Upcoming

20th Annual Fall Ethics Symposium: The Ethics of Disagreement

October 13, 2025

University Union, Redwood Room/Pacific Suite 9am-4:30pm

Debates about morality, especially those regarding social issues concerning justice and public policy, are worryingly polarized. We tend to refuse to engage with people occupying different points of view, dismissing them as either stupid or evil. Our speakers this year address the view that moral and political disagreements are acceptable, even valuable, and the further view that it is better for us to engage with those with whom we disagree. Our symposium will attend to the principles that should guide us in thinking about moral and political disagreement and how best to approach it.

Speakers

• Anthony Bradley, TBA. Distinguished research fellow at The Acton Institute and Research Professor of Interdisciplinary and Theological Studies at Kuyper College.
• Andrew Jason Cohen, "Civil Discourse using Standard Principles of Toleration." Professor of Philosophy and Founding Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) at Georgia State University.
• Angel Eduardo, "How to Star-Man: Arguing from Compassion." Senior writer and editor at FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression)
• Hrishikesh Joshi, TBA. Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona and a core faculty member at the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom.