Taking responsibility \;
The 8th René\; Descartes Lectures \;
Tilburg University (The Netherlands) \;
16th \;to 18th \;December \;2022 \;
Keynote lectures
\nProfessor Cheshire Calhoun (Arizona State University\, USA): \;Responsible Persons
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Invited Commentators: \;
\nGunnar \;Bjö\;rnsson \;(Stockholm University\, Sweden) \;
\nJules Holroyd \;(University of Sheffield\, UK) \;
\nHeidi \;Maibom \;(University of Cincinnati\, USA) \;
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Every other year\, a distinguished philosopher visits \;Tilburg Center for Moral Philosophy\, Epistemology and Philosophy of Science \;(TiLPS) \;to present the René\; Descartes Lectures. \;We are thrilled to announce that next \;year&rsquo\;s René\; Descartes Lecturer is Professor \;Cheshire Calhoun (Arizona State University). Professor \;Calhoun \;will deliver three lectures on the topic \;Responsible persons\, each of which will be commented on by a renowned scholar. \;
Parallel to the lectures\, we will host a workshop on the topic of \;Taking Responsibility. For this workshop\, we invite submissions in the form of extended abstracts (up to 1000 words) by \;28th \;February. \;Unfortunately\, we are not able to fund accommodation or travel costs of those selected to present\, \;but please indicate \;in your cover sheet \;if you are a scholar with no travel/research funds and this is the only obstacle \;to your participation \;(we might be able \;to find some \;travel funds \;for eligible early career scholars). \;
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We will \;prioritize \;papers dealing with practical dimensions of responsibility. \;Relevant topics include but are not limited \;to: \; \;
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- \;Responsibility\, oppression and discrimination \; \;
\n- Values and responsibility \;
\n-Responsibility \;and reactive attitudes \;
\n- Practical restrictions to responsibility (psychiatric disorders\, socio-economic\, \;etc) \;
\n- The psychology of responsibility attributions \;
\n- \;Relationship between \;moral and non-moral responsibility \;(eg. \;epistemic\, aesthetic) \; \;
\n- Responsibility of and within relationships \;
\n- \;Responsibility beyond humanity (Artificial Intelligence systems\, non-human animals\, \;etc.) \;
\n- \;Responsibility beyond the individual (groups\, families\, social organizations\, countries\, etc.) \;
\n- \;Scaffolding of responsibilities \;
\n- Reparation and apologies \;
\n- Responsibility and social change \;
\n- Ameliorative notions of responsibility \;
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Abstracts \;should be \;submitted ready for blind review via \;https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=descarteslectures22. Please direct any questions you may have to \;M.Egler@tilburguniversity.edu \; \;
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Organizers: \; \;
Alfred Archer \;
Miguel Egler \;
Pilar Lopez Cantero \;
Maureen Sie