Upcoming Events


Nov
16

Ethics and Political, Social and Legal Annual Conference

Products of Our Time: Bias, Ideology, Morality
James Edwards
University of Chicago

Implicit Racial Bias and the Intrinsicality Claim
Robert Kelly
University of Buffalo

Pants on Fire: Legal and Ethical Implications of Neuroscience-Based Lie Detection
Greg Yanke
Arizona State University

Us & Them—Reconstructing Aristotle's Third Judgment of Compassion with Neuroethics
Franlu Vulliermet
Linköping University

The Special Problem of Climate Refugees
Justin Donhauser
Rotman Institute of Philosophy

Unauthorized Immigrants, Reasonable Expectations, and the Right to Regularization
Thomas Carnes
US Military Academy at West Point

Authenticity in the Digital Age of Social Media
John Gray & Paul Zube
Ferris State University

The Effects of Complicity in Hateful Assertions
Bianca Waked
McMaster University

Practical Authority, Clear Mistakes, and Role Obligations
Joshua Crabill
University of Indianapolis

The Responsiveness of Moral Obligation to the Compliance of Others
Walter Stepanenko
University of Cinncinnati

A Flourishing-Based Theory of Reasons
William Hannegan
St. Louis University

Infinite Value Ascriptions
Anthony Williams
Oakland University

Knowing Justice: On Illegalization, Epistemic Injustice, and the Legal Person as Interlocutor
Joel Sati
UC Berkeley

Religious Conscientious Exemptions and Insulation From Evidence
Joseph Dunne
Wayne State University

Injustice Against Women: A Philosophical Critique of The Widowhood Practices Among the Igbos of Nigeria
Grace Umezurike
Ebonyi State University

Gendered Labour Divisions and the Right to Water
Kerry O’Neill
Carleton University

Republicanism and Just Counterinsurgency
Mark Rigstad
Oakland University

On the Alienability of the Right to be Free From Torture
Peter Rose-Barry
Saginaw valley State University

What Does "Immediately "Necessary" Mean"  Reading the Model Penal Code as a Two-Pronged Limitation on Self-Defense
Bret Donnelly
Western Michigan University

Constitutional Crisis: Qualified Immunity, Government Misconduct, and the (New) Limits of Civil Liability
Jenji Learn
Western Michigan University

Preservation, Conservation, and the Malheur Rebellion
Derek Halm
Western Michigan University

The Ethics of Nonviolent Power
Mark Balawender
Delta College

Diagnosing Akrasia: Harmonizing Aristotle’s Diverging Accounts
Adam Waggoner
Western Michigan University

Having One Without the Other: An Account of Loosely Bound Virtue
Jared Mayer
Johns Hopkins University

Relationally-Informed Beliefs about Moral Responsibility (or Why Ruth Madoff Should Believe She Is Blameworthy for Her Husband’s Ponzi Scheme)
Amy J. Sepinwall
University of Pennsylvania

Virtue Ethics and the Situationist Challenge
Steven Guillemette
U of St. Thomas, Minnesota

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Sep
14
to Sep 15

Mind and Brain Annual Conference

"Intuitive Moral Judgments About Mood"
Jack Buchanan
University of Michigan Medical School

"Interoceptive Inference and Emotion in Music"
Shannon Proksch
The University of Edinburgh

"Mental Content"
John Park
Oakland University

"Grammar is not a Computer of the Human Mind/Brain"
Prakash Mondal
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

"Scaffolded Spontaneity of Skill"
Derek Jones
University of Evansville

"Exploring Skill"
Matthew Maler
San Francisco State University

"Machines and Minds"
Creighton Rosental
Mercer University

"Implicit Learning of a Spatial Layout"
Hong-jin Sun
McMaster University

"Targetless Higher Order States"
Sinem Elkatip Hatipoglu
Istanbul Sehir University

"Judgment Sense "of or for" an Act of Knowing"
Kiran Pala
The University of Basque Country, Donostia, Spain    

"Anesthesia and Consciousness"
Rocco Gennaro
University of Southern Indiana

"On Nanotechnology"
Tyler Jaynes
Utah Valley University

"Disposition Concepts are Causal Concepts"
Brittney Currie
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"How to Defend Embodied Cognition"
Luis Favela
University of Central Florida

"Morally Justified Beliefs"
Amy Sepinwall
University of Pennsylvania

"Ecological, Abductive, Heuristic: Human Reasoning"
Luca Dondoni
IUSS – School of Advanced Studies

"Decision Theoretic Consequentialism"
Sahar Heydari Fard
University of Cincinnati

"Active Desire"
Uku Tooming
University of Tartu

"ADHD Across Cultures"
Nina Atanasova
The University of Toledo

"Impact of Retrieval-Based Learning"
M. Courtney Hughes
Relias Institute

"What Is Integration in Consciousness?"
Katsunori Miyahara
Harvard University and University of Tokyo

"Understanding the Consciousness of Different Minds"
Eric Kraemer and Bradley Seebach
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

"Extending Mind Through Sport"
Jeffrey Fry
Ball State University

"Global Workspace Theory"
Katie Rivers
Georgia State University

"Prediction Error Minimization and the Dark Room"
Andrew Evans
University of Cincinnati

"Phantom Sensations: What’s a Brain to Do?"
Daniel DeFranco
Tulane University

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Feb
17

Michigan Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

"What the Church-Turing Thesis Does Not Say"
Vishal Chakraborty
University of California, Davis

"Our Metaphysical Nature: What We Are & Moral Implications"
Julia Lei
Western University

"In the Absence of a Future Like Ours"
Alexander Palka
Clemson University

"Designing Charles: The Moral Implication of Genetic Enhancement Without Risk"
Carl Montrosse
University of Michigan-Flint

"Private Language and Mental Causation"
Jonah Branding
Central Michigan University  

"Depression: Symptoms May Include Akrasia?" 
Michael Fiorca
SUNY Buffalo

"Plastic Surgery and the Ideal Body Image"
Molly Ockert
University of Michigan-Flint

"Identity and Its Moral Precepts"
Matthew Hagan
Clemson University

"Mind as Action in Zen Buddhist Thought"
Russell Guilbault
SUNY Buffalo

"Does Scientific Realism Think for Us?"
Leah Hasden
DePaul University

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