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2018 Annual Conference 2 Contents 20Advancing PPE at every opportunity 182018 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2 CONTENTS Welcome 05 Schedule 06 Thursday 07 Friday 13 Saturday 22 New Orleans Suggestions 29 Participant Index 30 WELCOME 4 Dear Participants, Welcome to the Second Annual Meeting of the PPE Society. Having sponsored a number of sessions at other conferences, last year we decided to try a free-standing PPE Society Conference. Much to our pleasure, it was a real success. And enough people expressed the hope that we would hold another that... we are! Thank you so much for the role you will play in making this one a success. This program contains information about the various sessions that will be held during the conference. Most are concurrent, but we do have two keynote addresses, one by Charles Holt (on Thursday) and one by Ann Cudd (on Saturday). We also have two receptions (one on Thursday and one on Friday). A lot is jammed into the days. But the evenings are free for you to enjoy New Orleans and the company of an incredibly interesting group of people. The PPE Society’s mission is to encourage the interaction and cross-fertilization of three intellectual disciplines that are, in their history, deeply intertwined and that now, and going forward, have much to offer one another. If you have not already, please join the PPE Society (which you can do at www.ppesociety.web.unc.edu/join- the-ppe-society/). If you have any suggestions about how we might effectively pursue our mission please do not hesitate to pass them on to me. In the meantime, please enjoy the PPE Society’s 2018 conference! Cordially, Geoff Sayre-McCord Founder & Executive Director 2 March 15 THURSDAY6 Registration, Displays and Exhibits Room: Mahalia Jackson A Pharmaceutical Freedom Break Out Session 1 Author Meets Critics: Jessica Flanigan’s Jonathan Anomaly, Moderator 1:00 pm– 2:50 pm Participants: Jessica Flanigan (author) Alex Oprea (critic) Rishi Joshi (critic) Room: Storyville I Democratic Theory for Realists Kirun Sankaran, Moderator Participants: “Political Representation for Realists” – Jason Brennan “Should Representatives Protect Voters from Themselves?” – Chris Freiman “A Meritocratic Theory of Political Representation” – Thomas Mulligan Room: Storyville II Freedom Beyond Choice Matthew Adams, Moderator Participants: “The Strategy of Freedom” – Harrison Frye “Markets and Market Freedom” – Eric MacGilvray “Freedom and Bourgeois Dignity” – Colin Bird Room: Storyville III 21st Century Marxism Barry Maguire, Moderator Participants: “Racial Injustice and False Consciousness” – Vanessa Wills “A Progressive Report on Marxian Economic Theory: On the Controversies in Exploita- tion Theory”– Naoki Yoshihara “Freedom from the Market: Kant’s Doctrine of the Right and the Marxian Critique of Capital” – Suzanne Love Room: Mahalia B 7 Break Out Session 1 cont. PPE of Rule of Law 1:00 pm – 2:50 pm Kyle Swan, Moderator Participants: “Migration by Maxim, Not Discretion: Immigration and the Rule of Law” – Glenn Furton “The Rule of Law in the Real World” – Paul Gowder “Hayek on the Ethical and Economic Importance of the Rule of Law: Answering the Razian Challenge” – Christopher Boom Room: Bechet Evolution and Rational Cooperation Ian Cruise, Moderator Participants: “Evolutionary Theories of Rational Rule-Following: A Dilemma” – David Wiens & Ryan Muldoon “Modeling a Coordination Regime” – Peter Vanderschraaf “Evolving a Gendered Division of Labor” – Cailin O’Connor Room: Jelly Roll Virtue & Economics Jennifer Baker, Moderator Participants: “Virtue and the Rule of Law in Aristotle’s Ethics”– Roopen Majithia “Profitability of Trust and Trustworthiness” – Ginny Choi “Maximization and The Sorites Paradox” – Leah Downey Room: Armstrong Technical Work in PPE Yoaav Issacs, Moderator Participants: “Inequality as a Latent Variable” – Devin Christensen “If Not ‘Believe Truth’ Then Maybe ‘Shun Error’: The Upshot of Robustness for Democratic Theory” – William Berger “Disagreement, The Pareto Principle, and Conflicting Reasons” – Itai Sher Room: Buddy Bolden 8 Break Out Session 2 Author Meets Critics: Cristina Bicchieri’s Norms in the Wild 3:00 pm – 4:50 pm Ryan Muldoon, Moderator Participants: Cristina Bicchieri (author) Jenna Bednar (critic) Geoffrey Brennan (critic) Room: Storyville I Social and Political Dimensions of Hope Adrienne Martin, Moderator Participants: “Collective Hope” – Katie Stockdale “Believing in Others” – Jennifer Morton (with Sarah Paul) “Hope and the Virtue of Creative Resolve” – Nicole Hassoun Room: Storyville II Public Schools and Public Choice Mike Munger, Moderator Participants: “Public Teachers and Public Choice” – Alexandra Oprea “ADHD Medication Effects on Primary and Secondary School Students” – Anna Chorniy “Public Goods and Education” – Jonathan Anomaly Room: Storyville III Property Rights Samantha Wakil, Moderator Participants: “Intellectual Property and the Entrepreneurial Process” – Nathan Goodman “The Morality of Changing Rights” – Chris Melenovsky “Property and Research Sharing in Biomedicine” – Bryan Cwik Room: Mahalia B 9 Break Out Session 2 Topics in Public Reason 3:00 pm – 4:50 pm Alex Campbell, Moderator Participants: “The Rule of Public Reason in the Constitution of Non-Domination” – Kyle Swan “Justice in Biotechnology: A Public Reason Approach to Human Enhancement” – Nicholas Geiser “Roger Williams: A Historical Case Study in Public Reason” – Kirun Sankaran Room: Bechet Business Ethics Jennifer Baker, Moderator Participants: “The Use and Abuse of Business Ethics” – Jim Otteson “Firm Paternalism and Business Ethics” – Greg Robson “Teaching Business Ethics: Theory and Practice” – Chris Surprenant Room: Jelly Roll Adam Smith Dan Shahar, Moderator Participants: “The Conceptual Building Blocks of the Theory of Moral Sentiments” – Bart Wilson “The Psychological Underpinnings of and the Institutional Balance of Prudence in Adam Smith’s System of Natural Liberty” – José de la Cruz Garrido “Practicing PPE: The Case of Adam Smith” – Ryan Hanley Room: Armstrong Critiques of the Market Chris Howard, Moderator Participants: “The Just Price, Exploitation, and Prescription Drugs: Why Free Marketeers Should object to Profiteering by the Pharmaceutical Industry” – Mark Reiff “Impure Semiotic Objections to Markets”– David Dick Room: Buddy Bolden 10 Plenary Session “Class Simulations for Political Economy” 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Charles Holt, Keynote Speaker Room: Storyville I & II Reception Drinks, Appetizers, and Conversation 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Room: Storyville III 11 2 March 16 FRIDAY12 Registration, Displays and Exhibits Room: Mahalia Jackson A Break Out Session 1 New Work on the Ethics of Risk 9:00 am – 10:50 am Yoaav Issacs, Moderator Participants: “Making Risky Decisions for Others” – Luc Bovens “Risks and Limited Interpersonal Aggregation” – Alec Walen “Probabilistic Causation, Moral Responsibility, and Aggregate Effects” – Johann Frick Room: Storyville I Taxation and Justice David Schmidtz, Moderator Participants: “Are ‘Luxury’ Taxes Justifiable?” – Hyunseop Kim “Self-Ownership, Taxation, and Takings” – Daniel Russell “Taxation Behind the Veil of Ignorance” – Biung-ghi Ju Room: Storyville II Immigration Miriam Johnson, Moderator Participants: “The Wrong of Religious and Racial Immigration Restrictions: the Lesson from Monopolies” – Sahar Akhtar “Immigration, Externalities, and Public Goods” – Rishi Joshi “Immigrant Selection, Health Requirements, and Disability Discrimination” – Doug MacKay Room: Storyville III Justice and Injustice in Public Finance Raymond Niles, Moderator Participants: “Taxable Capacity and Morality in Schumpeter’s ‘Crisis of the Tax State’” – Richard Salsman “U.S. Tax Policy, Inflation, and the Euthanasia of the Individual Investor” – Robert Wright Room: Mahalia B 13 Break Out Session 1 Cont. Perspectives on the Social Contract 9:00 am – 10:50 am Daniel Kokotajlo, Moderator Participants: “The Crooked Social Contract: Intra-Corporate Freedom and the Nexus-of-Contracts” – Katherine Jackson “States and States of Nature” – Chris Morris “The Calculus of Moral Community” – Brian Kogelmann Room: Jelly Roll Capitalism, Democracy, and the Self in Mid-Twentieth Century Thought Graham Hubbs, Moderator Participants: “Albert Hirschman and Psychoanalysis: Private Interest and the Ego after 1945” – Carolyn Biltoft “John Maynard Keynes and the Political Theory of Money”– Stefan Eich “From Market Disintegration to Political Integration: Karl Polanyi’s Democratic Horizon” – Steven Klein Room: Armstrong Mill’s (Social) Epistemology Ian Cruise, Moderator Participants: “Authority, Knowledge, and Naturalism in John Stuart Mill” – Christopher Macleod “Intellectual Diversity and Cognitive Bias: A Millian Approach” – Daniel Jacobson Comments on Macleod and Jacobson – Jonathan Riley Room: Buddy Bolden Effective Altruism Alexandru Marcoci, Moderator Participants: “Effective Altruism and Cooperation” – Alexander Dietz “Why Effective Altruism Can’t Be a Big Tent” – Amy Berg “Actualist, Possibilist, or Hybridist Effective Altruism? Fixing Effective Altruism’s Core Underspecification Problem” – Travis Timmerman Room: Storyville I 14 Break Out Session 2 Topics in PPE Administration, Logistics, and Curriculum 11:00 am – 12:50 pm Doug Paletta, Moderator Participants: Paul Hurley Jonathan Anomaly Stephen Simon Colin Bird Room: Storyville II Political Procedural Failures Kirun Sankaran, Moderator Participants: “The Limits of Proceduralist Justification” – Jake Monaghan “Proportionality-Preserving Polycentricity” – Daniel D’Amico “Making Science Propaganda-Proof” – Cailin O’Connor (with James Owen
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