FSU Philosophy organizes an annual conference with generous funding from the Werkmeister fund. Each conference is organized around a central topic of philosophical interest, with leading experts in the subject matter invited to present cutting-edge research.
Upcoming Werkmeister Conference
Spring: 2026 Rights Theory
Friday, March 13th (Zoom): Laura Valentini (LMU Munich) “Claim-Rights, Reasons, and the Owed-To Relation”
Friday, March 20th (Zoom): Visa Kurki (Helsinki) “Why Animals Already Hold Legal Rights”
Friday, March 27th - Saturday, March 18th (in Person)
Location: 204 Longmire
Schedule
Friday
8:45 am: Breakfast
9:15 am: Simon May (FSU): "The Compound Relational Structure of Moral Claim-Rights”
11:00 am: Renee Jorgensen (Michigan) "What We Owe Others Under Ignorance”
12:30 pm: Lunch
1:45 pm: Julian Jonker (Penn) “Relational Normativity without Bipolarity”
3:30 pm: John Oberdiek (Rutgers-Law) “To Whom Is the Duty of Care Owed?”
Saturday
8:45 am: Breakfast
9:15 am: Nicolas Cornell (Michigan-Law) "Residing Humility"
11:00 am: Daniel Muñoz (UNC) “Epistemic Supererogation and the Right to Believe”
12:30 pm: Lunch
1:45 pm: Sophie Gibert (Penn) and Quinn White (Harvard) “Two (and a Half) Conceptions of Autonomy”
3:30 pm: Jed Lewinsohn (Pitt) “The Conceptual Priority of Debt: Against the Orthodoxy (and Heterodoxy) on Exchange and Money”
Friday, April 3rd (Zoom): Rowan Cruft (Stirling) “What Are Duties? A Reasons-First Relational Approach”
Recent Werkmeister Conferences
Spring: 2025 New Work on Imagination
Speakers
- Reza Hadisi (University of Toronto)
- Hannah Kim (University of Arizona)
- Amy Kind (Clarement McKenna)
- Peter Langland-Hassan (University of Cincinnati)
- Emine Hande Tuna (University of California Santa Cruz)
Fall 2024: The Werkmeister Conference in Honor of Alfred R. Mele
Speakers
- Helen Beebee (University of Leeds)
- Adam Feltz (University of Oklahoma)
- Michael McKenna (University of Arizona)
- Carlotta Pavese (Cornell University)
- Derk Pereboom (Cornell University)
- Adina Roskies (University of Santa Barbara)
- Carolina Sartorio (Rutgers University)
- Dion Scott-Kakures (Scripps College)
- Manuel Vargas (University of California, San Diego)
Spring 2024: Shaping the Normative Landscape
Speakers
- Jorah Dannenberg (Stanford University)
- Dan Haybron (St. Louis University)
- Jennifer Hawkins (Duke University)
- Daniel Markovits (Yale Law School)
- David Owens (King's College London)
- Valerie Tiberius (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)