Values and Agency: A Franco-American Philosophical Symposium

June 16, 2014 - June 18, 2014
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Paris
France

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  • Columbia University

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Alliance l Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne l Columbia University in the City of New York

Values and Agency
A Franco-American Philosophical Symposium

16-18 June 2014, Columbia Global Centers l Europe
Reid Hall, Salle de conférence, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris 6e

In this workshop philosophers and historians of philosophy will explore the nature of values and their relation to human agency and rationality as well as their relations to the natural and social world that human agents inhabit.
The workshop is organized by Laurent Jaffro & Chantal Jaquet (Panthéon-Sorbonne, Philosophy Department & Doctoral School of Philosophy) and Akeel Bilgrami & John Morrison (Columbia, Philosophy Department), with support from the Alliance Program (Joint Innovative Teaching Grant) and the ‘Collège des écoles doctorales de l’université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne’.

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1. Monday 16 June 2014: Plato and Aristotle
9:00 Welcome
9:30 Keynote lecture by Sarah Broadie, St Andrews:
Values Human and Divine in Plato and Aristotle
10:30 Katja Vogt, Columbia:
The Subject Matter of Ethics: a Metaphysical Reading of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics I.3
11:30 break
11:45 Giulia Bonasio, Columbia:
Plato on the Good and the Beautiful

2. Monday 16 June: Action and Value
14:00 Nicholas Engel, Columbia:
‘Action’ as an Evaluative Notion
14:45 Aurélie Knüfer, Panthéon-Sorbonne:
L’action contre la valeur? Le concept d’‘aptitude à la liberté’ chez John Stuart Mill
15:30 break
15:45 Alexandre Couture-Mingheras, Panthéon-Sorbonne:
‘Self Must Die’: Value, Action and Subject in Bertrand Russell’s Neutral Ontology

3. Tuesday 17 June: Values and Reasons
9:30 Laurent Jaffro, Panthéon-Sorbonne:
Weak Agents and Lofty Values
10:30 Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia:
Value, Agency, and Reasons
11:30 break
11:45 Philippe Huneman, Panthéon-Sorbonne:
What Are the Current Prospects of an Evolutionary Approach to Ethics?

4. Tuesday 17 June: Values and Reasons
14:00 Emmanuel Picavet, Panthéon-Sorbonne:
Universal Reasons and the Content of Collective Values
15:00 Christine Susienka, Columbia:
How Being Human Matters: A Defense of the Membership Thesis
15:45 break
16:00 Vanessa de Luca, Panthéon-Sorbonne:
Bernard Williams’ Criticism of the Utilitarian Theory of Value. Integrity in perspective

5. Wednesday 18 June: Values and the Phenomenal
9:30 John Morrison, Barnard, Columbia:
Disagreements about Color and Value
10:30 Marie-Hélène Desmeules, Panthéon-Sorbonne:
Validity, Value and Ought in Husserl’s Phenomenology
11:15 break
11:30 Chantal Jaquet, Panthéon-Sorbonne:
>From Secondary Qualities to Essence: Smell as a Carrier of Values

6. Wednesday 18 June: Values and Expression
14:00 Danièle Cohn, Panthéon-Sorbonne:
Object, Value, Canon, and their Contemporary Relevance to Aesthetics
15:00 Sandra Laugier, Panthéon-Sorbonne:
Values and Ordinary Expression
16:00 break
16:15 Carol Rovane, Columbia:
Rationally Grounded Moral Values from a Relativist Perspective

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