Workshops and Conferences

Acting Under the 'Guise of the Bad'?
Practical Rationality and Evil Action

Conference, May 15-17, 2014

Organised by:
Prof. Herlinde Pauer-Studer (ERC Project "Distortions of Normativity", Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna) and
Prof. Hans Bernhard Schmid (Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna)

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Conference Programme

Thursday, May 15th 2014
Aula Campus Altes AKH
9:00 -10:30 Josep Raz (Toronto)
"The Guise of the Bad"

10:30 - 10:45 Tea/Coffee

10:45 -12:15 Fabienne Peter (Warwick)
"The Good, the Bad, and the Uncertain"

12:15 -14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30 Claudia Card (Wisconsin)
"Taking Pride in Being Bad"

15:30 - 15:45 Tea/Coffee

15:45 - 17:15 Sebastian Rödl (Leipzig)
"Practical Necessity"


Friday, May 16th 2014
NIG, Department of Philosophy, Lecture room 2i
9:00-10:30 Sergio Tenenbaum (Toronto)
"The Guise of the Guise of the Bad

10:30 - 10:45 Tea/Coffee

10:45 - 12:15 Ben Bramble (Vienna)
"Resurrecting the Evaluative Conception of Desire"

12:15 -14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30 Arto Laitinen (Tampere)
"On Some Counter-Examples to the Guise of the Good-Thesis"

15:30 - 15:45 Tea/Coffee

15:45 - 17:15 Herlinde Pauer-Studer (Vienna)
"Bad Action and Constitutive Accounts of Agency"

19:00 Dinner

Saturday, May 17th 2014
NIG, Department of Philosophy, Lecture room 2i
9:30 - 11:00 Hans Bernhard Schmid (Vienna)
"Evil and Hate"

11:00 - 11:15 Tea/Coffee

11:15 - 12:45 Mark Timmons (Tucson, Arizona)
"Love of Honor, Emulation, and the Devilish Vices in Kant's Ethis"

13:00-14:30 Christoph Halbig (Giessen)
"Turning Bad Into Good and Vice Versa: Schelerian Thoughts on Ressentiment"

All welcome!

For further information, visit: http://distortions.univie.ac.at or contact florian.kolowrat@univie.ac.at