Workshop on Metaethics and The Philosophy of Language

Workshop on Metaethics and The Philosophy of Language

Stanford University

Wednesday December 7, 2016

Organized by David Plunkett

This is a pre-read workshop. Everyone attending a session is expected to have read the paper beforehand.

Workshop is free and open to all.

But pre-registration is required (in order to get the papers to read).

Register here: https://goo.gl/forms/EqF6CrjnT4TjMGjW2

Format for each session: 1hr10min per session. 5 min overview from speaker about main things she or he wants to focus on for discussion, and then Q+A.

11am-12:10pm:           David Plunkett (Dartmouth)

“Law, Morality, and Everything Else: General Jurisprudence as a Branch of Metanormative Theory” (co-authored with Scott Shapiro)

Lunch break

1pm-2:10pm:               Stephanie Leary (Indiana)

                                    “Why Relativism Doesn’t Explain Internalism”

Break

2:30-3:40pm:               Nate Charlow (Toronto)

                                    “Modal Triviality”

Break

4pm-5:10pm:               Seth Yalcin (Berkeley)

                                    “Semantics as Model-Based Science”