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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 coffee 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 Gdańsk) 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  Panel discussion:    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 (Universitŕ 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)