Thursday, May 20, 2004
Location: Kellogg Auditorium, Dartmouth Medical School

2:00 - 2:30

Welcome: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Philosophy, Dartmouth), Michael Gazzaniga (Dean of Faculty, Dartmouth)

Session I: Methodology
2:30 - 3:25

Chair: David Copp (Philosophy, University of Florida)
Speaker: Owen Flanagan (Philosophy, Duke)
Topic: "Why Naturalize Moral Theory?"

Session II: Cognitive Psychology
3:30 - 4:25



4:30 - 5:25



5:30 - 6:25

Chair: Kevin Dunbar (Education and PBS, Dartmouth)
Speaker: Gerd Gigerenzer (Psychology, Max Plank Institute)
Topic: “How Heuristics Shape Moral Actions”

Chair: Marina Oshana (Philosophy, University of Florida)
Speaker: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Philosophy, Dartmouth)
Topic: “Framing Effects on Moral Intuitions”

Chair: Frederik Bjorklund (Psychology, Lund University)
Speaker: Jonathan Haidt (Psychology, University of Virginia)
Topic: "Dumbfounding, fairness, cooties, and other signs of moral intuitions at work"

Friday, May 21, 2004
Location: Kellogg Auditorium, Dartmouth Medical School

Session III:
Evolutionary Psychology
9:00 - 9:55



10:00 - 10:55



11:00 - 11:55

Chair: Laura-Ann Petitto (Education and PBS, Dartmouth)
Speaker: Leda Cosmides (Psychology, Santa Barbara)
Topic: “The Evolutionary Psychology of Moral Reasoning and Moral Sentiment”

Chair: Heike Schmidt-Felzmann (Philosophy, National University of Ireland)
Speaker: Debra Lieberman (Psychology, University of Hawaii)
Topic: “Does Morality have a Biological Basis?”

Chair: Ron Mallon (Philosophy, Utah)
Speaker: Peter Tse (PBS, Dartmouth)
Topic: “How our minds became symbolic, and how this transformed human moral behavior”

12:00 - 3:30

Lunch

Session IV:
Social Evolution
3:30 - 4:25



4:30 - 5:25




5:30 - 6:25

Chair: Catherine Driscoll (Philosophy, Dartmouth)
Speaker: Geoffrey Miller (Psychology, University of New Mexico)
Topic: “Sexual Selection and Moral Belief”

Chair: Susan Dwyer (Philosophy, University of Maryland at Baltimore)
Speakers: Marc Hauser (Psychology, Harvard)
Topic: “The Evolution of Universal Moral Grammar”


Chair: Roy Sorensen (Philosophy, Dartmouth)
Speakers: Stephen Stich and Chandra Sripada (Philosophy, Rutgers)
Topic: Evolution of Moral Beliefs

Saturday, May 22, 2004
Location: Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall)

Session V:
Brain Science
9:00 - 9:55




10:00 - 10:55



11:00 - 11:55

Chair: Catherine Hynes (PBS, Dartmouth)
Speaker: Jorge Moll (University of Rio de Janeiro)
Topic: "A neurocognitive model for moral behavior:
from clinical evidence to functional imaging"

Chair: John Kulvicki (Philosophy, Dartmouth)
Speaker: Joshua Greene (Philosophy and Psychology, Princeton)
Topic: “fMRI Studies of Moral Judgment”

Chair: Scott Grafton (PBS, Dartmouth)
Speaker: Richard Joyce (Philosophy, Australian National University)
Topic: “What Neuroscience Cannot offer Meta-Ethics”

12:00 - 2:00

Lunch

Session VI:
Psychopathology
2:00 - 2:55




3:00 - 3:55

Chair: Heidi Maibom (Philosophy, Carleton)
Speaker: Kent Kiehl (Psychology, Yale)
Topic: “Without Morals - the cognitive neuroscience of
criminal psychopaths”

Chair: Adina Roskies (Philosophy, MIT and Dartmouth)
Speaker: Jeanette Kennett (Philosophy, Monash)
Topic: “Psychopathy and Meta-ethics”

3:55 - 4:30

Break

Session VII:
Children and Adolescents
4:30 - 5:25



5:30 - 6:25

Chair: John Deigh (Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin)
Speaker: Jerome Kagan (Psychology, Harvard)
Topic: “Human Morality and Temperament”

Chair: Darcia Naravaez (Psychology, Notre Dame)
Speakers: Abigail Baird (PBS, Dartmouth)
Topic: “Moral Beliefs in Adolescence"

Sunday, May 23, 2004
Location: Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall

Session VIII:
Objectivity
9:00 - 9:55




10:00 - 10:55



11:00 - 11:55

Chair: Victoria McGeer (Philosophy, Princeton)
Speaker: Jesse Prinz (Philosophy, Chapel Hill)
Topic: “New Research on Moral Reasoning”


Chair: Maria Merritt (Philosophy, William and Mary)
Speakers: John Doris and Alex Plakias (Philosophy, Santa Cruz)
Topic: “How to Argue about Disagreement”

Chair: Andrew Garrod (Education, Dartmouth)
Speaker: Shaun Nichols (Philosophy, College of Charleston)
Topic: “After objectivity: empirical studies of moral judgment”

12:00 - 1:00

Lunch

Session IX:
Philosophical Implications
1:00 - 1:55



2:00 - 2:55



3:00 - 3:55

Chair: Dan Haybron (Philosophy, St. Louis University)
Speaker: Julia Driver (Philosophy, Dartmouth)
Topic: “Psychological Symmetry and Moral Theory”

Chair: William Tolhurst (Philosophy, Northern Illinois)
Speaker: Don Loeb (Philosophy, Vermont)
Topic: “Can Science Support and Error Theory in Ethics?"

Chair: Kathleen Wallace (Philosophy, Hofstra)
Speaker: Oliver Curry (Philosophy, University of London)
Topic: "Conflict resolution, costly signals, and virtue"