On January 16th and 17th 2025, we held a workshop with Dmitry Ananiev, Singa Behrens, Joseph Bowen, Rowan Cruft, Simon Ewers, Giulio Fornaroli, Matthew Perry, Adina Preda, Laura Valentini and Ariel Zylberman. Click here to download the workshop programme.
Confirmed Speakers: Dmitry Ananiev (Bielefeld) Singa Behrens (Bielefeld) Joseph Bowen (Leeds) Rowan Cruft (Stirling) Simon Ewers (Zurich) Giulio Fornaroli (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) Matthew Perry (British Columbia) Adina Preda (Trinity College Dublin) Laura Valentini (LMU Munich) Ariel Zylberman (SUNY Albany) Moral rights occupy a central place in contemporary moral theorizing. At the same time, a promising hypothesis in the theory of normativity is that normative phenomena (including moral phenomena) can be explained in terms of reasons, i.e., in terms of the factors that count in favour of actions or attitudes. The aim of this workshop is to investigate and discuss the …
On October 24th and 25th 2024, we held a conference with Singa Behrens, Selim Berker, John Broome, Shlomit Wygoda Cohen, Daniel Fogal, Benjamin Kiesewetter, Stephanie Leary, Olle Risberg, Eva Schmidt and Eliot Watkins. Click here to download the conference programme.
Workshop: Rights and Reasons Bielefeld University, 16–17 January 2025 Confirmed Speakers: Joseph Bowen (University of Leeds) Rowan Cruft (University of Stirling) Adina Preda (Trinity College Dublin) Laura Valentini (LMU, Munich) Ariel Zylberman (University at Albany, SUNY) Moral rights occupy a central place in contemporary moral theorizing. At the same time, a promising hypothesis in the theory of normativity is that normative phenomena (including moral phenomena) can be explained in terms of reasons, i.e., in terms of the factors that count in favour of actions or attitudes. The aim of this workshop is to investigate and discuss the relation between moral …
Call for abstracts Workshop: Normative Reasons, Explanation, and Grounding Bielefeld University, 24-25 October 2024 Confirmed speakers: Selim Berker (Harvard) John Broome (Oxford) Stephanie Leary (McGill) Olle Risberg (Uppsala) Eva Schmidt (Dortmund) The concept of a normative reason is often taken to be one of the key concepts to understanding normativity. Normative reasons, i.e., the factors that count in favor of (or against) actions or attitudes, are distinguished from the very general class of explanatory reasons or reasons why something is the case. The relationship between normative and explanatory reasons is, however, a matter of controversial discussion in the theory of normative reasons. This debate …
On October 5th 2023, we held a workshop with Alexander (Sasha) Arridge, Anne Meylan, Thomas Schmidt and Mark Schroeder. Click here to download the workshop programme.
Upcoming Workshop Speakers will be: Alexander Arridge (Oxford) Anne Meylan (Zurich) Thomas Schmidt (Humboldt) Mark Schroeder (Southern California) Registration deadline: 01 September 2023. Registration: normativity(at)uni-bielefeld(dot)de
2023-08-01
ERC Grant “The Structure of Normativity”
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Kiesewetter Chair of Practical Philosophy Department of Philosophy