Constraints and Vulnerabilities
Blinderveien 31
Oslo
Norway
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University of Oslo, 4-5 September, 2015
Constraints and Vulnerabilities
1st Conference of the ENPRNP
The European Network Practical Reason & Normative Psychology aims to provide a platform for cooperation and exchange among philosophers interested in theories of practical reason, practical reasoning, normativity and normative psychology.
The Conference is designed to discuss new work on the epistemic and practical constraints that bear on the exercise of practical rationality, in the light of recent researches on mutual vulnerability and dependence. Ethical theories generally focus on idealized models of practical wisdom and practical reasoning. However, human experience is marked by vulnerability, epistemic limitations, weakness, finitude and frailty. Are these features defects? Are they a sign of the incorrigible imperfection of the human condition? If these are constitutive features of the human nature, what is the purpose of idealization? Is idealization an indispensable feature in the theory of practical reasoning?
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- The nature and implications of vulnerability
- Mutual constraints and mutual vulnerabilities
- Vulnerability to others
- Vulnerability to emotions
- Vulnerability as a challenge to autonomy
- Vulnerability as a source of virtue
- Epistemic constraints on rational deliberation; limited information and rational deliberation; opacity and rational deliberation
- Practical constraints on rational deliberation; weakness and frailty and rational deliberation
- Time constraints and rational deliberation;
The Conference is funded by IFIKK and the CSMN of the University of Oslo
Submission: Submissions should be full papers (5000 words) or extended abstracts (2000 words) received by June, 1st 2015.
NOTE: While submission is by full paper or extended abstract, we encourage speculative thought, provisional proposals, and provocative question-raising based on careful analysis of issues.
Important Dates:
* Notification of acceptance of proposals: 15 June, 2015
* Deadline for full paper submission for Symposium: 15 August 2015
* Convention: 4-5 September, 2015
ENPRNP Steering Committee: Carla Bagnoli (University of Modena/University of Oslo), Edward Hartcourt (Oxford University), & Laurent Jaffro (Université de Paris 1- Panthéon Sorbonne)
Conference Scientific Committee: Carla Bagnoli (University of Modena/University of Oslo), & Caj Strandberg (University of Oslo)
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