Volume 7: Spring 2022

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This virtual conference, which is supported by ��Ƶ’s Roger Mudd Center for Ethics, is the only open undergraduate conference in the country solely dedicated to the academic study of ethical issues. All accepted speakers will not only have the opportunity to present their papers at the conference, but also to have them published in the The Mudd Journal of Ethics.

Conference Schedule

Saturday, March 5, 2022

Time	Presenter	Title
12:30-1:10 pm	Evelyn Wang College of William and Mary Respondent: Jeb Nafisa (W&L)	“The Preemption Problem: What is a Harm and What Shall we Blame?”
1:10-1:15 pm	Break
1:15-1:50 pm	Jonah Katzman Emory University Respondent: Ashley Xia (W&L)	“NAGPRA Should Not Require Cultural Affiliation of Human Remains”
1:55-2:00 pm	Break
2:00-2:40 pm	Jack Walker Cambridge University Respondent: James Torbert (W&L)	“Error Theory – What Next?”
2:40-2:45 pm	Break
2:45-3:20 pm	Mason Liddell College of William and Mary Respondent: John Coleman Ward (W&L)	“Thomson’s Distributive Exception and Possessed Threats”
3:25-3:30 pm	Break
3:30-4:30 pm	Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) PhD Student PanelRowan Bell, Syracuse University Sumeet Patwardhan, University of Michigan Corbin Covington, Northeastern University	The mission of is to address structural injustices in academic philosophy and to remove barriers that impede participation in academic philosophy for members of marginalized groups. Through its international organizing team and graduate student-led network of autonomous chapters around the world, it aims to examine and dismantle mechanisms that prevent students from marginalized groups from participating in academic philosophy, as well as to promote philosophical work done from marginalized perspectives, and help improve working conditions for scholars from marginalized backgrounds.

Sunday, March 6, 2022

Time	Presenter	Title
9:00-10:00 am	Conference Keynote Catherine Fullarton University of King’s College Emory University	"Sympathy and Care in Sophocles’ Philoctetes: A Contemporary Reading"
10:10-10:20 am	Break
10:20-11:00 am	Tom Cockell Cambridge University Respondent: Max Gebauer (W&L)	"The Sandwich Dilemma: A Case for Ethical Veganism"
11:00-11:10 am	Closing Remarks

Catherine Fullarton

Conference Keynote

Catherine Fullarton is a Faculty Fellow in the Foundation Year Program at the University of King’s College, in Halifax, NS (Canada), and a Doctoral Candidate (ABD) in Philosophy at Emory University (Atlanta, USA). Her current research engages Aristotle’s ethics, Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, and feminist care ethics to propose a model of empathy as a form of ethical expertise. She is the Partnerships and Community Relations Officer of the Canadian Bioethics Society / Société canadienne de bioétique (CBS/SCB).

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