Program


Monday (15.7.2024)

15 July 2024

9:00 – 9:15

Opening

9:15 – 10:25

Keynote: Normative contingency

Fabrizio Cariani (Maryland)

10:25 – 11:15

Extending McNamara’s recent modifications of the DWE framework

Paul McNamara (New Hampshire)

11:15 – 11:35

Coffee break

11:35 – 12:25

Understanding privacy by formalizing it

Réka Markovich (Luxembourg) Truls Pedersen (Bergen) Marija Slavkovik (Bergen)

 

12:25 – 13:15

Weighing reasons: A formal approach

Aleks Knoks (Luxembourg) David Streit (Luxembourg) Benoît Alcaraz (Luxembourg)

13:15 – 14:15

Lunch

14:15 – 15:05

The deontic and the evaluative: a family affair

Ronan Ó Maonaile (Reading)

15:05 – 15:55

Bayesian games meet social norms

Mikhail Volkov (LMU München)

15:55 – 16:15

Coffee break

16:15 – 17:05

Analyzing epistemic injustice

Joris Hulstijn (Luxembourg) Huimin Dong (Luxembourg) Réka Markovich (Luxembourg)

17:05 – 17:55

A reason-responsiveness approach to machine ethics for reinforcement-learning agents

Kevin Baum (DFKI, Saarbrücken) Lisa Dargasz (DFKI, Saarbrücken)

Tuesday (16.7.2024)

16 July 2024

9:15 – 10:25

Keynote: We-reasoning in moral deliberation

Anne Schwenkenbecher (Murdoch)

 

10:25 – 11:15

Collective harms: does it make a difference if I make a difference?

Timothy Luke Williamson (Oxford)

 

11:15 – 11:35

Coffee break

 

11:35 – 12:25

On the object of moral significance in fair allocations and why the property of equal impact in Taurek cases treats it wrongly

Ruth Korte (Rotterdam)

 

12:25 – 13:15

QALYs, Discrimination, and “Whom should we ask?”: a novel application of sympathetic extended preferences

Patricia Marino (Waterloo)

 

13:15 – 14:15

Lunch

 

14:15 – 15:05

Temporal partiality and the veil of ignorance

Todd Karhu (King’s College London)

 

15:05 – 15:55

Moderate inequality aversion: countering calibration in distributive ethics

Christopher Bottomley (Princeton)

 

15:55 – 16:15

Coffee break

 

16:15 – 17:05

Welfarist meritocracy

Enrico Mattia Salonia (Toulouse School of Economics)

 

17:05 – 17:55

Mixed seat allocation rules and conditional independence of irrelevant candidates

Frederik Van De Putte (Rotterdam/Ghent)

 

19:00

Conference dinner (please bring 50€ in cash to cover the cost)

Natürlich Büttners

Rakower Straße 9

Greifswald

Wednesday (17.7.2024)

17 July 2024

 

9:15 – 10:25

Keynote: On the coevolution of game and strategy

Justin Bruner (Buffalo)

 

10:25 – 11:15

How Nozick’s Rectification Principle redefines the minimal state

Jacob Watkins-Strand (Waseda) Hun Chung (Waseda)

 

11:15 – 11:35

Coffee break

 

11:35 – 12:25

The chaining argument unchained: either superfluous or invalid

Annalisa Costella (VU Amsterdam) Enrico Mattia Salonia (Toulouse School of Economics)

 

12:25 – 13:15

State-wise comparison, outcome comparison, and betterness-for-reasons

Asher Shang (Pittsburgh)

 

13:15 – 14:15

Lunch

 

14:15 – 15:05

A Farewell to justification of (weighted) utilitarianism by preference

Satoru Suzuki (Komazawa)

 

15:05 – 15:55

Reproving utilitarianism

Chad Lee-Stronach (Northeastern/Harvard)

 

15:55 – 16:15

Coffee break

 

16:15 – 17:05

On how much it matters: the mathematics of existential risk

Federico Faroldi (Pavia) Luca Zanetti (IUSS, Pavia)

 

17:05 – 17:55

General Discussion