Workshop

Workshop: Progress in Ethics

Date: 19 - 20 June 2023
Time: 09:00-18:00

PROGRESS IN ETHICS 
Workshop at the Institute for Future Studies (IFFS), Stockholm, 19-20 June 2023 

This is an open workshop, but seats are limited. Interested in attending? Send an e-mail to olle.risberg@filosofi.uu.se

Monday 19 June 

09:00 – 10:30: Folke Tersman (Uppsala/IFFS), “Seeking a reflective equilibrium in the face of disagreement” 
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee  
11:00 – 12:30: Finnur Dellsén (University of Iceland/Inland Norway University/Oslo), Tina Firing (University of Iceland), and James Norton (University of Iceland), “Understanding Philosophical Progress”  
12:30 – 14:00: Lunch  
14:00 – 15:30: Joe Roussos (IFFS), “When is agreement between moral models significant?”  
15:30 – 16:00: Coffee  
16:00 – 17:30: Ylwa Sjölin Wirling (Gothenburg), “A portrait of understanding as a nonfactive state”  

Tuesday 20 June  
09:00 – 10:30: Graham Oddie (Colorado Boulder), “Realism and the possibility of moral progress
10:30 – 
11:00: Coffee  
11:00 – 12:30: Tina Firing (University of Iceland), “Achieving philosophical progress -- what good is the method of argument?”  
12:30 – 14:00: Lunch  
14:00 – 15:30: Sofia Bokros (Uppsala), “The Epistemic Structure of Paradox”  
15:30 – 16:00: Coffee  
16:00 – 17:30: Olle Risberg (Uppsala), “Pluralism about Progress in Philosophy”  

The workshop is generously funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (dnr F22-0187) and organized in co-operation with the Swedish Research Council project The Wisdom of the Crowd (grant no 2020-01955). 


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