Ethics After Parfit
Time: Tuesday, January 10 2023, 10 a.m. - Wednesday, January 11 2023, 8 p.m.
Location: Room M 210 (LMU room finder), Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
Organisers: Marius Baumann, Jessica Fischer and Korbinian Rüger
Registration: below
Description
Derek Parfit’s contributions to moral philosophy have been so numerous and significant that one can without exaggeration claim that he changed the entire field. From his early groundbreaking work on personal identity and population ethics, to his extremely ambitious thesis that the main traditions of normative moral theorizing converge, to his later work on metaethics, Parfit’s work has had an enormous influence. At the Center for Ethics and Philosophy in Practice (CEPP) at LMU Munich, we aim to take stock by asking what ethics after Parfit looks like.
Schedule
Schedule Ethics after Parfit (pdf, 229 KByte)
Tuesday, January 10
| 10:00 | Welcome |
| 10:15 – 11:15 | Joe Horton: “On the Ought that Matters” |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Hilary Greaves: “Consequentialism as a public philosophy” (online) |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Christian Piller: “Glad to be Alive” |
| 14:45 – 15:45 | Miranda Young: “Survival Over Time” |
| 15:45 – 16:15 | Break |
| 16:15 – 17:15 | Brad Hooker: “Normative Ethical Theory after Parfit” |
| 17:30 – 18:30 | Farbod Akhlaghi: “Parfit’s Positive Metaethics: On Non-Realist Cognitivism” |
| 19:00 | Dinner (Deeba) |
Wednesday January 11
| 09:45 – 10:45 | David Thorstad: “High risk, low reward: A challenge to the astronomical importance of existential risk mitigation” |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Claus Beisbart & Marius Baumann: “Top of the Mountain: Parfit, Moral Underdetermination, and Reflective Equilibrium.” |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | Theron Pummer: “Hypersensitivity: No Vague Escape” (online) |
| 13:15 – 14:15 | Lunch |
| 14:15 – 15:15 | Alina Omerbasic-Schiliro: “On Limitations of the Non-Identity Argument and Existence-Generating Wrongdoing” |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Antti Kauppinen: “Parfit and the Heart of Nonconsequentialism” |
| 16:45 – 17:45 | Oren Hanner: “Buddhist Ethics after Reasons and Persons” |
| 17:45 – 18:15 | Break |
| 18:15 – 19:15 | Roger Crisp: “What Matters in Survival” |
| 19:45 | Dinner (Georgenhof) |