Conference on Moral Evil
Organizer: Zachary J. Goldberg, LMU
The focus of this conference is on issues relevant to metaethics of evil and the nature of moral evil.
Dates and Location: April 26-27, 2018, Lessingstr. 2. EG 0.01
Attendance is free, but please register in advance at: zachary.goldberg@lmu.de
Thursday, April 26:
9.15-9.30: Greeting
9.30-10.30: Evil in Neoplatonism, Peter Adamson (Munich)
10.30-11.30: What distinguishes evil people from standard moral agents? Michaela Rehm (Bielefeld)
11.30-12.30: Real Losses and Real Losers – Pragmatism and the Reality of Evil, Ana Honnacker (Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover)
12.30-14.00: Lunch for speakers
14-15.00: The Banality of Evil: Coping Mechanism or Worldly Fact, Yasmin Göppner (Munich)
15-16.00: Further Thoughts on Evil, Luke Russell (Sydney)
16-17.00: A Diachronic Analysis of Evil Action, Zachary Goldberg (Munich)
Dinner for speakers at 18:30
Friday, April 27:
9.30-10.30: Between Incapacity and Self-Conceit: Kant on the Rationality of Evil, Jörg Noller (Munich)
10.30-11.30: Political Evil, Stephen de Wijze (Manchester)
11.30-12.30: Institutional conditions of evil action: What we can learn from the NS system, Herlinde Pauer-Studer (Vienna)
12.30-13.30: Lunch for speakers
13.30-14.30: Evil – A Relevant Category in Criminal Law? Petra Wittig (Munich)
14.30-15.30: Longing for Immortality: A Cavellian Approach to Evil, Eike Brock (Bochum)
Dinner for speakers at 18.30