Ethics for a Broken World (25-27 November 2016)
Idea and Motivation
The conference is focusing on Timothy Mulgan's book Ethics for a Broken World: Imagining Philosophy after Catastrophe (Routledge, 2014). Prof. Mulgan's book is a highly innovative exploration of our modern concepts in political philosophy. It achieves this aim by looking at our current theories from the viewpoint of a fictional "broken" future, i.e. one in which a climate catastrophe has made life much more difficult for all humankind. It therefore uses the methods of literature, thought experiments (such as Hobbes’ state of nature, Dworkin’s island or Rawls’ veil of ignorance) and scenario building to raise important questions about justice today: how and why should we care about future generations? Is our current political ethics, which Mulgan calls "affluent", sustainable? Are we – philosophically – prepared for climate change and other crises to come?
Program
25 November 2016
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19:00 - 21:00 | Conference Keynote: Introduction by Dr. Rebecca Gutwald and Dr. Andreas Kapsner Prof. Tim Mulgan (Auckland): Ethics for a Broken World Welcome and reception for the participants |
26 November 2016
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09:00 - 09:30 | Coffee and Welcome (Dr. Rebecca Gutwald, Dr. Andreas Kapsner) |
09:30 - 10:30 | Opening Keynote: Mozaffar Qizilbash (York): On Capability, Affluent Philosophy and the Broken World |
10:30 - 10:45 | Coffee Break |
10:45 - 12:15 | Session 1, Chair: Dr. Rebecca Gutwald Prof. Andrew Crabtree (Copenhagen): Should future people pay for our illegitimate use of freedoms: intergenerational justice and climate change? Oscar Gomez (Tokyo): The capability approach for a globalized, breaking world Patrick Kaczmarek (Glasgow): The prevent disaster rule revisited |
12:15 - 13:15 | Lunch Snack |
13:15 - 14:45 | Session 2, Chair: Dr. Maria Karidi Prof. Lisa Herzog (Munich): The monsters we created – legal entities and a broken world Prof. Jürgen Volkert (Pforzheim): Economics and ethics in a breaking world: analyzing economics in the transition to a catastrophe Rebecca Gutwald (Munich): Feminist utopias in a broken world |
14:45 - 15:00 | Coffee Break |
19:00 | Conference Dinner for all invited speakers |
27 November 2016
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11:00 - 11:15 | Coffee Break |
11:15 - 13:00 | Session 3, Chair: Dr. Andreas Kapsner Dr. Ortrud Leßmann (Hamburg/Salzburg): Genderequity, autonomy and time: Equality of opportunity vs. capability Dr. Vanessa Schouten (Massey): Reproductive morality in a broken world Dr. Alena Rettova: The role of apocalypse in the fictional works of two Swahili novelists and philosophers |
13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch (on your own) |
14:00 - 14:40 | Session 4, Chair: Dr. Martin Schneider Dr. Julian Culp (Frankfurt): Cosmopolitan democratic education – an internationalist model |
14:40 - 15:30 | Concluding Keynote: Prof. David A. Crocker (Maryland): Current challenges in development ethics |
Acknowledgment
The organizers gratefully acknowledge support from Bayrisches Staatsministerium für Bildung und Kultus, Wissenschaft und Kunst, ForChange, the Munich Center for Ethics and the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy.
Photo Credits
Header background: Schnubbii, "Wo bleibt der Regen?!". Some right reserved (desaturated from original). Source: www.piqs.de.