SPAWN Conference 2024, July 15-17
THE HIGHEST GOOD
Monday, July 15
Tolley Hall 304
9:00 – 9:30 Greetings & Coffee
9:30 – 11:00
Keynote Speaker: Gabriel Richardson Lear (The University of Chicago)
Title: “The Highest Good and the Craft Conception of Reason: Plato and Aristotle”
Chair: Ben Bradley
11:20 – 12: 50
Speaker: Sukaina Hirji (University of Pennsylavania)
Title: “An Aristotelian Theory of Agency”
Commentator: Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell University)
Chair: Erica Shumener
1:00 – 3:00 Lunch break
3:00 – 4:30
Speaker: Daniel Ferguson (King’s College London)
Title: “Intellectualism in the Eudemian Ethics”
Commentator: Christopher Shields (University of California, San Diego)
Chair: Stephen Engstrom
Tuesday, July 16
Hall of Languages 201
9:00 – 9:30 Greetings & Coffee
9:30 – 11:00
Speaker: Kristin Primus (University of California, Berkeley)
Title: “Understanding and Being One”
Commentator: John Carriero (University of California, Los Angeles)
Chair: Christopher Noble
11:20 – 12: 50
Speaker: Olivia Branscum (University of Oklahoma)
Title: “Heaven on Earth: Anne Conway’s Naturalistic Universalism”
Commentator: Christia Mercer (Columbia University)
Chair: Dean Moyar
1:00 – 3:00 Lunch break
3:00 – 4:30
Keynote Speaker: Christopher Shields
Title: “A Science of Goodness qua Goodness”
Chair: Karin Nisenbaum
Wednesday, July 17
Hall of Languages 201
9:00 – 9:30 Greetings & Coffee
9:30 – 11:00
Speaker: Karin Nisenbaum (Syracuse University)
Title: “The Role of the Highest Good in Kant and Hegel”
Commentator: Dean Moyar (Johns Hopkins University)
Chair: Hille Paakkunainen
11:20 – 12: 50
Speaker: Speaker: Thimo Heisenberg (Rice University)
Title: “Hegel on Property in Ethical Life”
Commentator: Mark Alznauer (Northwestern University)
Chair: Rachana Kamtekar
1:00 – 3:00 Lunch break
3:00 – 4:30
Keynote Speaker: Stephen Engstrom (University of Pittsburgh)
Title: “Wisdom and the Highest Good”
Chair: Janice Dowell