The December 2014 Social Philosophy and Policy conference invited participants to explore broad questions on the morality of aggression including, but not limited to competition, cooperation, and aggression; the libertarian non-aggression principle; just war and humanitarian intervention; the moral limits of legal coercion; paternalism and perfectionism; the moral (non)neutrality of the concept of harm; and the conditions for the permissibility of self-defense. The Guest Editor for this issue of the Social Philosophy and Policy journal is Guido Pincione, University of Arizona. The conference was held December 4-7, 2014 at the The Omni Tucson National Golf Resort, 2727 West Club Drive in Tucson, Arizona.
The roster included the following invited authors:
- Jason Brennan, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University
- Cristina Bicchieri, SJP Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics, University of Pennsylvania
- Samantha Brennan, Professor, University of Western Ontario
- Claire Finkelstein, Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Heidi Hurd, David C. Baum Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois
- Frances Kamm, Littauer Professor of Philosophy & Public Policy, Harvard University
- Hartmut Kliemt, Professor, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
- Eric Mack, Professor, The Murphy Institute, Tulane University
- Michael Moore, Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Chair, University of Illinois'
- Horacio Spector, Professor, University of San Diego School of Law and Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Argentina
- Bas Van Der Vossen, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
- Steve Wall, Professor, University of Arizona
- Matt Zwolinski, Associate Professor, University of San Diego
