Workshop registration deadline: April 8, 2026.

You are invited to participate in the eighth annual workshop on normativity in Chapel Hill, which will be held exceptionally this year in Montreal on April 24 and 25, 2026, at McGill University’s Thomson House.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together philosophers working on normativity broadly construed, such as metaethics, reasons and rationality, epistemic normativity, and related areas. This year, the keynote lecture will be delivered by Jane Friedman (NYU).

To register, please send an email to the following address: chnormativity@gmail.com by April 8, 2026. You can find more information about registration and accommodations at the following link.

Schedule:

Friday, April 24, 2026

• 9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.: Light breakfast and conversation
• 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.: Rachel Achs (UC Santa Cruz), “No Priority for Emotions or Values”, with commentary by Z Quanbeck (NYU)
• 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.: Kieran Britt (Princeton), “Rationality Does Not Always Exculpate”, with commentary by Joshua Schechter (Brown)
• 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.: Lunch break
• 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.: Faron Ray (UC San Diego), “Standing Demystified: How the Correct Theory of Standing to Blame Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight”, with commentary by Alex Carty (McGill)
• 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.: Alisabeth Ayars (Wash U, St. Louis), “Why Illusions are Bracketable but Emotions Aren’t: Affect as Pre-Judgmental Taking-as-Reasons”, with commentary by Terence Cuneo (Vermont)
• 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.: Dinner (for speakers, commentators, and other invited participants) at ChuChai
• 9:00 p.m.: Unofficial drinks, venue TBD

Saturday, April 25, 2026

• 9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.: Light breakfast and conversation
• 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.: Chrisoula Andreou (Utah), “Keeping Maximization in its Place: Pluralism, Diversification, and Maximization”, with commentary by Meredith Sheeks (UNC)
• 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.: Benjamin Kiesewetter (Bielefeld), “Epistemic Permissiveness and the Balancing View of Ought”, with commentary by Daniel Fogal (NYU)
• 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.: Lunch break
• 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.: Georgie Malone (CUNY), “Social Critique When Reasons Run Out”, with commentary by Eliot Watkins (Bielefeld)
• 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.: Keynote speaker, Jane Friedman (NYU), title TBD
• 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.: Dinner (for speakers, commentators, and other invited participants) at Bistrot La Fabrique
• 9:00 p.m.: Unofficial drinks, venue TBD

To see the program from previous years, click here.