MMaM 2025 Moral Metaphysics at Maryland Inaugural Edition

30–31 May 2025
University of Maryland, College Park

Program

Venue

John S. Toll Physics Building, Room 2214
University of Maryland, College Park

Friday, 30 May

12:30 pm — Coffee
1:00 – 2:20 pm
Christopher Frugé
University of Oxford
World Mirroring Mind
Chair: Zach Thornton (Virginia Tech)
2:30 – 3:50 pm
Alisabeth Ayars
Washington University in St. Louis
The Epistemic Pull of Affect: Why Affect is Not Mere Appearance
Chair: Zach Barnett (Notre Dame)
4:00 – 5:30 pm
Oscar North-Concar & Kirk Surgener
University of Warwick
Addressing Metaskepticism
Chair: Joe Gurrola (Maryland)
6:30 pm — Dinner (speakers and chairs)

Saturday, 31 May

9:30 am — Coffee
10:00 – 11:20 am
Singa Behrens
Goethe University Frankfurt
The Structure of Normativity, or Why Too Many Primitives Spoil the Broth
11:30 am – 12:50 pm
Rohan Sud
Virginia Tech
Oughts and Coherence
Chair: Lia Curtis Fine (Maryland)
12:50 – 2:00 pm — Lunch (catered)
2:00 – 3:20 pm
Billy Dunaway
University of Missouri, St. Louis
The Prospects for Normative Metaphysics: Analyticity with Substantive Truth
Chair: Pierce Neal (Johns Hopkins)
3:30 – 4:50 pm
Audrey Powers
University of Vienna
Moral Laws, Governance, and Contingency
Chair: Shannon Chang (Michigan)
7:00 pm — Dinner (speakers and chairs)

Speakers