“Emotions, Ethics, and Adaptation” Workshop

March 14 2007

University of Manchester, HaroldHankinsBuilding, 10th Floor, conference suiteroom 8.11
Morning / 9h00 – 9h30 Welcome and Registration (10th Floor conference suite)
9h30 – 9h40 Welcome talk by Peter Goldie
9h40 – 11h--Parallel sessions I
A. 10th Floor conference suite
Chair: Paula Satne-Jones (Manchester)
9h40 Christine Clavien (Paris/Neuchâtel/Manchester)
New sentimentalism and the motivating force of basic value judgments
10h20 Nicola Knight (Michigan/London)
Evolutionary pathways to normative domains / B. Room 8.11
Chair: Geoff Stevenson (Manchester)
9h40 Jelle De Schrijver (Ghent)
Limitations of evolutionary theory in explaining morality: Moral emotion as a necessary but not sufficient condition for moral virtues
10h20 Sunny Yang (Seoul)
The Rationality of Moral Emotion: Can Gibbard’s evolutionary account of morality help to support Humean Sentimentalism?
Break
11h20 – 13h Plenary session (10th Floor conference suite)
Chair: Christine Clavien (Paris/Neuchâtel/Manchester)
11h20 Fabrice Teroni & Otto Bruun (Geneva)
The Evolution of Shame: Some Criticisms
12h00 Ronald de Sousa (Toronto)
What's the good of thinking? Evolution and rationality
12h40 Respondent: Vasco Castela (Manchester)
Lunch
Afternoon / 14h00 – 15h20 Parallel sessions II
A. 10th Floor conference suite
Chair: Emma Davis (Manchester)
14h00Stéphane Lemaire (Rennes)
What did evolution give us to discuss moral questions?
14h40 Felicitas Kraemer (Bielefeld)
The role of moral sentiments for moral judgment between rationalist criticism and new empirical findings / B. Room 8.11
Chair: Lee Walker (Manchester)
14h00 Eva-Maria Dueringer (York)
The Limits of the Perception Model of Emotions
14h40 JérômeRavat (Paris)
Emotions and moral projectivism : the social intuitionist model
Break
15h40 – 17h00 Parallel sessions III
A. 10th Floor conference suite
Chair: AlfredoGaete (Manchester)
15h40 Anna Stoklosa (Ottawa)
Re-Presenting Humean Passions
16h20 Jan Slaby (Osnabrück)
Emotions and Self-Consciousness / B. Room 8.11
Chair: GayleImpey (Manchester)
15h40 Sara Rettus (Santa Cruz)
Re-evaluating the Altruistic Motive
Mini-Break
17h10 – 18h00 Plenary session (10th Floor conference suite)
Chair: Peter Goldie (Manchester)
General discussion