Duties to Oneself: Moral, Social and Political Dimensions
Pablo Hubacher Haerle and Janis Schaab
University Place 5.211 (hybrid)
Recent years have seen a resurgence of philosophical interest in duties to oneself. However, much of the recent literature has centered on fairly abstract moral considerations: whether the notion of a duty to oneself is coherent, whether we have such duties at all, how they differ from mere prudential imperatives, etc. In contrast, relatively little attention has been paid to the significance of duties to oneself for the social and political domain. Duties to ourselves could shape what states and societies owe their members, as well as shaping what members owe to the state and to one another. This workshop would convene scholars to investigate these largely unexplored relationships between self-regarding duties and the social and political domains.
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Wednesday, 7th September
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11:00-12:30
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Registration
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12:30-13:30
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Lunch
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13:30-14:00
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Welcome Speech
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14:00-16:00
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Session 1
Chair: Pablo Hubacher Haerle
Agnès Baehni (Université de Genève): Keep Calm and Know Thyself
Muriel Leuenberger (University of Oxford): Duty to Self-Track? Personal Information Technology and the Duty of Self-Knowledge
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16:00-16:30
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Tea and Coffee Break (optional)
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16:30-17:30
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Session 1 (continued)
Chair: Janis Schaab
Daniel Muñoz (online) (UNC Chapel Hill): Liberal Paternalism: Three Problems of Perspective
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17:45-19:00
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Wine Reception
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19:30
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Conference Dinner
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Thursday, 8th September
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9:30-11:30
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Session 2
Chair: Janis Schaab
Michael Cholbi (University of Edinburgh): Voting and Duties to Self
Daniel Koltonski (University of Delaware): Exploitation and the Duty to Resist Being Unfairly Taken Advantage Of
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11:30-12:00
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Tea and Coffee Break (optional)
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12:00-13:00
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Session 2 (continued)
Chair: Jordan McKenzie
Pablo Hubacher Haerle (University of Cambridge): Against Self-Knowledge
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13:00-14:00
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Lunch
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14:00-16:00
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Session 3
Chair: Janis Schaab
Ankur Ranjan (IIT Madras): Arendt on Thinking, Conscience and the Political
Jordan MacKenzie (Virginia Tech): Self-Distrust, Self-Deception, and What Oppressed Agents Epistemically Owe to Themselves
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16:00-16:30
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Tea and Coffee Break (optional)
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16:30-17:30
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Session 3 (continued)
Chair: Agnès Baehni
Ashwini Vasanthakumar (online) (Queen’s University Ontario): Victims’ Duties to Resist their Oppression: Arguments from Self-Respect
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Friday, 9th September
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9:30-11:30
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Session 4
Chair: Michael Cholbi
Ajinkya Deshmukh (University of Manchester): Conceptual Sovereignty
H. Bondurant (University of Richmond): Self-Knowing as An Epistemic Virtue
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11:30-12:00
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Tea and Coffee Break (optional)
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12:00-13:00
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Session 4 (continued)
Chair: Ankur Ranjan
Marcus Arvan (online) (University of Tampa): Duties to be Fair to Oneself and to Others: A Unified Moral-Prudential Theory
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13:00-14:00
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Lunch
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14:00-16:00
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Session 5
Chair: Pablo Hubacher Haerle
Dafne De Vita (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg): Adorno’s Appropriation of Kant’s Duty to Self-Knowledge and Its Political Role Today
Janis Schaab (Humboldt-University Berlin): Binding Oneself to Oneself
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16:00-16:30
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Tea and Coffee Break (optional)
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16:30-17:30
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Session 5 (continued)
CANCELLED
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17:30
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End of Conference
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