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Program:
DAY I – Monday / May 6 2024
| Time | Lenght | Chair | Présentations et commentaires |
| 10h00-10h50 | 50 min | Aude Bandini | Katarina Nieswandt (Concordia) What Is a Common Good? |
| 10h50-11h00 | 10 min | BREAK | |
| 11h00-11h30 | 30 min | Karl-Antoine Pelchat | Léonard Bédard (ULaval) Brouiller la frontière pour mieux exclure. Réflexion critique sur le droit d’exclusion territoriale exercé à l’encontre des réfugié-e-s en contexte canadien Commentary: Gilles Beauchamp |
| 11h30-12h00 | 30 min | Véronique Armstrong (UdeM) Vers un écoholisme cynique : comment favoriser les touts écologiques dans un contexte de prédation ? | |
| 12h00-13h00 | 60 min | LUNCH | |
| 13h00-13h30 | 30 min | Alejandro Macías Flores | Emmanuel Cuisinier (UdeM) Perception, Heroism, and The Problem of Expression in Merleau-Ponty Commentary: Alejandro Macías Flores |
| 13h30-14h00 | 30 min | Pascal-Olivier Dumas-Dubreuil (UdeM) Phénoménologie linguistique, mutisme des sens et normativité chez John L. Austin Commentary: Alejandro Macías Flores | |
| 14h00-14h10 | 10 min | BREAK | |
| 14h10-14h40 | 30 min | Karl-Antoine Pelchat | Guillaume Soucy (UQAM) Une caractérisation constructiviste du point de vue esthétique |
| 14h40-15h10 | 30 min | Frédéric Beaulac (UdeM) Est-ce que les certitudes basiques sont des connaissances? Commentary: Guillaume Soucy | |
| 15h10-15h20 | 10 min | PAUSE | |
| 15h20-15h50 | 30 min | Alex Carty | Alexis Morin-Martel (McGill) Trust as a Respectful Attitude Commentary: Alex Carty |
| 15h50-16h20 | 30min | Samuel Carlsson Tjernström (McGill) Why We Cannot Gnostically Wrong Commentary: Karl-Antoine Pelchat | |
DAY II – Tuesday, May 7 2024
| PÉRIODE | DURÉE | ANIMATION | PRÉSENTATIONS ET COMMENTAIRES |
| 10h00-10h50 | 50 min | Aude Bandini | Marc-Kevin Daoust (ÉTS) Rationalité substantive, rationalité procédurale et approximation des idéaux |
| 10h50-11h00 | 10 min | BREAK | |
| 11h00-11h30 | 30 min | Karl-Antoine Pelchat | Michaël Lemelin (UQAM) Une production moindre peut-elle nuire à l’égalité politique ? |
| 11h30-12h00 | 30 min | Alexandre Poisson (UQAM) Conceptual Import and Interdisciplinarity: Epistemic Contributions of Feminist Philosophy, Critical Race Theory, and Critical Disability Studies to Animal Ethics | |
| 12h00-13h00 | 60 min | LUNCH | |
| 13h00-13h30 | 30 min | Félix Tremblay | Vincent Rochelle (ULaval) Transition émotionnelle et formation du groupe : le deuil comme exemple du paradoxe de l’émotion collective diachronique |
| 13h30-14h00 | 30 min | Ellena Thibaud Latour (UdeM) Undone Science et santé des femmes : politique de l’ignorance et injustices structurelles Commentary : Laurence Dufour-Villeneuve | |
| 14h00-14h10 | 10 min | PAUSE | |
| 14h10-14h40 | 30 min | Alex Carty | Jingzhi Chen (McGill) Being a Good Friend and a Good Believer |
| 14h40-15h10 | 30 min | Mingqiu Xue (McGill) Epistemic Impartiality in Friendship Commentary : Jingzhi Chen | |
We’re delighted to welcome Richard Healey (LSE) for a lunch talk on immoral promises.
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Abstract
It is a familiar part of common-sense morality that we are duty bound to keep our promises. However, the creative nature of promissory duties – the fact that the promisor and promisee choose the content of the promises they make – prompts a natural question: Are there substantive constraints on the content of the promises we can make? For instance, can we make binding promises to murder, maim, and steal? Many have the intuition that such promises fail to bind. Taking this intuition as my starting point, this paper develops a novel account of the nature and explanation of the constraints that apply to our power to promise. Most existing views attempt to explain these constraints by appeal to independent duties to which the promisor or promisee are subject. Yet while initially appealing, these views struggle to achieve extensional adequacy, and lack a clear rationale. On the account that I develop, we should instead appeal to the values that underpin the power to promise itself. I argue that a promise creates a form of special relationship between promisor and promisee, and the constraints that apply to that power track the value of this promissory relationship.
