Annual Conference (online, 12th-14th July 2021)
Unfortunately we were not able to run a conference in 2020, due to the pandemic. Papers selected for 2020 were presented in an online Annual Conference in 2021 instead.
Keynote addresses
Alison Hills (Oxford), ‘Obligations: Moral and Aesthetic’
David Enoch (HU Jerusalem) ‘Politics and Suffering’
Submitted talks
Jasmine Gunkel (USC) ‘Do I Really Have to Say “Feed Two Birds with One Scone”?’
Robert Hartman (Tulane) ‘Moral Luck, Humility, and Benevolence’
Jordan MacKenzie (Virginia Tech) ‘Self-Deception as Self-Defeat’
Nick Makins (LSE) ‘Moral Doubt, Uncertainty and Ambivalence’
Daniel Miller (West Virginia) ‘When Moral Ignorance is an Excuse’
Yonatan Shemmer (Sheffield) ‘Treating as a Reason’
Vilma Venesmaa (Helsinki) and Teemu Toppinen (Helsinki) ‘An Expressivist Explanation for Our Knowledge of Normative Supervenience’
Graduate Conference (online, 16-17 September 2021)
For the first time, BSET ran an additional conference, reserved for papers by graduate students.
Stina Björkholm, ‘Hybrid descriptivism and the practicality challenge’
Daniele Conti, ‘Reasons and Their Strength: Why Libertarians Should Be Nozickean’
Samuel Dishaw, ‘Justifying, Apologizing and the Value of Shared Moral Understanding’
William Gildea, ‘The Moral Status of Humans and Animals: Towards a New View’
Dane Leigh Gogoshin, ‘Shaping Moral Agency’
Luca Stroppa, ‘The Problem of Lives Worth Living’