CFP: Nietzsche and Morals

The conference will be held at the Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (FAFICH) of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) from the 30th September to the 2nd October, in Belo Horizonte, and at the Instituto de Filosofia, Artes e Cultura (IFAC) of the Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP) from the 3rd to the 4th October, in Ouro Preto.

The GruNie (Nietzsche’s Research Group of the UFMG) is pleased to announce the 2nd International Conference on Nietzsche and the Philosophical Tradition, whose main theme will be Nietzsche and Moral Tradition. It includes not only Nietzsche’s relation to various trends in normative ethics (such as perfectionism, virtue ethics, contractarianism, Christian and Kantian deontology, utilitarianism), but also his place in contemporary moral philosophy, his views on metaethics and moral psychology (both critic and positive), as well as the question of how to connect his genealogical program and his normative commitments, considered both in the context of the nineteenth century philosophical attempts to naturalize morality and in the
light of contemporary discussions on naturalism and normativity.

Confirmed plenary speakers:

Clademir Araldi
(Universidade Federal de Pelotas/Brazil)

Marco Brusotti
(Università degli Studi di Lecce/Italy)

Helder Buenos Aires de Carvalho
(Universidade Federal do Piaui/Brazil)

Ernani Chaves
(Universidade Federal do Pará/Brazil)

João Constâncio
(Universidade Nova de Lisboa/Portugal)

Maudemarie Clark
(University of California, Riverside/USA)

Oswaldo Giacóia Júnior
(Unicamp/Brazil)

Robert Guay
(Binghamton University (SUNY)/USA)

José Nicolao Julião
(Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro/Brazil)

Alexander Nehamas
(Princenton University/USA)

Bernard Reginster
(Brown University/USA)

John Richardson
(New York University/USA)

Simon Robertson
(Cardiff University/UK)

Herman Siemens
(Leiden University/Holland)

Paul van Tongeren
(Nijmegen University/Holland)

We invite submissions for parallel sessions (3 x 30 minute sessions: 30
minute papers including discussion) which will take place at the UFMG in
Belo Horizonte from 30 September to 2 October 2014, on all topics bearing on
the conference theme. Potential topics include:

•       Nietzsche and moralities (eastern, Greeks, Christians, Renaissance, moderns)
•       Nietzsche and virtue ethics
•       Nietzsche and perfectionism
•       Nietzsche and contractarianism
•       Nietzsche and deontological theories
•       Nietzsche and utilitarianism
•       Nietzsche and individualistic ethics (ethical egoism, aesthetics of
existence)
•       Nietzsche and/in contemporary moral philosophy
•       Nietzsche and the programs of naturalization of morals
•       Nietzsche and moral psychology
•       Nietzsche and immoralism/postmoralism


If you want to contribute to this conference, please send an abstract of your paper on the above or other related topics (400 words, maximum), and a short CV (no longer than one page) via e-mail by July 15th, 2014 to [email protected] (Rogério Lopes/Leonardo Ribeiro), with the following in the subject box: Submission – Conference on Nietzsche and Moral Tradition. Proposals may be presented in Portuguese, English or Spanish. Notification of acceptance will be sent no later than 1st August 2014.

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