Enhancing Human Dignity: The Virtues and Practical Reason

University of Udine, Italy

Dipartimento di Scienze giuridiche/Law School

Research Project La dignità umana - colloqui attraverso i millenni/Human Dignity – Debates through the Millenia

In collaboration with

Forschungsstelle Methoden der Normenbegründung/Centre for Normativity, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany

Conference

Enhancing Human Dignity: The Virtues and Practical Reason

Udine, 22nd and 23rd November 2018

Sala Tomadini, Via Tomadini 30, 33100 Udine, Italy

Thursday 22nd November 2018

9:00 Greetings and Opening Addresses

9:30 First Session

Chair: Matteo Negro (Università di Catania, Italy)

Riccardo Martinelli (Università di Trieste, Italy), "Kant on Prudence, Practical Reason and Anthropology"

Discussant: Gabriele De Anna (Università di Udine, Italy, and Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg, Germany)

Erica Holberg (Utah State University, USA), "First and Second Natures in Kant's Ethics"

Discussant: Tommaso Allodi (Università di Trieste and Università di Udine, Italy)

14:00 Second Session

Chair: Riccardo Martinelli (Università di Trieste, Italy)

Julia Peters (Eberhard Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany), “Practical Reason and the Argumentative Dimension of Discourse”

Discussant: Jana Funk (Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg, Germany)

Katharina Nieswandt (Concordia University, Canada) & Ulf Hlobil (Concordia University, Canada) "Do the Virtues Make You Happy?" 

Discussant: Francesca Longo (Università di Trieste and Università di Udine, Italy)

21:00 Conference concert

Performance of the Archi del Friuli e del Veneto string ensemble (concertmaster: Guido Freschi), with music by Bach, Mozart, Paganini, Vivaldi and Wralock. The event takes place in a private venue and there are limited seats. Those intending to attend should reserve their seats as soon as possible by writing to [email protected].

Friday 23rd November 2018

9:00 Third session

Chair: Gabriele De Anna (Università di Udine, Italy, and Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg, Germany)

Matteo Negro (Università di Catania, Italy), "Intentions, Dispositions and Normative Constraints"

Discussant: Manuele Dozzi (Università di Trieste and Università di Udine, Italy)

Anna Zilli (Università di Udine, Italy), "Casual, Not Smart: Worker's Dignity and Zero-Hours Contract"

Discussant: Shaban Zanelli (Università di Trieste and Università di Udine, Italy)

14:00 Fourth Session

Chair: Julia Peters (Eberhard Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany)

Gustav Melichar (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany), "On the relation between ought and is".

Discussant: Pier Francesco Corvino (Università di Trieste and Università di Udine, Italy)

Marina Sbisà (Università di Trieste, Italy) & Paolo Labinaz (Università di Trieste, Italy), "Practical Reason and the Argumentative Dimension of Discourse"

Discussant: Manuele Dozzi (Università di Trieste and Università di Udine, Italy)

Anselm Müller (University of Chicago, USA), "Virtuous Feelings? Three Grades of Emotional Rationality"

Discussant: Jana Funk (Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg, Germany)

Scientific Organisation:

Tommaso Allodi (Università di Trieste and Università di Udine, Italy)

Gabriele De Anna (Università di Udine, Italy, and Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg, Germany)

Manuele Dozzi (Università di Trieste and Università di Udine, Italy)

For information, please write to [email protected]