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International Conference on Ethics International Conference on Ethics University of Porto – Faculty of Arts Porto, Portugal Day 1: Wednesday, 19 June, 2019 10.00 – 10.30: Check-In (Anfiteatro Nobre / Main Auditorium) 10.30 – 11.00: Opening Ceremony (Anfiteatro Nobre / Main Auditorium) 11.00 – 12.45: 1st Parallel Session [Room A]: Anfiteatro Nobre [Room B]: Anfiteatro 2 Animal Ethics Ethics and Politics I Jasmine Gunkel (University of Southern Bradley Hillier-Smith (University of California): “Pleasures of the Flesh” Reading): “We are not innocent bystanders: how western states unjustifiably harm refugees” Joshua Jowitt (University of Newcastle): “Legal Oskari Sivula (Turku University): “Just Personhood for Non-Human Agents: Aspiration incentives to decrease personal carbon or Logical Necessity?” footprints” Anya Daly (University of Melbourne): “The Lila Braunschweig (CEVIPOF, Sciences Po Primordial ‘we’, Sentience and Animal Ethics” Paris): “Can neutrality be emancipatory? A critical reconstruction for feminist ethics” 12.45– 14.15: Lunch [Room B]: Anfiteatro 2 14.15 – 15.15: 1st Keynote Speaker: Ana Leonor Santos (UBI/ LabCom.IFP): “Hume’s guillotine” revisited: the contribution of neuroscience to ethics” 15.00 – 17.15: 2nd Parallel Session [Room B]: Anfiteatro 2 [Room C]: Sala 201 [Room D]: Sala 203 Digital Ethics Metaethics I Open I Laura Schelenz (University of Tom Walton (Oxford Elisa Lacerda-Vanderborn Tübingen): “Ethical Challenges University) “An argument for (University of Calgary): of Digitalization in Africa the vacuity of the natural/non- “Whose ethics? The need for natural distinction in ethical reformulations for metaethics” community-engaged scholarship” Wulf Loh (University of Peter Königs (Karlsruhe Heather Spradley (Harvard Tuebingen): “Digital Civil Institute of Technology): “On University): “The Ethics of Disobedience and the the normative (in-) significance Believing Out Loud” Transnational Public Sphere” of experimental ethics” Elizabeth Edenberg Erik Kassenberg (University Eric Sampson (University of (Georgetown University): “The of Groningen): “The North Carolina): “What if My Normative Core of Digital Metaethical Relevance of Ideal Advisors Disagree?: A Consent” Moral Irrelevance” Dilemma for Idealizing Reasos Internalism” María del Mar Cabezas Frauke Albersmeier (Complutense University of (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Madrid): “Does moral damage Düsseldorf): “The fetish with no victim exist? Meta- objection to pursuing moral ethical challenges on sine qua progress” non conditions of harm” 17.45– 18.15: Coffee – Break [Room B]: Anfiteatro 2 18.15 – 19.15: Invited Speaker I: Hili Razinsky (University of Lisbon): “Kant’s imperative, concrete interactions and the good of others” Day 2: Thursday, 20 June, 2019 10.15 – 12.30: 3rd Parallel Session Room A: Anfiteatro Nobre [Room B]: Anfiteatro 2 Moral Luck and Effective Altruism Bioethics Steven D. Hales (Bloomsburg University): Calum Miller (University of Oxford): “Is “Moral Luck and Control” Abortion Healthcare?” Huzeyfe Demirtas (Syracuse University): Michael Rabenberg (Princeton “Against Proportionality Luck” University): “Prenatal Injury and the Non- identity Problem” Brian Berkey (University of Pennsylvania): Alexander Christian (Heinrich-Heine- “Effectiveness and Demandingness” University Düsseldorf): “A moral analysis of heritable human genome editing via CRISPR/Cas9” András Miklós (University of Rochester) “The Nicola Kemp (University of Southern Social Responsibility of Firms: The Case of California) “Why Procreation Never Effective Altruism” Infringes the Rights of the Procreated” 12.30 – 14.00: Lunch [Room B]: Anfiteatro 2 14.00 – 15.00: 2nd Keynote Talk: Catia Faria (University of Minho / Pompeu Fabra University): “The ethics of welfare biology: why and how to deal with wild animal suffering” 15.15 – 17.30: 4th Parallel Session [Room C]: Sala 201 [Room D]: Sala 203 [Room B]: Anfiteatro 2 Ethics and Politics II Open II Artificial Intelligence I Christopher Wareham Johannes Kniess Cassie Striblen (West (University of the (Princeton University): Chester University) Witwatersrand): “Artificial “Undue Harm in the Global “Effectance Motivation and intelligence and African Economy” Collective Akrasia” conceptions of personhood” David Casacuberta Bennet Francis (University Catherine M. Robb (Tilburg (Universitat Autònoma de of Reading) “The Joint University): “Moral Barcelona) & Ariel Causation Solution to the Demandingness and Guersenzvaig (Barcelona Problem of Collective Harm Developing our Talents” School of Design and Engineering): “Understanding and preventing algorithmic injustice” Fabio Fossa (University of Dragoș Bîgu (Bucharest Susan E. Notess (Durham Pisa): “Artificial Moral Agents: University of Economic University) “Refusal to a technology worth exploring” Studies ): “Designing a Right Listen and Constitutive Choice Architecture: An Moral Damage” Ethical Examination of Some Paternalistic Nudges” Juho Vaiste, Nea Oljakka & ” Fiona J. McEvoy Geraldine Ng (University of Oskari Sivula (University of (YouTheData.com): Reading): “Climate Ethics Turku): “An integrated “Considering Algorithmic and Nietzsche” approach of ethics, law and “Hypernudge” as a Threat to corporate responsibility: An Autonomy” analysis of surveillance robots” 17.30 – 18.00: Coffee – Break [Room B]: Anfiteatro 2 18.00 – 19.00: Invited Speakers II: Dina Mendonça & Susana Cadilha (NOVA University of Lisbon): “Bernard Williams and the concept of shame: What makes an emotion moral?” Day 3: Friday, 21 June, 2019 10.00– 12.15: 5rd Parallel Session [Room C]: Sala 201 [Room D]: Sala 203 [Room B]: Anfiteatro 2 Meta-Ethics II Open III Artificial Intelligence II Raquel Pereira (Independent Aistė Noreikaitė (Vilnius Simona Tiribelli (University of Scholar): “Do we need a Deus University): “Why ethics Macerata): “How AI Is (S)ex Machina? Objectification needs metaphysics” Reshaping Freedom of and the Robot Debate” Choice: The Ethical Influence of Algorithms-Based ICTs on Human Behavior” Mihail-Valentin Cernea Laura Maria Puumala Idia Ferreira (Universidade (Bucharest University of (University of Turku): Federal do Rio de Janeiro): Economic Studies): “Towards “Reverse Emergency Ethics” “Elementos da metaética: an Ethics of Big Data through cognitivismo internalista e a the Epistemology of Big Data” teoria volitiva” Radu Uszkai (Bucharest Elizabeth Ventham (Trinity Luís Mendes (Labcom.IFP- University of Economic College Dublin): “Morality UBI): “Kant e os psicopatas: o Studies): “What if Rawls was a without Categoricity” papel dos sentimentos na roboethician?” moral kantiana” Michele Ubertone & Claudio João Esteves da Silva Andreas Bruns (University of Novelli (University of (University of Lisbon): “On Leeds): “A Moral Status Bologna): “The self-driving the very impossibility of there Approach to the Paradox of trolley problem” being lectures on ethics: a Deontology” reading of Wittgenstein’s Ethics Lecture” 12.15 – 14.00: Lunch [Room B]: Anfiteatro 2 14.00 – 15.00: 3rd Keynote Talk: Viriato Soromenho-Marques (University of Lisbon): “Is there an Ethical Answer to Greta Thunberg’s Challenge?” 15.15 – 17.30: 6th Parallel Session [Room C]: Sala 201 [Room D]: Sala 203 [Room B]: Anfiteatro 2 Moral Theories and Open V Ethics and Politics III Practical Ethics Shawn Kaplan Eva Bobst (University of Francesca Minerva (Adelphi University) Vienna): “Practical Wisdom (University of Gent): “Surveillance, Facial and Its Role in Applied Ethics” “Lookism and Implicit Bias” Recognition, and a Right to Obscurity” Zoë Cunliffe (City University Ben Bramble (University of Cara O'Connor (City of New York): “The Political Liverpool): “Owing Without University of New York): “A Uses and Dangers of Knowing: Why Conception of Respect Storytelling” Consequentialists Can Suitable for Non-Rational Tolerate Cluelessness, But Lives” Needn’t” Anh Le (The University of Anna Folland (Uppsala Mathilde Duclos (Sciences Manchester): “Towards a University): “The Moral Po Paris): “UBI: a tool for Theory on the Use of Force Importance of Harm” gender justice?” Short of War” Olivier Chassaing (University Thomas Crawley (University of Paris Nanterre): “A punitive of Nottingham): “What is the welcome? The migrant crisis Bad-Difference View of and the values of the EU’s Disability?” asylum and immigration policies” 17.30 – 18.00: Coffee – Break [Room B]: Anfiteatro 2 18.00-19.15: 4th Keynote Speaker: Peter Singer (Princeton University / University of Melbourne): “Animals and Effective Altruism: Two Examples of the Importance of Applied Ethics” .
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