The King’s College London/University of Oxford/University of St Andrews Humanistic Ethics in the UK Workshop was held at King’s College London on 16 and 17 June 2023. This workshop brought together researchers from philosophy and other humanistic disciplines to discuss humanistically inspired ethical theory.

Schedule

Friday, 16 June (River Room, King’s Building 2nd Floor, King’s College London)

9.00 Light breakfast and coffee

9.30-11.00 Adam Etinson (University of St Andrews), ‘On Falling Short’
Comments by Sophie Côte (New York University)

11.30-13.00 Robert Simpson (University College London), ‘Free Speech Psychodrama’
Comments by Sanford Diehl (New York University)

13.00-14.30 Lunch

14.30-16.00 Vid Simoniti (University of Liverpool), ‘Artworks as Arguments Without Conclusions’
Comments by Jacob McNulty (University College London/Yale University)

16.00 Coffee break

16.30-18.00 Vida Yao (Rice University/University of California, Los Angeles), ‘The Avoidance of Intimacy: A Reorientation in the Moral Philosophy of Love’
Comments by Sarah Fine (University of Cambridge)

18.30 Dinner (Anatomy Museum, King’s Building 6th Floor, King’s College London)

Saturday, 17 June (River Room, King’s Building 2nd Floor, King’s College London)

9.00 Light breakfast and coffee

9.30-11.00 Samuel Reis-Dennis (Rice University), ‘Guilt: The Debt and the Stain’
Comments by Steven Klein (King’s College London)

11.30-13.00 Francey Russell (Barnard College, Columbia University), ‘“A Wedge-Shaped Core of Darkness”’
Comments by Sarah Buss (University of Michigan)

13.00-14.30 Lunch

14.30-16.00 Kyla Ebels-Duggan (Northwestern University), ‘More than Moore: Murdoch and Korsgaard on Value’
Comments by Louise Hanson (University of Oxford)

16.00 Coffee break

16.30-18.00 Olúfẹ́mi O Táíwò (Georgetown University), ‘Security, Freedom, and Arguments from Scale’
Comments by Jonathan Gingerich (King’s College London) or Matthew Congdon (Vanderbilt University)

19.30 Dinner (Haxell’s Restaurant and Bar, Ground Floor, Strand Palace Hotel)

Acknowledgements

The workshop is co-organised by Daniela Dover (University of Oxford), Adam Etinson (University of St Andrews), and Jonathan Gingerich (King’s College London) and generously sponsored by the King’s College London Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy and Law; the Dickson Poon School of Law Collaborative Engagement Fund; the King’s College London Department of Political Economy Political Theory Research Group, the King’s College London Department of Philosophy, and the Centre for Philosophy and Art. It is inspired by workshops in humanistic ethics organised by Vida Yao.