Morality or Ethics: Real Differences or Mere Semantics?
Programme
Monday 25 February 2013
09:00 - 09:30: REGISTRATION
09:30 - 11:00: Session 1: Introduction to the workshop: Ethics and Morals – Starting Points
- Introduction - Paul Reynolds
- Morality or Ethics? - Bob Brecher
- Whatever Works? From ‘Common Morality’ to ‘Global Ethics’ - Tom Claes
11:00 - 11:30: COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 13:00: Session 2: Morals and Ethics in Theory and Practice
- Doing Workplace-Level Research in Northern Ireland: Reflexivity, Identity Work and Tandem
Interviews - Gary Brown and Frank Worthington
- On the Meaning of Moral Value in Aristotle and R.M. Hare - Do Hyoung Kim
13:00 - 14:00: LUNCH BREAK
14:00 - 15:30: Session 3: Morality and Value
- Morality Without Moralism - Morten Langfeldt Dahlback
- What If We Were To Do Without “The Morality System”? - Geraldine Ng
15:30 - 16:00: COFFEE BREAK
16:00 - 17:30: Session 4: Morality and Ethics: Radical Readings
- Ethics Beyond Moralism – Exploring Alain Badiou’s Thinking of The Ethical with Reference to an
Irish Context of Political Education - Jones Irwin
- Ethics and Morals: A Marxist Reading - Paul Reynolds
Tuesday 26 February 2013
09:30 - 11:00: Session 5: Questioning Morals and Ethics
- Brandom’s normative inferentialism and its role in illuminating the
morality/ethics flux - Irena Cronin
- Two Levels of Justification and the Possibility of Conflicts and Critique - Emanuel John
11:00 - 11:30: COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 13:00: Session 6: Liberalism, Neo-Liberalism and Morality
- Non-Liberal Norms: Moral, Ethical, or What? - Dan Demetriou
- Compliance, Ethics and Morality in the Markets - Martin Mullins
13:00 - 14:00: LUNCH BREAK
14:00 - 15:30: Session 7: Roundtable – Thinking Ethics and Morals
15:30 - 16:00: Closing Comments /Looking Forward