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)
● "Do Principles of Justice Extend to Merely Possible Persons?" Conference, Extensions of Justice, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Mount Scopus, June 2009)
● "Abortion and the Moral Significance of Merely Possible Persons," University of Delaware at Newark (Nov. 2008)
● 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)