Tuesday 19 October 2010

09:00 - 10:00: Plenary Session 3 - Chair: xxx

Is Moral Responsibility Really Impossible?
Paul Russell (University of British Columbia)

10:00 - 10:30: COFFEE BREAK

10:30 - 12:00: Concurrent Sessions 4

CS-4a: Real Complexities of Moral Responsibility - Chair: xxx

- Kevin M. DeLapp - Tragic Responsibility: Are We Held Accountable for Inherited Privilege?
- Paul Sheldon Davies - Skepticism Concerning Moral Responsibility: Stultification and Other Infirmities of the Imagination
- Manuel Vargas - Between the Metaphysics and Attribution of Moral Responsibility: Proceed With Caution

CS-4b: International Dimensions of Moral Responsibility  - Chair: xxx

- Olga Potapova - Moral Responsibility in Conflicts. Justice as a Basis of International Relations
- Michael Cloete - Western Modernity, the Environment and Human Oppression:  An African Perspective
- Dirk J. Leys - Moral Responsibility and Cynicism: Epistemical Considerations Regarding an Oath for 'Responsible Managers'

12:00 - 13:30: LUNCH BREAK

13:30 - 15:00: Concurrent Sessions 5

CS-5a: Emotions, the Self and Moral Responsibility - Chair: xxx

- Aaron Ben-Ze’ev - Emotions and Moral Responsibility
- Ruth Boeker - Subjects of Responsibility and Theories of Personal Identity

CS-5b: Revisiting Scanlon - Chair: xxx

- Anna Réz - Attributability and the Hierarchical Self
- Randolph Clarke - Moral Responsibility as Appraisability
- Guy Sela - Two Common Mistakes about Responsibility and Blame

15:00 - 15:30: COFFEE BREAK

15:30 - 17:00: Concurrent Sessions 6

CS-6a: Possibilities and Moral Responsibility - Chair: xxx

- Amit Pundik - Are Frankfurt-type Examples Really Relevant to Moral Responsibility?
- Madeleine Hayenhjelm - Responsible Man: Moral Responsibility, Reasons and Foreseeable Consequences

CS-6b: Contextualizing Moral Autonomy - Chair: Anya Topolski

- Kristof Van Assche - Is Moral Pluralism a Prerequisite For Moral Responsibility? Some Lessons From Nazi Germany
- Dirk Verhofstadt - A Moral and Historical Research into the Moral Responsibility of Pope Pius XII Regarding the Final Solution to the Jewish Question

17:00 - 17:15: MINI BREAK

17:15 - 18:15: Plenary Session 4 - Chair: Tom Claes (Ghent University)

Neo-liberals as 'Engineers of the Human Soul'
Bob Brecher (University of Brighton)

18:15 - 18:30: Concluding Session - Tom Claes (Ghent University)