Presentations, talks, comments -- Melinda A. Roberts

●  "Counting the Costs Before They're Hatched:  Climate Change, the Nonidentity Problem and the Moral Significance of Merely Possible Persons," Conference on the Ethics of Climate Change:  Intergenerational Justice and the Global Challenge, University of Delaware Department of Philosophy and the American Philosophical Association (Newark, Del., Oct. 2009)

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●  "Do Principles of Justice Extend to Merely Possible Persons?" Conference, Extensions of Justice, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Mount Scopus, June 2009)

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●  "Abortion and the Moral Significance of Merely Possible Persons," University of Delaware at Newark (Nov. 2008)

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●  Comment on Holly Smith, "Error and Uncertainty in Moral Decision-Making," Felician Ethics Conference (Apr. 2009)

●  Comment on Rivka Weinberg, "Existence:  Who Needs It?" University Center for Human Values, Princeton University (Nov. 2008)

●  "The Nonidentity Problem and the Two Envelope Problem," University of California at Riverside (Feb. 2008) 

●  “Climate Change and the Problem of Collective Harm,” comment on Andrew Light, Society for Applied Philosophy, Princeton Theological Institute (Oct. 2007)

●  Comment on Larry Temkin, “Equality and Health Care,” University Center for Human Values, Princeton University (Sept. 2006)

●  "When Do We Harm Persons by Causing Them to Exist?  Expected Value, Betterness and the Slave Child Case," University Center for Human Values Decamp Seminar (Princeton, Oct. 2006)

●  “Supernumerary Pregnancy and Harm to Persons,” Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania (Hart Lecture, June 2006)

●  "Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Harm to Offspring," The American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics 28th Annual Conference for Health Law Teachers (Newark, June 2004)

●  Comment on Noam J. Zohar, "Divine Representations and the Value of Embryos:  God's Image, God's Name and the Status of Human Non-Persons," Center for Judaic Studies and University Center for Human Values (Princeton, 2004)

●  Comment on David Wasserman, "Is Every Birth Wrongful?  Is Any Birth Required?" University Center for Human Values (Princeton, 2004)

●  "The New Reproduction Technologies and the Limits and Structure of Constitutional Privacy," American Philosophical Association -- Pacific Division Meetings (San Francisco, Mar. 2003)

●  "The Structure of Constitutional Privacy:  The 'Right' To Be Left Alone As a Hierarchy of Critical Privacy Interests," American Society for Value Inquiry (Milwaukee, Apr. 2002)

●  Comment on Adrienne Asch, “Selling of Human Ova,” University Center for Human Values (Princeton, 2002)

●  "Person-Based Consequentialism and the Equality Problem," American Philosophical Association -- University of Delaware Ethics in the Twenty-First Century (Newark, Delaware, Nov. 2001)

●  "Am I As Good As You Are?  Two Forms of Consequentialism and Two Approaches to the Equality Problem," American Philosophical Association -- Pacific Division Meetings (Oakland, April 2001)

●  "Cloning and Harming," American Philosophical Association -- Pacific Division Meetings (Berkeley, Apr. 1999)

●  "Is the Person-Affecting Intuition Inconsistent?" American Philosophical Association -- Pacific Division Meetings (Berkeley, Apr. 1997)