18/09/2024: Symposium Picking Up Moral Understandings

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.