Dimensions of Normativity

Conference

21-23 June 2012

Frankfurt am Main

Organisers: Stefan Gosepath, Martin Seel, Marcus Willaschek


Topic.
There are various 'kinds' or 'dimensions' of normativity, each with its specific characteristics, such as moral, pragmatic, legal, epistemic and aesthetic normativity as well as mental normativity and the normativity of logic and of meaning. What are the differences and commonalities between these dimensions of normativity? Can they come into conflict with one another? Are they all instances of an overarching kind or structure? These are the questions we want to discuss at our conference. Hence, each speaker is invited to focus on a specific dimension of normativity, but also to address questions concerning its relation to other dimensions and to 'normativity' as an overarching structure (if such a thing exists).

Schedule:
Thursday, Casino 1.801

Normativity in the Plurality of its Types

13:00-14:30
Ralph Wedgwood (University of Southern California): Objective and Subjective 'Ought'
Comment: Stefan Gosepath (Frankfurt)

Moral, Ethical, and/or Prudential Normativity I

14:30-16:00
Holmer Steinfath (Göttingen): The Normative Authority of Social Morality
Comments: Martin Seel (Frankfurt)

16:30-18:00
Jonathan Dancy (University of Reading, University of Texas at Austin): Degrees of Rightness
Comments: Barbara Merker (Frankfurt)

Friday, Casino 1.811

Epistemic Normativity

9:00-10:30
Duncan Pritchard (Edingburgh), Truth as the Fundamental Epistemic Good
Comments: Marcus Willaschek (Frankfurt)

Normativity of Logic

11:00-12:30
Hannes Leitgeb (München): Logic and Probability: A Normative Clash?
Comments: Elke Brendel (Bonn)

Linguistic Normativity

14:00-15:30
Hanjo Glock (Zürich), 'Surely some mistake!' A Defence of Semantic Normativity
Comments:  Jasper Liptow (Frankfurt)

Aesthetic Normativity

16:00-17:30
Carlos Pereda (Mexiko City): Art and Normativity
Comments:  Juliane Rebentisch (Offenbach)

Saturday, HZ 10

Moral, Ethical, and/or Prudential Normativity II

9:00-10:30
Sabine Döring (Tübingen): Akrasia, Emotions, and the Normativity of Rationality
Comments: Andreas Maier (Frankfurt)

11:00-12:30
Monika Betzler (Bern): The Normative Structure of Personal Projects
Comments: Achim Vesper (Frankfurt)

14:00-15:30
Rainer Forst (Frankfurt): A Critical Theory of Normativity
Comments: Ulrike Heuer (Leeds)

Legal Normativity

16:00-17:30
Joseph Raz (Oxford/New York): Normative Dimensions: Law and Beyond
Comments:  Samantha Besson (Fribourg)