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2019 Annual Conference 2 Contents 20Advancing PPE at every opportunity 192019 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2 CONTENTS Welcome 05 Schedule 06 Thursday 07 Friday 17 Saturday 27 New Orleans Suggestions 36 Participant Index 37 WELCOME Dear Participants, Welcome to the Third Annual Meeting of the PPE Society! The Society and our Annual Meeting have grown exponentially over the past three years, and we are excited this year to have three full days of sessions. Thank you to every attendee, moderator, and presenter, as you each play a valuable role in the success of the conference. 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 Carol Graham (on Thursday) and one by Al Roth (on Saturday). Receptions will follow both keynote addresses. The days will be filled to the brim, but the evenings are free for you to enjoy New Orleans and the company of a fascinating group of people. The PPE Society’s mission is to encourage the interaction and cross-pollination of three intellectual disciplines that are historically deeply intertwined and continue to have much to offer one another. If you have not already, please join the PPE Society (which you can do at http://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 2019 conference! Cordially, Geoff Sayre-McCord Founder & Executive Director 5 2 March 28 THURSDAY6 Break Out Session 1 Merit and Desert Chetan Cetty, Moderator 9:00am– 10:45am Participants: “On Merit,” Thomas Mulligan “Why You Should be Miserable,” Gwen Bradford “Defending Asymmetries of Desert,” Huub Brouwer Room: Storyville I Law and Economics: Criticisms and Alternatives Jacob Barrett, Moderator Participants: “The Nature of Tort Law,” S.M. Love “Law, Economics, and Restorative Criminal Justice,” Brandon Hogan “Judicial Representation: Speaking for Others from the Bench,” Wendy Salkin Room: Storyville II Author Meets Critics: Kevin Vallier’s Must Politics Be War? Adam Gjesdal, Moderator Participants: Kevin Vallier (Author) Simone Chambers (Commentator) Nicholas Southwood (Commentator) Room: Storyville III Justice, Efficiency, and Exploitation Douglas MacKay, Moderator Participants: “Privatization, Efficiency, and the Distribution of Power,”Louise-Phillippe Hodgson “Decommodification as Exploitation,” Vida Panitch “A Paretian Account of the Separateness of Persons,” L. Chad Horne Room: Bechet 7 Break Out Session 1 Philosophical Perspectives on Psychology in Economics Alex Campbell, Moderator cont. 9:00am– 10:45am Participants: “Psychology and Economics: History and Philosophy of Dissenting Views,” Mario J. Rizzo “Sympathy and Preferences in Hume,” Erik W. Matson “Preference Change and the Relevance of Open-Ended Institutions,” Malte F. Dold and Charles Delmotte Room: Mahalia B Education for the Public Good: Understanding the Ends, Improving the Means Macy Salzberger, Moderator Participants: “The Economic Undervaluation of Liberal Education,”Molly McGrath “Who Should Pay for Education and Why?” Heidi Garrett-Peltier “New Orleans Post-Katrina School Reforms and the Roles of Government and Markets in Eucation,” Douglas N. Harris Room: Armstrong Political Legitimacy Ian Cruise, Moderator Participants: “Middle-Out Legitimacy,” William Berger “Justice and Congruence: Political Not Ethical,” Phil Smolenski “Political Legitimacy Without the State: A Republican Defense of the Sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples,” Karl Adam Room: Jelly Roll The Moral Case for Socialism Amanda Beal, Moderator Participants: “Community as Socialist Value,” Jesse Spafford “Communist Distributive Justice,” Hailey Huget “Defending Why Not Socialism?” Samuel Arnold Room: Buddy Bolden 8 Break Out Session 2 Justice as Fairness and the Choice of Economic System Chetan Cetty, Moderator 11:00am – 12:45pm Participants: “Justice as Fairness and the Choice of Economic System,” Jeppe von Platz “Rawls: Reticent Socialist,” William A. Edmundson “A Republic of Equals,” Alan Thomas Room: Storyville I Updating Mill on Free Speech Piers Norris Turner, Moderator Participants: “The Scope of ‘Free Speech’ in Ch. 2 of On Liberty,” Christopher Macleod “Free Speech and Equality: Modernizing Mill’s Harm Principle,” Melina Bell “Would Mill Boycott Ace Hardware?” Dale E. Miller Room: Storyville II The Nature of Poverty Robert Wright, Moderator Participants: “Poverty without Concept Creep,” Stanislaus Husi “Towards a Philosophy of Poverty,” Joshua Spencer “Respect before Sympathy: How to Think about the Poor,” Iskra Fileva Room: Storyville III Topics in Decision Theory Samantha Wakil, Moderator Participants: “Impartial Decision-Making under Normative Uncertainty,” Brian Jabarian “Massaging the News and the Faultless Voter,” Pierce Randall “CDT Agents are Exploitable,” Daniel Kokotajlo Room: Bechet 9 Break Out Session 2 After Bretton Woods: Transformations in State-Economy cont. Relations in the Wake of the 1970s 11:00am – 12:45pm Leah Downey, Moderator Participants: “Financial Crises and Systemic Responsibility,” Max Krahé “The Credit They Deserve: The Politics of Risk and Race,” Emily Katzenstein “Capitalism’s Golden Age, the 1970s, and the Failure of Reformist Social Democracy,” Anahí Wiedenbrug Room: Mahalia B Towards a Radical Philosophy of Migration and Membership Douglas MacKay, Moderator Participants: “The Case for a Decolonial Approach to Immigration Justice,” José Jorge Mendoza “Resistance and Refusal (or Why Open Borders are Not Utopian),” Alex Sager “Towards Justice in Migration: The Role of Private Actors,” Ashwini Vasanthakumar Room: Armstrong Democratic Theory Sameer Bajaj, Moderator Participants: “Interest-responsiveness as a Standard of Democratic Performance,” Eduardo Martinez “The Failure of the Instrumental Argument for a Human Right to Democracy,” Ryan Pevnick “Condorcet Winners and Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives: An Impossibility Result,” Hun Chung Room: Jelly Roll Philosophical Issues in Behavioral Economics Andrew Jason Cohen, Moderator Participants: “Behavioral Economics and the Evidential Defense of Welfare Economics,” Garth Heutel “Philosophical Approaches to Bounded Rationality: From Herbert Simon to Nudges,” Alejandro Hortal “Odd Bedfellows: How Choice Architecture Can Enhance Autonomy and Diminish Inequality,” Kendra Tully Room: Buddy Bolden 10 12:45pm - 2:00pm LUNCH BREAK Please see back of program for some wonderful dining suggestions close by. Break Out Session 3 Author Meet Critics: Lori Watson and Christie Hartley’s 2:00pm – 3:45pm Equal Citizenship and Public Reason: A Feminist Political Liberalism Kevin Vallier, Moderator Participants: Lori Watson, Christie Hartley (Authors) Paul Billingham (Commentator) Cindy Stark (Commentator) Room: Storyville I What Political Philosophers Can (and Can’t) Learn from Formal Models Keith Hankins, Moderator Participants: “Prisoners to a Framework: On the Limits of Models,” Ryan Muldoon “On the Emergence of Minority Disadvantage: Testing the Cultural Red King Hypothesis,” Aydin Mohseni “The General Theory of Second Best is More General Than You Think,” David Wiens Room: Storyville II Aspects of Structural Injustice Nicholas Geiser, Moderator Participants: “Making Room for Ideological Explanation,” Valerie Soon “On the Obligations of Beneficiaries of Structural Injustice,”Brian Berkey “What Is Structural Injustice?” Kirun Sankaran Room: Storyville III 11 Break Out Session 3 Racialized Urban Infrastructure: Perspectives on the cont. Materiality of Justice 2:00pm - 3:45pm Graham Hubbs, Moderator Participants: “Reliance Structures: How Urban Public Policy Shapes Human Agency,” Matthew Noah Smith “Of Dogs, Gentrification, and the Race-ing of Space,”Yolonda Y. Wilson “Racial Displacement and Housing Justice,” Kristina Meshelski Room: Bechet The Hubris of Policy-Makers: Critiques of “Evidence-Based” Public Decision-Making Roy Heidelberg, Moderator Participants: “Empathy and the Limits of Utilitarianism,” Sam Fleischacker “Managerialism and Government Legitimacy,” Amanda R. Greene “Fighting (Status Quo) Bias with Bias in Big Data Economics,” Eric Schliesser Room: Mahalia B Author Meets Critics: Peter Vanderschraaf’s Strategic Justice Adam Gjesdal, Moderator Participants: Peter Vanderschraaf (Author) Justin Bruner (Commentator) Paul Weithman (Commentator) Room: Armstrong Proxies and Politics: Making Social Choices in the Age of Big Data Joseph Porter, Moderator Participants: “Proxies for Means and Proxies for Need: How Do We Know When Someone is Poor?” Zoe Hitzig “Should You Be Taxed Based on Where You are Born?” Kadeem Noray “Big Data and Blue Eyes: What Makes Variables Political?” Joshua Simons Room: Jelly Roll 12 Break Out Session 3 Justice, Democracy, and Political Economy in the Nineteenth cont. Century: Tocqueville and Beyond 2:00pm – 3:45pm Eric MacGilvray, Moderator Participants: “The Corrupt Mores of a Stable Democracy: Montesquieu’s Answer to Tocqueville,” Mario Juarez-Garcia “Loyalty to Organizations and Social Trust: Re-envisioning Firms as Mediating Institutions,” Aimee Barbeau “A Little Tyranny: Democratic Equality and the Servant Problem in Nineteenth Century America,” Briana L. McGinnis Room: Buddy Bolden Break Out Session 4 Behavioral Ethics Jonathan Miles, Moderator 4:00pm – 5:45pm Participants: “It’s Not A Lie If You Believe It: Lying Under Norm Uncertainty,” Cristina Bicchieri “Feel the Power of the Dark Side: On the Evolution of Norm Erosion,” Eugen Dimant “Formulating
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