Centre for Ethics: The Value of Equality

The Value of Equality Workshop Program

Thursday, March 13, 2014
Room 200, Larkin Building, 2nd Floor, 15 Devonshire Place

Chair: Arthur Ripstein

14:00 - 15:10: Larry S. Temkin (Rutgers): ‘Illuminating Egalitarianism’
15:10 - 15:30: Coffee Break

Chair: Kerah Gordon-Solomon
15:30 - 16:40: Cynthia Stark (Utah): ‘Rescuing the Pareto Argument’
16:40 - 17:50: Thomas Christiano (Arizona): ‘Rationality, Equal Status, and Egalitarianism’
18:30 Conference Dinner (by invitation only)

Friday, March 14, 2014
Combination Room, Trinity College, 6 Hoskin Avenue

Chair: Lauren Bialystok
8:50 - 10:00: Deborah Hellman (Virginia): ‘Two Faces of Equality’
10:00 - 11:10: Sophia Moreau (Toronto): ‘Equality in the Law: What Kind of Value does Non-Discrimination Have?’
11:10 - 11:25: Coffee break

Chair: Jennifer Gibson
11:25 - 12:35 Nir Eyal (Harvard): ‘Inequality in Political Philosophy and in Epidemiology: A Re-Marriage’
12:35 - 13:30 Lunch

Chair: Bruce Chapman
13:30 - 14:40: Daniel M. Hausman (Madison, Wisconsin): ‘Could Equality (or Priority) Be Intrinsically Valuable?’
14:40 - 15:50: Peter Vallentyne (Columbia, Missouri): ‘On the Coherence of Paretian Egalitarianism’
15:50 -16:10 Coffee break

Chair: Thomas Hurka
16:10 -17:20: Richard J. Arneson (UC San Diego): ‘Basic Equality, Consequentialism, and Priority’