Summer School for PhD students: Contemporary Psychology and the Moral Point of View

Date: 08/21/2011, 15:00h to 08/25/2011, 13:00h

Location:
Woodbrookershuis
Barchem
The Netherlands

Further information: http://www.ozse.nl

Description: There is a rapidly growing body of empirical studies in the behavioural, cognitive, and brain sciences that show how our judgments and behaviour are unconsciously influenced by emotional and situational factors. As a result, interest in questions of moral psychology and experimental ethics has increased. How should moral philosophy make use of research results in these relatively new areas of expertise? Do the findings threaten traditional notions as free will, character, and moral agency? Can we use the findings to improve our normative theories? Is there a danger in letting them inform ethical theory and practice? The course aims to offer an overview of contemporary debates in moral psychology and experimental ethics and the different philosophical reactions to it.

Contact:
Judith Zijm
The Netherlands School for Research in Practical Philosophy
Janskerkhof 13a
3512 BL Utrecht
The Netherlands
Phone: 0031-30-253 5943
ozse@ethics.uu.nl
http://www.ozse.nl

Organizer: The Netherlands School for Research in Practical Philosophy

Program coordination: Jan Bransen (Radboud University Nijmegen); Pauline Kleingeld (University of Groningen); Maureen Sie (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Keywords: ethical theory; research ethics; brain research; psychology