Virtue Ethics: Possibilities and Limitations Program

Instytut Filozofii, Socjologii i Dziennikarstwa UG 80-851 Gdańsk, ul. Bielańska 5
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Virtue Ethics: Possibilities and Limitations
(Etyka cnót: możliwości, ograniczenia i znaczenie praktyczne)
Gdańsk, 26-27 October 2008
Program
(with abstracts)
26.10.2008 (SUNDAY)
Morning session ( Plenary Lectures, The Old Town Hall, NCK)
9.30 – 10.00 Opening Addresses
10.00 – 11.00 Robert Audi (Notre Dame University), Virtue Ethics in Theory and Practice
11.00 – 11.30 coffee break
11.30 – 12.30 Andrzej M. Kaniowski (Univeristy of Lodz), A Kantian Account of Virtue
Ethics: Reasons of Misunderstanding between Kantian Ethics and Ethics of Virtue
12.30 – 13.30 Peter Railton (University of Michigan), Two Cheers for Virtue
13.30 – 15.00 Lunch
Afternoon session (Lectures in sections, Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Journalism, rooms: 47, 31)
15.00 – 15.30
Andreas A. M. Kinneging (University of Leiden), What about “Rights, Duties and
Virtues”? ( 47)
Jussi Kotkavirta, (University of Jyväskylä) On the Virtue of Integrity (31)
15.30 – 16.00
Joanna Klimczyk, When Virtue is Not Enough: The Source of Humean Fallacy in
Ethics (47)
Ewa Podrez (University of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński), Virtues and Non-Virtues. On
a Compromise (31)
16.00 – 16. 15 caffe break
16.15 – 16.45
Paweł Łuków (Warsaw University), Kant's “Aufhebung” of the Aristotelian Concepts
of Virtue and Character (47)
Marek Piechowiak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan), Virtue Ethics and the
Dignity of a Human Being: Could Plato be Involved? (31)
16.45 – 17.15
Romuald Piekarski (University of Gdańsk), Aristotle and Kant: Different
Understandings of Virtue (47)
Natasza Szutta (University of Gdańsk) Normativity of Virtue (31)
17.15 – 17.45
Wojciech Żełaniec (University of Gdańsk), On the Logical Value of Norms (47)
Justyna Kostaś, (University of Wrocław),What Kind of Person’s Features are
Virtues? Prudence and a Skill to Solve Problems (31)
18.15 – 19.00 Piano recital
Anna Chęćka – Gotkowicz (University of Gdańsk, Music Conservatory of Gdansk)
Program: Music of Polish composers
19.15 Conference Dinner
27.10 2008 (MONDAY)
Morning session ( The Old Town Hall, NCK)
9. 00 -10.00 Nancy Sherman (Georgetown University), The War Within: The Moral Soul of a
Soldier
10.00 – 11.00 John Horton, (Keele University, GB) The Political Virtues of Modus Vivendi
11.00 – 11.30 coffe break
11.30 – 13.00 Pannell discussion on Possibilities and Limitations of Virtue Ethics (chair:
W. Żełaniec; panelists: R. Audi, P. Łuków, R. Piekarski, P. Railton, A. Szutta)
13.00 – 15.00 Lunch
Afternoon session (Lectures in sections, Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Journalism; rooms: 47, 31)
15.00 – 15.30
Paolo Monti (Università Cattolica di Milano ) Rationality in Practice: on Institutions
and Virtues (47)
Aneta Gawkowska (University of Warsaw) "Who Can Find a Virtuous Woman?" (Prv
31,10) The Female Virtue Ethics According to New Feminism (31)
15.30 – 16.00
Jacek Jaśtal (Cracow University of Technology), Virtue – Between Autonomy and
Community (47)
Piotr Machura (Silesian University ), Virtues, Self-Perfection and Politics (31)
16.00 – 16. 15 coffee break
16.15 – 16.45
Marta Soniewicka (Jagiellonian University in Krakow), Patriotism and Justice in
the Global Dimension – A Conflict of Virtues? (47)
Marek Pepliński (University of Gdańsk) Function and Value of Epistemic Virtues in
the Latest Normative Epistemology (31)
16.45 – 17.15
Artur Szutta (University of Gdańsk), A Virtue of Reasonability (47)
More information here/Wiecej informacji pod adresem:
http://www.ptf-senpw.ug.gda.pl/konferencje/konf_etyka_cnot.htm