Conferences and Symposia
The Ethics of Bearing and Rearing Children: Conference in cape Town, South Africa
May 26-28 2008
Keynote speakers:
Hugh LaFollete (University of South Florida): "Licensing Parents Revisited"
Jeff McMahan (Rutgers University): The Morality of Causing People to Exist"
Manuscript Workshop on Arthur Ripstein Kant's Legal and Political Philosophy
May 14-15, 2008
Presentor: Arthur Ripstein
Discussants:
Andrew Altman, Georgia State University
Bernie Boxill, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Andrew I. Cohen, Georgia State University
Andrew J. Cohen, Georgia State University
Lara Denis, Agness Scott College
William Edmundson, Georgia State University
Tom Hill, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Melissa Merritt, Georgia State University
Sebastian Rand, Georgia State University
George Rainbolt, Georgia State University
A. John Simmons, University of Virginia
Lecture: The Limits of Reproductive Freedom
January 9, 2008
Speaker: David Benatar, University of Cape Town
Lecture: Pluralilty of Values
November 13, 2007
Speaker: Alan Carter, University of Glasgow
Rules of War Conference
October 27, 2007
Principal panelists:
Derek Jinks, University of Texas-Austin
Frances Kamm, Harvard University
Steven Lee, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Jeff McMahan, Rutgers University
Madeline Morris, Duke University
Ethics in Traffic Symposiums
- September 20, 2007 “Are we really addicted to cars?”, Sam Kazman, general counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (Washington, D.C.). Respondent: Peter Lindsay (political science).
- October 4, 2007“Pavement, traffic, and ethics” – Panel discussion featuring Benita Dodd, Georgia Public Policy Foundation; Joel Peddle, www.itsCARMA.com ; and Lee Biola, Citizens for Progressive Transit
Fall 2007 Ethics-in-film movies series: Immigration and Cinema
- September 4, 2007: “Dirty Pretty Things”: Faculty panelists: Bilal Mansa (Sociology, Morehouse); Chet Meeks (Sociology); David McCreery (History)
- September 18, 2007: “Real Women Have Curves”: Faculty panelists: Mario Feit (Political Science); Megan Sinnott (Women’s Studies)
- October 2, 2007: “Mississippi Masala”: Faculty panelists: Rob Baker (History); Don Rubin (Speech Communication, UGA)
- October 16, 2007: “Crash”: Faculty panelists: Sebastian Rand (Philosophy); Tanya Washington (College of Law)
The Philosophy of John Finnis
March 23-24 2007
Leslie Green, York University: The Duty to Govern
Mark Murphy, Georgetown University: Finnis on Nature, Reason, God
Michael Perry, Emory University: Morality and Normativity
Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco, University of Birmingham: Is Finnis Wrong? Understanding Normative Jurisprudence
Steven Smith, University of San Diego: Persons Persuing Goods
Respondent: John Finnis, University of Notre Dame
Discussants:
Larry Alexander, University of San Diego
Andrew Altman, Georgia State University
Andrew I. Cohen, Georgia State University
William Edmundson, Georgia State University
Manuscript Workshop on Joseph Carens' Who Belongs: Immigration, Democracy, and Citizenship
November 10-11, 2006
Presentor: Joseph Carens
Discussants:
Andrew Altman, Georgia State University
Andrew I. Cohen, Georgia State University
Andrew J. Cohen, Georgia State University
William Edmundson, Georgia State University
Christy Hartley, Georgia State University
Peter Lindsay, Georgia State University
Donald Moon, Wesleyan College
George Rainbolt, Georgia State University
Jeff Spinner-Halev, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Christopher Wellman, Washington University, St. Louis
Panel: Religion, Globalization, and Public Health
September 27th 2006
Interfaith panel discussion featuring:
Plemon T. El-Amin, the Masjid Imam of the Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam
Rabbi Joshua Lesser of Congregation Bet Haverim and the Rainbow Center in Atlanta
Rev. H. Ray Newman, Sr., Specialist of the Ethics Public Affairs Ministry of the Georgia Baptist Convention
Kencho Tenzin, former Buddhist monk with the Drepung Loseling Monastery in India and graduate student,Department of Religious Studies, Georgia State University.
Lecture: Forced Sterilization Laws: The 100 Year History of Eugenics
October 18, 2006
Speaker: Professor Paul Lombardo, Georgia State University
Ethics Panel: Globalizing the American Way
October 19, 2006
Panelists:
Maureen Kelley, University of Alabama - Birmingham
Scott Beaulier, Mercer University
Michael Eriksen, Georgia State University
An interdisciplinary conference cosponsored with the Philosophy Department of the
University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Keynote speakers:
Chandran Kukathas, University of Utah
Thomas Pogge, Australian National University, Columbia and Oslo Universities
Bernard Williams: A Philosophical Commemoration
March 17-18, 2006
Speakers:
John Deigh, University of Texas, Austin
Michael Green, University of Chicago
Adrian Moore, Oxford University
Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago
Michael Stocker, Syracuse University
Discussants:
Jonathan Adler, City University of New York
Sarah Buss, University of Iowa
Donald Hubin, Ohio State University
Mark Jenkins, Johns Hopkins University
Christopher Kutz, University of California, Berkeley
Anthony Long, University of California, Berkeley
Henry Richardson, Georgetown University
Manuscript Workshop on A. John Simmons' Political Philosophy
November 4-5, 2006
Presentor: A. John Simmons
Discussants:
Andrew Altman, Georgia State University
Andrew I. Cohen, Georgia State University
Andrew J. Cohen, Georgia State University
David Copp, University of Florida
William Edmundson, Georgia State University
Christie Hartley, Georgia State University
Peter Lindsay, Georgia State University
Christopher W. Morris, University of Maryland
George Rainbolt, Georgia State University
Christopher Heath Wellman, Washington University, St. Louis
Religion and Natural Disasters: An Interfaith Panel Discussion
November 8, 2005
Panelists:
Rev. E. Claiborne Jones: Director and Vicar, Emmaus House, Atlanta
Plemon T. El-Amin: Masjid Imman at Atlanta Masjid Of Al-Islam
Rabbi Alvin Sugarman: Rabbi Emeritus of The Temple
Kencho Tenzin: trained at Drepund Loseling Monastery; teacher at Drepung Loseling Institute in Atlanta
Ossabaw Inaugural Lecture
September 28, 2005
Jonathan W. Malino, Guilford College
Perspectives on Religious Pluralism: Talmud, Philosophy, and Israeli Politics
34 Peachtree Street, 11th floor conference room.
Political Obligation,
Democratic Legitimacy, and Human Rights: Theoretical and Applied Issues
Summer 2005
Joel
Feinberg Memorial Conference
April 1-2, 2005
Principal panelists:
Russ Shafer-Landau (Wisconsin): Liberalism and Paternalism
Christopher Heath Wellman (Washington University, St.
Louis): Feinberg's Two Concepts of Rights
Patricia Smith (CUNY), Feinberg and the Failure to Act
John Gardner (Oxford; Yale), The Varieties of Responsibility
Richard Arneson (UCSD), Joel Feinberg on Paternalism
Gerald J. Postema (UNC-Chapel Hill), Politics is About the Grievance: Feinberg on the Enforcement of Morals
Respondents:
Larry Alexander, University of San Diego
Andrew Altman, Georgia State University
Jules Coleman, Yale, NYU
William Edmundson, Georgia State University
Heidi Malm, Loyola University, Chicago
George Rainbolt, Georgia State University
Guest Respondents:
A. Jason Cohen, James Madison University
Ani Satz, Emory University
Book workshop on Thomas
Christiano's The
Constitution of Equality
February 18-19, 2005
Presentor: Thomas Christiano
Discussants:
Andrew Altman, Georgia State
University
Andrew I. Cohen, Georgia State University
William Edmundson, Georgia State University
David Estlund, Brown University
Gerald Gaus, Tulane University
Peter Lindsay,Georgia State University
George Rainbolt, Georgia State University
Christopher H. Wellman,Georgia State
University
Colloquium: Human Rights and the Legacy of King
January 21, 2005
Part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. commemorative week at
Georgia State: Michael Sullivan, Emory University.
Symposium: Tsunami Relief Symposium
January 19, 2005
Panelists:
William Waugh, Jr., Prof. of Public Administration and
Urban Studies/Political Science
Prof. Jennifer McCoy, Associate Professor of Political
Science
Prof. Andrew I. Cohen, Associate Director, Jean Beer
Blumenfeld Center for Ethics
Colloquium: International Aid: When Giving Becomes a Vice
October 22, 2004
Neera Badhwar, University of Oklahoma
Colloquium: Why Your Life Is So Much Worse Than You Think
October 15, 2005
David Benatar, University of Cape Town
DISABILITY
May 7-8, 2004
Papers presented:
Lawrence Becker - Reciprocity, Justice, and Disability
Dan Brock - Is Selection of Children Wrong?
N. Ann Davis - Invisible Disability
Leslie Francis - Understanding Their Good By, With, and For People
with Significant Cognitive Disabilities
Eva Kittay - The Ethics of Philosophizing: Cognitive Impairment
at the Margins of Moral Personhood
Jeff McMahan - Preventing the Existence of People with Disabilities
Anita Silvers - Contracting with Trust: Resolving the 'Outlier Problem'
by (Re)Modeling Social Contract Theory
David Wasserman - Failing to 'Prevent' Impairments by Genetic Testing:
Is it Wrong? Is Anyone Wronged?
Principal Speakers:
Lawrence Becker - College of William & Mary
Dan Brock - Harvard University
N. Ann Davis - Pomona College
Leslie Francis - University of Utah
Eva Kittay - SUNY, Stony Brook
Jeff McMahan - Rutgers University
Anita Silvers - San Francisco State University
David Wasserman - University of Maryland
Discussants:
Richard Arneson - University of California, San Diego
Sarah Goering - University of Washington
Agnieszka Jaworska - Stanford University
Ani Satz - Emory University
Jonathan Wolff - University College London
Sophia Wong - Long Island University, Brooklyn
SYMPOSIA ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
March 23-24, 2004
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Same-Sex Marriage and the Law
Panelists:
Clark Cunningham: W. Lee Burge Professor of Law & Ethics.
L. Lynn Hogue: Professor
in the College of Law at Georgia State University and Executive Director
of the Southeastern Legal Foundation in Atlanta.
Ellen Taylor: Associate
Professor at Georgia State University's College of Law.
Same-Sex Marriage and Religion
Panelists:
Richard A. Goode, Assoc. Prof. and
Chair of Urban Studies, Beulah Heights Bible College
Rabbi Joshua Lesser:
M.H. L. of Congregation Bet Haverim.
B. Wiley Stephens,
Senior Pastor, Dunwoody United Methodist Church
The Reverend Canon Gray Temple: Rector
of St. Patrick's Episcopal Church.
Same Sex Marriage: Ethics and Public Policy
Panelists:
Prof. John
Corvino: teaches philosophy at Wayne State University in Detroit,
Michigan.
Randy Hicks: president
of the Georgia Family Council (GFC), a non-partisan organization dedicated
to strengthening marriages and families in the state of Georgia.
Professor Juliana Kubala: (PhD: Emory University) teaches
with the Women's Studies Institute (PTI) at Georgia State University and
at the English Department of Clark Atlanta University.
BOOK WORKSHOP ON DAVID SCHMIDTZ'S
THE ELEMENTS OF JUSTICE
March 12-13, 2004
Presentor: David Schmimdtz
Discussants:
Andrew
Altman, philosophy, Georgia State University
Andrew
I. Cohen, philosophy, Georgia State University
William Edmundson, law, Georgia
State University
George
Rainbolt, philosophy, Georgia State University
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord,
philosophy, UNC-Chapel Hill
David
Schmidtz, philosophy, University of Arizona
Christopher
H. Wellman, philosophy, Georgia State University
BOOK WORKSHOP ON LARRY MAY'S
CRIME AND HUMANITY
May 2003
Presentor: Larry May
Panelists:
Andrew Altman, philosophy, Georgia State University
Allen Buchanan, philosophy, Duke University
William Edmundson, law, Georgia State University
Peter Lindsey, political science, Georgia State University
David Luban, law, Georgetown University
Larry May, philosophy, Washington University, St. Louis
George Rainbolt, philosophy, Georgia State University
Andrew Valls, political science, Morehouse College
Christopher Wellman, philosophy, Georgia State University
Clark Wolf, philosophy, University of Georgia
TERRORISM AND JUSTICE
April 4-5, 2003
Principal Speakers:
C.A.J. Coady, University of Melbourne
Frances Kamm, New York University
Onora O’Neill, Cambridge University
Saul Smilansky, University of Haifa
Michael Stocker, Syracuse University
Yael Tamir, Tel Aviv University
Jeremy Waldron, Columbia University
Noam Zohar, Bar Ilan University
Select papers to appear in a forthcoming issue of the journal Ethics
Discussants:
Andrew Altman, Georgia State University
Sissela Bok, Harvard University
David Cop, Bowling Green State University
N. Ann Davis, Pomona College
John Deigh, Northwestern University
Jonathan Glover, Kings College London
Jeff McMahan, University of Illinois
David Miller, Oxford University
David Rodin, Oxford University
Andrew Valls, Morehouse College
G.E. MOORE CENTENARY
April, 2002
Papers later appearing in Ethics, 113, no. 3, April, 2003:
Steven Darwall, “Moore, Normativity, and Intrinsic Value
Connie S. Rosati, “Agency and the Open Question Argument”
Nicholas L. Sturgeon, “Moore on Ethical Naturalism”
Frank Jackson, “Cognitivism, A Priori Deduction, and Moore”
Michael Smith, “Neutral and Relative Value after Moore”
Thomas Hurka, “Moore in the Middle’
Jonathan Dancy, “Are There Organic Unities?”
Donald H. Regan, “How to be a Moorean”
BOOK WORKSHOP ON ALLAN BUCHANAN'S
JUSTICE, LEGITIMACY, AND SELF-DETERMINATION
April, 2002
Presentor: Allan Buchanan
Discussants:
Andrew Altman, philosophy, Georgia State University
Allen Buchanan, philosophy, University of Arizona
Andrew I. Cohen, philosophy, University of Oklahoma
William Edmundson, law, Georgia State University
Peter Lindsey, political science, Georgia State University
Larry May, philosophy, Washington University, St. Louis
George Rainbolt, philosophy, Georgia State University
Andrew Valls, political science, Morehouse College
Christopher Wellman, philosophy, Georgia State University
Clark Wolf, philosophy, University of Georgia
URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
April 13-14, 2001
Papers later appearing in a special volume of
Journal of Social Philosophy, 34, no. 1, Spr. 2003: (Andrew
Light and Christopher Wellman, guest editors)
Participants:
Bill Lawson, Michigan State University
Avner de-Shalit, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Senior Lecturer in Politics)
Clare Palmer, University of Stirling (Religious Studies)
Bryan Norton, Georgia Institute for Technology
Andrew Light, New York University
Scott Pratt, University of Oregon
Richard Dagger, Arizona State University (Political Science)
Karsten Harries, Yale University
Diane Michelfelder, Utah State University
Robert Bullard, Clark Atlanta University (Sociology)
Papers later appearing in a special volume of Journal of Social Philosophy,
34, no. 1, Spr. 2003: (Andrew Light and Christopher Wellman, guest editors)
Avner de-Shalit: “Philosophy Gone Urban: Reflections on Urban Restoration”
Richard Dagger: “Stopping the Sprawl for the Good of All: The Case
for Civic Environmentalism”
Andrew Light: “Urban Ecological Citizenship”
Clare Palmer: “Placing Animals in Urban Environmental Ethics”
Diane P. Michelfelder: “Valuing Wildlife Populations in Urban Environments”
HATE CRIME LEGISLATION
April 13-14, 2000
Papers published in
Law and Philosophy, 20, no. 2, March 2001:
Andrew Altman, George Washington University, The Democratic Legitimacy
of Bias Crime Laws: Public Reason and the Political Process
Heidi Hurd, University of Pennsylvania (Law), Why Liberals Should
Hate Hate Crime Legislation”
Claudia Card, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Is Penalty Enhancement
a Good Idea?
Dan Kahan, Yale University (Law), Three Free Speech Fallacies
Michael Blake, Harvard University, Geeks and Monsters: Bias Crimes
and Social Identity
MEDICAL PRIVACY IN THE
INFORMATION AGE
November 5, 1999
Proceedings published in: Biomedical Ethics Reviews: Privacy and Health
Care, James M. Humber and Robert F. Almeder (eds.) Totowa, NJ: Humana Press,
2001.
Charity Scott, Georgia State University (Law), Is Too Much Privacy
Bad for Your Health?
Mark E. Meaney, Center for Ethics in Health Care, St. Joseph's Health
System, Atlanta, Data Mining, Dataveillance, and Medical Information
Privacy
David Korn, Senior VP, Division of Biomedical and Health Sciences Research,
AAMC, Medical Information Privacy and Conduct of Biomedical Research
Ray Moseley, University of Florida College of Medicine, Privacy
and Insurance: Can You Mix Oil and Water?”
Margo P. Goldman, Director of Policy Development, National Coalition for
Patient Rights, Medical Privacy in the Information Age: Policy Solutions
Patrick Fitzgerald, Louisiana State University, Privacy and Equality
THE MACHETTE CONFERENCE
ON THE MORAL AND LEGAL LIMITS OF SAMARITAN DUTIES
June 18-19, 1999
Papers published in
Law and Philosophy 19, no. 6, Nov. 2000:
Frances Kamm, New York University, Does Distance Matter Morally
to the Duty to Rescue?
Heidi Malm, Loyola University Chicago, Bad Samaritan Laws: More
Hype Than Help?
Arthur Ripstein, University of Toronto, Three Duties to Rescue:
Moral, Civil, and Criminal
David Schmidtz, University of Arizona, Islands in a Sea of Obligation:
The Nature and Limits of the Duty to Rescue”
HOMELESSNESS
May 14-15, 1998
Jeremy Waldron, Columbia University (Law), Homelessness, Community,
and Denial
Bob Ellickson, Yale University (Law), Panhandling and Public Spaces
THE MACHETTE LECTURES
ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
May 1-2, 1997
Beauchamp published in
The Journal Of Ethics, vol. 2, no.2 (1998)
Susan Haack, University of Miami, The Best Man for the Job May Be
A Woman...and Other Alien Thoughts on Affirmative Action in the Academy
Tom Beauchamp, Georgetown University, In Defense of Affirmative
Action
POLITICAL VIOLENCE
April 11-12, 1996
Published in
The Journal of Ethics, vol.1, nos. 2 & 4 (1997)
Robert Audi, University of Nebraska, Preventing Abortion as a Test
Case for the Justifiability of Violence”
C.A.J. Coady, University of Melbourne, Objecting Morally
Virginia Held, Hunter College, City University of New York, Political
Violence and the Media
Thomas Hill Jr, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, A Kantian
Perspective on Political Violence”
Richard W. Miller, Cornell University, Killing for the Homeland:
Patriotism, Nationalism, and Violence”
Burleigh T. Wilkins, University of California, Santa Barbara, A
Third Principle of Justice
FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY
April 13-14, 1995
Published in
The Journal of Ethics, Volume 1, No.1 (1997)
Keith Lehrer, University of Arizona, Freedom, Preference, and Autonomy
Michael E. Bratman, Stanford University, Responsibility and Planning
John Martin Fischer, University of California-Riverside, Responsibility,
Control, and Omissions
Margaret Gilbert, University of Connecticut-Storrs, Group Wrongs
and Guilt Feelings
Carl Ginet, Cornell University, Freedom, Responsibility, and Agency
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY
April 22-23, 1994
Published in The Journal of Ethics, vol. 1, no. 3 (1997)
Bernard Boxill, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Populism
and Elitism in African-American Political Theory”
Leonard Harris, Purdue University, Alain Locke and Community
Howard McGary, Rutgers University, Racism, Social Justice, and Interracial
Coalitions
Lucius Outlaw, Haverford College, Africana Philosophy
William E. Lawson, Michigan State University, Property or Persons:
On a ‘Plain Reading' of the United States Constitution”