5th Annual Graduate Student Workshop in Applied Philosophy: Broadening the Scope of Moral Consideration
301 Shatzel Hall
Bowling Green 43402
United States
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Broadening the Scope of Moral Consideration
A commitment to lead an ethical life in the contemporary world faces unprecedented challenges of global proportions. Many of our daily choices seemingly implicate us in a complex ethical quagmire. Do we, as residents in developed nations, have special obligations to the global poor and to those displaced by political and social unrest? Should we take responsibility for consumption and other activities that contribute to climate change and environmental harms, the exploitation of laborers, rising social inequalities, animal suffering, the loss of biodiversity and so on? If so how? Are carbon taxes, cap and trade, divestment requirements, and geoengineering morally defensible solutions to our large-scale political and social problems? What should be done about the proliferation of weapons and violence that contributes to terrorism, props up illegitimate regimes, exacerbates global inequalities, and is responsible for needless death domestically and abroad? How should we understand the impact of animal agriculture, consumerism, militarization, and population growth in light of environmental challenges and distributional inequities? If our problems are collective, then what is the role of individuals in solving them?
Conference Schedule:
Friday, November 3
9:30-10:30
Is the ACA’s Essential Health Benefits Mandate Really Unfair? The Fairness Argument, Consumer Freedom, and Helping the Uninsured
Graeme Cave, Wayne State University
10:35-11:35
The Case Against Big Houses
Dale Brown, Western Michigan University
1:00-2:00
Is it Rational to Care about the Natural Environment?
Josh Brown, Bowling Green State University
2:05-3:05
Shared Responsibility for Societal Appearances: On the Collective Effort to Restrict Hate Speech
Heather Stewart, University of Western Ontario
3:15-5:00
Keynote Address: Contribution Ethics
Dr. Tristram McPherson, The Ohio State University
Saturday, November 4
9:30-10:30
A Reconstruction of Nancy Fraser's Approach to Global Justice
Marzouq Alnusf, Northwestern University
10:35-11:35
Grounding the Capability Approach in Negative Rights
Anandita Mukherji, Boston University
1:00-2:00
Concentrated Wealth: The Inheritance License Market
Adam White, Bowling Green State University
2:05-3:05
Moral Markets
Samuel Krauss, University of Texas at Austin
3:15-5:00
Keynote Address: Is Humanitarian Aid a Gift?
Dr. Lisa Fuller, Merrimack College
Workshop coordinators:
- Andrew Erickson: [email protected]
- Alex Bearden: [email protected]
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