6th CNY Moral Psychology Workshop

About This Event

Join us to discuss four papers-in-progress in a variety of areas in moral psychology. These sessions are read-ahead (please RSVP for access to the papers), so that the entirety of the session can be spent in discussion. Following the sessions, we'll have a keynote by Lawrence Blum (UMass Boston), who has made seminal contributions to philosophical discussions about altruism, friendship, care, and other topics.

Featured Guests

• Vivian Feldblyum (Southern Illinois, Edwardsville) "An Aristotelian Account of Victim Blaming"
• Ashley Purdy (University of Arkansas) "Do Good Friends Act Loyally?"
• Macalester Bell (Bryn Mawr College) "On Being All Over the Place: Emotional Lability and the Moral and Epistemic Work of Emotions"
• Sieun Sienne Park and Randall R. Curren (University of Rochester) "Do Virtuous People Take Pleasure in Virtuous Acts?"
• Keynote: Lawrence Blum (University of Massachusetts, Boston) "Iris Murdoch, Max Scheler, Feminist Care Theory, Tommie Shelby, Schopenhauer, the Dalai Lama, and ‘Ape Altruism’: Historical Adventures in the ‘Egoism/ Altruism’ Framework

Co-sponsors

Philosophy Department, Le Moyne College