This annual Arizona Workshop featured new work in normative ethical theory broadly construed, to include not only issues about the right and the good, but meta-theoretical questions about the project of developing and defending normative ethical theories. The Workshop was held in Tucson at the Westward Look Wyndham Grand Resort and Spa located in the scenic foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains.

2026 Keynote Speakers Include

• Julia Markovits, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Cornell
• Mark Schroeder, Professor of Philosophy, USC

Dr. Michael McKenna hosted the annual Freedom & Responsibility Workshop, which focused on contemporary work in the metaphysics of free will. The workshop brought together scholars from leading institutions, listed below. The event was fully funded by the Freedom Center and drew strong attendance.

Featured Speakers & Talks

• Keynote Speaker: Dana Nelkin (University of California, San Diego)
  “Normative Powers and Responsibility Practices”
• Derk Pereboom (Cornell University)
  “The Ability to Do Otherwise and the Accessibility of Alternatives”
• Jason Turner (University of Arizona)
  “Contextualism about Abilities”
• Mark Balaguer (California State University, Los Angeles)
  “A New Response to the Luck Objection”
• Carolina Sartorio (Rutgers University)
  “Basic and non-basic responsibility: Against unification”

The workshop took place at Westward Look in Tucson, Arizona from October 23-25, 2025. Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy aims to publish some of the best contemporary work in political philosophy and these closely related subfields.

Each year there is a workshop associated with a corresponding volume in Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy.

Featured Speakers & Talks

• Opening Remarks | Jane Bambauer, Professor of Law at the University of Florida
• Speakers Included | Sam Berstler, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Jason Brennan, Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor, Georgetown University; Daniel Jacobson, Bruce D. Benson Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado Boulder; JP Messina, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University; Delaney Verjinski, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of South Alabama; Steve Wall Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona

Featured Speakers & Talks

• Keynote Speaker: Monique Wonderly(Johns Hopkins University)

  “Forgiveness, Trust, and Betrayal”

• Jacob Blitz (University of Arizona)

  “Non-Moral Contempt”

• August Gorman (Oakland University)

  “ADHD and Blameworthiness for Omissions”

• Tim Kearl (Wayne State University)

  “Flagler College”

• Coleen Mcnamara (University of California, Riverside)

  “Praiseworthiness and Required”

Featured Speakers & Talks

• Keynote Speaker: Santiago Amaya (Universidad de los Andes)

  “Forgiveness as Politics”

• David Clark (Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, University of Arizona)

  “What’s for Desert?”

• Jada Strabbing (Wayne State University)

  “Blame and Forgiveness: Two Functional Accounts”

• Anna Nyman (Uppsala University)

  “What’s Unfair about Moral Luck?”

• Dana Nelkin (University of California, San Diego)

  “Desert and Degrees of Liability”

Featured Speakers & Talks

• Keynote Speaker: Macalester Bell (Bryn Mawr College)

  “A Moderate Defense of Derisive Dissent”

• Anna-Bella Sicilia (University of Arizona)

  “In Defense of Genuine Un-Forgiving”

• Robert Wallace (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo)

  “Politics, Agency, and Hope”

• Hannah Tierney (University of California, Davis)

  “The Risky Business of Forgiveness”