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 | |||