/home/lecreumo/public html/wp content/uploads/2022/10/capture décran le 2023 04 13 à 16.07.29

Human Dignity: Theory and Practice

Quand :
28 avril 2023 – 29 avril 2023 Jour entier
2023-04-28T00:00:00-04:00
2023-04-30T00:00:00-04:00
Où :
Concordia's Social Justice Centre et McGil University
Philosophy Departments
Concordia and McGill Univerisities

The purpose of the conference is to explore recent work on human dignity. Questions of topical relevance are those regarding the relationship between dignity and (anti-discrimination) law, the (metaphysical/political) grounds of dignity, the relationship between dignity and (relational) equality, the history of the concept of human dignity, skepticism and/or criticism regarding the functional role that dignity-talk plays in moral and political discourse, Kant’s theory of human dignity, religious conceptions of dignity, etc.

Registration is free. Please do register in advance via this link.

Program:

April 28, 9:00am-5:00pm (EST) – Concordia University, Webster Library Building (Pavillion J.W. McConnell Bldg, 1400 Maisonneuve West) in Room LB-322 (on the 3rd floor). Food will be served in LB-361. 

9:00 am – Coffee & snacks

9:30 am – Intro & welcome

9:40 am – Pablo Gilabert (Concordia) – « The Dignitarian Approach »

10:40 am – Coffee break 

11:00 am – Tom Christiano (Arizona) – « Equal Moral Status and the Collective Character of Rationality »

12:00 pm – Lunch 

1:00 pm – Jordan Walters (McGill) « Naïve Humanism »

2:00 pm – Coffee break

2:20 pm -Andrew Lichter (Arizona) « Enabling Rights »

3:20 pm – Coffee break

3:40 pm – Stephen Darwall (Yale) « Two Kinds of Human Value »

4:40 pm – Leftover coffee & snacks 

April 29, 10:00am-5:00pm (EST) – McGill University (855 Sherbrooke West) in the Leacock Building (LEA 429)

10:00 am – Coffee & snacks

10:30 am – Matthew Perry (Manchester) « Animal Dignity without Hierarchy »

11:30 am – Lunch 

1:00 pm – Ariel Zylberman (SUNY) « Dignity and Recognition »

2:00 pm – Coffee break

2:20 pm – Regina Surber (Zurich) « Why military conditioning violates the dignity of soldiers »

3:20 pm – Coffee break

3:40 pm – Nandi Theunissen (Pittsburg) « Revisiting Regress Arguments for the Value of Humanity »

4:40 pm – Leftover coffee & snacks

Generously sponsored by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University, the Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy at McGill University, the Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en philosophie politique, Le Centre de recherche en Éthique, and the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.

(For inquiries, e-mail jordan.walters@mail.mcgill.ca or christiane.bailey@concordia.ca)