7th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication
Morality and the Cognitive Sciences
6-8 May, 2011
Riga, Latvia
Center for Cognitive Sciences and Semantics
Programme (PDF)
FRIDAY
May 6
9.15-10.00
Registration
10.00-10.30
Opening (Small Aula)
10.30-11.30
Public Opening Keynote Lecture (Small Aula)
Jesse Prinz
City University of New York, USA
Sentimentalism Naturalized
11.30-12.30
Lunch
12.30-14.30
PARALLEL SESSIONS I
Room 1
Chair: Sandra Lapointe
Tim Dean, University of New South Wales, Australia
Evolution and Moral Diversity
Nora Heinzelmann, University of Zurich, Switzerland
On Greene's Critique of Deontology
Gunnar Björnsson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Illusions of undermined responsibility
Room 205
Chair: Adina Roskies
Stefano Cossara, Paris-Sorbonne University & Paris-Diderot University,
France
Cognitive Science And Moral Responsibility: A Pragmatist Reply To
Knobe & Nichols
Renatas Berniunas, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Vilius Dranseika, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Folk Intuitions on Personal Identity and Moral Responsibility: Studies
with Lithuanian Students
Jake Davis, CUNY Graduate Center, USA
Attention and the Moral Sense. Meta-Ethical Implications of Masked
Emotional Reactions
14.30-15.00
Coffee Break
15.00-17.00
PARALLEL SESSIONS II
Room 1
Chair: Daniel Haybron
Giulia Piredda, University of Cagliari, Italy
Daniela Tagliafico, University of Torino, Italy
Can Relevance Theory Explain The “Knobe Effect”? Counterfactuals And
Intentional Action
Florian Cova, Institut Jean Nicod, France
Asymmetries In Judgments Of Moral Responsibility And Responsibility
For Accidents
Frank Hindriks, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Normativity in Action: How to Explain the Knobe Effect
Room 205
Chair: Dominic Murphy
Jonathan McGuire, Macquarie University, Australia
Omission Bias and Moral Feedback
Chiara Lisciandra, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Matteo Colombo, University of Edinburgh, UK
Marie Nilsenova, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Conformorality: A Study On Normative Judgment And Conformity
Francesco Orsi, University of Tartu, Estonia
Moral Judgment, Sensitivity To Reasons, And The Multi-System View
17.00-17.30
Coffee Break
17.30 -19.00
PARALLEL SESSIONS III
Room 1
Chair: Luc Faucher
Abraham Graber, University of Iowa, USA
Ian O'Loughlin, University of Iowa, USA
Making Metaethical Sense of Experiential Lacunae
Tillman Vierkant, University of Edinburgh, UK
Autonomy and the Automaticity Threat
Room 205
Chair: Signe Mežinska
Clifford Sosis, Florida State University, USA
Happy as Can Be: Hedonic Possibilities and the Misinterpretation of
Heritability Statistics
Regina A. Rini, Oxford University, UK
The Inescapability Of Empirical Moral Psychology
SATURDAY
May 7
All sessions to take place in the Small Aula of the Main Building
10.00-12.00
PLENARY SESSIONS I
Chair: Jesse Prinz
10.00-11.00
Edouard Machery, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Did morality really evolve?
11.00-12.00
Adina Roskies, Dartmouth College, USA
The evolution of morality
12.00-13.00
Lunch
13.00-15.00
PLENARY SESSIONS II
Chair: Don Ross
13.00-14.00
Daniel Haybron, Saint Louis University, USA
Adventures in Assisted Living
14.00-15.00
Michael Bishop, Florida State University, USA
How Well-Being is Like Neptune
15.00-15.30
Coffee Break
15.30-18.00
SYMPOSIUM I
Moral Judgments and Moral Responsibility
Natalie Gold, University of Edinburgh, UK
Natalie Gold, University of Edinburgh, UK
Judgments In Trolley Problems
Jana Schaich Borg, Stanford University, USA
The Classification And Anatomy Of Moral Judgments
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Duke University, USA
Does Neuroscience Undermine Responsibility?
David Pizarro, Cornell University, USA
Character Counts: The Role Of Character In Judgments Of Moral Responsibility
20.00
Conference dinner
SUNDAY
May 8
All sessions to take place in the Small Aula of the Main Building
10.00-12.00
SYMPOSIUM II
Implicit Attitude And The Nature Of Moral Responsibility
Bryce Huebner, Georgetown University, USA
Bryce Huebner, Georgetown University, USA
Responsibility For Scaffolded Minds
Eric Mandelbaum, Oxford University, UK
Implicit Associations as Beliefs
Neil Levy, Florey Neuroscience Institutes, Australia
Consciousness, Implicit Attitudes and Moral Responsibility
12.00-13.00
Lunch
13.00-15.00
PLENARY SESSIONS I
Chair: Daniel Haybron
13.00-14.00
Dominic Murphy, University of Sydney
The Narrative Self in Moral Psychology
14.00-15.00
Luc Faucher, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada
Gunning for responsibility
15.00-17.00
PLENARY SESSIONS II
Chair: Adina Roskies
15.00-16.00
Don Ross, University of Cape Town, South Africa
The Evolution of Individualistic Norms
16.00-16.30
Coffee break
16.30-17.30
Chair: Michael Bishop
Closing Keynote Lecture
Stephen Stich, Rutgers University, USA
The Evolution of Morality?
17: 30 Conference Closing
Stephen Stich, Rutgers University, USA
The Evolution of Morality?