Workshops in Applied Ethics and Policy

The  Workshop will take place in Bowling Green, Ohio on April 1-2, 2011 in Room 207 Bowen-Thompson Student Union. 

Keynote speakers will be Douglas Husak (Rutgers University) and Richard Arneson, (University of California at San Diego).  See the full program below.

For Workshop Registration, click here.

For Accommodation in Bowling Green, click here.

For Directions to Bowling Green and within Bowling Green, click here.

Note: Last day for registration with meal plan is March 15, 2011.  Registration without meal plan can still be done after that date.

Workshop Program*

*If paper title is in orange, click on it to download a PDF of paper

Fri., April 1

8:30 - 9:30  - Breakfast

9:30 - 10:45  
Danny Scoccia (New Mexico State University) 
"The Right to Autonomy and the Justification of Hard Paternalism"
Chair: Dana Howard (Brown University)

11:00 - 12:15 
Steve Wall (University of Arizona) 
"Moral Environmentalism"
Chair: Kate Manne (Masschusetts Institute of Technology)

12:30 - 1:30 - Lunch

1:30 - 2:45 Keynote Address:  Douglas Husak (Rutgers University)
"Special Problems for Paternalism in the Penal Law"

3:00 - 4:15 
Larry Alexander (University of San Diego School of Law) 
"Voluntary Enslavement"
Chair: David Shoemaker (Tulane University)

4:30 - 5:45 
Jeremy Blumenthal (Syracuse College of Law) 
 "A Psychological Defense of Paternalism"
Chair: Tristram McPherson (University of Minnesota Duluth)

6:00 - 7:00  Reception

7:00 -9:00 Dinner

Sat., April 2

8:30 - 9:30 - Breakfast

9:30 - 10:45 
Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby  (Baylor College of Medicine)  
"A Defense of Libertarian Paternalism" [ For abstract, click here]
Chair: Eli Weber (Bowling Green State University)

11:00 - 12:15 
Daniel Haybron (St. Louis University) and Anna Alexandrova (University of Missouri, St Louis)
"Paternalism and Economics" [For abstract, click here]
Chair: Michael McFall (Bowling Green State University)

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 2:45 Keynote Address:  Richard Arneson (University of California at San Diego)
"Paternalism and the Principle of Fairness" 
[For abstract, click here.  For a background paper, click here]

3:00 - 4:15 
Michael Cholbi (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)  
"Kantian Paternalism and Suicide Intervention"
Chair: Matthew Smith (Yale University)

4:30 - 5:45 
Sigal Ben-Porath (University of Pennsylvania) 
"Paternalism, Choice and Opportunity"
Chair: Mackenzie Graham (University of Western Ontario)

9:00    
Informal Post-Workshop Gathering

For a printer-friendly version of the of the above workshop program, click here.

Please direct all other inquiries to:

Ms. Priscilla Ibarra

Tel. 419-372-2117

Email: pibarra@bgsu.edu