4th Frankfurt Metaethics Conference (FrankMeta.4)

The Annual Frankfurt Metaethics Conference (FrankMeta) aims to offer a forum for current research in metaethics, broadly construed, including research on topics in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, metaphysics and epistemology of normativity, as well as papers on the nature of rationality, reasons, and similar topics.

The conference run over two days and provided plenty of time for discussion. It was free and open to all.

Conference Programme

Friday, 3 June 2022 Room: S3.05
9:45 - 11:15	Eline Gerritsen – Ought Simpliciter and Authoritative Normativity
11:15 - 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00	Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - On Theory of a Better Moral Theory and a Better Theory of Morality
13:00 - 14:15	Lunch
14:15 - 15:45	Richard Rowland – The Normativity of Gender
15:45 - 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30	Paulina Sliwa – Moral Inquiry
18:00 -	Conference Dinner
Saturday, 4 June 2022 Room: S3.05
9:15 - 10:45	Stephen Finlay – Beyond Normativity: Can Metaethics Escape Samsara’s Wheel?
10:45 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30	Irina Schumski – The Semantic View of Thick Terms: Inferentialism to the Rescue
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 15:00	Will Gamester – Expressivism and Indeterminate Normativity
15:00 - 15:15	Coffee break
15:15 - 16:45	Peter Railton – Evaluative Learning and the Problem of Motivation