Workshop

The Ethics of Living


June 2 to 3, 2014, Historische Sternwarte


In January 2014, the Lichtenberg-Kolleg started a new research group of junior and senior fellows. The research focus of the group is The Ethics of Living: Questions of Justice, Poverty, Life and Death in the Human and Natural Sciences. The core of the 'Ethics' group consists of four Junior Fellows who do research in the following areas:

  • Franziska Dübgen: Transformative Justice
  • Mohamed Lachhab: Die Auseinandersetzung mit der Gerechtigkeit in der Frankfurter Schule von Horkheimer bis Rainer Forst
  • Sheela Saravanan: Individual Expectations of Children in Germany and India in the context of prenatal diagnosis and selective abortions
  • Mark Schweda: Introducing Life Course Perspectives to Philosophical and Applied Ethics

The Göttingen group of associated senior fellows includes (in alphabetic order)
Gunnar Duttge (Law), Martina Gerken (Ecology of Livestock Production), Stephan Klasen (Development Economics), Rainer Marggraf (Environmental and Resource Economics), Walter Reese-Schäfer (Politics), Holmer Steinfath (Philosophy), and Claudia Wiesemann (Medical Ethics and History of Medicine).

In order to assess the state of the art in the rich variety of research themes that the Ethics research group will explore in the coming one and a half years, the Lichtenberg-Kolleg organizes a two-day workshop. Seven international invited speakers will give lectures on topics out of their research areas:

  • Stefan Gosepath, Berlin
  • Søren Holm, Manchester
  • Bernd Ladwig, Berlin
  • Mechthild Nagel, SUNY Cortland
  • Thomas Pogge, Yale
  • Sanjay Reddy, New York
  • Frederick Toates, Milton Keynes

Aim of the workshop is to look for and engage with new approaches to these fields.



Program


Monday, 2nd June 2014

09:30-09:45 Registration

09:45-10:00 Welcome Greetings of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg

10:00-11:00 Thomas Pogge (New Haven): Responsibility for Injustice
Moderation: Martin van Gelderen

11:00-11:30 Break

11:30-12:30 Sanjay Reddy (New York): Fact and Value, Living Standards, Poverty and Inequality
Moderation: Holmer Steinfath

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Stephan Gosepath (Berlin): On the (Re)construction and basic concepts of the morality of equal respect
Moderation: Stephan Klasen

15:00-16:00 Mechthild Nagel (Cortland): Ubuntu and Criminal Justice Ethics: A Path towards Transformative Justice
Moderation: Franziska Dübgen

16:00-16:30 Break

16:30-17:30 Bernd Ladwig (Berlin): Moral Justifications for the Prohibition of Killing
Moderation: Walter-Reese Schäfer

19:30 Dinner



Tuesday, 3rd June 2014

10:00-11:00 Søren Holm (Manchester): Old Age, Ageing and Bioethics
Moderation: Claudia Wiesemann

11:00-11:30 Break

11:30-12:30 Frederick Toates (Milton Keynes): A biopsychological perspective
Moderation: Martina Gerken

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Common Discussion