Elliott (University of South Carolina)
Chair-commentator:
Ingmar Persson (University of Gothenberg)

 

 

Seminar Room 5

 
     

The Challenges of Contemporary Political Philosophy as Applied PhilosophyBogdana Koljevic (The New School)
Chair-commentator: John McMillan (Flinders University)

   

Seminar Room 6

 
     

In search of a welfare criterion for public health nudges
Yashar Saghai
(Georgetown University)
Chair-commentator: Sarah Conly (Bowdoin College)

 

4.10 – 4.40pm

Tea

 

   

Marquee

 
     

 

 

4.40 – 5.30pm

Concurrent Session II

 

 

 

Mary Ogilvie Theatre

     

Confronting Wrongdoing: The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice
Colleen Murphy
(Texas A&M University)
Chair-commentator:
Tom Sorell (university of Birmingham)

 

 

Seminar Room 1

 
     

Risk, Wholeheartedness, and Criminal Attempt
Michael Tiboris (University of California, San Diego)
Chair-commentator:
Guy Sela (University of Oxford)

 

 

Seminar Room 2

 
     

Winner of SAP AC2010 Postgraduate Essay Prize
The Virtues and Vices of Rigging the Natural Lottery
Ryan Tonkens (York University)
Chair-commentator:
Christopher Lowry (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

 

 

Seminar Room 5

 
     

How outlandish can imaginary cases be?
Jakob Elster (University of Oslo)
Chair-commentator:
Wybo Wiersma (King's College London)

   

Seminar Room 6

 
     

How useful is philosophy in clinical and public policy making settings?
Souzy Dracopoulou (Middlesex University)
Chair-commentator: Alexandre Erler (University of Oxford)

 

5.40 – 6.50pm

Plenary Session II

 

 

 

Mary Ogilvie Theatre

     

The Health Impact Fund: a suitable aim for political reform efforts
Thomas Pogge
(Yale University)
Chair: David Archard (Lancaster University)

 

7 – 8.30pm

Dinner

 

   

Dinning Hall

 
       
  8.30pm Wine Reception  
   

Marquee

:
      Drinks reception Sponsored by Wiley Blackwell
     

 

 

Saturday 3rd July
   
       
 

9 – 9.50am

Concurrent Session III

 

 

 

Mary Ogilvie Theatre

     

The Value of Decision-Making Capability
David Rhys Birks (University of Manchester)
Chair-commentator:
Christopher Lowry (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

 

 

Seminar Room 5

 
     

The Significance of Imaginary Cases for Applied Reasoning
Katarzyna Kobos (University of Lodz/UC Berkeley)
Chair-commentator:
Ramon Das (Victoria University of Wellington)

 

 

Seminar Room 7

 
     

Risk, Harm, and Justice
Katie Gallagher (Princeton University)
Chair-commentator:
Madeleine Hayenhjelm (University College London)

 

 

Seminar Room 8

 
     

The Citizenship Insurance
Orsolya Reich (Central European University)
Chair-commentator:
Kimberley Brownlee (University of Manchester)

   

Seminar Room 9

 
     

The Admissibility of Plan Descriptions and the Impure Tactical Bomber
Daniel Schwartz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Chair-commentator: Bruce Landesman (University of Utah)

 

10 – 10.50am

Concurrent Sessions IV

 

 

 

Mary Ogilvie Theatre

     

Solving the Non-Identity Problem
Gerald Lang (University of Leeds)
Chair-commentator:
Rossella Pisconti (University of Exeter)

 

 

Seminar Room 5

 
     

Applied Philosophy extended to Experimental Philosophy: A Case Study in Medical Diagnostics
Stéphanie Van Droogenbroeck (Free University of Brussels) and Laszlo Kosolosky (Ghent University)
Chair-commentator:
Adrian Walsh (Charles Sturt University)

 

 

Seminar Room 7

 
     

Defining Indigeneity, and Capturing the Importance of Indigenous claims
Krushil Watene
(University of Saint Andrews)
Chair-commentator:
Omar Dahbour (City University of New York)

 

 

Seminar Room 8

 
     

Charity without Borders
Patricia Illingworth (Harvard University)
Chair-commentator:
Suzanne Uniacke (University of Hull)

   

Seminar Room 9

 
     

The parental love argument against 'designing' babies
Anca Gheaus (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Chair-commentator: Christopher Megone (University of Leeds)

 

10.50 – 11.20am

Coffee

 

   
Marquee
 
       
 

11.20 – 12.30pm

Plenary Session III

 

 

 

Mary Ogilvie Theatre

     

The idea of settling accounts after political catastrophe
Catherine Lu
(McGill University)
Chair: Suzanne Uniacke (University of Hull)

       
 

12.30 – 2pm

Lunch

 

   
Marquee
 
       
 

2 – 2.50pm

Concurrent Sessions V

 

 

 

Mary Ogilvie Theatre

     

Applications in Epistemology: Knowledge, Understanding and Pedagogy
James DiGiovanna (John Jay College)
Chair-commentator:
Noel E Boulting (Noboss Kent)

 

 

Seminar Room 5

 
     

Are (Applied) Philosophers' Intuitions Reliable?
Steve Clarke (University of Oxford)
Chair-commentator:
Chloe Fitzgerald (University of Manchester)

 

 

Seminar Room 7

 
     

Does the Moral Status of Merely Possible People Imply that Early Abortion Is Wrong?
Melinda A. Roberts (The College of New Jersey)
Chair-commentator:
Ingmar Persson (University of Gothenberg)

 

 

Seminar Room 8

 
     

Innocence, Aggression, and Self-Defense
Reginald Williams (Bakersfield College)
Chair-commentator:
Nolen Gertz (New School for Social Research)

   

Seminar Room 9

 
     

The Ethics of Spin
Neil Manson (Lancaster University)
Chair-commentator: Elizabeth Ashford (University of St Andrews)

 

3 – 3.50pm

Concurrent Sessions VI

 

 

 

Mary Ogilvie Theatre

     

The Moral Basis of J. S. Mill's Liberalism
Ben Saunders (University of Oxford)
Chair-commentator:
Makoto Suzuki (Nanzan University)

 

 

Seminar Room 5

 
     

Explanation and Prescription in Applied Legal Philosophy
Tom Campbell (Charles Sturt University)
Chair-commentator:
Guy Sela (University of Oxford)

 

 

Seminar Room 7

 
     

Innate Talent and the Distribution of Educational Resources
Mark Vopat (Youngstown State University)
Chair-commentator:
Bruce Landesman (University of Utah)

 

 

Seminar Room 8

 
     

Organ transplants: while we worry about sales, are we exploiting donors?
Rob Lawlor (University of Leeds)
Chair-commentator:
David Archard (Lancaster University)

   

Seminar Room 9

 
     

Women and Children First
Per Sandin (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
Chair-commentator: Kimberley Brownlee (University of Manchester)

 

3.50 – 4.20pm

Tea

 

   
 Marquee
 

 

       
 

4.20 – 5.30pm

Plenary Session IV

 

 

 

Mary Ogilvie Theatre

     

Doing Good by Splitting Hairs? Analytic Philosophy and Applied Ethics
Hans-Johann Glock
(University of Zurich)
Chair: Adrian Walsh (Charles Sturt University)

 

6pm – 7pm

Society for Applied Philosophy AGM

 

   

Mary Ogilvie Theatre

 
      All members of Society for Applied Philosophy
 

7 – 8.30pm

Dinner

 

   
Dinning Hall
 
       
     

 

 

Sunday 4th July
   
 

9.30 – 10.20am

Concurrent Session VII

 

 

 

Mary Ogilvie Theatre

     

When Is Moral Hazard Hazardous?
Justin Weinberg (University of South Carolina)
Chair-commentator:
Kimberley Brownlee (University of Manchester)

 

 

Seminar Room 5

 
     

On the distinction between ideal and non-ideal theory
Ramon Das (Victoria University of Wellington)
Chair-commentator:
John McMillan (Flinders University)

 

 

Seminar Room 7

 
     

Intellectual Virtue and Objectivity in Public Discourse about Science
Moira Howes (Trent University)
Chair-commentator:
Noel E Boulting (Noboss Kent)

 

 

Seminar Room 8

 
     

Coercion, exploitation and paying for research participation
Sara Belfrage (Royal Institute of Technology)
Chair-commentator:
David Archard (Lancaster University)

   

Seminar Room 9

 
     

Is "genetic discrimination" based on bad science, unfair, both, or neither?
Stephen John (University of Cambridge)
Chair-commentator: Emilie Prattico (Northwestern University)

  10.20 - 10.50am

 Coffee

 
   
Marquee
 
       
 

10.50am – 12pm

Plenary Session V

 

 

 

Mary Ogilvie Theatre

 
     

Brute Retributivism
Shaun Nichols
(University of Arizona)
Chair: John McMillan (Flinders University)

       
 

12 – 1.30pm

Lunch

 

   
Marquee
 
       
  1.30 2.40pm Plenary Session VI  
   

Mary Ogilvie Theatre

 
     

Could Liberal Democracy Cope with Climate Change?
Ingmar Persson
(University of Gothenberg)
Chair:
Lorella Terzi (Roehampton University)

 

2.40 – 3pm

Tea and Close of Conference

 

   
Marquee
 
 

 

 

Please ensure any outstanding business is completed before close of conference

     

 

 


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