[PHILOS-L] Interdisciplinary Workshop on PRAISE: THE MORAL, THE PRUDENTIAL, THE OVERLOOKED

[Pauline Maresi]

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Dear all, 

the Practical Philosophy Department of the University of Zurich is happy to invite you to an upcoming hybrid workshop on Praise. All welcome!

Title: PRAISE: THE MORAL, THE PRUDENTIAL, THE OVERLOOKED
An Interdisciplinary Workshop

Date: Wednesday, 27th May, 10.30 AM to Thursday, 28th May, 15.30 PM

zoom link: https://uzh.zoom.us/j/63533647504?pwd=dDV2hCWb1rq4bcIOQi7MtG94sVQna8.1

Meeting-ID: 635 3364 7504 
Kenncode: 481443

Location: Zollikerstrasse 115, Kutscherhaus des Ethikzentrums, ZOB

Program:

Wednesday 27 May, 2026
10:30 – 11:30 David Shoemaker: Pluralistic praise
11:45 – 12:45 Zoë Johnson King: Grading people on a curve
12:45 – 14:15 Lunch
14:15 – 15:15 Pascale Willemsen & Pauline Kinzler: When the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, donʼt blame the tree
15:30 – 16:30 Leonhard Menges: Self-praise
16:45 – 17:45 Hans Alves: Few ways to succeed, many ways to fail - valence asymmetries in performance

Thursday 28 May, 2026
09:30 – 10:30 Somogy Varga: A matter of standing; praise and blame with respect to health
10:45 – 11:45 Nikolai Shurakov: Who are you to give me health advice?
12:00 – 13:00 Jules Holroyd: Appraisive things
13:00 – 14:15 Lunch
14:15 – 15:15 Lucien Baumgartner: Expressions of praise: a pragmatic approach
15:30 – 16:30 Niels de Haan: Group agents and the sincerity condition on blame and praise

See https://www.philosophie.uzh.ch/de/seminar/news/agenda.html?event=67198 for further information.

Organizer: Pascale Willemsen
Co-organizers: Lucien Baumgartner & Nikolai Shurakov

Contact:

Jearlyn Schenkel (primary contact): jearlynlesl...@uzh.ch
Pascale Willemsen: pascale....@philos.uzh.ch

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