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Moral Philosophy Club

The Moral Philosophy Club (MPC) is a discussion group for subjects in moral philosophy. The group meets roughly once a week to discuss work in progress by participants. The aim is to do good philosophy in a friendly and supportive atmosphere, and to help improve each others’ papers and ideas. The group was formed at the initiative of members of the CSMN’s moral philosophy project, and currently counts around 15 active members, mostly staff and research students from Etikkprogrammet, CSMN, and philosophy at IFIKK. Meetings take place on Wednesday 14:15-16:00 in room 652GM. If you wish to reserve a slot, please get in touch with the conveners Einar Duenger Bøhn, e.d.bohn@ifikk.uio.no, or Christel Fricke, christel.fricke@csmn.uio.no

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Programme fall 2011:

  • 9/14: Christel Fricke, "Intersubjectivity and Objectivity - an attempt at bringing together Edmund Husserl's phenomenological epistemology and Adam Smith's moral theory"
  • 9/21: Tomasz Zuradski, "The argument from normative uncertainty in bioethics"
  • 9/27: Alejandra Mancilla, TBA (Note: this is Tuesday, the day before the usual day we meet on. And it is from 10:15-12:00.)
  • 10/5: Andreas Carlsson, "Moral blindness and moral ignorance"
  • 10/12: Mathias Sagdahl, TBA
  • 10/19: Einar Duenger Bohn, "Hume, Blackburn, and Necessary Connections" - cancelled
  • 10/26: open
  • 11/2: open
  • 11/9: open (change of location: new room is GM 452).
  • 11/30: Fotini Vaki, TBA.

 

Programme spring 2011:

  • 1/25: Open
  • 2/8: Open
  • 2/15: Open
  • 3/1: Open
  • 3/8: Open
  • 3/15: Open
  • 3/22: Jakob Elster, "Evaluating rules of regulation"
  • 3/29: Franco Trivigno, TBA
  • 4/5: Einar Duenger Bohn, "Deontic logic and the best of all possible worlds"
  • 4/12: Cancelled due to Hadelandsseminaret
  • 4/19: Easter break!
  • 5/3: Cancelled due to the Social Ontology Conference.
  • 5/10: Andreas Carlsson, TBA
  • 5/24: Knut Olav Skarsaune, TBA.
  • 5/31: Anders Strand, TBA.
  • 6/7: Lene Bomann-Larsen, TBA.

 

 

 

Past meetings, autumn 2010:

  • October 19: Tomasz Zuradzki, "The ethics of war and the moral permissibility of killing"
  • October 26: Fonna Forman-Barzilai, "Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy" (NOTE: Undervisningsrom 2, Georg Sverdrup)
  • November 2: Cancelled
  • November 9: Jon A. Lindstrøm, "Szasz on the myth of mental illness and moral responsibility"
  • November 16: Open
  • November 23: No meeting
  • November 30: No meeting
  • December 7: Open (unless everyone is going to the workshop on universal moral grammar?)
  • December 14: Andreas Carlsson, TBA

 

Past meetings, spring 2010:

  • 19 January: Michael Morreau: It Just Does Not Add Up: Trouble with Overall Similarity 
  • 26 January: Christel Fricke: The Invisible Hand and the Moral Law: Smith and Kant on Moral Knowledge
  • 2 February: Kari Refsdal: Kant and Allison (and Kant) on Rational Agency as Free Agency 
  • 9 February: Endre Stavang: Types and Forms of In/Consistencies In Law – With Particular Reference to Natural Resources
  • 16 February: No meeting - collision with Ethics Programme course with Timothy Chappell
  • 23 February: Jakob Elster: You Don't Know What it's Like! 
  • 2 March: Anne Raustøl: Impartiality and partiality in ethics
  • 9 March: Lene Bomann-Larsen: A Defence of the Moral Equality of Combatants 
  • 16 March: Jon Lindstrøm TBA
  • 23 March: No meeting - collision with CSMN workshop on dispositions 
  • 30 March: No meeting - Easter break
  • 5 April: cancelled
  • 13 April: No meeting - collision with Ethics Programme annual meeting
  • 20 April: No meeting - collision with Ethics Programme course with Jo Wolff and CSMN-seminar, Rome
  • 26 April: cancelled
  • 4 May: Heine A Holmen: Rationalism Without Force
  • 11  May: Einar Bøhn: On some metaphysical structures underlying robust moral realism
  • 18  May Knut Olav Skarsaune: Moral Platonism 
  • 25  May: Cancelled
  • 1 June: Peter Railton: TBA  
  • 8 June: Attila Tanyi: Divine Boredom 
  • *22 June: CANCELLED*

 

 

Past meetings, autumn 2009:

  • 8. September: Einar Bøhn: On the Absurd
  • 15. September: No meeting; CSMN Communication course
  • 22. September: Kari Refsdal: Moral worth and moral praiseworthiness from a Kantian and a virtue ethical perspective
  • 29. September: Christel Fricke: What we cannot do to each other
  • 6. October: No meeting (collision with CASTL)
  • 13. October: Lalaine Siruno: Needs and Capabilities
  • 20. October: No meeting (collision with the Symposium on Evolution - Culture - Society)
  • 27. October: Andreas Brekke Carlsson: Responding to Reasons or the Praiseworthiness of Huckleberry Finn
  • 10. November: Franco Trivigno
  • 17. November: Mathias Sagdahl: Reasonable Self-Ownership
  • 24. November: Jakob Elster
  • 1. December : Ole Martin Moen
  • 8. December: No meeting (collision with Symposium on David Estlund's Democratic Authority)
  • 15. December: Hallvard Fossheim

 

Past meetings, spring 2009:

  • 20. January: Christel Fricke: Moral Norms: Conventions or Universal Principles?
  • 27. January: Eline Busck Gundersen: Response-dependence and the evolution of morality 
  • 3. February: No meeting (Language and Evolution course)
  • 10. February: Andreas Føllesdal: Global Democracy - a Category Mistake?
  • 17. February: No meeting (Language and Evolution course)
  • 24. February: No meeting
  • 3. March: Timothy Chan: The Trouble with Being Sincere
  • 10. March: No meeting; CSMN seminar, Rømskog
  • 17. March: Guy Kahane (Oxford): Evolutionary Debunking Arguments
  • 24. March: Ole Martin Moen: The Compatibility of Determinism and Moral Responsibility 
  • 31. March: Lene Bomann-Larsen: The Manipulation Argument Revisited
  • 7. April: No meeting; Easter holiday
  • 14. April: Andreas Carlsson: How does it feel to be a deontologist? 
  • 21. April: Rekha Nath: What is Social Egalitarianism?
  • 28. April: Ivar Labukt (Bergen): Pleasure and Pain 
  • 5. May: (Clash: Ethics Programme Ph.D. course)
  • 12. May: Jakob Elster: Scanlon on Permissibility and Double Effect
  • 19. May: Jon Lindstrøm: Wakefield on the Rules of the Game
  • 26. May: Vivienne Brown (Open University, Milton Keynes): Reconceptualizing rights? 
  • 2. June: (Clash: CSMN workshop on Rational Self-torture)
  • 9. June: (Clash: Ethics programme event)
  • 16. June: (Clash: Meta-representation workshop and Ethics programme Ph.D. course)
  • 23. June: Kari Refsdal: Rational Nature as the Source of All Other Values  

 

Past meetings, autumn 2008:

  • 9. September: Jakob Elster: What do we explain when we explain morality?
  • 16. September: No meeting; Consequentialism Ph.D. course
  • 23. September: Lalaine Siruno: Considerations for Vital Needs Satisfaction
  • 30. September: Hallvard Fossheim: Justice in EN V
  • 7. October: Jon Lindstrøm: Pragmatism and Pluralism - or maybe Eliminativism?
  • 14. October: Kari Refsdal: Hill, Hooker, and the right answers for the wrong reasons
  • 21. October: Knut Olav Skarsaune: Darwin and Moral Realism: Survival of the Iffiest
  • 28. October: No meeting; CSMN relevance theory and pragmatics course
  • 4. November: No meeting
  • 11. November: Timothy Chan: First person thoughts and reasons for action
  • 18. November: Andreas Carlsson: Feelings, Attitudes and Motivation
  • 25. November: No meeting
  • 2. December: Eline Busck Gundersen: Moral Response-dependence Revisited
  • 9. December: Håvard Løkke: On Empeiria in Aristotle's ethics
  • 16. December: Jon Lindstrøm: Psychopathology as natural kinds

 

Past meetings, Spring 2008:

  • Wed. January 9: Kari Refsdal: Reflective Equilibrium
  • Wed. January 16: Jakob Elster: How does the Brain Matter for the Law?
  • Tue. January 22: Eline Busck Gundersen: Response-dependence and Moral Normativity
  • Tue. January 29: Håvard Løkke: Aristotle on why justice is good for the just person
  • Tue. February 5: Jon Lindstrøm: In Defence of ‘Biological Evaluationism’
  • Tue. February 12: Jon Lindstrøm and others on biological evaluationism, evolution, etc.
  • Tue. February 19: Carola von Villiez (Univ. of Essen): Double standard – Naturally!
  • Tue. February 26: Hallvard Fossheim: Division as a Method in Plato
  • Tue. March 4: Christel Fricke: How to Learn to be a Moral Person: On Adam Smith's Moral Theory 
  • Tue. March 11: No meeting; Etikkprogrammet's Hadelandseminar 
  • Tue. March 18: No meeting; Easter holiday
  • Tue. March 25: No meeting; Easter holiday
  • Tue. April 1: Lene Bomann-Larsen: Neuro-science in Public Justification
  • Tue. April 8: Espen Gamlund: What Calls for Forgiveness?
  • Tue. April 15: No meeting
  • Tue. April 22: Edmund Henden: Deliberation Incompatibilism 
  • Tue. April 29: Kari Refsdal: Kant on what is Entailed in Having a Practical Normative Competence
  • Tue. May 6:  Jakob Elster: A Constructive Role for Experimental Moral Psychology in Moral Epistemology 
  • Tue. May 13: No meeting; Ph.D. course on causation
  • Tue. May 20:  Andreas Føllesdal on the project 'should states ratify human rights conventions?'
  • Tue. May 27:  Eline Busck Gundersen: Human responses: The sources of normativity?
  • Tue. June 3:  Øyvind Rabbås: Socrates and the definition of virtues
  • Tue. June 10: No meeting; Emotions seminar
  • Tue. June 17: Espen Gamlund: Forgiveness and Supererogation 
     

 

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