XVII NOMOS Meeting: Asa Burman’s Non-Ideal Social Ontology

The XVII NOMOS Meeting will take place at the University of Barcelona on 5-6 October 2023.

The topic will be Åsa Burman’s (Stockholm) book “Nonideal Social Ontology” (OUP, 2023).

Organizers:

Esa Díaz-León (Barcelona)

Mari Mikkola (Amsterdam)

Local Organizing Committee:

Esa Díaz-León (Barcelona)

TBA

Invited Speakers:

Åsa Burman (Stockholm)

Ásta (Duke)

Jade Fletcher (St Andrews)

Daniel James (TU Dresden)

Asya Passinsky (CEU)

Discussants:

Mari Mikkola (Amsterdam)

Esa Díaz-León (Barcelona)

TBC

Venue:

Seminari de Filosofia, C/ Montalegre 6, 4th floor, 08001, Barcelona, Spain.

Funding:

“The Philosophy of Social Cognition” (PID2021-124100NB-I00), Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

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XVI NOMOS Meeting: Alessandra Tanesini’s The Mismeasure of the Self: A Study in Vice Epistemology

The XVI NOMOS meeting will take place at the University of Amsterdam, 23-24 June 2022. Alessandra Tanesini (Cardiff) will be one of the speakers. The others are: 

Jacques Bos (Amsterdam)
Christine Bratu (Göttingen)
Josep Corbi (Valencia)
Emily Sullivan (Eindhoven)

Organizers:

Esa Díaz-León (Barcelona) & Mari Mikkola (Amsterdam)

Local team:

Mari Mikkola (Amsterdam)

Suzanne Kappe (Amsterdam): suzanne.kappe@gmail.com

Nino Babutsidze (Amsterdam): N.R.Babutsidze@uva.nl

Discussants:

Aarón Álvarez-González (Barcelona)

Nino Babutsidze (Amsterdam)

Marcelino Botín (Barcelona)

Aline Dammel (Göttingen)

Esa Díaz-León (Barcelona)

Suzanne Kappe (Amsterdam)

Markel Kortabarria (Barcelona)

Mari Mikkola (Amsterdam)

Pepa Toribio (ICREA-Barcelona)

Justus-Lou Witte (Göttingen)

Funding:

University of Amsterdam; Facultat de Filosofia, Universitat de Barcelona; “Social Metaphysics” (PGC2018-094563-B-I00 FEDER-MICIN); “The Philosophy of Hybrid Representations” (PID2020-119588GB-I00), “Worlds and Truth Values: Challenges to Formal Semantics (MUNVAL)” (2019PID-107667GB-I00).

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15th Nomos Meeting: Democracy Without Shortcuts (Madrid, November 5-6, 2020)

A symposium on Democracy without Shorcuts. A participatory conception of deliberative democracy, OUP, 2020, by Cristina Lafont, Madrid (Spain), November 5-6^th, 2020

This book articulates a participatory conception of deliberative democracy that takes the democratic ideal of self-government seriously. It aims to improve citizens’ democratic control and vindicate the value of citizens’ participation against conceptions that threaten to undermine it. The book critically analyzes deep pluralist, epistocratic, and lottocratic conceptions of democracy. Their defenders propose various institutional ”shortcuts” to help solve problems of democratic governance such as overcoming disagreements, citizens’ political ignorance, or poor-quality deliberation. However, all these shortcut proposals require citizens to blindly defer to actors over whose decisions they cannot exercise control. Implementing such proposals would therefore undermine democracy. Moreover, it seems naive to assume that a community can reach better outcomes ‘faster’ if it bypasses the beliefs and attitudes of its citizens. Unfortunately, there are no ‘shortcuts’ to make a community better than its members. The only road to better outcomes is the long, participatory road that is taken when citizens forge a collective will by changing one another’s hearts and minds. However difficult the process of justifying political decisions to one another may be, skipping it cannot get us any closer to the democratic ideal. Starting from this conviction, the book defends a conception of democracy ”without shortcuts”. This conception sheds new light on long-standing debates about the proper scope of public reason, the role of religion in politics, and the democratic legitimacy of judicial review. It also proposes new ways to unleash the democratic potential of institutional innovations such as deliberative minipublics. (OUP Description)

MAIN SPEAKER
Cristina Lafont (Northwestern University, USA)

INVITED SPEAKERS
Simone Chambers (University of California-Irvine)
Thomas Christiano (Ariona State University)
Alessandro Ferrara (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Jane Mansbridge (Harvard Kennedy School)
José Luis Martí (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

DISCUSSANTS
Josep E. Corbí (University of Valencia)
Jesús Vega (Autonomous University of Madrid)
Fernando Broncano (UCarlos III)
Carlos Thiebaut (UCarlos III)
Francisco Javier Gil Martín (Universidad de Oviedo)

VENUE
Faculty of Philosophy and Letters
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
C/ Tomás y Valiente 128049 CANTOBLANCO (MADRID)

ORGANIZATION
Fernando Broncano- Berrocal (Autonomous University of Madrid)
Moisés Barba (Autonomous University of Madrid)
Josep E. Corbí (University of Valencia)
Mari Mikkola (Oxford University)
Jesús Vega (Autonomous University of Madrid)

CONTACT
Jesus.vega@uam.es

FUNDED BY
Intellectual autonomy in environments of epistemic dependence (FFI2017-87395-P), La controversia pública (Red Leonardo. Fundación BBVA), Intercultural Understanding, Belonging and Value: Wittgensteinian Approaches (PGC2018-093982-B-I00)

A symposium on Pornography. A Philosophical Introduction (OUP, 2019) by Mari Mikkola| Valencia (Spain), September 27-28, 2019

Debates over pornography tend to be heated and deeply polarized—as with other topics that have to do with sex, pornography cuts to the core of our values and convictions. Philosophical debates concerning pornography are fraught with difficult questions: What is pornography? What does pornography do (if anything at all)? Is the consumption of pornography a harmless private matter, or does pornography violate women’s civil rights? What, if anything, should legally be done about pornography? Can there be a genuinely feminist pro-pornography stance? This book offers an opinionated introduction to and an analysis of philosophical treatments of pornography.

PROGRAM

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MAIN SPEAKER

Mari Mikkola (University of Oxford, UK)

INVITED SPEAKERS

Esa Díaz-León (University of Barcelona)
Anne Eaton (University of Illinois)
Katherine Jenkins (University of Nottingham)
Hans Maes (University of Kent)

DISCUSSANTS

Cristina Bernábeu (Autonomous University of Madrid)
Marta Cabrera (University of Valencia)
Josep E. Corbí (University of Valencia)
Alejandro Fontcuberta (IES Molí del Sol, Valencia)
Manuel García-Carpintero (University of Barcelona)
Antoni Gomila (University of Balearic Islands)
Leonardo González (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
Darius Khalid (King’s College)
Teresa Marques (University of Barcelona)
Carmen Martínez (University of Valencia)
Sergi Rosell (University of Valencia)
Pablo Rychter (University of Valencia)
Chon Tejedor (University of Valencia)
Jesús Vega (Autonomous University of Madrid)

VENUE

Faculty of Philosophy
University of Valencia
Av. Blasco Ibáñez 30
46010-Valencia (Spain)
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ORGANIZATION

Marta Cabrera (University of Valencia)
Josep E. Corbí (University of Valencia)
Carmen Martínez (University of Valencia)
Jesús Vega (Autonomous University of Madrid)

CONTACT

Josep E. Corbí  (josep.corbi # uv.es)

FUNDED BY

Self-Knowledge, Moral Responsibility, and Authenticity (FFI2016-75323-P)
Intercultural Understanding, Belonging and Value: Wittgensteinian Approaches (PGC2018-093982-B-I00)

NOMOS XIII: Workshop with Cheshire Calhoun

Workshop on Cheshire Calhoun, Doing Valuable Time (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)

Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, 28th-29th September 2018

Organiser: Christopher Bennett

Speakers:

Cheshire Calhoun (Arizona State)
Antti Kauppinen (Tampere)
James Lenman (Sheffield)
Glen Pettigrove (Glasgow)
Chon Tejedor (Valencia)
Programme:

Friday 28th September

9.30 Arrival and refreshments

9.50 Welcome remarks

10-10.45 – Cheshire Calhoun presentation on Doing Valuable Time

10.45 – 11.15 – Two responses to Cheshire Calhoun

11.15-11.45 – Refreshments

11.45 – 1.00 – Questions and Discussion of Doing Valuable Time

1.00 – 2.00 – Lunch

2.00 – 3.30 – Glen Pettigrove

3.30 – 4.00 – Refreshments

4.00 – 5.30 – Antti Kauppinen

7pm Dinner

Saturday 29th September 

10.00 – 10.45 – Cheshire Calhoun presentation on work in progress

10.45 – 11.15 – Two responses to Calhoun

11.15 – 11.45 Refreshments

11.45 – 1.00 – Questions and Discussion of Calhoun’s presentation

1.00 – 2.00 – Lunch

2.00 – 3.30 – Chon Tejedor

3.30 – 4.00 – Refreshments

4.00 – 5. 30 – James Lenman

7pm Dinner

Funding

Self-Knowledge, Moral Responsibility, and Authenticity (FFI2016-75323-P)

12th NOMOS meeting (Palma de Mallorca, 9-10 June, Universitat de les Illes Balears)

Simposium on Steven Darwall’s second personal approach to morality

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Prof. Steven Darwall (Yale)

https://campuspress.yale.edu/stephendarwall/

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Nora Kreft (Humboldt Berlin)
Diana Pérez (Buenos Aires)
Bob Stern (Sheffield)
Toni Gomila (Balearic Islands)

DISCUSSANTS:

Chris Bennett (University of Sheffield)
Fernando Broncano (University Carlos III, Madrid)
Francesca Bunkenborg (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Josep E. Corbí (University of Valencia)
Rodrigo J. Díaz (University of Bern)
Carme Isern (Universitat de les Illes Balears)
Mari Mikkola (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Saúl Pérez (University of Valencia)
Jesús Vega (Autonomous University, Madrid)
Stephanie West (University of Valencia)

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June 9

9,45 – 10,00     Welcome

10,00 – 12,00   Stephen Darwall
Respect as Honor and as Accountability
& Discussants and Open Discussion

12,15 – 13,30   Diana Pérez (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Morality and the second person perspective

13,30                 Lunch

15,30 – 16,45    Robert Stern (Sheffield University)
Moral Obligations: Demands without a Demander?

17,00 – 18,15   Nora Kreft (Humboldt Universität Berlin)
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June 10

9,30 – 11,30   Stephen Darwall
Trust as a second personal attitude (of the heart)
& Discussants and Open Discussion

12,00 – 13,15  Antoni Gomila (UIB)
Implicit normativity and the evolution of morality

13,30                Lunch

VENUE

Hotel Tryp Bellver (Passeig Marítim, Palma de Mallorca)

ORGANIZATION

Josep E. Corbí (Universidad de Valencia)
Mari Mikkola (Humboldt-University, Berlin)
Jesús Vega (Autonomous University of Madrid

CONTACT:

Toni Gomila (UIB) – toni.gomila@uib.cat

SUPPORTED BY

Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad: The intersubjective grounds of morality” (FFI2013-44007-P), About Ourselves (FFI2013-47948-P), Network on Epistemology and Society (FFI2014-55256-REDT), and Self-Knowledge, Moral Responsibility, and Authenticity (FFI2016-75323-P)

Evocog research group, IFISC (CSIC-UIB)

11th Nomos Meeting (Barcelona, 6-8 June 2016, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Symposium on  Sally Haslanger‘s Doing Justice to the Social

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Sally Haslanger (Ford Professor of Philosophy and
Women’s & Gender Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

INVITED SPEAKERS
Rachel Sterken (University of Oslo, Norway)
Esa Díaz-León (University of Barcelona, Spain)
Aurélien Darbellay (University of Barcelona, Spain)
Jennifer Saul (University of Sheffield, UK)

DISCUSSANTS (in progress)
Josep E. Corbí (University of Valencia)
Manuel García-Carpintero (University of Barcelona)
Anca Gheaus (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Mari Mikkola (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Pepa Toribio (ICREA & University of Barcelona)
Jesús Vega (Autonomous University of Madrid)
Katharine RC Jenkins  (Jesus College, Cambridge)
Andrew Williams (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Catia Faria (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Jules Holroyd (University of Sheffield)
Stephen Yablo (MIT)
Dan Zeman (University of the Basque Country, Victoria)
Laurencia Saenz (Birkbeck College, London)
Ditte Marie Munch-Jurisic (University of Copenhagen)
Angela Grünberg (University of Sheffield)
Francesca Bunkenborg (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Hilkje Haenel (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Johanna Mueller (Humboldt University of Berlin)

PUBLICATION
The symposium on Doing Justice to the Social will be published as a special issue in Disputatio.

PROGRAM [CORRECTED]

6 June 2016
10:30 – 11:00 Welcome & Coffee

11:00 – 13:00
Sally Haslanger
What is Social Structural Explanation?
& Discussants/open discussion

13:00 – 15:00 Lunch 

15:00 – 16:15
Rachel Sterken (University of Oslo)
The Structure of Structural Explanations
& Discussants/open discussion

16:15 – 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 – 18:15
Esa Díaz-León (University of Barcelona)
On Haslanger’s meta-metaphysics: social structures and metaphysical deflationism
& Discussants/open discussion

7 June 2016
11:00 – 13:00
Sally Haslanger (MIT)
Ideology is a Moral Issue
& Discussants/open discussion

13:00 – 15:00 Lunch

15:00 – 16:30
Aurélien Darbellay (University of Barcelona)
Sociality as cooperation
& Discussants/open discussion

16:30 – 16:45 Coffee break

16:45 – 18:15
Jennifer Saul (University of Sheffield)
Good and Bad Implicit Bias Stories
& Discussants/open discussion

20:00 Dinner

8 June 2016
11:00 – 13:00
Sally Haslanger
Studying while Black: Trust, Opportunity, and Disrespect
& Discussants/open discussion

13:00 End of NOMOS 11

VENUE
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Campus de La Ciutadella
Merce Rodoreda Building (no. 24)
Sala Polivalent, 24S18

ORGANIZATION
Teresa Marques (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Josep E. Corbí (Universidad de Valencia)
Manuel García-Carpintero (Universitat de Barcelona)
Mari Mikkola (Humboldt-University, Berlin)
Jesús Vega (Autonomous University of Madrid

CONTACT
Teresa Marques (mariateresa.marques [at] upf.edu)

 

SUPPORTED BY
CAND: Collective Attitudes and Normative Disagreement (Marie Curie-IEF – Intra-European Fellowships. Project reference: 622114. Funded under: FP7-PEOPLE)
About Ourselves (FFI2013-47948-P)
The Scope and Limits of Responsibility (FF1 2012-33470)
Grup de Recerca Consolidat de Filosofía del Dret — AGAUR (2014 SGR 626)
Law & Philosophy research group
Logos research group
Philosophy Department, University of Barcelona

 

 

 

10th Nomos Meeting: Born Free and Equal? (Berlin, September 28-29, 2015)

A symposium on Born Free and Equal? A Philosophical Enquiry into the Nature of Discrimination (OUP, 2013) by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen.

What is discrimination? There are certain instances of differential treatment that almost anyone would describe as discriminatory; yet upon deeper examination, this near-unanimity gives way to disagreement and difference. For instance, is it discrimination when hospitals hire non-smokers only? Not only do people differ on which cases of differential treatment they see as discriminatory, they also disagree about when discrimination is morally wrong; what makes it morally wrong; and, indeed, about whether all forms of discrimination are morally wrong! Finally, many disagree over what should be done about wrongful discrimination-especially about what the state could permissibly do to eliminate wrongful discrimination, e.g. in people’s love lives.

This book addresses these issues. It argues that there are different concepts of discrimination and that different purposes pertaining to different contexts determine which one is the most useful. It gives special attention to a concept of discrimination that ties discrimination to differential treatment of people on the basis of their membership in socially salient groups. Second, it argues that when discrimination is wrong, it is so first and foremost because of its harmful effects. Third, it takes issue with some of the standard devices used to counteract discrimination and submits that combating discrimination requires more than state actions. Finally, it argues that states may sometimes permissibly discriminate. (From: Oxford University Press)

MAIN SPEAKER
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus University, Denmark)

INVITED SPEAKERS
Erin Beeghly (University of Utah, USA)
Robin Celikates (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Jules Holroyd (University of Nottingham,UK)
Teresa Marques (University Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

DISCUSSANTS
Christopher Bennett (University of Sheffield)
Philipp Blum (University of Barcelona, Humboldt University of Berlin)
Francesca Bunkenborg (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Josep E. Corbí (University of Valencia)
Jose Ezequiel (University Pompeu Fabra)
Catia Faria (University Pompeu Fabra)
Manuel García-Carpintero (University of Barcelona)
Laura García-Portela (University of Valencia)
Lukas Kübler (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Resa-Philip Lunau (FU Berlin, HU Berlin)
Mari Mikkola (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Carlos Moya (University of Valencia)
Johanna Müller (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Israel Roncero (University Carlos III, Madrid)

PROGRAM
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VENUE
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Main Building
Unter den Linden 6
R3059
Berlin, Germany

ORGANIZATION
Josep E. Corbí (University of Valencia)
Mari Mikkola (Humboldt-University, Berlin)
Jesús Vega (Autonomous University of Madrid)

CONTACT
Mari Mikkola (mari.mikkola at hu-berlin.edu)

FUNDED BY
Philosophische Fakultät I, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Philosophy of Perspectival Thoughts and Facts (Consolider-Ingenio CSD2009-00056)
About Ourselves (FFI2013-47948-P)
The Scope and Limits of Responsibility (FF1 2012-33470)

 

9th Nomos Meeting: The View From Here

A symposium on The View from Here: On Affirmation, Attachment, and the Limits of Regret (OUP, 2013) by R. Jay Wallace | Valencia (Spain), June 2-3, 2014

Must we always later regret actions that were wrong for us to perform at the time? Can there ever be good reason to affirm things in the past that we know were unfortunate? In this original work of moral philosophy, R. Jay Wallace shows that the standpoint from which we look back on our lives is shaped by our present attachments-to persons, to the projects that imbue our lives with meaning, and to life itself. Through a distinctive “affirmation dynamic”, these attachments commit us to affirming the necessary conditions of their objects. The result is that we are sometimes unable to regret events and circumstances that were originally unjustified or otherwise somehow objectionable.

Wallace traces these themes through a range of examples. A teenage girl makes an ill-advised decision to conceive a child – but her love for the child once it has been born makes it impossible for her to regret that earlier decision. The painter Paul Gauguin abandons his family to pursue his true artistic calling (and eventual life project) in Tahiti–which means he cannot truly regret his abdication of familial responsibility. The View from Here offers new interpretations of these classic cases, challenging their treatment by Bernard Williams and others. Another example is the “bourgeois predicament”: we are committed to affirming the regrettable social inequalities that make possible the expensive activities that give our lives meaning. Generalizing from such situations, Wallace defends the view that our attachments inevitably commit us to affirming historical conditions that we cannot regard as worthy of being affirmed–a modest form of nihilism.

PROGRAM
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MAIN SPEAKER

R. Jay Wallace (University of California, Berkeley)

INVITED SPEAKERS

Carla Bagnoli (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Bernard Reginster (Brown University)
Sergi Rosell (University of Valencia)
Katrien Schaubroeck (University of Antwerp)

DISCUSSANTS

Christopher Bennett (University of Sheffield)
Claudia Compte (University of Valencia)
Josep E. Corbí (University of Valencia)
Esa Diaz Leon (University of Manitoba)
Antonio Gaitán (University Carlos III;,Madrid)
Laura García Portela (University of Valencia)
Antoni Gomila (University of the Balearic Islands)
Jules Holroyd (University of Nottingham)
Carlos Moya (University of Valencia)
Carlos Patarroyo (Rosario University, Bogotá)
Mari Mikkola (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Winnie Sung (University College London & U. of New South Wales)
Vera Tripodi (University of Turin)
Jordi Valor (University of Valencia)

VENUE
Col·legi Rector Peset
Plaza Horno de San Nicolás 4
46001-Valencia
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ORGANIZATION

Claudia Compte (University of Valencia)
Josep E. Corbí (University of Valencia)
Mari Mikkola (Humboldt-University, Berlin)
Jesús Vega (Autonomous University of Madrid)

CONTACT

Josep E. Corbí  (josep.corbi # uv.es)

FUNDED BY

Philosophy of Perspectival Thoughts and Facts (Consolider-Ingenio CSD2009-00056)
The Nature of Assertion: Consequences for Relativism and Fictionalism (FFI2010-16049)
The Scope and Limits of Responsibility (FF1 2012-33470)