Richard Eldridge is Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College. His research specialties are in aesthetics, philosophy of literature, philosophy of language, and German idealism. He has published ten books and over eighty articles which have appeared in a number of highly regarded academic journals.
Daniel Jacobson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan and 2016-17 CEPA Faculty Fellow. His recent research focuses on issues in ethics, political philosophy, and moral psychology. He is the co-editor, with Justin D’Arms, of Moral Psychology and Human Agency: Philosophical Essays on the Science of Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2014), and his work has appeared in a variety of prestigious scholarly journals and collected volumes.
Tamar Schapiro is Associate Professor of Philosophy at MIT. Her research focuses on questions of human agency and the philosophy of action. Her primary interests are in ethical theory, history of ethics, practical reasoning and human agency. Her early articles, published in Ethics, Noûs, and The Journal of Philosophy, focus on the moral status of children and the more general problem of how to make principled exceptions to moral rules.
The 2017 New Orleans Invitational Seminar in Ethics (NOISE) is a one day meeting featuring discussion of new papers on ethics by Elizabeth Brake (Arizona State), Eric Cave (Arkansas St.), Janice Dowell and David Sobel (Syracuse), Hille Paakkunainen (Syracuse), Bas Van der Vossen (UNCG), and Steve Wall (Arizona). Commentators and session chairs include Rosa Terlazzo (Kansas St), Simon May (Florida State), Massimo Renzo (UCL), Dale Dorsey (Kansas), Mikhail Valdman (Virginia Commonwealth), and Tamler Sommers (Houston).
Jonathan Dancy is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas. His research focuses on moral theory and issues of practical reasoning as they relate to the moral domain, and he is widely known for his defense of moral particularism.
The fourth meeting of the New Orleans Workshop in Agency and Responsibility will be held in New Orleans from November 2 through November 4, 2017.
If you are planning to attend, please register by emailing the conference organizer, David Shoemaker, at dshoemak@tulane.edu. Registration is free.
Thomas Hurka is the Chancellor Henry N. R. Jackman Distinguished Professor of Philosophical Studies at the University of Toronto. Professor Hurka has written on a number of topics within the fields of moral and political philosophy, and he is widely considered one of the most prominent defenders of perfectionist moral theories.
David Sobel is the Irwin and Marjorie Guttag Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at Syracuse University. Professor Sobel’s main areas of research are in theories of value and reasons for action. He is the author of From Valuing to Value: A Defense of Subjectivism (Oxford UP 2017).
Chris Heathwood is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder and 2017-18 CEPA Faculty Fellow. His research interests include Ethical Theory (with an emphasis on well-being and metaethics), Metaphysics, and Philosophy of Religion. His work has appeared in a variety of prestigious scholarly journals and collected volumes, including Analysis, Philosophical Studies, and Oxford Studies in Metaethics.
