Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam Dutch Research School of Philosophy OZSW 2013 conference 15 en 16 November 2013 OZSW Conference 2013 – Erasmus University Rotterdam 1 OZSW Conference 2013 – Erasmus University Rotterdam Table of contents TABLE OF CONTENTS ........................................................................................................................................ 2 ORGANISATION AND SPONSORS ........................................................................................................................ 8 REVIEWERS ................................................................................................................................................... 10 PROGRAMME .................................................................................................................................................. 12 KEY NOTE LECTURES ...................................................................................................................................... 18 Reason and Religion - prof. John Cottingham (University of Reading) ................................................... 18 Philosophy in Residence - prof. Jenny Slatman (Maastricht University) ................................................. 18 Philosophical Analysis and social meaning - prof. Sally Haslinger (MIT) ............................................... 18 OZSW MEMBER MEETING ............................................................................................................................... 20 Best Supervisor Award of the OZSW PhD Council ................................................................................. 20 PAPER PRESENTATIONS .................................................................................................................................. 22 PARALLEL 1A: A PANEL ON EARLY MODERN ARISTOTELIANISM : 4 LECTURES ..................................................... 22 Aristotelianism in Early Mercantilism: The Debate Between Malynes and Misselden ............................ 22 The Survival of Aristotelianism in the Dutch Republic after the Victory of Cartesianism: Aristotelian Arguments in Early Refutations of Spinoza ............................................................................................. 22 Cartesian Logic Facing Aristotelian Categories ....................................................................................... 22 Aristotle’s On-going Presence in Early-Modern Moral Philosophy .......................................................... 23 PARALLEL 1B: ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY ............................................................................................ 23 Philosophical method in the first part of Plato's Parmenides ................................................................... 23 Aquinas on free judgment: the self-motion of practical rationality ........................................................... 24 PARALLEL 1C: EARLY MODERN PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY : HOBBES , SPINOZA , HUME ......................................... 25 Hobbes on Natural Equality: A Critique ................................................................................................... 25 Hobbes and the Rule of Law .................................................................................................................... 26 Spinoza on Christ: a Maimonidian reading .............................................................................................. 27 Hume on Political Liberty ......................................................................................................................... 28 PARALLEL 1D: PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY / CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY (I) ............................................... 29 The malaise of late modernity – Towards a phenomenology of the ‘depression epidemic’ .................... 29 Authentic selfhood: a Kierkegaardian perspective ................................................................................... 30 Community without conservatism: Merleau-Ponty on sociality and freedom .......................................... 31 Rhythms of (self) discipline ...................................................................................................................... 31 PARALLEL 1E: (1) CULTURAL PHILOSOPHY & FEMINISM / (2) LEGAL PHILOSOPHY ................................................ 32 Pornographic artefacts: Maker's intentions-model ................................................................................... 32 Love and War: How Militarism and Misogyny Shape Heterosexual Eroticism ........................................ 34 Pragmatism and the Role of Values in Legal Research .......................................................................... 34 Projectivism and the metaethical foundations of the 'normativity of law' ................................................. 35 PARALLEL 1F: THE FUTURE OF ANIMAL ETHICS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE ........................................................ 36 Tracing current developments in order to formulate future questions in Animal Ethics An analysis of Recent Advisory Documents on Farm Animals ....................................................................................... 36 2 OZSW Conference 2013 – Erasmus University Rotterdam Exploring the relational approach in animal ethics .................................................................................. 37 Animal deliberation: taking animal agency seriously in political thought and material practice............... 38 Political communication with animals ....................................................................................................... 39 PARALLEL 1G: JUDGMENT IN PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY ..................................................................................... 40 Conceptualizing Political Judgment ......................................................................................................... 40 Judgment in Theories of Justice .............................................................................................................. 41 Moral judgment as a psychological concept ............................................................................................ 42 On the primacy of perception in professional ethics ................................................................................ 43 PARALLEL 1H: HUMAN RIGHTS ......................................................................................................................... 44 Rights against racial discrimination: a membership account of human rights. ........................................ 44 Human Rights and the Duties of States towards Those beyond Their Borders ...................................... 45 Toward a constructive conception of human rights: beyond naturalistic versus political dichotomy? ..... 45 Why individuals aren't interchangeable ................................................................................................... 46 PARALLEL 1I: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (& EPISTEMOLOGY ) ............................................................................. 47 Philosophical Accounts of Thought Experiments: A Comparative Study of Pisa Experiment ................. 47 Two (or More) Senses of Group Knowledge............................................................................................ 48 Climate Simulations: Uncertain Projections for an Uncertain World. On the Use of Micro-Reductionist Models ...................................................................................................................................................... 49 Misrepresentation, similarity and indirect modelling ................................................................................ 50 PARALLEL 1J: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (I) ...................................................................................................... 50 Exploring philosophical issues in the patenting of scientific and technological inventions ...................... 50 Ultimate and Proximate Explanations of Strong Reciprocity ................................................................... 51 Kelvin’s dictum revived: the intelligibility of mechanisms ......................................................................... 52 The heartbreaking tale of statistical hypotheses .................................................................................. 53 PARALLEL 1K: BIO -ETHICS / HEALTH ................................................................................................................ 54 The right to know your gamete donor: assumptions about identity ......................................................... 54 A Theory of Human Health and its Ethical Implications ........................................................................... 54 Should physicians help cross-border infertility patients evade the law of their own country? ................. 55 Much ado about nothing? Conceptions of well-being in the neuroenhancement discussion .................. 56 PARALLEL 1L: WELLBEING / HAPPINESS / MEANING / THE GOOD LIFE .................................................................. 57 Rational Agency and the Extrinsic Value of Autonomy ............................................................................ 57 The Role of Love in Children's Lives ....................................................................................................... 58 Interpersonal Comparisons of Wellbeing - Reconsidering Harsanyi’s