International conference "The Normative Dimension"

The Normative DimensionFsF 2 On 19-20 of June, 2025, the Faculty of Philosophy of Vilnius University will host the international conference The Normative Dimension.

The conference is devoted to clarifying the nature of normativity in core areas of theoretical and practical philosophy, such as philosophy of language, philosophy of action, ethics, and epistemology. The questions to be addressed include (but are not limited) to:

Does linguistic meaning have an essentially normative dimension? Is language governed by rules? Can there be linguistic normativity without rules?
What place do norms occupy in a morality or moral outlook? What is the relationship between norms and values? Can culpability be defined in terms of norms?
Does knowledge or justification depend on norms? What are epistemic norms? Can they be defined instrumentally?
What is the relation between norms and reasons for action? Are action explanations inherently normative? Is normativity a stumbling block for naturalism?

Keynote speakers

Maria Alvarez (King’s College London)
Hans-Johann Glock (University of Zurich)
John Hyman (University College London)
Indrek Reiland (University of Vienna)

Conference programme

June 19, Room 214

10:30 – 10:35	Opening Remarks
10:35 – 11:35	Hans-Johann Glock (University of Zurich) – Are We Alone in the Space of Reasons?
11:35 – 11:45	Coffee Break
11:45 – 12:45	Indrek Reiland (University of Vienna) – Normativity in Mind and Language: A Framework for Studying the Issues
12:45 – 14:15	Lunch Break
14:15 – 14:45	Antonina Jamrozik (University of Warsaw) – Linguistic Normativity, Metasemantics, and Metaphysics of Words
14:45 – 15:15	Aleksi Honkasalo (Tampere University) – Semantic Rules: From No Guidance to No Assessment
15:15 – 15:45	Bartosz Wultański (University of Warsaw) – Semantic Normativity Without Semantic Rules
15:45 – 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 – 16:30	Isabella Bartoli (Oslo University & University of St. Andrews) – What Role Do Non-Epistemic Values Play in the Determination of Meaning?
16:30 – 17:00	Claudia Cavaliere (University of Padova) – Sellars and Wittgenstein on the Normativity of Psychological Self-Ascriptions
17:00 – 17:30	Edoardo Sartore (University of Zurich) – Rules and Norms in On Certainty

June 20, Room 214

10:30 – 11:30	Maria Alvarez (King’s College London) – How Reasons Give Us Choice
11:30 – 11:45	Coffee Break
11:45 – 12:45	John Hyman (University College London) – ‘Ought’ and Obligation
12:45 – 14:15	Lunch Break
14:15 – 14:45	Lisa Bastian (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) – Mapping the Building Blocks of Normativity
14:45 – 15:15	Sergei Talanker (Western Galilee College) – Congruence of Moral Intuitions, Social Norms, and Ethical Principles
15:15 – 15:45	Karol Milczarek (University of Warsaw) – On the Propositional Structure of Reasons for Action and Its Ontological Significance
15:45 – 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 – 16:30	Mykolas Lekevičius (Vilnius University) – Triviality of the Adoption Problem and the Usefulness of Harry’s Case
16:30 – 17:00	Ugur Yilmazel (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) – Normativity in Negligence
17:00 – 17:30	Marija Kudriavceva (University of Geneva) – Testing our Values in Fiction’s Sandbox: a Meta-Norm for Imaginative Resistance

Conference Venue

Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius University, Universiteto street 9, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Organizers

Mindaugas Gilaitis (Vilnius University), Živilė Pabijutaitė (Vilnius University), Paulius Rimkevičius (Vilnius University).