Info and registration: Symposium Picking Up Moral Understandings
Auditorium Vandenhove & online
Centre for Architecture and Art – Ghent University
Rozier 1
9000 Gent
Program:
Introduction 10:00 – 10:15 (CET)
Session 1 Metaethics 10:15 – 11:15 (CET)
Mercer E. Gary – Moral Understandings as a Metaethics of Care
Seppe Segers – A Moral Understanding of Moral Science
Session 2 Practices of responsibility 11:30 – 12:30 (CET)
Madeleine Taylor – Ambiguity or Equilibrium?
Dirk Lafaut & Michiel De Proost – Rethinking justification and transparency seeking in moral life
Session 3 Feminist moral psychology 13:30 – 14:30 (CET)
Olivia Lastra – The Cost of Courage
Marianna Leventi – What about the victim?
Session 4 Empirical informed ethics 14:45 – 16:15 (CET)
Veerle Provoost – Moral understandings and empirical ethics: a fickle relationship
Elleke Landeweer – Moral distress and the paradox of time
Laura Mudde – Conflict and misunderstandings as driving forces for collaborative moral learning
Responses on presented work by Margaret Urban Walker 16:30 – 18:00 (CET)
Organization:
This symposium is organized by ECSO (Research Group on Ethics, Culture and Society, an interuniversity collaboration between the Centre for Research on Culture and Gender at Ghent University and RHEA Expertise Centre on Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality at the VUB, Free University of Brussels) in collaboration with the Bioethics Institute Ghent.