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Conference Announcement: Norms & Moral Psychology at Sheffield

By Lawrence Solum

About the Conference
This interdisciplinary conference is the second of three conferences associated with the AHRC Culture and the Mind project. The conference brings together a range of leading scholars working on cross cultural aspects of the representation and acquisition of norms and moral principles, and their role in the lives of communities around the world. The conference will explore what light an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective can shed on such topics as the nature of norms, the character of moral emotions, the role of sentiment in moral judgment, the role of reason in moral judgment, and the origin of morals.

Speakers
Renée Baillargeon (Psychology, University of Illinois Champagne-Urbana)
Early moral reasoning about interactions between ingroup and outgroup agents Abstract

Will Bennis (Psychology, Northwestern University)
TBA

Fiery Cushman (Psychology, Harvard University)
Two functions of morality Abstract

Urs Fischbacher (Economics, University of Konstanz)
Lies in disguise ? an experimental study on cheating Abstract

Joshua Greene (Psychology, Harvard University)
Of trolleys and cheaters: automatic and controlled processes in moral judgement Abstract

Corey Maley & Gilbert Harman (Philosophy, Princeton University)
Guilt and shame in philosophy and psychology Abstract

John Mikhail (Law and Philosophy, Georgetown University)
Moral grammar: the mind's hidden rules of moral judgment Abstract

Sonya Sachdeva (Psychology, Northwestern University)
The norm of self-sacrifice Abstract

Liane Young (Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT)
The role of intent across distinct moral domains Abstract

The conference will take place at the Humanities Research Institute (34 Gell Street, Sheffield S3 7QW) at the University of Sheffield.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on September 15, 2010 (boomark / email).