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Bled Philosophical Conferences
(Applied) Ethics
June 7 - June 11, 2010


 
PROGRAM 2010
 
Monday June 7, 2010

1:00 Welcoming Remarks

1:10-2:15 Steve Luper, Trinity University, “Retroactive Harms and Wrongs”

2:25-3:30 Elvio Baccarini, University of Rijeka, “Art and Moral Knowledge”

3:40-4:45  Milica Czerny Urban, University of Rijeka,“Morality and the Intrinsic Value of Art”

4:55-6:00  Scott O’Leary, Fordham University, “The Virtuous Circle of Emotion and Value”

 
Tuesday June 8

 9:00-10:05  Igor Primoratz, Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University, Canberra
“Civilian Immunity, Supreme Emergency, and Moral Disaster”

10:15-11:20 Danilo Šuster, University of Maribor, “Lewis on the consequence argument reconsidered”

11:30-12:35 Anna Réz, Central European University, “Responsibility for Carelessness: The Failure of an Attributionist Account”

12:35-2:15 Lunch

2:15-3:20 Ish Haji, University of Calgary, “On the Reason View of Freedom and Semi-Compatibilism”

3:30-4:35 Boran Berčić, University of Rijeka, “Determinism and Moral Responsibility”

4:45-5:50 Olga Markič, University of Ljubljana, “Neuroethics: neuroscientific challenges to moral responsibility”

 
Wednesday June 9

9:00-10:05  Saul Smilansky, University of Haifa,  “Hard Determinism and Punishment: A Practical Reductio”

10:15-11:20 Igor Pribac, University of Ljubljana, “Economic democracy according to Rawls”

11:30-12:35 Neven Petrovic, University of Rijeka, “Inherited Constitutions: Tyranny of the Older Generations?”


Thursday June 10

9:00-10:05 Spencer Case, University of Colorado, “War Fighting as a Profession”

10:15-11:20 Miomir Matulović, University of Rijeka, “Veil of Ignorance as Thought Experiment”

11:30-12:35 Nenad Miščević, Central European University, University of Maribor, “The Winged Armchair: Political Thought-Experiments from Plato to Rawls”

12:35-2:15 Lunch

2:15-3:20 Orsolya Reich, Central European University, “Cosmo-Archipelago: Extending Dworkin's Thought Experiment”

3:30-4:35 Hanoch Sheinman, Rice University, “Fidelity to Promises”

4:45-5:50 Rev. Binoy pal Bhikshu, Colombo Sri-Lanka, “The Way of the Lotus”

 
Friday June 11

9:00-10:05  Friderik Klampfer, University of Maribor, ‘You’re Just Using Me! Can we make sense of the common complaint over being treated as a Mere Means?”

10:15-11:20 Tea Logar, University of Primorska, “Wrongful Use, Impermissible Treatment, and the Fundamental Role of Intentions”

11:30-12:35 Matjaž Potrč and Vojko Strahovnik, University of Ljubljana, “Moral Dilemmas and Vagueness”

12:35-2:15 Lunch

2:30-3:35 Georgi Gardiner, University of Edinburgh, “Transitivity, Moral Theory and the Repugnant Conclusion”

3:50-4:55 Alastair Norcross, University of Colorado at Boulder, “Deontology, Using, and Causal Fetishism”

5:00 Closing Remarks