The Irish Philosophical Society was founded in 1962. It counts among its members most professional philosophers in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, as well as students and members of the public.

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We organise a conference each year at different locations in Ireland and publish the Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society.

The Irish Philosophical Society

Cumann Fealsúnachta na hÉireann

Moral Development and Moral Failure

Irish Philosophical Society Annual Conference 20-21 October 2023

Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland

DAY 1 - Friday October 20th
Time	Session	Papers	Speakers	Affiliation	Chair
8:30 - 9:00	Registration and Welcome				Felix Ó Murchadha (University of Galway)
9:00 – 10:30	Panel 1	Virtues, Moral Education and Youth
	9:00– 9:30	Transformative Virtues in Character Education	Matilde Liberti	University of Genoa
	9:30 – 10:00	Moral Education under Moral Uncertainty	Ron Aboodi (online)	Tel Aviv University
	10:00–10:30	The Mitigating Force of Youth: A Developmental Opportunity Theory	Benjamin Ewing	Queen’s University (Canada)
10:30 – 10:45	Break
10:45 – 12:15	Panel 2	Emotion in Moral Development and Moral Failure			Daniel Vazquez (Mary Immaculate College)
	10:45-11:15	Second Order Fear and Moral Failure	Amy McKiernan and Daniel P. Haggerty	Dickinson College; University of Scranton
	11:15-11:45	Synthesizing Perspectives Lovingly: Murdoch and the Jains	Raja Rosenhagen	University of Pittsburgh
	11:45-12:15	Autism and character education: the role of emotion	Meredith Plug	University College Dublin
12:15-1:30	Keynote 1	With Hope Through Uncertainty: How the philosophy of education can respond to moral failure	Katy Dineen	University College Cork	Felix Ó Murchadha (University of Galway)
1:30-2:30pm	Lunch Break
2:30-4:00pm	Panel 3	Grief, Moral Damage and Punishment			Catherine Kavanagh (Mary Immaculate College)
	2:30-3:00	What does the Epicurean therapy of grief tell us about moral development	Cristóbal Zarzar	Cambridge University
	3:00-3:30	Practicing Proactive Grief for Moral Development	Ying Yao	Boston University
	3:30-4:00	Moral Damage and Moral Failure	Grace Hibshman	University of Notre Dame
	4:00-4:30	Moral Injury: A Second-Personal Analysis	Ken Oshitani	University of Tokyo
4:30-4:45pm	Break
4:45-6:00pm	Keynote 2	Holding ourselves responsible: when what rightly matters doesn’t really matter	Lisa Tessman	SUNY at Binghamton	Daniel Vazquez (Mary Immaculate College)
7:30pm	Conference Dinner, The French Table Restaurant. 1 Steamboat Quay, Dock Rd, Mountkennet, Limerick



DAY 2 - Saturday October 21st
Location: G10, Foundation Building, Mary Immaculate College – with the Exception of Panel 4b (parallel with Panel 4a) - see below
Time	Session	Papers	Speakers	Affiliation	Chair
9:00-10:30	Panel 4a	Forgiveness, Supererogationism and Moral Perfectionism			Basil Vassilicos (Mary Immaculate College)
	9:00-9:30	Kagan's Anti-supererogationism: A Communitarian Critique	Genco Guralp	University of Limerick
	9:30-10:00	Forgiveness, Engagement, and Moral Development	Cathy Darling	University College Dublin
	10:00-10:30	Moral perfectionism, failure and moral development	Vianney Domingo	University of Navarre
9:00-10:30	Panel 4b Room JHN221, Newman Building	Revenge, Moral Failure and Disagreement			Angelo Bottone (Dublin Business School)
	9:00-9:30	Life’s a B*tch, Now So Am I.” Catwoman, Moral Damage and Revenge.	Eduardo Torres (online)	Trinity College Dublin
	9:30-10:00	Deep disagreements and moral progress	Jordi Fairhurst (online)	KU Leuven
	10:00-10:30	Moral Development and Moral Failure in Pragmatism	Juho Lindholm (online)	University of Tartu
10:30 – 10:45	Break
10:45-12:15	Panel 5	Moral Ignorance, Evil and Moral Development			Daniel Vazquez (Mary Immaculate College)
	10:45-11:15	Moral Ignorance and Failure	František Špinka (online)	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
	11:15-11:45	Thoughtlessness and Moral Failure	Michael Hardiman	Independent Scholar
	11:45-12:15	Moral Failure and Models of Moral Development	Carissa Phillips-Garrett	Loyola Marymount University
12:15-1:30	Keynote 3	The distinctive moral failure of negligence	Christopher Cowley	UCD	Catherine Kavanagh (Mary Immaculate College)
1:30-2:30pm	Lunch Break
2:30-4:30pm	Panel 6	Attention, Dialogue and Disagreement			Lucy Elvis (University of Galway)
	2:30-3:00	Moral Failure: Evil yet right acts	Laura Puumala	University of Turku
	3:00-3:30	Is ‘Attention-Based’ Literature a Source for Moral Improvement?	Michela Dianetti	University of Galway
	3:30-4:00	Ethical dialogue with remote futures (or aliens or elephants): Williams's skepticism and a Cardian response	Basil Vassilicos	Mary Immaculate
4:00-4:30pm	Break
4:30 – 6:00pm	Panel 7	Bioenhancement, Neural Indeterminism and Corporate Ethics			Felix Ó Murchadha (University of Galway)
	4:30-5:00	Moral bioenhancement, freedom, and psychopathy	Daniel Lee	University of Galway
	5:00-5:30	Corporate Moral Development	Sergei Levin	Florida State University
	5:30-6:00	Moral Development, Neural Indeterminism	Maria Sekatskaya (online)	Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Online Seminar series 2023

The Irish Philosophical Society would like to invite you to join our online Seminar Series 2023. This is an opportunity to hear emerging researchers present their work, especially PG students across universities in Ireland (occasionally with participants from overseas institutions). This event is bi-weekly on Wednesdays, starting February 1st 2023. The full program is shown below:

Date	Time	Speaker & (Affiliation)	Title
February 1^st	4-4.40pm	Dr. Andrea Di Carlo (University College Cork)	Foucault and the Reformation
February 1^st	4.45-5.25pm	Agnese Casellato (University College Dublin)	Anti-Individualist Rejoinders to Quine’s Indeterminacy Conjecture
February 15^th	4-4.40pm	Charles Quinn (University College Dublin & Copenhagen University)	The Latency of Experience in Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis: An Implicit Ethics of Subjectivity in Merleau-Ponty and Lacan
February 15^th	4.45-5.25pm	Danny Forde (University College Cork)	Psychedelic realism – phenomenology of psychedelic experiences
March 1^st	4-4.40pm	Francesco Di Betta (Universita degli Studi di Milano)	Knowing and Necessity: How Can We Counterfactually Account for Our Mathematical Knowledge
	4.45-5.25pm	Alessandro Guardascione (University College Dublin)	Situating Evaluativism in Psychiatry: Exploring the Partnership between Analytic-Linguistic and Phenomenological Approaches.
	5.30-6.10pm	Michela Dianetti (University of Galway)	Iris Murdoch and the ‘Mystical Novelist’: A Secular Mysticism Rooted in Simone Weil’s Concept of Attention
March 15^th	4-4.40pm	Liberty Conlon (Trinity College Dublin)	What are the implications of Nietzsche’s use of Aristophanes for his overall tragic philosophy as presented in the Birth of Tragedy? How does this affect our understanding of his criticisms of Euripides?
	4.45-5.25pm	Mariane Oliverira (University of São Paulo)	The enquirer’s method and the “pre-scientific notions” on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics B.1-2
	5.30-6.10pm	Greg Crowley (University of Galway)	Husserl’s Methodology – From Realism to Idealism and Back
March 29^th	4-4.40pm	Jack Ryan (Trinity College Dublin)	The status of Representationalism in Huw Price’s Global Expressivism
	4.45-5.25pm	Antonio Pio De Mattia (University College Dublin)	End or transformation: the reiteration of philosophical questions and the Transcendental-pragmatic response
	5.30-6.10pm	Catherine Barry (Maynooth University)	Locke’s Peculiar Prerogative: Irish debate over toleration and the papal deposing power in the 1720s.