Dimensions of Normativity

There are various 'kinds' or 'dimensions' of normativity, each with its specific characteristics, such as moral, pragmatic, legal, epistemic and aesthetic normativity as well as mental normativity and the normativity of logic and of meaning. What are the differences and commonalities between these dimensions of normativity? Can they come into conflict with one another? Are they all instances of an overarching kind or structure?

Schedule

Thursday, Casino 1.801

Normativity in the Plurality of its Types

13:00-14:30
Ralph Wedgwood (Los Angeles): Objective and Subjective 'Ought'
Comment: Stefan Gosepath (Frankfurt)

Moral, Ethical, and/or Prudential Normativity I

14:30-16:00
Holmer Steinfath (Göttingen): The Normative Authority of Social Morality
Comments: Martin Seel (Frankfurt)

16:30-18:00
Jonathan Dancy (Reading/Austin): Degrees of Rightness
Comments: Barbara Merker (Frankfurt)

Friday, Casino 1.811

Epistemic Normativity

9:00-10:30
Duncan Pritchard (Edingburgh), Truth as the Fundamental Epistemic Good
Comments: Marcus Willaschek (Frankfurt)

Normativity of Logic

11:00-12:30
Hannes Leitgeb (München): Logic and Probability: A Normative Clash?
Comments: Elke Brendel (Bonn)

Linguistic Normativity

14:00-15:30
Hanjo Glock (Zürich), 'Surely some mistake!' A Defence of Semantic Normativity
Comments:  Jasper Liptow (Frankfurt)

Aesthetic Normativity

16:00-17:30
Carlos Pereda (Mexiko City): Art and Normativity
Comments:  Juliane Rebentisch (Offenbach)

Saturday, HZ 10

Moral, Ethical, and/or Prudential Normativity II

9:00-10:30
Sabine Döring (Tübingen): Akrasia, Emotions, and the Normativity of Rationality
Comments: Andreas Maier (Frankfurt)

11:00-12:30
Monika Betzler (Bern): The Normative Structure of Personal Projects
Comments: Achim Vesper (Frankfurt)

14:00-15:30
Rainer Forst (Frankfurt): A Critical Theory of Normativity
Comments: Ulrike Heuer (Leeds)

Legal Normativity

16:00-17:30
Joseph Raz (Oxford/New York): Normative Dimensions: Law and Beyond
Comments:  Samantha Besson (Fribourg)

Normative Orders - Cluster of Excellence at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main

Organisers: Stefan Gosepath, Martin Seel, Marcus Willaschek

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