Moral Development and Moral Failure
Irish Philosophical Society Annual Conference 20-21 October 2023
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland
DAY 1 - Friday October 20th | ||||||
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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) |
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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) |
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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 1st | 4-4.40pm | Dr. Andrea Di Carlo (University College Cork) | Foucault and the Reformation |
4.45-5.25pm | Agnese Casellato (University College Dublin) | Anti-Individualist Rejoinders to Quine’s Indeterminacy Conjecture | |
February 15th | 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 |
4.45-5.25pm | Danny Forde (University College Cork) | Psychedelic realism – phenomenology of psychedelic experiences | |
March 1st | 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 15th | 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 29th | 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. |