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Date and time: April 30th, 10:00–13:00 (CET)  

​​​​​​​Format: Hybrid

Location: 23.103, Mercè Rodoreda building, Campus Ciutadella

And on Zoom. Please register to obtain the link.

Speakers: 

  • Isidora Stojanovic (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
  • Ophelia Deroy (Ludwig Maximilian University)

​​​​​​Everyone welcome. To register, email [email protected]

Program

10:00–11:10 - Ophelia Deroy

11:10–11:20 - break

11:20–12:30 - Isidora Stojanovic

12:30 - Wrap-up

Abstracts

Ophelia Deroy –  Sharing without joint attention

This talk begins with two familiar cases. In one, we walk through a museum together, pause in front of a painting, and move on. Hours later, I remark, “That figure in the corner was unsettling,” and you immediately understand what I mean, even though neither of us is now looking at the painting. In another, we each encounter the same image on social media, on our own screens, at different times, and read one another’s comments about it. These are cases of thought sharing anchored in perception, yet they do not involve joint attention in any straightforward sense. My first goal in this talk is to show that they are not free-floating, but instead rest on two distinct perceptual capacities that philosophy has largely overlooked: first, the ability to represent perceptual contents as public or private; and second, the capacity for attentional alignment. The second is to suggest that, because these capacities operate automatically, the sharing of perceptual content may be more extended than our individualistic theories assume.

Isidora Stojanovic – Moral thought sharing in action: new insights into the subjectivity of morality, and how it impacts joint action

Whether morality may be subjective and, if so, how exactly, are long standing questions in metaethics. Somewhat surprisingly, though, the question of how people who endorse diverging moral norms (or standards) manage to coordinate their actions has been fairly neglected, both by partisans of subjectivist views and by their opponents. In this talk, I will argue that the nature of morality is a pressing issue for a proper understanding of thought sharing in action. I will start with a hitherto neglected phenomenon, namely, that the degree of subjectivity may vary depending on whether we are looking at positive vs. negative moral actions (eg donating to charity vs. stealing). I will present a series of ongoing experimental studies that, together with Michelle Stankovic (UPF) and Morgan Moyer (UPF) we have conducted to test this hypothesis. While the results that we have obtained so far are inconclusive, I will discuss the potential implications of this asymmetry. I will then propose further studies that look specifically at moral dilemmas for joint action, and discuss their timeliness and relevance.