ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2011

Seminar Room

Seminar Room

12 – 2pm

Registration and Lunch

Dining Room

2 – 3.10pm

Plenary Session I

John Hartshorne lecture theatre

Authenticity and Jewish Self-Hatred
Marilyn Friedman (Vanderbilt / Charles Sturt University)
Chair: David Archard (Lancaster University)

3.20 – 4.10pm

Concurrent Session I

John Hartshorne lecture theatre

Trading Places and Saving Lives
Gerald Lang (University of Leeds), and Rob Lawlor (University of Leeds)
Chair-commentator: Tom Douglas (University of Oxford)

Remedial responsibility to join climate change regimes
Dong-il Kim (University of Warwick)
Chair-commentator: Ingmar Persson (University of Gothenburg)

JCR

Unconscionability, Complaints, and The Convergence of Contract and Promise
Nicolas Cornell (Harvard University)
Chair-commentator: Lorella Terzi (Roehampton University)

Old Dining Hall

The Right Not To Be Tortured
Jessica Wolfendale (West Virginia University)
Chair-commentator: Vittorio Bufacchi (University College Cork)

Library

Explaining the Asymmetry of Consent and Refusal
Neil Manson (Lancaster University)
Chair-commentator: Suzanne Uniacke (University of Hull)

4.10 – 4.40pm

Tea

Dining Hall

4.40 – 5.30pm

Concurrent Session II

John Hartshorne lecture theatre

SameSex Marriage and Equality
Reginald Williams (Bakersfield College)
Chair-commentator: Andrew Moore (University of Otago)

Seminar Room

Is Deceased Organ Donation Really Altruistic?
Greg Moorlock (University of Birmingham)
Chair-commentator: Neil Manson (Lancaster University)

JCR

Basic Income, Basic Capital, and Freedom 'Over Whole Lives'
Ian Carter (University of Pavia)
Chair-commentator: Adina Preda (University of Montreal)

Old Dining Hall

Self Defense without Proportionality
Guy Sela (University of Oxford)
Chair-commentator: Kam Por Yu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Library

Establishing a Philosophy of Disability: A New Understanding of Ability through Agency
Alanna Valdez (City University of New York)
Chair-commentator: Christina Rawls (Duquesne University)

5.40 – 6.50pm

Plenary Session II

John Hartshorne lecture theatre

Indirect Discrimination: Some Puzzles
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus University)
Chair: Suzanne Uniacke (University of Hull)

7 – 8.30pm

Dinner

Dinning Room

Dining Room / Bar area

9 – 9.50am

Concurrent Session III

John Hartshorne lecture theatre

Rereading Rawls on Self-Respect: Feminism, Family Law, and the Social Bases of Self-Respect
Elizabeth Brake (University of Calgary)
Chair-commentator: Anca Gheaus (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Seminar Room

Confining animals
John Hadley (University of Western Sydney)
Chair-commentator: Roxanna Lynch (University of Reading)

JCR

Winner of SAP Postgraduate Essay Prize 2011
What is Market Corruption?
Simon Cotton (Cornell University)
Chair-commentator: Mac Campbell (University of Queensland)

Old Dining Hall

Proportionality and Just War
Harry Lesser (University of Manchester)
Chair-commentator: Helen Frowe (University of Kent)

Library

Global Injustice, Human Rights and Radical Inequality
Vittorio Bufacchi (University College Cork)
Chair-commentator: Christina Rawls (Duquesne University)

10 – 10.50am

Concurrent Sessions IV

John Hartshorne lecture theatre

'Child abuse' as a thick ethical concept
Jos Kole (Utrecht University)
Chair-commentator: Roxanna Lynch (University of Reading)

Seminar Room

A Defence of OptOut Organ Donation
Ben Saunders (University of Stirling)
Chair-commentator: Neil Manson (Lancaster University)

JCR

Who is the referent for minimal risk?
Ariella Binik (University of Western Ontario)
Chair-commentator: John McMillan (Flinders University)

Old Dining Hall

On Killing the Red Cross
Helen Frowe (University of Kent)
Chair-commentator: Harry Lesser (University of Manchester)

Library

Voluntariness, freedom and freedom of choice
Adina Preda (Université de Montreal)
Chair-commentator: Ian Carter (University of Pavia)

10.50 – 11.20am

Coffee

11.20 – 12.30pm

Plenary Session III

John Hartshorne lecture theatre

The Makropulos Case Revisited:  Reflections on Immortality and Agency
Connie Rosati (University of Arizona)
Chair: Neil Manson (Lancaster University)

12.30 – 2pm

Lunch

2 – 2.50pm

Concurrent Sessions V

John Hartshorne lecture theatre

Fair regulation of personal relationships, reproduction and parenting
Daniela Cutas (Karolinska Institute / University of Gothenburg)
Chair-commentator: Muireann Quigley (University of Manchester)

Seminar Room

Disclosure and Consent to Medical Research Participation
Danielle Bromwich and Joseph Millum (University of Massachusetts)
Chair-commentator: Andrew Moore (University of Otago)

JCR

A Difficulty Concerning Compensation
Saul Smilansky (University of Haifa)
Chair-commentator: Arne Norderhaug

Old Dining Hall

A Defense of Proportionality-Based Contingent Pacifism
Saba Bazargan (University of California at San Diego)
Chair-commentator: Larry May (Vanderbilt University)

Library

The NonVoluntariness Dilemma: Soft Paternalism and Criminal Responsibility
Elijah Weber (Bowling Green State University)
Chair-commentator: Tom Sorell (University of Birmingham)

3 – 3.50pm

Concurrent Sessions VI

John Hartshorne lecture theatre

Climate Change, Responsibility and Cosmopolitan Obligation
Kerri Woods (University of York)
Chair-commentator: Guy Fletcher (University of Oxford)

Seminar Room

Galahad versus Odysseus: An approach to moral controversies in sport
Emrys Westacott (Alfred University)
Chair-commentator: Anne Raustol (Diakonhjemmet University College, Oslo)

JCR

Corporate Social Responsibility: Beyond the Business Case to Human Rights
Tom Campbell (Charles Sturt University)
Chair-commentator: Mac Campbell (University of Queensland)

Old Dining Hall

Do Enlistees Have a Political Obligation to Fight When Commanded?
Shawn Kaplan (Adelphi University)
Chair-commentator: Michaleen Kelly (Aquinas College)

Library

Why be moral in a virtual world?
John McMillan (Flinders University)
Chair-commentator: Christopher Ranalli (University of Edinburgh)

3.50 – 4.20pm

Tea

4.20 – 5.30pm

Plenary Session IV

John Hartshorne lecture theatre

Some Challenges for Narrative Accounts of Value
Katie McShane (Colorado State University)
Chair: Helen Frowe (University of Kent)

6pm – 7pm

Society for Applied Philosophy AGM

John Hartshorne lecture theatre

All members of Society for Applied Philosophy

• Agenda
• Minutes of the last meeting (AGM 2010, Oxford)

7 – 8.30pm

Dinner

9.30 – 10.20am

Concurrent Session VII

John Hartshorne lecture theatre

The Legal Defensibility of Civil Disobedience
Kimberley Brownlee (University of Manche)
Chair-commentator: Tom Douglas (University of Oxford)

Seminar Room

Defending statistical persons
Nir Eyal (Harvard University)
Chair-commentator: Anne Raustol (Diakonhjemmet University College, Oslo)

JCR

The Priority Monster
Theron Pummer (University of California, San Diego)
Chair-commentator: Arne Norderhaug

Old Dining Hall

Utilitarianism's Missing Thought
Mark T. Nelson (Westmont College)
Chair-commentator: Christopher Megone (University of Leeds)

Library

The right to parent one’s biological baby

Anca Gheaus (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Chair-commentator: Simon Jenkins (University of Birmingham)

 Coffee

10.50am – 12pm

Plenary Session V

John Hartshorne lecture theatre

The Greatest Vice
Hugh LaFollette (University of South Florida St Petersburg)
Chair: Ingmar Persson (University of Gothenburg)

12 – 1.30pm

Lunch

Please ensure any outstanding business is completed before close of conference