Workshop on Friendship, and Friendship with the Morally Bad

Call for Registration

Workshop on Friendship, and Friendship with the Morally Bad

5th–6th March 2025 | Online (Microsoft Teams)

The Salzburg Ethics Group would like to invite registrations for a two-day online workshop exploring philosophical questions about friendship, and friendship with the morally bad. The workshop will, in part, examine whether and how friendship is possible with those who have significant moral failings, and what such relationships reveal about the nature and ethics of friendship more broadly.

Confirmed Speakers Include

Sophie-Grace Chappell | Bennett Helm | Pilar Lopez-Cantero | Max Lewis | Andrew Ma | Paloma Morales | Joe Slater | Aarthy Vaidyanathan | Aloysius Ventham | Jake Wagner | Dashan Xu | Yiran Hua

Registration

The workshop is free to attend, but registration is required. To register, please contact [email protected]

Schedule (all times are Central European Time):

Thursday 5th of March, 2026

10:00 - 11:00

Mutuality without Measurement

Aloysius Ventham

11:00 - 11:45

Non-Domination and Eschewing Friendships with the Morally Bad

Aarthy Vaidyanathan

11:45 - 12:00 

Break

12:00 - 12:45

The Strains of Involvement: Objectification and Ending Friendships

Andrew Ma

12:45 - 13:45 

Lunch

13:45 - 15:15

What Aristotle and C.S.Lewis get wrong about friendship (pretty much everything)

Sophie-Grace Chappell

15:15 - 15:30 

Break

15:45 - 16:30

"Bad People" and Moral Snobs: On the Badness of Refusing to Befriend People with

Serious Moral Vices

Paloma Morales

16:30 - 18:00

Final Speaker

Yiran Hua

Conference Program

Friday 6th of March

10:00 - 11:00   

Should we blame our friends for their immoral beliefs?

Jake Wagner

11:00 - 11:45

Virtue Friendship with Bad People in Aristotle

Dashan Xu

11:45 - 12:00   

Break

12:00 - 12:45   

Friendship Break-ups

Pilar Lopez Cantero

12:45 - 13:45   

Lunch

13:45 - 15:15   

"You Should Like Your Friends", "You Shouldn't Like Nazis" and Other Shocking

Revelations

Joe Slater

15:15 - 15:30   

Break

15:45 - 16:30   

Friendship, Bad People, and the Limits of Reactivity

Max Lewis

16:30 - 18:00   

Final Speaker and Close

Bennett Helm