Rethinking Moral Status
13-14 June 2019, St Cross College, 61 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LZ
Please note that it is necessary to register your attendance for this event.
We are fully booked but do have a waiting list, please email us (contact details below) to be added to the waiting list.
Convenors
Steve Clarke and Julian Savulescu
Thursday 13 June 2019
09.00-09.10 Welcome/Introduction to Proceedings
09.10-10.05 David DeGrazia (George Washington University)
An Interest-Based Model of Moral Status
10.05-11.00 Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke University)
Variable Moral Status
11.00-11.25 Coffee break
11.25-12.20 Sarah Chan (University of Edinburgh)
Chimeras, Superchimps and Post-persons: Species Boundaries and Moral Status Enhancements
12.20-13.30 Lunch Break
13.30-14.25 Ruth Faden (Johns Hopkins) and Tom Beauchamp (Georgetown University)
Toward a Theory of Moral Status Inclusive of Non-Human Animals
14.25-15.20 Françoise Baylis (Dalhousie University) and Jason Robert (Arizona State University)
Inexorable Moral Confusion, Revisited
15.20-15.45 Coffee break
15.45-16.40 Elizabeth Harman (Princeton University)
The Ever Conscious View and the Contingency of Moral Status
16.40-17.35 Josh Shepherd (Carleton University and the Universitat de Barcelona)
The Moral Status of Conscious Subjects
Friday 14 June 2019
09.00-09.55 Ingmar Persson (University of Gothenburg and the University of Oxford)
Moral Status and Moral Significance
09.55-10.50 Udo Schuklenk (Queen’s University)
Moral Status: A Convenient Label
10.50-11.15 Coffee break
11.15-12.10 John Harris (University of Manchester)
The Moral Status of So-called Moral Machines
12.10-13.20 Lunch break
13.20-14.15 Frances Kamm (Rutgers University)
Moral Status and Some Nonpersons
14.15-15.10 Thomas Douglas (University of Oxford)
Is Moral Status Good for You?
15.10-15.35 Coffee break
15.35-16.30 Ben Sachs (University of St. Andrews)
The Tenuous Connection between Moral Status and Proper Political-Legal Status
16.30-17.00 Julian Savulescu and Steve Clarke (University of Oxford)
Discussion of Key Themes Emerging from the Conference
Contacts
Steve Clarke: stephen.clarke@philosophy.ox.ac.uk (conference programme)
Christa Henrichs: christa.henrichs@bdi.ox.ac.uk (conference registration)
Conference recordings
Following the conference, we have published a series of audio recordings from the presentations. See our news page for more information.
