Conference
Culture and the Mind: NORMS AND MORAL PSYCHOLOGY
17-19 September 2010
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)
Sacred values in the service of good consequences Abstract
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 (see map — opens in a new window).
If you need childcare in order to attend the conference, then we are happy to help you try to arrange this. For more information, please contact Suilin Lavelle: j.lavelle@shef.ac.uk
