Debating Mind and Rights

Programme

Thursday, 6 June 2024

08.30 - 09.00	Introduction — Thomas Gächter / Matthias Mahlmann / Sarah Summers
	Theme 1: Concept and History / Chair: Christoph Graber
09.00 - 10.40	Concept and History (Part I) Steven L.B. Jensen, Human Rights Origins - or a History in the Making Commentar: Christopher McCrudden Benjamin Straumann, Justice Towards the Lowliest: A Conceptual Matrix for Human Rights in Cicero? Commentator: Ulrike Babusiaux
10.40 - 11.00	Tea / Coffee
11.00 - 11.50	Concept and History (Part II) Lutz Wingert, Rights as an Essentially Contested Concept Commentator: András Sájo
11.50 - 13.00	Lunch
	Theme 2: Justification / Chair: Christopher McCrudden
13.00 - 14.40	Justification (Part I) Elisabeth Holzleithner, The Justification of Human Rights and the Critique of Rights Commentator: Stephen Morse Allen Buchanan, The Universality of Rights (zoom) Commentator: Anne Kühler
14.40 - 15.00	Tea / Coffee
15.00 - 16.40	Justification (Part II) Klaus Günther, Human Rights, Agency, and (Normative) Power - Why it is Necessary? Commentator: Adam Etinson Emilios Christodoulidis, Solidarity as Ground for the Justification of Human Rights Commentator: Raffaela Kunz
16.40 - 17.00	Tea / Coffee
	Excursus: Introduction to Theme 3 / Chair: Matthias Mahlmann
17.00 - 18.00	Theories of the Mind: The View from Linguistics Caterina Donati, Theories of the Mind. The View from Linguistics Commentator: Stefano Statunato
19.00	Dinner (Restaurant uniTurm)

Friday, 7 June 2024

08.00	Coffee
	Theme 3: Rights and Moral Cognition / Chair: András Sájo
08.30 - 10.10	Rights and Moral Cognition (Part I) Elisabeth Spelke, Does Core Knowledge Underlie Human Moral Intuitions? Commentator: John Mikhail Joshua May, Are Rights a Rationalization? Commentator: Levin Güver
10.10 - 10.30	Tea / Coffee
10.30 - 12.50	Rights and Moral Cognition (Part II) Michael Tomasello, Young Children's First Understanding of Commitments and Obligations Commentator: Caterina Donati Markus Kneer, A Shared Faculty of Moral Cognition: Cross-Cultural Data Commentator: Moritz Walter Peter G. Kirchschläger, The Justification of Human Rights in Mind and Rights Commentator: Ryan Yussuf
12.50 - 14.00	Lunch
	Rights and Moral Congition (cont.) / Chair: Stephen Morse
14.00 - 15.40	Rights and Moral Cognition (Part III) Nicholas Elwyn Allot, Universal Moral Grammar, How seriously can we take the analogy? Commentator: Pascal Meier Vincent Carchidi, The Foundations of the Mentalist Theory and the Statistical Machine Learning Challenge: Comments on Matthias Mahlmann's Mind and Rights Commentator: Tilmann Altwicker
15.40 - 16.00	Tea / Coffee
16.00 - 17.40	Rights and Moral Cognition (Part IV) John Mikhail, Mind, Rights, and Wrongs Commentator: Sarah Summers Shaun Nichols, Tribalism and Human Rights (zoom) Commentator: Konrad Ksiazek
17.40	Closing Thoughts — Matthias Mahlmann