Law & Philosophy Lecture(@Rutgers-Newark)-Prof. Frances Kamm (Harvard)
Thursday 23 March 2017
Location Rutgers University – Newark Campus, 195 University Ave, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
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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LPW is an annual conference designed to foster reflection on the nature of law and the philosophical issues underlying its different areas. Our aim is to promote work that connects legal philosophy with other branches of philosophy (e.g., moral and political philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of language, epistemology, or philosophy of action) and to create a venue for the critical examination of different viewpoints about law.
The format of the workshop is pre-read. Each session will start with a very short presentation by the author (5-10 minutes). A commentator will then kick off the discussion; the author will respond to the comments, and then the remainder of the session will be dedicated to Q&A.
We are inviting abstracts (up to 1,000 words). Once we have received abstracts, we aim to put together a diverse program that we hope will be of interest to a wide range of people within legal philosophy.
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