5X社区

Conference Program

Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience

November 17-20, 2016
5X社区 Hotel and Conference Center | 215 South Depeyster Street, Kent, Ohio

 

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2016

4:30-6:00 Registration

5:30-5:45 Welcome and Opening RemarksDix Room

Mark Bracher, Professor of English and Director, Neurocognitive Research Program for the Advancement of the Humanities (NRPAH), 5X社区
James Blank, Professor of Biology and Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, Kent State University

5:45-7:00 Keynote AddressDix Room

Human Morality: Features and Bugs,鈥 Joshua Greene, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
Introduction: Deborah Barnbaum, Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, 5X社区

7:00-9:00 Reception with Cash Bar

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2016

8:00-9:00  Continental Breakfast Buffet and RegistrationHotel Cafe

9:00-10:30 PanelDix Room

The Moral Self
Panel Chair: Janis Crowther

  1. "The Moral Self: A Philosophical Perspective,鈥 Joshua August Skorburg
  2. "The Moral Self: A Social Psychological Perspective," Jim A.C. Everett
  3. "The Moral Self: A Social Neuroscientific Perspective," Jordan Livingston
  4. "The Moral Self: A Cognitive Neuroscientific Perspective,鈥 Michael Ferguson

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-12:00 Plenary AddressDix Room

Morality for Actual Lives,鈥 Peggy DesAutels, Professor of Philosophy, University of Dayton
Introduction: Michael Byron, Professor of Philosophy, 5X社区

12:00-1:00 Lunch, Kent Room

1:00-2:30  Panels

A. Free Will, Cognitive Control, and Dual ProcessesDix Room
Panel Chair: Phillip Hamrick

  1. 鈥淪ituating Emotions in a Dual-Process Account of Moral Judgment,鈥 Daniel Shargel
  2. 鈥淭he Neuroscience of Moral Responsibility,鈥 Samuel Murray
  3. 鈥淪ocial Emotion and Moral Grammar:  Two Sources of Moral Intuition,鈥 Haoying Liu

B.  Literature and Moral DevelopmentMcGilvrey Room
Panel Chair: Matthew Coate

  1. 鈥淭ragedy, Moral Responsibility, and the Neuroscience of Decisions,鈥 David Palmer
  2. 鈥淯sing Literary Emotion for Ethical Change,鈥 Dana Munteanu
  3. 鈥淗uman Bias in Ibsen鈥檚 Enemy of the People,鈥 Todd O. Williams

2:30-3:00 Break

3:00-4:00 Plenary AddressDix Room

Implicit Moral Attitudes and their Philosophical Implications,鈥 Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics, Duke University
Introduction: David Pereplyotchik, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 5X社区

4:00-4:30 Break

4:30-6:00 Panels

A. Morality, Self, and SocietyDix Room
Panel Chair: Gina Zavota

鈥淧ersuading Ourselves We鈥檙e Moral,鈥 Ashton T. Sperry
鈥淯sing Ricoeur鈥檚 Phenomenology of the Capable Human Being as a Complementary Perspective to the Cognitive and Neuroscientific Findings on Morality,鈥 Diane Laflamme

B. Normative Ethics, Metaethics, and NeuroscienceMcGilvrey Room
Panel Chair: Michael Byron

  1. 鈥淲hat Should an Empirical Critique of Kantian Ethics Look Like?鈥  Kevin Mills
  2. 鈥淓thical Implications of Neuroscience:  Realism without Rationalism,鈥 Thomas Kiefer
  3. 鈥淭wo Roles for Neurocognitive Science in Constitutivism,鈥 Caleb Dewey

6:00-7:30 Reception with Cash Bar

 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2016

8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast Buffet and RegistrationHotel Cafe

9:00-10:15 Panels

A. Comeuppance: Nineteenth-Century Fiction and Neurocognitive Justice, Panel I, Dix Room
Panel Chair: Fran莽oise Massardier-Kenney

  1. 鈥淔airy Tales and Morality: Tales of Vulnerability,鈥 Fritz Breithaupt
  2. 鈥淢oral Judgment and the Adultery Novel: How Stories Can Shape Side-Taking Decisions,鈥 Brian Tucker
  3. 鈥淭he Unknowable Baron: Alterity and Moral Trust in Social-Critical Realism,鈥 Jenny Strakovsky
     

B. The Cognitive Bases of Moral Decision-MakingMcGilvrey Room
Panel Chair: Murali Shanker

  1. 鈥淧rofessional Ethical Identity and Decision-Making in Experts Versus Novices,鈥 Morgan Kiper Riechel
  2. 鈥淐an Improving Episodic Cognition Make Us Better Moral Judges?鈥  Nathan Stout
  3. 鈥淔acts as Determinants for Morality:  How Human Action, Reason, Cognition, and Social Activity Determine What We Ought to Do,鈥 Michael S. Dauber

10:15-10:30 Break

10:30-11:30 Plenary AddressDix Room

Embodied Wisdom: Human Nature and Human Potential,鈥 Darcia Narvaez, Professor of Psychology, University of Notre Dame
Introduction: Jon A. Sefcek, Assistant Professor of Psychology, 5X社区

11:30-12:00 Break

12:00-1:00 Plenary AddressDix Room

The Logic of Communities of Trust,鈥 Mark Alfano, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Delft University of Technology  
Introduction: Susan Roxburgh, Professor of Sociology, 5X社区

1:00-2:00 Lunch, Kent Room

2:00-3:15 Panels

A. Neuroscience or Not?  The Psycho-Biological Origins of Morality, Dix Room
Panel Chair: Joshua Pollock

  1. 鈥淟ocating the Normative Insignificance of Neuroscience,鈥 Thomas Noah
  2. 鈥淔etal Origins of the Moral Self: Vestibular Experiences,鈥 Azucena Verdin

B. Moral Education and Ethical PraxisMcGilvrey Room
Panel Chair: Frank Scalambrino

  1. 鈥淢oral Education and Personality: Practicing Virtues in Childhood,鈥 Maria Judith Sucupira de Costa Lins and Carla Christina Silveira Sousa
  2. 鈥淚ncreases in Empathy and Theory of Mind after a Middle School Reading Unit Vary with Gender, Book and Format,鈥 Louise Freeman
  3. 鈥淭he Methodological Pursuit of Lived Experience,鈥 Sara J. Newman, Elizabeth Tomlinson, and Ya鈥檈l Courtney

3:15-3:30 Break

3:30-4:30 Plenary AddressDix Room

Adventures in Story Science: The Ethical Function of Literature in an Experimental Age,鈥 Angus Fletcher, Associate Professor of English, Ohio State University
Introduction: Tammy Clewell, Professor of English, 5X社区

4:30-5:00 Break

5:00-6:00 Panels

A. Morality, Sociality, and EvolutionDix Room
Panel Chair: TBA

  1. 鈥淚s It Good to Cooperate? Testing the Theory of Morality-as-Cooperation in 60 Societies,鈥 Oliver Scott Curry, Daniel Austin Mullins, and Harvey Whitehouse
  2. 鈥淕ossip:  Social Intelligence and Evolutionary Origins,鈥 Brian Robinson

B. Comeuppance: Nineteenth-Century Fiction and Neurocognitive Justice, Panel II, McGilvrey Room
Panel Chair: Maryanne DeJulio

  1. 鈥淭ransnationalism and Infidelity: Morality and the Nation,鈥 John Lyon
  2. 鈥淗ow MacGuffins Work: Justice, Truth, and Satisfaction in George Sluizer's The Vanishing,鈥 William Flesch

6:00-7:00 Reception with Cash Bar

7:00-9:00 Banquet, Kent Room

Banquet Address

"On Philosophy and Social Science: Virtue as Social Intelligence and Beyond,"  
Nancy E. Snow, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing, University of Oklahoma
Introduction: Mark Bracher, Professor of English and Director, Neurocognitive Research Program for the Advancement of the Humanities (NRPAH), 5X社区

 

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2016

8:00-9:00  Continental Breakfast Buffet

9:00-10:00 PanelDix Room

Trolley Problems, Moral Judgment, and Moral Experimentation
Panel Chair: David Pereplyotchik

  1. 鈥淏eyond Emotional Deontology鈥擡motional Focus and Cognitive Orientations Conjointly Shape Moral Judgments,鈥 Johannes T. Doerflinger and Peter M. Gollwitzer
  2. 鈥淟et a Thousand Methods Bloom:  On the Neuroscience of Moral Judgment and the Reverse Inference Problem,鈥 Brett Karlan

10:00-10:30 Break

10:30-11:30 Plenary AddressDix Room

"Gratitude, Giving, and Gray Matter. Altruism in a Changing Brain."  Christina Karns, Research Associate, Brain Development Lab, University of Oregon
Introduction: Ernest Freeman, Professor and Director, Biomedical Sciences Program, 5X社区

11:30-12:30 Round Table Wrap UpDix Room

12:30 Box Lunch, Kent Room