“Kant in Practice” – Centre for Ethics Workshop (Day 1)

This is Day 1 of a hybrid two day conference presented by the University of Toronto's Centre for Ethics on the theme of "Kant in Practice". Talks will also be streamed online with live chat.

The Conference Schedule

DAY 1 – Tuesday, May 19

• 14.00-15.30 — Lucy Allais (Johns Hopkins University) – "Freedom and Practical Reason"
• 16.00-17.30 — Arthur Ripstein (University of Toronto) — "System, Progress and Kant’s Four Questions"

DAY 2 – Wednesday, May 20

• 9.30-11.00 — Sergio Tenenbaum (University of Toronto) – "Virtuous Action and Practical Cognition: Kant Against Contemporary Conceptions of Moral Worth"
• 11.30-13.00 — Garrath Williams (Lancaster University) – "The Groundwork Lays the Ground for Right"
• 14.00-15.30 — Alice Pinheiro Walla (McMaster University) – "Legal Equality and Social Inequality: Insights from Kant’s Doctrine of Right"

The talks will also be streamed online with live chat here (Day 1). To attend in person, please email Garrath (g.d.williams@lancaster.ac.uk) to register and receive updates.

About the Centre for Ethics (http://ethics.utoronto.ca):

The Centre for Ethics is an interdisciplinary centre aimed at advancing research and teaching in the field of ethics, broadly defined. The Centre seeks to bring together the theoretical and practical knowledge of diverse scholars, students, public servants and social leaders in order to increase understanding of the ethical dimensions of individual, social, and political life.

In pursuit of its interdisciplinary mission, the Centre fosters lines of inquiry such as (1) foundations of ethics, which encompasses the history of ethics and core concepts in the philosophical study of ethics; (2) ethics in action, which relates theory to practice in key domains of social life, including bioethics, business ethics, and ethics in the public sphere; and (3) ethics in translation, which draws upon the rich multiculturalism of the City of Toronto and addresses the ethics of multicultural societies, ethical discourse across religious and cultural boundaries, and the ethics of international society.

The Ethics of A.I. Lab at the Centre For Ethics recently appeared on a list of 10 organizations leading the way in ethical A.I.: https://ocean.sagepub.com/blog/10-organizations-leading-the-way-in-ethical-ai