Romanell Center Workshop December 4, 2021
Join us for the Romanell Center Workshop, December 4, 2021 (Saturday) in 141 Park Hall, UB North Campus. Our day-long workshop features lively debates and discussions by Romanell Fellows and colleagues. Ben Bradley (Syracuse) will deliver the keynote, “Against Discounting Future Preferences.”
Saturday, December 4, 2021
Park Hall 141, North Campus, University at Buffalo
9:00-9:30 Breakfast
9:30-10:30 Travis Timmerman (Seton Hall) “Not Feeling Grim About the Reaper.”
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:45 Neil Feit (SUNY Fredonia) “On Being Better off Alive than Dead”
11:45-12:00 Break
12:00-1:00 Catherine Nolan (Belmont Abbey) “When Should We Use Double Effect Reasoning?”
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00 Kurt Blankschaen (Daemon) Topic “Narrative Ethics and Clinical Care in Patients with CF”
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-4:15 Anna Iltis (Wake Forest) “Philosophy: A Fly in the Bioethics Ointment”
4:15-4:30 Break
4:30-6:00 Ben Bradley (Syracuse)
Keynote: “Against Discounting Future Preferences.”
* Contact David Hershenov for more information or copies of the workshop papers, dh25@buffalo.edu
** To be added to the Romanell Center listserv contact Jonathan Vajda at jvajda@buffalo.edu