ZAGREB APPLIED ETHICS CONFERENCE 2021:
HARM, INTENTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITY
Zagreb, Croatia | 29 September – 1 October 2021
This conference takes place as a hybrid in-person/online event. Further instructions and access information will be sent to registered participants. Please register via form until September 28, 2021: https://forms.gle/jB9eumSDM5afiSkk8
Please indicate whether you would like to attend in person or online. Please note that places at the venue are limited due to COVID-19 regulations.
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
All times are in local time (UTC +2, CEST, Central European Summer Time)
09:30–09:40 Opening of the conference
09:40–11:00 Plenary lecture
HELEN FROWE, University of Stockholm
But It’s Mine!: The Moral Significance of Owning Harm-Preventing Resource
11:00–11:10 Coffee break
11:10–12:10 Session I
GERALDINE NG, Philosophy Lab CIC
Climate change complicity, moral hopelessness, and a Nietzschean response
KAROLINA KUDLEK, Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb | University of Twente
Moral bioenhancement and the prevention of harm
12:10–12:20 Coffee break
12:20–13:20 Session II
MARIJA PETROVIĆ, University of Belgrade
Towards A Better Understanding of Abortion
MATEJ SUŠNIK, Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb
The Intuition behind the Non-Identity Problem
13:20–15:00 Lunch break
15:00–16:00 Session III
JOSH MUND, Tulane University
Harming Others by Causing Them to Act Wrongly
IVAN CEROVAC, University of Rijeka
Epistemic Democracy, Mill’s Harm Principle and the Legislation on Contagious Diseases
16:00–16:10 Coffee break
16:10–17:10 Session IV
FEMI OMOTOYINBO, Queen’s University Belfast
The Responsibility of Non-combatants in the Face of Excusing Conditions
EZEKIEL VERGARA, Darmouth College
A Philosophical Analysis of the Combatant/Non-Combatant Distinction and Its Implications for Revolutions
17:10–17:20 Coffee break
17:20–18:20 Session V
JONAS HAEG, King’s College
Defensive Entrapment and Manipulation
KIDA LIN, University of Oxford
Harmless Torturers and Liability: A Puzzle, University of Oxford
Thursday, 30 September 2021
9:30–10.30 Session VI
CHRISTINA NICK, University of Leeds
Complicity and the Individual Difference Principle
JACK MADOCK, KU Leuven
Loss of Home: Tragedy of harm and challenge of compensation
10:30–10:40 Coffee break
10.40–11:40 Session VII
SPYRIDON STELIOS, University of Athens
Is a Moral Turing test necessary? Investigating the interconnection between artificial intelligence and ethics
ANA GRGIĆ, Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb
Narrative Identity and the Higher Brain Criterion of Death
11:40–11:50 Coffee break
11:50–12:50 Session VIII
ANTO ČARTOLOVNI, Catholic University of Croatia
Beyond intentionality, the pitfalls and promises of responsibility and liability in medical AI
FRIDERIK KLAMPFER, University of Maribor
Hate Speech: What’s the Harm?
12:50–14:30 Lunch break
14:30–15:30 Session IX
CRAIG AGULE, Rutgers University-Camden
Normative Expectations and Reactive Attitudes
DANIELLA MEEHAN, University of Glasgow
Blameworthy Vices
15:30–15:40 Coffee break
15:40–16:40 Session X
MARIA SEIM, University of Oslo
Collective responsibility and culpable ignorance
SAMUEL KAHN, Indiana University
Frankfurt Cases and Alternate Deontic Categories
16:40–16:50 Coffee break
16:50–17:50 Session XI
IRIS VIDMAR JOVANOVIĆ, University of Rijeka
Can Artists Do any Harm? Morality of Art and the State’s Responsibility Regarding the Art-Related Public Policies and Education
FRANZISKA PAULMANN, University of Kassel
NGOs as moral agents – opportunities and challenges of collective action approaches to problems of global ethics
Friday, 1 October 2021
09:30–10:30 Session XII
CRISTIAN IFTODE & ALEXANDRA ZORILA, University of Bucharest
Neurotechnologies, Narrative Identities, and Relational Authenticity
BRADLEY HILLIER-SMITH, University of Reading
The Harm of a Human Rights Violation
10:30–10:40 Coffee break
10:40–11:40 Session XIII
CONSTANTIN VICĂ & EMILIAN MIHAILOV, University of Bucharest
Is online moral outrage virtuous?
ALEX R. GILLHAM, St. Bonaventure University
Intentionally Escaping Responsibility via the Counterfactual Comparative Account of Harm
11:40-11:50 Coffee break
11:50-13:20 Session XIV
MARKO JURJAKO & MIA BITURAJAC, University of Rijeka
The role of harm in diagnosing mental disorders: An explicationist perspective
MIA BITURAJAC, University of Rijeka
Towards an Account of Harm in Mental Disorders
LUCA MALATESTI & JOHN MCMILLAN, University of Rijeka/University of Otago
The methods of neuroethics: the case of legal responsibility
13:20–15:00 Lunch break
15:00–16:00 Session XV
MARIA HEDLUND & ERIK PERSSON, Lund University
Who should obey the Three Laws of Robotics?
EMMA DORE-HORGAN, University of Oxford
‘If You’re Gonna do it, do it Right- Right?’: An Argument for Beneficence in Neurocorrection
16:00-16:10 Coffee break
16:10-17:10 Session XVI
HAYDEN WILKINSON, University of Oxford
Market harms and market benefits
ERIK PERSSON & MARIA HEDLUND, Lund University
The Trolley Problem and Isaac Asimov’s First Law of Robotics
20:30 Conference dinner