Moral Development and Moral Failure
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland
Day one – Friday October 20th
| Time | Session | Papers | Speaker(s) | Affiliation | Chair |
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Registration and welcome | ||||
| 9:00 – 10:30 | Panel 1 | Virtues, Moral Education and Youth | Felix Ó Murchadha (University of Galway) | ||
| 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 – 2:30 | Lunch | ||||
| 2:30 – 4:00 | 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 – 4:45 | Break | ||||
| 4:45 – 6:00 | Keynote 2 | Holding ourselves responsible: when what rightly matters doesn’t really matter | Lisa Tessman | SUNY at Binghamton | Daniel Vazquez (Mary Immaculate College) |
| 7:30 | Conference dinner |
Day two – Saturday October 21st
| Time | Session | Paper | Speaker(s) | 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 | 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 – 2:30 | Lunch | ||||
| 2:30 – 4:00 | 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 – 4:30 | Break | ||||
| 4:30 – 6:00 | 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 |