ETHICS: FORM AND CONTENT
May 26—27, 2018
Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value
University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
Konference se uskutoční v historické budově univerzity na Náměstí Čs. legií 565
Sobota, 26. května
Room: 03004
9:00 – 9:30 Registration
9:30 – 9:45 Welcome address
09:45 – 11:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE: TORIL MOI (DUKE UNIVERSITY, USA): The Trouble with Formalism: The Case of Literary Characters
11:00 – 11:15 COFFEE
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Room 03004
11:15 – 11:45 Eric J. Ritter (Vanderbilt University, USA), Form and Content in Ethical Reflection: Learning from Stanley Cavell
11:45 – 12:15 Nuno Venturinha (Instituto de Filosofia da Nova - IFILNOVA, Lisbon): A Moral Response to Scepticism
Room 01033
11:15 – 11:45 Markus Kortesmäki (Åbo Akademi University, Finland): Two approaches to moral inference and the function of moral vocabulary
11:45 – 12:15 Christoph Hanish (Ohio University, USA): Other Agents: A Blessing and a Curse
12:15 –13:30 LUNCH
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Room 03004
13:30 – 14:00 Mattimai Bakor Syiem (Centre for Ethics, University of Pardubice): The Moral Weight of Guilt Feelings
14:00 – 14:30 Camilla Kronqvist & Natan Elgabsi (Åbo Akademi University, Finland): Taking moral reflection too easily: The morality of sexual relationships and what not to do in France
Room 01033
13:30 – 14:00 Diana Kalášková (Centre for Ethics, University of Pardubice): Entering a Fictional World
14:00 – 14:30 Ingeborg Löfgren (Uppsala University, Sweden): The Truth in “The Ineffable” – Cora Diamond, Sara Lidman, and the Sharing of “Con-Science”
14:30 – 14:45 COFFEE
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Room 03004
14:45 – 15:15 Salla Peltonen (Åbo Akademi University & University of Helsinki, Finland): Macho philosophy in the spirit of openness?
15:15 – 15:45 Viktor Johansson (Södertörn University, Sweden): The State of the Learning Soul: Literature and, in, and as Educational Research
Room 01033
14:45 – 15:15 Ryan Manhire (Åbo Akademi University, Finland & Flinders University, Australia): Wittgenstein, Moral Certainty, and the Fragility of Humanity
15:15 – 15:45 Stefan Giesewetter (Åbo Akademi University, Finland): The Existential Aspect of Philosophical Problems
15:45 – 16:00 COFFEE
16:00 – 17:15 KEYNOTE LECTURE: DAWN WILSON (UNIVERSITY OF HULL, UK): Photography and Co-portraiture
17:15 – 18:15 RECEPTION (Wine and snacks)
18:15 – 19:00 Annual Meeting of the Nordic Wittgenstein Society
19:30 DINNER AT GALERIE CAFÉ - PARK RESTAURANT, (at own expense)
Sukova třída - Tyršovy sady, 530 01 Pardubice
http://www.galeriecafepardubice.cz/
Neděla, 27. května
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Room 03004
09:30 – 10:00 Leonidas Tsilipakos (University of Bristol, UK): Can moral force be based on a disciplinary corpus?
10:00 – 10:30 Francesco Pesci (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA): How to be an antireductionist about thick terms
Room 01033
09:30 – 10:00 Fergal McHugh (University College Dublin, Ireland): Difficulty, Style and the Moral Face of Philosophy
10:00 – 10:30 Hannah Kim (Stanford University, USA): Using Philosophy against Itself: The Tractatus’s Form and Conclusion
10:30 – 11:00 COFFEE
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Room 03004
11:00 – 11:30 Mira T. Reyes (Centre for Ethics, University of Pardubice): Adorno, Kafka & Animal Suffering: Animal Ethics in Literature
11:30 – 12:00 Hanna Lahdenperä (University of Helsinki, Finland): Fiction and/as Philosophy: Monika Fagerholm’s Diva and the challenge of context
Room 01033
11:00 – 11:30 Carolina Davis (Centre for Ethics & Dept. of History, University of Pardubice): “Pedro Lemebel and the powerful force of literature in the public sphere”
11:30 – 12:00 Galina Babak (Charles University, Prague & Queen Mary University of London,UK): Ethical vs Ideological in Literary Discussions about Form and Content in Soviet Ukraine in 1920s.
12:00 – 13.30 LUNCH
Room 03004
13:30 – 14:00 Antony Fredriksson (Åbo Akademi University, Finland): The Art of Attention and the Reading Image
14:00 – 14:30 Sinan Oruc (Binghamton University: The State University of New York, USA): “I Promise”: Reading Dardennes’ The Promise with Wittgenstein’s Transcendental Ethics
14:30 – 15:00 David R. Cerbone (West Virginia University, USA): Losing Hope: Wittgenstein and Camus after Diamond
15:00 – 15:30 COFFEE
15:30 – 16:45 Keynote Lecture: Andrew Klevan (University of Oxford, UK): The Ethics of Aesthetic Evaluation
16:45 – 17:00 CLOSING