Organized by the Centre for Ethics in cooperation with Mind and Life Europe
Monday the 25th of September 2023, 9:00-18:00
Legie Historical Building, Univerzita Pardubice
Description: An enactive perspective on the scope and possibility of human responsibility toward the good life is even more relevant today with the many crises and wars that are damaging and destroying the life of many human and non-human beings worldwide. Fighting against the temptation of exemption, complicity, and inertia, an enactive approach to the care for life stresses that there is something that we humans can and should do together. This workshop will consider and discuss enactive approaches for tackling human responsibility from an anti-individualistic perspective. New dialogues between enaction, situated affectivity, critical phenomenology, hermeneutics, practice theory, and metaethical constitutivism will be explored to identify new conceptual tools and resources for thinking about shared responsibility and joint action in caring for life. For instance, we will critically reflect on what it means to care for life from within our embodied shared sentience and what is the role of loving attention, empathy, and compassion in caring for others' flourishing. We will also focus on the role of interpretation, imagination, and critical thinking in the ethics of sense-making. The main aim of this workshop is to generate new questions and answers to further develop the research field of enactive ethics in a participatory and action-oriented manner.
Confirmed speakers: Carla Bagnoli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, IT), Laura Candiotto (University of Pardubice, CZ), Geoffrey Dierckxsens (Czech Academy of Science, CZ), Antony Fredriksson (University of Pardubice), Gabor Karsai (Mind and Life Europe), Imke von Maur (University of Osnabrück, DE), Martin Weichold (University of Dresden, DE), Amber Carpenter (Yale-NUS).
If you have any inquiries, contact: laura.candiotto@upce.cz
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88474635656?pwd=SVoqlq0ayGczqsbQVVbvsYJocDUaQN.1
Schedule
9:00: Welcome talk by Laura Candiotto, Towards an Enactive Ethics
Session 1: Chair Laura Candiotto
9:20 Martin Weichold, Enactive Ethics as a Normative Ethical Theory
9:50 Q&A
10:10 Coffee break
Session 2: Chair Niklas Forsberg
10:40: Amber Carpenter, The Individual, the Impersonal, and the Inter-personal: Buddhist-Murdochian suggestions and challenges for how to care for life
11:10 Q&A
Session 3: Chair Ondrej Beran
11:30: Imke von Maur (on-line), Caring classrooms and the climate crisis
12:00 Q&A
12:30 Lunch at Shangri-La
Session 4: Chair Kamila Pacovskà
14:00 Carla Bagnoli, Embodied Constitutivism and the Efficacy of Practical Reason
14:30 Q&A
Session 5: Chair Petr Urban
14:50: Antony Fredriksson, Benevolent Attention—Blinded by Judgment
15:20 Q&A
15:40 Coffee Break
Session 6: Chair Silvia Caprioglio Panizza
16:10 Geoffrey Dierckxsens, What is the Role of Hermeneutics in Enactivism? On Enactive Ethics and Critical Activism
16:40 Q&A
17:00 Closing Summary by Gabor Karsai
17:30 Final discussion
18:00 End of the Workshop
19:00 Conference Dinner at Plzenka