Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the origins and \;influences of moral intuitions and judgments. Multiple theories have been \;defended by philosophers and psychologists. Many of these theories call into \;question the reliability of our moral intuitions and the normative theories \;that are based on them. The aim of this conference is to explore these \;challenges and the possible links between moral psychology and normative \;ethics\, as well as related issues in moral epistemology and metaphysics.
Friday\, June 8. 10.00-16.30
Pauline Kleingeld (Groningen): The Significance of Empirical Psychology for \;Kantian Ethics
David Enoch (Hebrew University): A Defense of Moral Deference
Stephen Darwall (Yale): Reactive Attitudes and the Epistemology of Deontic \;Judgments
Saturday\, June 9. 10.00-16.30
Antti Kauppinen (Trinity College Dublin): Scepticism About Moral \;Intuitions \;
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke): Is Morality Unified?
Bart Streumer (Reading): Can Moral Intuitions Refute the Error Theory?
Registration:
Attendance is free but please register by sending a message to
L.C.J.vanApeldoorn@uva.nl \;with "Conference Emotions and Moral Judgments" as
the subject header.
The conference is organized by the NWO research project Good Guides or False \;Pilots? The Role of Emotion in Moral Judgment (Prof. Frans Jacobs\, Dr. Antti \;Kauppinen\, Dr. Thomas Nys\, Dr. Laurens van Apeldoorn)