The Nature and Development of Moral Norms: Second Workshop on Social and Moral Norms in Intentional Action
Tid og sted: Oct 9, 2008 09:00 AM - Oct 10, 2008 06:00 PM, Vindern konferansesenter, Forskningsveien 2a
The moral competence of a person manifests itself in her or his moral judgments as well as in the choices she or he makes to will and act. The conference explores natural and cultural conditions for the development of a person's moral competence from an interdisciplinary perspective. Eminent scholars from developmental psychology, economy and philosophy will be contributing.
The conference has now concluded.
Information about the first workshop
Abstracts of papers, combined in one pdf-file
Slides from the presentations of the papers and comments are published below, if available.
Program
Thursday, October 9th
Session I: 09.00 – 13.00: Social and Moral Norms – Facts, Reasons, and Emotions
Chair: Bertil Tungodden (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration)
09.00 – 09.15 Welcome (Christel Fricke, Bertil Tungodden)
09.15 – 10.00 Normative Guidance and Moral
Motivation, Peter Railton (University of Michigan)
10.00 – 10.15 Comments by Olav Gjelsvik (CSMN,
University of Oslo)
10.15 – 10.30 General Discussion
10.30 – 11.15 Mixed Feelings: Theory and Evidence of
Warm Glow and Altruism, James Konow (Loyola Marymount
University)
11.15 – 11.30 Comments by Hans-Peter Schuett (University of
Karlsruhe)
11.30 – 11.45 General Discussion
Coffee break
12.00 – 12.45 Moral Norms and the Normative-Empirical
Interface, Christel Fricke (CSMN, University of
Oslo)
12.45 – 13.00 Comments by Carola von Villiez (University of
Duisburg / Essen)
13.00 – 13.15 General Discussion
Lunch
Session II: 14.00 – 18.00 Moral Norms – Evolution and
Development
Chair: Christel Fricke (CSMN, University of Oslo)
14.15 – 15.00 Children's expectations about fairness
norms: evidence from the Ultimatum game, Cristina
Bicchieri (University of Pennsylvania), Ilaria Castelli
(Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano), Antonella
Marchetti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano) and
Davide Massaro (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di
Milano.
15.00 – 15.15 Comments by Ivar Kolstad (Chr. Michelsen Institute,
Bergen)
15.15 – 15.30 General Discussion
15.30 – 16.15 The moral advantage, William
Damon (Stanford)
16.15 – 16.30 Comments by Fredrik Engelstad (University of
Oslo)
16.30 – 16.45 General Discussion
Coffee break
17.00 – 17.45 Is there a shared concept of morality underlying
research in moral psychology?, Jakob Elster (University
of Oslo)
17.45 – 18.00 Comments by Sigbjørn Birkeland (Norwegian School of
Economics and Business Administration)
18.00 – 18.15 General Discussion
19.00 Conference dinner
Friday, October 10th
Session III: 09.00 – 13.15 Learning to Be Good
Chair: Bertil Tungodden (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen)
09.15 – 10.00 The development of altruism and free-riding
behaviour, Bill Harbaugh (University of Oregon)
10.00 – 10.15 Comments by Christina Strassmair (University of
Munich)
10.15 – 10.30 General Discussion
10.30 – 11.15 Preparation for Ethical Professional
Practice, Anne Colby (The Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching)
11.15 – 11.30 Comments by Hilde Nafstad (University of Oslo)
11.30 – 11.45 General Discussion
Coffee break
12.00 – 12.45 Development of fairness preferences in
children, Ingvild Almås (Norwegian School of Economics
and Business Administration)
12.45 – 13.00 Comments by Hannah Hörisch (University of
Munich)
13.00 – 13.15 General Discussion
Lunch
Session IV: 14.15 – 18.15 Egoism and Altruism
Chair: Alexander Cappelen (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen)
14.15 – 15.00 Shame, Pride, and Prosociality,
Tore Ellingsen (Stockholm School of Economics)
15.00 – 15.15 Comments by Geir B. Asheim (University
of Oslo)
15.15 – 15.30 General Discussion
15.30 – 16.15 The formation of altruism in society,
Kaushik Basu (Cornell University)
16.15 – 16.30 Comments by Karine Nyborg (University
of Oslo)
16.30 – 16.45 General Discussion
Coffee break
17.00 – 17.45 Incentives versus coordination as market
functions, John E. Roemer (Yale University)
17.45 – 18.00 Comments by Karl-Ove Moene (University of Oslo)
18.00 – 18.15 General Discussion
19.00 Conference dinner
Arrangør
Christel Fricke (University of Oslo), Alexander Cappelen (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration), Raino Malnes (University of Oslo) and Bertil Tungodden (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration)
E-post: christel.fricke@ifikk.uio.no
