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Moral Epistemology and Social Progress: Experimental and Philosophical Perspectives

November 4, 2025 - November 5, 2025

Departamento de Filosofía, Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia, Universidad de Sevilla

Facultad de Filosofía, c/ Camilo José Cela s/n
Sevilla 41018
Spain

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This event is available both online and in-person

Sponsor(s):

Emergia Program of the Council of Economic Transformation, Knowledge, and Universities of the Junta de Andalucía (Grant EMC21_00266)
Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation grant (MetaProDes, PID2021_124152NB-I00)

Speakers:

James R. Beebe

University at Buffalo

Jen Cole Wright

College of Charleston

Hanno Sauer

Utrecht University

Organisers:

Antonio Gaitán Torres

(unaffiliated)

Hugo Viciana

Universidad de Sevilla

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This focused workshop explores the intersection of empirical research on moral cognition and philosophical theories of social and moral progress. We bring together experimental philosophers and moral epistemologists to examine how empirical findings about moral intuitions, attitude change, and intellectual virtues inform our understanding of moral improvement at both individual and societal levels. The workshop features invited speakers alongside selected contributions from an open call for abstracts, fostering intimate discussion among researchers working at the forefront of experimental and theoretical approaches to social and moral progress.

**** Online Attendance Possible, if interested write to Hviciana [at] us.es *** All Times are Central European Time. ****

WORKSHOP ON MORAL EPISTEMOLOGY AND SOCIAL PROGRESS November 4-5, 2025 | Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad de Sevilla

Tuesday, November 4 (Aula de Grados → Salón de Actos)

9:45-11:00 — KEYNOTE: Jen Cole Wright (College of Charleston): "Others Like Me: Issue-Position Groups As Both Drivers and Distorters of Moral Progress"
11:00-11:30 — Coffee Break
11:45-12:45 — Eric Funkhouser (University of Arkansas): "Better Angels or Better Optics?: Making Progress with Moral Judgments as Signals"
12:45-13:45 — Jorge Suárez (Universidad de Granada): "Legal change in euthanasia follows rather than reshapes ethical consensus"
13:45-16:00 — Lunch
16:00-17:00 — Wali Hussaini (University of Miami): "Invariant vs. Variant Moral Norms: A Two-Factor Model of Moral Disagreement"
17:00-17:15 — Coffee Break
17:15-18:15 — Matilde Liberty (University of Genoa): "Subversiveness as the virtue for societal progress"
18:15-19:30 — KEYNOTE: James Beebe (University at Buffalo): "Folk Metaethics and Cooperation"
20:00 — Social Program (ask for details!)

Wednesday, November 5 (Aula de Grados)

9:30-10:30 — Rafael Ruiz (LSE): "Enabling Conditions and Materialism about Social and Moral Progress"
10:30-11:30 — Eduardo Pérez-Navarro (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela): "Friends with the Good. Moral Relativism and Moral Progress"
11:30-11:45 — Coffee Break
11:45-12:45 — Federico Bina (University of Genoa): "Locating value in moral progress. Valence Asymmetries in folk intuitions"
12:45-14:00 — KEYNOTE: Hanno Sauer (Utrecht University): "Conspicuous Compunction"