Political Morality Conference to be held at Penn State

Penn State’s Consortium on Moral Decision-Making will be hosting a hybrid conference on political polarization and moral decision-making on Friday, April 25, at Foster Auditorium in Paterno Library and live-streamed on Zoom.

According to consortium director Daryl Cameron, Sherwin Early Career Professor in the Rock Ethics Institute and associate professor of psychology at Penn State, the conference “Political Division and Morality: An Interdisciplinary Conversation” will include presenters from philosophy, psychology, anthropology, sociology, political science and communications. 

Presenters include Penn State alumni Michael Pasek, former doctoral candidate in psychology who is now an assistant professor at University of Illinois at Chicago; and Joseph Phillips, former doctoral candidate in political science who is now a post-doc at the University of Kent, in Canterbury, England. 

Other Penn State speakers include:

• Sean Laurent (Psychology)
• Daniel DellaPosta (Sociology)
• Chris Beem (McCourtney Institute for Democracy)
• Chris Skurka (Bellisario College of Communications)
• Anne Pisor (Anthropology)

The consortium is being supported by the Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute and The Rock Ethics Institute in the College of the Liberal Arts, with additional funding from the McCourtney Institute for Democracy, Department of Philosophy, and Department of Psychology.