New Avenues in Collective Ethics

Program

Monday September 23
 
9.15-10.10 Gunnar Björnsson (Stockholm University) - ”What makes it our problem?”
10.30-11.25 Bronagh Dunne (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) – "No I in team? Is Kantian optimisation a kind of team reasoning?"
11.45-12.40 Niels de Haan (University of Vienna) - ”Moral Collectivism and the Methodology of Ethical Theory”

Lunch

14.00-14.55 Nathan Biebel (Jagiellonian University) – "The role of forgiveness in group moral agency"
15.15-16.10 Bill Wringe (Bilkent University)– "Group apology – Against the Agency Thesis"
16.30-17.45 Keynote: Antje du Bois-Pedain (University of Cambridge) - “Responsibility without control? Individual responsibility for group agency”
 
19:00 Workshop dinner 
 
Tuesday September 24
 
9.15-10.10 Olle Blomberg (University of Gothenburg) - "Circumstantial moral luck and collective blameworthiness”
10.30-11.25 Kathleen Wallace (Hofstra University) - "A Duty to Live Sustainably:  Perfect or Imperfect Duty?"
11.45-12.40 Andras Szigeti (Linköping University)– "Irreducible and Non-Distributive Obligations to Collectives"

Lunch

14.00-14.55 Lubomira Radoilska (University of Kent) – "Responsibility for shared habits"
15.15-16.10 Felix Lambrecht (University of Toronto) – "Being Wronged Collectively and Collective Moral Claims"
16.30-17.45 Keynote: Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (University of Aarhus) - ”When States Blame States: On Political Hypocrisy”

The workshop is sponsored by the International Social Ontology Society and the Lund-Gothenburg Responsibility Project, and organized by Gunnar Björnsson, Olle Blomberg and Niels de Haan.

If you are interested in attending the workshop, please email Olle Blomberg (olle.blomberg@gu.se) before September 1.

Attend on Zoom

It will be possible to attend the workshop on zoom, but registration is required. The registration deadline for online attendance is September 15.