A Conference in Memory of Derek Parfit
Hageman Hall (Ground Floor)
New Brunswick Theological Seminary
35 College Avenue 08901
United States
Sponsor(s):
- The New York Institute of Philosophy (NYIP) at New York University
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Registration is free but required. Registration deadline: Friday, December 8, 2017.
Friday, December 15, 2017
10:15 a.m. — Welcoming Remarks and Introduction
10:30-11:15 a.m. — Sharon Street (New York University), “Realism, Nihilism, and the Concept of a Normative Reason”
11:15-11:45 a.m. — Discussion Chair: Thomas Hurka (University of Toronto)
11:45-12:00 — Coffee break 12:00-12:45 p.m. — Jeff McMahan (University of Oxford), “Doubts about Parfit’s No-Difference View”
12:45-1:15 p.m. — Discussion Chair: Stephanie Beardman (Princeton University)
1:15-2:30 p.m. — Lunch 2:30-3:15 p.m. — Elizabeth Harman (Princeton University), “Abortion and the Non-Identity Problem”
3:15-3:45 p.m. — Discussion Chair: Johann Frick (Princeton University)
3:45-4:00 p.m. — Coffee break
4:00-4:45 p.m. — Samuel Scheffler (New York University), “Temporal Neutrality and the Bias toward the Future”
4:45-5:15 p.m. — Discussion Chair: Alex Guerrero (Rutgers University)
Saturday, December 16, 2017
10:30-11:15 a.m. — Peter Singer (Princeton University) and Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek (University of Łódź), “Parfit on Act-Consequentialism”
11:15-11:45 a.m. — Discussion Chair: Melinda Roberts (The College of New Jersey)
11:45-12:00 p.m. — Coffee break
12:00-12:45 p.m. — Mark Johnston (Princeton University), “Does Reasons and Persons (Part 3) Undermine Ethics?”
12:45-1:15 p.m. — Discussion Chair: Rahul Kumar (Queen's University)
1:15-2:30 p.m. — Lunch
2:30-3:15 p.m. — Frances Kamm (Harvard University), “Parfit on the Irrelevance of Deontological Distinctions”
3:15-3:45 p.m. — Discussion Chair: Dale Jamieson (New York University)
3:45-4:00 p.m. — Coffee break
4:00-4:45 p.m. — Larry Temkin (Rutgers University), “Box Ethics”
4:45-5:15 p.m. — Discussion Chair: Ruth Chang (Rutgers University)
Concluding Remarks
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