BSET is an academic society dedicated to philosophical research in ethics. Our annual conference is the leading forum for ethical theory in the UK philosophy calendar. There is no registration fee for the conference itself but you must be a member to attend. If you are not already a member, please go to https://www.bset.org.uk/membership/ and pay via Paypal or by standing order.

An exception to membership is being made this year for graduate students and those facing financial hardship. (If you are a member of one or both of these groups and you have already paid membership, you can apply for a refund of your 2022 membership fee by writing to the Treasurer, Charlotte Newey, at c.newey@reading.ac.uk.)

The conference will be held online in the afternoons (UK time) of 11th and 12th July and the morning of 13th July 2022.

Line up for BSET 2022

Headliners

Prof Pamela Hieronymi : Making Excuses and the Blame Game

Prof Kieran Setiya: Human Nature, History, and the Limits of Critique

Main Stage

Lucia Schwarz: Nonnaturalism, Morality’s Normativity, Ineffability, and Metaphors

Nicholas Smyth: The Return of the Philosopher-King: Conceptual Engineering, Consequentialism and Social Authority

Andrew Peet and Eli Pitcovski: Holding onto Grief

Moya Mapps: Getting Personal: A Feminist Perspective on Philosophical Methodology

Kristen Hine: Is it Permissible to Select Abortion When Ectogenesis is an Alternative?

Owen Clifton: Contractualism and Non-Identity

Patrick Butlin: Well-being, agency and the individual evaluative perspective

Bart Streumer: Superspreading the Word