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Faculty of Law Lehrstuhl Summers

Debating Mind and Rights

Programme

Thursday, 6 June 2024, Kantonsschulstrasse 3, 8001 Zürich, KAB G-01

09.15 - 09.40 Tea / Coffee
09.40 - 10.00 Introduction — Thomas Gächter / Matthias Mahlmann / Sarah Summers
  Theme 1: Concept and History / Chair: Christoph Graber
10.00 - 12.00

Concept and History

Christopher McCrudden, Introduction to Human Rights Histories
Commentator: András Sájo

Benjamin Straumann, Justice Towards the Lowliest: A Conceptual Matrix for Human Rights in Cicero?
Commentator: Ulrike Babusiaux

12.00 - 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)

Adam Etinson, The Lure of Minimalism

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, Kantonsschulstrasse 3, 8001 Zürich, KAB G-01

08.30 - 09.00 Coffee
  Theme 3: Rights and Moral Cognition / Chair: András Sájo
09.00 - 10.40

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

10.40 - 11.00 Tea / Coffee
11.00 - 12.40

Rights and Moral Cognition (Part II)

John Mikhail, Mind, Rights, and Wrongs
Commentator: Matthias Mahlmann

Peter G. Kirchschläger, The Justification of Human Rights in Mind and Rights
Commentator: Ryan Yussuf

12.40 - 14.00 Lunch
  Rights and Moral Congition (cont.) / Chair: Stephen Morse
14.00 - 15.40

Rights and Moral Cognition (Part III)

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

Pascal Meier, The Is-Ought Distinction: Do Psychological Facts matter for Normative Questions?

15.40 - 16.00 Tea / Coffee
16.00 - 17.00

Rights and Moral Cognition (Part IV)

Shaun Nichols, Tribalism and Human Rights (zoom)
Commentator: Konrad Ksiazek

17.00 Closing Thoughts — Matthias Mahlmann
19.00 Dinner (Restaurant Neumarkt)