The Enemy of the Good. Towards a Theory of Moral Progress

Talks (selection)

2023

Blunden, Charlie, and Paul Rehren. “Doing empirical philosophy. Two anecdotes and some general lessons.” Presented at Empirical Methods and Philosophy, Utrecht University, May 25.

Kudlek, Karolina. “Biomedical enhancement of morality as a path to moral progress?” Presented at the Colloquia of the Ethics and Philosophy of Technology Section, TU Delft, May 10.

———. “Is there anything wrong with biomedically assisted moral progress?” Presented at Moral Progress, Georgia State University, March 23-24, 2023.

2022

Blunden, Charlie. “There Is Some Alternative: Conventionality, Status-Quo Bias, and Moral Progress.” Presented at the History of Philosophy Colloquium, Utrecht University, February 7.

Eriksen, Cecilie. “Moralske Revolutioner.” [Moral Revolutions.] Folkeuniversitetet in Aarhus, March 3.

———. “Can AI disrupt a moral paradigm? A Case from the Danish Public Sector.” Presented at Machines of Change: Robots, AI and Value Change, Delft University of Technology, February 3.

Rehren, Paul. “Grow legs before you run: Moral reasoning and moral progress.” Presented at Conceptual Engineering, Experimental Methods and Politically Correct Language, University of Zurich, July 4.

2021

Blunden, Charlie. “Brace Yourself: Can We Improve the Cognitive Environment of Democratic Politics?” Presented at the Amsterdam Graduate Conference in Political Theory, University of Amsterdam, December 6.

———. “Brace Yourself: Can We Improve the Cognitive Environment of Democratic Politics?” Presented at the OZSW Annual Conference 2021 (online), December 3.

Blunden, Charlie, and Paul Rehren. “How Do We Know That It’s Moral Progress?” Presented at the OZSW Annual Conference 2021 (online), December 3.

Eriksen, Cecilie. “Technology as Agent of Moral Revolutions? AI and the Danish Legal System”, Presented at the Society for Philosophy and Technology 2021 conference, June 30.

Rehren, Paul. “How Stable Are Moral Values?” Presented at the 28th Conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (online), September 1.

Sauer, Hanno. “Criteria of Moral Progress.” Presented at Moral progress and disagreement: Evolutionary perspectives, Sapienza Università di Roma, December 2.

———. “Kriterien moralischen Fortschritts.” [Criteria of Moral Progress.] University of Bayreuth.

———. “Ethics and Intuitions.” University of Cologne, February 23.

———. “Fortschritt ohne Konvergenz.” [Progress without Convergence.] TU Dresden, January 15.

2020

Blunden, Charlie, Paul Rehren, and Hanno Sauer. “How Do We Know If It’s Moral Progress?” Presented at the Utrecht Practical Philosophy Colloquium (online), June 8.

Klenk, Michael, and Hanno Sauer. “Moral Progress and Cognitive Control.” Tilburg University, October 16.

Rehren, Paul. “How stable are moral beliefs over time?” Presented at Philosophical Moral Psychology: An International Meeting of Classic and Empirically Informed Philosophy (online), July 9.

———. “How stable are moral beliefs about sacrificial dilemmas over time?” Presented at the European Online Conference in Experimental Philosophy (online), June 21.

2019

Sauer, Hanno. “Mechanisms of Moral Evolution: What Drives Moral Progress?” Presented at the FS Philosophy Forum, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, December 11.

———. “How To Think About Moral Progress.” University of Hamburg, Dec 6-7.

———. “Is Moral Progress Inevitable?” Utrecht University, April 7.

———. “Der Feind des Guten. Gibt es Grenzen moralischen Fortschritts?” [The Enemy of the Good. Are There Limits to Moral Progress?] University of Potsdam, January 7.