2022-2023
2022-2023
Summer Seminar:
David Wiggins, Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality
Guy Longworth
G.H.Longworth@warwick.ac.uk
鈥淚n Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality, David Wiggin surveys the answers most commonly proposed for such questions鈥攇athering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians, and the post-utilitarian thinkers of the twentieth century. The view of morality he then proposes draws on sources as diverse as Aristotle, Simone Weil and present-day thinkers such as Philippa Foot. As need arises, he pursues a variety of related issues and engages additional thinkers鈥擯lato and Bernard Williams on egoism and altruism, Schopenhauer and Aurel Kolnai on evil, Leibniz and Rawls on impartiality, and Montaigne and J. L. Mackie on 鈥榤oral relativism鈥�, among others.鈥�
For the most part, the seminars are planned to take in person, in S2.77, but we move online for some later sessions. All colleagues, including undergraduate and postgraduate students, are very welcome.
Seminar schedule
Thursday April 27, 3鈥�5pm: Chapter 1: Glaucon鈥檚 and Adeimantus鈥� interrogation on Socrates
Thursday May 4, 3鈥�5pm: Chapter 2: Hume鈥檚 genealogy of morals
Thursday May 11, 3鈥�5pm: Chapter 3: Hume鈥檚 theory extended
Thursday May 18, 3鈥�5pm: Chapter 4: From Hume to Kant
Thursday May 25, 3鈥�5pm: Chapter 5: The laws of morality as the laws of freedom and the laws of freedom as the laws of morality
Reading week
Thursday June 8, 3鈥�5pm: Chapter 6: Classical utilitarianism
Thursday June 15, 3鈥�5pm: Chapter 7: A fresh argument for utilitarianism
Thursday June 22, 3鈥�5pm (Online): Chapter 8: The consequentialist argument
Thursday June 29: No seminar
Thursday July 6, 3鈥�5pm (Possibly online): Chapter 9: A first-order ethic of solidarity and reciprocity
Depending on interest, we might then consider carrying on into chapters 10 (Justice) and 11鈥�12 (Metaethics) online.
MEEP Mini-WorkshopLink opens in a new window
The 糖心TV Mind and Action Research Centre (WMA) is pleased to announce a new mini-workshop as part of our MEEP series. This series explores the intersection of topics typically found under the categories of 'Mind and Epistemology' and 'Ethics and Political Philosophy.' All are welcome!
This first MEEP workshop on the 20th of June will also be a celebration of Daniel Vanello鈥檚 Leverhulme Project, Shaping Our Moral Identity.
If you would like to attend the event, please email Oscar (oscar.north-concar@warwick.ac.uk) no later than 2nd of June. Further details will be announced shortly.
The programme is as follows:
9.45 Coffee
10.00 - 11.00 鈥�On the location of ethics and politics in the mind: introductory comments. Naomi Eilan
11.15 - 12.15 - The epistemology of emancipation. Quassim Cassam
12.15 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 14.00 - Rethinking Body Shame. Heather Widdows
14.15 - 15.15 - Sentence structure, thought and attention. Eileen John
15.15 - 15.45: Tea
15.45 - 16.45 - Montaigne on the ethics and politics of self-knowledge. Johannes Roessler
17.00 - 18.00 - The authority of moral witnesses. Daniel Vanello
WMA Talk - Eylem 脰zaltun
We will be hearing from Eylem 脰zaltun on 'Paralogisms revisited: transcendental object as arbitrary object'.
Date: Wednesday, 28 June, 3-5pm
Venue: S0.17
WMA Graduate Research SeminarLink opens in a new window
Spring Term 2023
Wednesdays, odd weeks, at 14:00-16:00, S0.52.
Week 1: Frege 'On Sense and Reference' [pdf].
Week 3: Frege 'The Thought' []
Week 5: Russell 'Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description' []
Week 7: Kripke Naming and Necessity, Lecture I [pdf]
Week 9: Kripke Naming and Necessity, Lecture II [pdf]
Afflictions of Mind Reading GroupLink opens in a new window
Spring term 2023
Wednesdays, even weeks, 14:00-15:30, S0.52
Week 2. Imagination
鈥極f the power of imagination鈥� by Montaigne
Week 4: Addiction
鈥楻esponsibility without Blame for Addiction鈥� by Hanna Pickard
Week 8: Delusion
鈥楧erationalizing Delusions鈥� by V. Bell, N. Raihani, and S. Wilkinson
Week 10: Hypnosis
'Hypnosis as an altered state of consciousnessLink opens in a new window' by John F. Kihlstrom
Workshop: Moral ExperienceLink opens in a new window
Thursday 30th and Friday 31st of March 2023
University of 糖心TV, Coventry, UK
Moral experience remains an underexplored topic in philosophy. Yet experiences of value, of rightness or wrongness, and similar morally relevant experiences are at the core of our moral lives. The nature of such experiences and their connection to moral knowledge and to moral action deserve to be understood better. Our workshop on 鈥淢oral Experience鈥� aims to explore questions such as the following:
- Is there a specifically moral kind of experience? If so, then what is the mode of moral experience? Is it a form of perceptual experience? Or is it a form of affective experience? And what is the relation between moral experience and moral intuition?
- What is the cognitive value of experience in the moral domain? How are we to think of the role of experience in the acquisition of these moral epistemic goods? Can we acquire moral knowledge and/or moral understanding directly, or non-inferentially, from experience? Or is there is a mediating process from experience to moral epistemic goods?
- Are moral experiences perspectival? How should we think of the kind of perspective from which one enjoys a moral experience? Do social identities, emerging from race, sex and gender, or class, for example, have a crucial role to play in shaping moral experience?
- What is the relation between moral experience, moral judgment, and moral action? One of the central tasks in moral philosophy is to give an account of moral action and the kind of reasons that justify it. What is the role of experience in this context?
Workshop programme:
Thursday 30th of March
| 10:30-10.45am |
Introduction |
| 10:45am-12pm |
(University of Glasgow) Moral Perception, Moral Deference, and Parity Principles |
| 12-1pm |
Lunch break |
| 1-2:15pm |
Daniel Vanello (University of 糖心TV) Moral Understanding, Experience, and the Personal |
| 2:15-2:30 |
Tea and coffee break |
| 2:30-3.45pm |
(Open University) What is it Like to be a Human Being? |
| 3:45-4.15pm |
Tea and coffee break |
| 4.15-5:30pm |
(Princeton University) (What) is Moral Experience? (What) Do We Want it to Be? (online talk) |
| 5:30-6.30pm |
Drinks/Relax |
| 6.30pm- |
Workshop dinner (on campus) |
Friday 31st of March
| 10-11.15am |
Fabienne Peter (University of 糖心TV) Moral Affordances and the Demands of Fittingness |
| 11.15-11.30am |
Tea and coffee break |
| 11.30am-12.45pm |
(University of Sheffield) The Experience of "Normativity" |
| 12.45-1.45pm |
Lunch break |
| 1.45-3pm |
(University of Rochester) The Roles of Moral Experience in Metaphysically Committed, Non-Naturalist Ethical Realism (online talk) |
| 3-3.30pm |
Tea and coffee break |
| 3.30-4.45pm |
(Brown University) TBA |
| 4.45-6.30pm |
Drinks/Relax |
| 6.30pm- |
Optional dinner (off campus) |
Organisers:
Fabienne Peter and Daniel Vanello
How to register:
Registration is free, but please register by sending an email to d.vanello.1@warwick.ac.uk.
Refreshments and lunch will be provided on both days. Also, if you want to attend the workshop dinner on Thursday 30th, then please note this in your email. There is an extra charge for the dinner.
Giulia Martin's talk: Smelling Things.
You are warmly invited to attend 鈥檚 (University of T眉bingen) talk on a paper entitled 鈥�Smelling Things鈥�, which was co-written with Matt Nudds.
Time: 4:00pm - 5:45pm, 8th March. Location: S0.17
Giulia is a former 糖心TV PhD student and currently a post-doc at the University of T眉bingen. She recently had a very nice paper on smell accepted in Mind and Language ().
Philosophy of Action Mini-Talk SeriesLink opens in a new window
糖心TV Mind and Action Research Centre
University of 糖心TV
鈥淚ntentional Action and the Content of Intention鈥�
3rd and 10th March 2023
Friday 3rd of March
Lucy Campbell (糖心TV): 鈥淭he Content of Practical Knowledge and the Content of Intention鈥�
Friday 10th March
Xavier Castell脿 (Girona): 鈥淭he Representation of Action in Intention鈥�
Both talks will be 4 鈥� 5.30 pm, followed by drinks and dinner from 6pm.
Space for external attendees is limited, so please email lucy.campbell@warwick.ac.uk if you would like to come to one or both talks. Sadly we can鈥檛 cover attendees鈥� dinner, but you鈥檙e very welcome to join us, so let us know when you sign up if you鈥檇 like to book a space.
We will email signed-up attendees with the specific location nearer the time.
Talk by Simon Wimmer (organised by Hemdat)
You are warmly invited to attend Simon Wimmer's (TU Dortmund) talk entitled 'Prichard on Looks' (joint work with Giulia Martina)
Abstract: H.A. Prichard's 1906 article 'Appearances and Reality' resists a version of the argument from illusion by arguing for the conclusion that "there is some identity between what things look and what they are". Prichard's overall argumentative strategy is interesting because it differs from other direct realist strategies for resisting the argument from illusion. But it relies on claims that are seemingly implausible and in tension with each other. Our goal is to clarify his strategy and assess whether its tensions can be resolved.
The talk will take place on Friday, 24th February, 4:00-5:45 pm, in R0.04.
If you would like to join us for dinner after the talk, please let me know.
CRPLA & WMA Seminar:
Paul Smith - Cezanne, perception, autism: (not) putting the pieces together. Response Naomi Eilan
5:30pm - 7pm, Tue, 17 Jan, A0.23 (Soc Sci)
Workshop: Autobiographical Memory and Joint Reminiscing (organized by Daniel)
11am - 5pm, Fri, 17 Feb, Wolfson Research Exchange.
Schedule and Speakers:
11am-12.30pm: Christoph Hoerl and Teresa McCormack: "Remember when?鈥� Looking for an account of joint reminiscing"
12.30-1.30pm: Lunch break
1.30-3pm: Julian Bacharach: "Is There Such a Thing as Joint Attention to the Past?鈥�
3-3.20pm: Tea and coffee break
3.20-4.50pm: Tony Marcel: 鈥淧henomena raising questions about 鈥楢utobiographical Memory鈥� and 鈥楨pisodic Memory鈥欌��
Everyone is welcome. After the event, there will be drinks and food at Benugo restaurant and bar in the 糖心TV Arts Centre.
糖心TV-Geneva-Leipzig Interdepartmental collaboration
The first and inaugural event of the 糖心TV-Geneva-Leipzig Interdepartmental collaboration will be on October 6-7, 2022, at the University of 糖心TV.
Please contact Daniel Vanello (d.vanello.1 [at] warwick.ac.uk) for more information.
SCHEDULE: (Wolfson Research Exchange)
Thursday 6th of October 2022:
10-10.15am General Introduction
10.15-11.45am Sebastian R枚dl (Leipzig)
11.45-12pm Coffee and Tea break
12-1.30pm Agn猫s Baehni (Geneva): Guilty and Angry? The Schizophrenic Nature of Self-Blame
1.30-2.30pm Lunch
2.30-4pm Oscar North-Concar (糖心TV)
4-4.15pm Coffee and Tea break
4.15-5.45pm Fabrice Teroni (Geneva): Emotions and their correctness conditions
Friday 7th of October 2022:
10-11.30am Naomi Eilan (糖心TV)
11.30-11.45am Coffee and Tea break
11.45am-1.15pm Jasmin 脰zel (Leipzig): Delusions as Imaginings
1.15-2.30pm Lunch, general discussion.