Philosophical Perspectives on Social Comparison: Workshop
Grodzka 52
Kraków 31-044
Poland
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- National Science Centre (NCN)
- European Commission
- Copernicus Center Foundation
- Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics, UJ
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Philosophical Perspectives on Social Comparison: Workshop
3-4 April 2025
Interdisciplinary Center for Ethics and Copernicus Fundation
Copernicus Center Foundation, pl. Szczepański 8 Kraków 31-011
Jagiellonian University in Cracow/Kraków, Poland
ABOUT:
This workshop has four goals. First, we want to further explore and nuance insights from the history of philosophy on social comparison. Second, our ambition is to provide synthetic philosophical accounts of social comparison that draw on and dialogue with non-philosophical disciplines. Three, we aim to explore ways in which philosophical insights on social comparison are useful to other disciplines concerned with investigating this phenomenon. Four, we want to theorize the normative implications of social comparison.
SCHEDULE
Thursday: 3 April
09:30-10:00 – Coffee/Tea/Biscuits/Canapés
10:00-11:00 – TALK 1: Wojciech Kaftanski (Jagiellonian/Harvard): “Social Comparison as a Philosophical Problem”
11:00-11:30 – Coffee/Tea/Biscuits/Canapés
11:30-12:30 – TALK 2: Ole Höffken (Heidelberg): “Combining Evolutionary and Philosophical Perspectives on Social Comparison”
12:30-14:00 – Lunch (out) “Chimera”
14:00 -15:00 – TALK 3: Frances Maughan-Brown (College of the Holy Cross): “Angels, Liars, and the Yellow of Margarine: Feminist Philosophical Perspectives on Social Comparison”
15:00-15:30 – Coffee/Tea/Biscuits/Canapés
15:30-17:00 – TALK 4: KEYNOTE: John Lippitt (Pardubice/Notre Dame Australia): “Social Comparison and the Vices of Pride”
18:00-21:00 – Dinner (TBA)
Friday: 4 April
09:30-10:00 – Coffee/Tea/Biscuits/Canapés
10:00-11:00 – TALK 5: Kamila Pacovská (Pardubice) “Humility, Ambition and the Status Games”
11:00-11:30 – Coffee/Tea/Biscuits/Canapés
11:30-12:30 – TALK 6: Rob Compaijen (Protestant Theological University): “Self-Worth and Social Comparison”
12:30-14:00 – Lunch (out) “Chimera”
14:00 -15:00 – TALK 7: Jeffrey Hanson (New College of Florida/Harvard): “Virtue Cannot Be Signaled: Toward a Phenomenology of Comparative Emotions and Assessments”
15:00-15:30 – Coffee/Tea/Biscuits/Canapés
15:30-16:30 – TALK 8: Sanat Sogani (Central European University): “Can Appropriate Esteem Be Given Without Relying on Social Comparison?”
17:00-21:00 – Drinks
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