Wednesday, 20 September 2023

All times are in local time (UTC +2, CEST, Central European Summer Time)

 

09:30–09:40 Opening of the conference

 

09:40–10:40 Plenary Lecture

THOMAS DOUGLAS, Oxford University, UK

Mental Interference and Persuasive Digital Technologies

 

10:40–10:50 Coffee break

 

10:50–11:50 Session I

KAROLINA KUDLEK, Utrecht University, Netherland

Moral Progress and Moral Bioenhancement: Do Means Matter Morally?

 

MICHIEL DE PROOST, Ghent University, Belgium

The Metaethical Turn in Biomedical Ethics Mediated by Disruptive Innovation

 

11:50–12:00 Coffee break

 

12:00–13:00 Session II

JORIS GRAFF, Utrecht University, Netherland

Moral Sensitivity and the Limits of Artificial Moral Agents

 

ANDREA BERBER, University of Belgrade, Serbia

The Principled Approach to AI Ethics: How to Handle a Conflict of Basic Principles Governing AI Development

 

13:00–14:40 Lunch break

 

14:40–15:40 Session III

RACHEL KATZ, University of Toronto, Canada

Computing and Counselling: Trust vs Reliance in AI Psychotherapy

 

NINOSLAV KRIŽIĆ, Independent scholar, Croatia

Existentially Grounded Anti-Natalism: Answering the Questions of Practicality and Authority

 

15:40–15:50 Coffee break

 

15:50–16:50 Session IV

AMIT PUNDIK, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Predictive Evidence in Criminal Trials: Why Criminal Law Should Treat Us as Having Unpredictable Freedom

 

MICHAEL GREGORY, University of Edinburgh, UK

Realizing the Rule of Law? Rule by Automation and Human Discretion

 

 

Thursday, 21 September 2023

9:30–10.30 Session V

FRANCESCO ALLEGRI, University of Siena, Italy

The Moral Status of the Human Fetus: A Defence of a Gradualist Approach

 

JAMES MAHON, CUNY, USA

Thomson and Indecent Abortions

 

10:30–10:40 Coffee break

 

10.40–11:40 Session VI

HÉLOÏSE MICHELON, Université Catholique de Lille, France

The Non-Identity Problem and Thalidomide Regulation: A Case Study from France

 

DENNIS LUNT, Bemidji State University, USA

Evaluating Moral Distress in Rural Bioethics Settings

 

11:40–11:50 Coffee break

 

11:50–12:50 Session VII

CIAN BRENNAN, University of Glasgow, UK

Primed Cognitive Enhancement and the Value of Achievements: A Practical Proposal

 

KYLE VAN OOSTERUM, Oxford University, UK

The Ethics of Enhancement and the Utility Monster Objection

 

12:50–14:30 Lunch break

 

14:30–15:30 Session VIII

FRIDERIK KLAMPFER, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Psychiatric Euthanasia: Is Our Moral Discomfort Justified?

 

TAMARA CRNKO, University of Rijeka, Croatia

Self-determination, Immigration and Democracy

 

15:30–15:40 Coffee break

 

15:40–16:40 Session IX

TESS JOHNSON & CHLOE ROMANIS, Oxford University, UK

The Relationship between Speculation and Translation in Bioethics: Methods and Methodologies

 

EMILY SLOME, University of Colorado, USA

Moral Testimony Pessimism and Applied Ethics

 

Friday, 22 September 2023

09:30–10:30 Plenary Lecture

 

FRANCESCA MINERVA, University of Milan, Italy

The Importance of Controversial Ideas and Academic Freedom

 

10:30–10:40 Coffee break

 

10:40–11:40 Session X

RIANA POPAT, University of Nottingham, UK

Can the Autistic Objection be applied to Moral Hermeneutic Fictionalism? How do Autistic People Understand Morality?

 

IVA MARTINIĆ & ELVIO BACCARINI, University of Rijeka, Croatia

Public Justification and Depression

 

11:40-11:50 Coffee break

 

11:50-12:50 Session XI

IVAN CEROVAC & KRISTINA LEKIĆ BARUNČIĆ, University of Rijeka, Croatia

Disabilities, Epistemic Injustice, and Deliberative Democracy: The Role of Minority Minds in Collective Deliberation

 

KRITIKA MAHESHWARI & JEF DELVAUX, TU Delft, Netherland & University of York, UK

When Proud Boys come for Fred Perry: Corporate Duty to Counterjack Hatejacking

 

12:50–14:30 Lunch break

 

14:30–15:30 Session XII

CHRISTOPH MERDES, Jagiellonian University, Poland

Fairness or Accuracy? A Bayesian Inquiry Into the Ethics of Attention

 

CONNOR LEAK, University of Birmingham, UK

A Subjective Approach to the Badness of Death

 

20:00 Conference dinner