This workshop seeks to bring invited leading scholars to Dartmouth to discuss a range of normative concerns that are at the core of the scholarly study of ethics. 

All Dartmouth faculty, staff, post-docs and post-baccs, and advanced undergraduates are welcome to register. Please register in advance.

The workshop is not pre-read; papers will be presented. 

8th Annual Moral and Political Philosophy Workshop

Friday, October 16

all Friday workshop sessions in Six South Conference Room

9:00-10:15am            

Presenter: Jeta Mulaj, Toronto Metropolitan University

Paper: “Mors Immortalis: Stability in and Beyond Capitalist Society" 

10:45-12:00pm          

Presenter: Bernardo Zacka, MIT

Paper: “Before a Word Is Spoken: The Interior Architecture of the Welfare State”

1:00-2:15pm               

Presenter: Sumeet Patwardhan, Macalester College

Paper: “A Permissive, Negotiable Disclosure Requirement for Consent”

2:45-4:00pm              

Presenter: Annelie Drakman, Uppsala University 

Paper: “Exploring fun and creativity as normative concepts, primarily in American physics 1960–1990”

Saturday, October 17

all Saturday workshop sessions in Irving Institute IR-375

9:00-10:15am            

Presenter: Alon Harel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Paper: “The Public Constitution Defined: On the Value of Being Publicly Valued for the Relevant Reasons”

10:45-12:00pm           

Presenter: Shuk Ying Chan, University College London

Paper: “Protest, Autocracy, and Vehicles of Change”

1:00pm-2:15pm        

Presenter: Maxime Lepoutre, University of Reading

Paper:"Rumor as Resistance"