Lund Gothenburg Responsibility Project Graduate Conference on Responsibility

The Lund Gothenburg Responsibility Project (https://www.lgrp.lu.se/) will host the 2023 LGRP Graduate Conference in Responsibility. LGRP is a 10-year-long project funded by the Swedish Research Council, which aims to be a leading centre for the study of responsibility and related themes. The conference will bring together early researchers working on new and exciting developments in the philosophy of responsibility and free will.

The conference will take place at the Pufendorf Institute (Biskopsgatan 3, Lund, Sweden) on the 13th and 14th of April, 2023.

Thursday, 13th of April
09.00 – 09.15 Conference opening
09.15 – 10.30 Alexander Edlich (LMU Munich): “Moral Protest Without Blame” Commentator: Marianna Leventi
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 12.15 Naomi Kloosterboer (VU Amsterdam): ”Taking Responsibility for Values”
Commentator: Robert Pál-Wallin
12.15 – 13.45 Lunch
13.45 – 15.00 Dominik Boll: (VU Amsterdam): ”Responsibility Expansionism: On Taking Responsibility and ‘False Positive’ Moral Emotions”
Commentator: Shervin Mirzaeighazi
15.00 – 15.15 Coffee break
15.15 – 16.45 KEYNOTE, Carla Bagnoli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia): “The Responsibility to Refuse”

Friday, 14th of April
09.15 – 10.30 Sarah Koeglsperger (Fribourg University): “Partiality & Blame: The Influence of Partial Relationships on the Appropriateness of Blame”
Commentator: Anton Emilsson
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 12.15 Itay Melamed (Cornell University): “Agency and Biography”
Commentator: M. Hadi Fazeli
12.15 – 13.45 Lunch
13.45 – 15.00 Shawn Tinghao Wang (Salzburg University): ”What Is Counterproductive About Angry Blame?”
Commentator: Marta Johansson Werkmäster
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break
15.30 – 17.00 KEYNOTE, Paulina Sliwa (Vienna University): ”An Anatomy of Apologies”

Attending the talks is free for everyone and no registration is required, but if you'd like to attend the two conference lunches (vegan) you need to 1) first pay a fee of 400 SEK, and 2) then send an email with your name and affiliation to Alexander Velichkov at [email protected]. Please do both before April 3rd.

To pay, make a bank transfer of 400 SEK using the information below.

Domestic Payments (if you have a Swedish bank account):

Bankgiro number: 5051-4728

Foreign Payments (if you don't have a Swedish bank account):

Account number: 12810119309

Bank address:

Danske Bank, Norrmalmstorg 1

Box 7523, 103 92 Stockholm

BIC/SWIFT-kod: DABASESX

IBAN: SE86 1200 0000 0128 1011 9309

IMPORTANT NOTE: When you make the payment, it is vital that you include the following reference:

500011, LGRP [Your Name Surname]

For questions, contact Alexander Velichkov at [email protected].