The Center for Values and Social Policy in the Philosophy Department at the University of Colorado\, Boulder is pleased to invite philosophers to comment on main program papers at the fourth annual RoME Congress. \; See our preliminary main conference program below for a list of selected papers. As we finalize this program\, we will need to assign commentators to each paper. Ideally we&rsquo\;d like to match papers up with experts and critics. That&rsquo\;s where you come in.
\nAnyone with interest in attending the RoME conference is invited to submit a letter indicating their interest in commenting. Unfortunately\, given the vagaries of scheduling\, we will not be able to assign commentator slots to all who express interest\, but instead will do our best to fill the ranks with qualified commentators.
\nDeadlines
\nCommentator Expression of Interest Deadline: June 20\, 2014.
\nPlease \;submit (1) a short expression of interest\, (2) your AOS\, and (3) your (short or long) CV\, electronically (in Word format) to the organizers: Benjamin Hale (bhale@colorado.edu)\, Alastair Norcross (Alastair.Norcross@colorado.edu)\, Duncan Purves (duncan.purves@gmail.com)\, Paul Bowman (pauljbowman@gmail.com) and Ryan Jenkins (ryanjenkins@gmail.com).
\nFor organizational purposes\, please specify in the subject line of your e-mail by writing the words &ldquo\;RoME CFC Reply.&rdquo\; We hope to notify all commentators by June 25.
\nFormat
\nMain Papers: 30 minutes or 4500 words\, whichever is shorter
\nComments: 10-15 minutes
\nQ&\;A: Remaining Time
\nSession Length: 75 minutes total
\nFor more information and updates on RoME VII\, please visit our website at http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/center/rome.shtml
\nKeynote speakers:
\nGeorge Sher\, Rice University
\nElizabeth Spelman\, Smith College
\nRichard Arneson\, UCSD
\nMain program (alphabetical order):
\n1. \; \; \; \; \; Cheryl Abbate (Marquette)\, &ldquo\;Innocent Threats: The Search for Liability in the Defensive Killing of Nonhuman Animals&rdquo\;
\n2. \; \; \; \; \; Emad Atiq (Yale Law)\, "On the (Obscure) Relation between an Agent&rsquo\;s Blameworthiness and Her Reasons&rdquo\;
\n3. \; \; \; \; \; Neera Badhwar (George Mason)\, &ldquo\;Reasoning about Wrong Reasons\, No Reasons\, and Reasons of Virtue&rdquo\;
\n4. \; \; \; \; \; John Basl (Northeastern) and Christian Coons (Bowling Green)\, &ldquo\;Inferring Inferring from Ought to Is: the Puzzle of Moral Science&rdquo\;
\n5. \; \; \; \; \; Brian Berkey (Stanford)\, &ldquo\;Obligations of Productive Justice: Individual or Institutional?&rdquo\;
\n6. \; \; \; \; \; Sara Bernstein (Duke)\, &ldquo\;Causal Relevance and Moral Luck&rdquo\;
\n7. \; \; \; \; \; Gwen Bradford (Rice)\, &ldquo\;Uniqueness&rdquo\;
\n8. \; \; \; \; \; Zac Cogley (Northern Michigan)\, &ldquo\;Fortifying the Self-Defense Justification of Punishment&rdquo\;
\n9. \; \; \; \; \; Daniel Cohen (Colby College)\, &ldquo\;Mere Addition\, Asymmetry and Preference&rdquo\;
\n10. \; Victoria Costa (William and Mary)\, &ldquo\;Cosmopolitanism as a Virtue&rdquo\;
\n11. \; Eva Dadlez (Central Oklahoma)\, &ldquo\;The Robustness of Immoralism: A Reply to Anne Eaton&rdquo\;
\n12. \; Dale Dorsey (Kansas)\, &ldquo\;A Good Death&rdquo\;
\n13. \; Kirsten Egerstrom (Syracuse)\, &ldquo\;Meaning without Fulfillment&rdquo\;
\n14. \; Mylan Engel (Northern Illinois)\, &ldquo\;Animal Ethics by Example&rdquo\;
\n15. \; Iskra Fileva (Michigan)\, &ldquo\;Context without Contextualism&rdquo\;
\n16. \; Katy Fulfer (Hood College) and Patrick Clipsham (Winona State)\,&ldquo\;Valuing Nonhuman Animals: Welfarism\, Animal Rights\, and Commodification&rdquo\;
\n17. \; Robin Gaier (Viterbo)\, &ldquo\;Self-love and Moral Agency&rdquo\;
\n18. \; Joshua Gert (William and Mary)\, &ldquo\;A Fitting End to the Wrong Kind of Reason Problem&rdquo\;
\n19. \; Jason Hanna (Northern Illinois)\, &ldquo\;Enabling Harm and Withdrawing Aid&rdquo\;
\n20. \; Amelia Hicks (Kansas State)\, &ldquo\;Internalism\, Moral Recklessness\, and Vegetarianism: Responsibly Navigating Social Change&rdquo\;
\n21. \; Dien Ho (Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences)\, &ldquo\;Paid Surrogacy and the Ethics of Baby-selling&rdquo\;
\n22. \; Chris Howard (Arizona)\, &ldquo\;Against Wrong Kind of Reason Skepticism: Taking Up Way&rsquo\;s Transmission Argument
\n23. \; Stephen Kershnar (SUNY-Fredonia)\, &ldquo\;Reporting Atrocities and Morality&rdquo\;
\n24. \; David Killoren (Coastal Carolina)\, &ldquo\;Robust Moral Realism: An Excellent Religion&rdquo\;
\n25. \; Victor Kumar (Arizona)\, &ldquo\;Liberal Disgust&rdquo\;
\n26. \; Charlie Kurth (Washington University\, St. Louis)\, &ldquo\;Emotion\, Deliberation\, and the Skill Model of Agency&rdquo\;
\n27. \; Adam Lerner (Princeton)\, &ldquo\;Prudence and Perdurance&rdquo\;
\n28. \; Hallie Liberto (Connecticut) and Fred Harrington (Edgewood College)\, &ldquo\;Evil\, Wrongdoing\, and Concept Distinctness&rdquo\;
\n29. \; Eden Lin (Rutgers at Newark)\, &ldquo\;Humeanism and Desire Satisfactionism&rdquo\;
\n30. \; Theresa Lopez (Hamilton College)\, &ldquo\;On Moral Nativism and Moral Skepticism&rdquo\;
\n31. \; Kristopher McDaniel (Syracuse)\, &ldquo\;Metaphysical Naturalness and Normativity&rdquo\;
\n32. \; Howard Nye (Alberta)\, &ldquo\;The Butterfly Effect Argument Against Constraints on Harming&rdquo\;
\n33. \; Laura Papish (George Washington)\, &ldquo\;The Empirical Adequacy of Kantian Ethics&rdquo\;
\n34. \; Doug Portmore (Arizona State)\, &ldquo\;Acts\, Attitudes\, and Rational Choice&rdquo\;
\n35. \; Matjaz Potrc\, (Ljubljana) &ldquo\;Cognitive Expressivism as Revolutionary Proposal&rdquo\;
\n36. \; Michael Pressman (USC)\, &ldquo\;A Defense of Average Utilitarianism&rdquo\;
\n37. \; Ryan Preston-Roedder (UNC Chapel Hill)\, &ldquo\;Grief and Recovery&rdquo\;
\n38. \; Duncan Purves (Wyoming)\, &ldquo\;How to Raise the Leveling-Down Objection without Appealing to the Slogan&rdquo\;
\n39. \; Jason Raibley (Cal State\, Long Beach)\, &ldquo\;Emotions\, Moral Reasoning\, and the Evaluation of Consequentialism&rdquo\;
\n40. \; Nick Riggle (NYU)\, &ldquo\;Ideals as Metaphors&rdquo\;
\n41. \; Sarah Roberts-Cady (Fort Lewis College)\, &ldquo\;Rawls and Justice for Nonhuman Animals&rdquo\;
\n42. \; Gina Schouten (Illinois State University)\, &ldquo\;Does the Gendered Division of Labor Undermine Citizenship?&rdquo\;
\n43. \; Daniel Silvermint (Connecticut)\, &ldquo\;Intentional Resistance&rdquo\;
\n44. \; Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke)\, TBA
\n45. \; Saul Smilansky (Haifa)\, &ldquo\;Can an Egalitarian Be Very Good?&rdquo\;
\n46. \; Matthew Smith (Leeds)\, &ldquo\;Reliance on Evil and the Moral Character of Our Actions&rdquo\;
\n47. \; Toby Svoboda (Fairfield) and David Morrow (UAB)\, &ldquo\;Geo-engineering and Non-Ideal Theory&rdquo\;
\n48. \; Brian Talbot (Washington University\, St. Louis)\, &ldquo\;How Unfulfillable Obligations Can Guide&rdquo\;
\n49. \; Nandi Theunissen (Johns Hopkins)\, &ldquo\;On the Value of Human Beings&rdquo\;
\n50. \; Teemu Toppinen (Helsinki)\, &ldquo\;Rule Consequentialism and Kantian Contractualism at Top Rates&rdquo\;
\n51. \; Mike Valdman (Virginia Commonwealth)\, &ldquo\;What&rsquo\;s Wrong with Brainwashing?&rdquo\;
\n52. \; Kate Walsh (Iowa State)\, &ldquo\;Love as Freedom in Frankfurt and Hegel&rdquo\;
\n53. \; Arthur Ward (Michigan State)\, &ldquo\;Fit\, Fitness\, and Fittingness&rdquo\;
\n54. \; Justin Weinberg (South Carolina)\, &ldquo\;One True Love&rdquo\;
\n55. \; Rivka Weinberg (Scripps College)\, &ldquo\;You Got Me Into This&hellip\;': Procreative Responsibility and its Implications for Suicide and Euthanasia&rdquo\;
\n56. \; Stephen White (Northwestern)\, &ldquo\;Ends Justifying Means&rdquo\;
\n57. \; Eric Wiland (Missouri-St. Louis)\, &ldquo\;Against Advice&rdquo\;
\n58. \; Jennifer Zamzow (Carnegie Melon)\, &ldquo\;Affective Forecasting in Medical Decision-making: What Do Physicians Owe Their Patients?
\n59. \; Peter Zuk (Rice)\, &ldquo\;Mill's Metaethical Subjectivism&rdquo\;
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