Conference: "Rethinking Tolerance"
It is a declared objective of all western democracies to foster a thriving communal life of human beings from different social milieus and with various ethnical, ideological, political or cultural backgrounds. While it seems impossible to avoid conflict in such a pluralistic society, it is part of every liberal approach, and of culture generally – at least since the Age of Enlightenment – to deal with such conflicts and disagreements on the basis of some jointly recognized minimal rules and value commitments. A significant aspect of this cultural heritage is the idea of toleration. Indeed, the idea of tolerance is key, as it answers to a fundamental sociopolitical issue arising directly from the endorsement of cultural diversity: how should we deal with “others” and “otherness” in a civilized and peaceful way?
Keynotes by:
David Heyd (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Sophie Loidolt (TU Darmstadt)
Jann Schlimme (Hannover Medical School)
Program:
Friday 05, October 2018
09:00 – 09:30 Opening
09:30 – 10:30 David Heyd (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
What Toleration is Not?
10:30 – 11:30 Siegfried van Duffel (Nazarbayev University)
The Shape of Tolerance as a Moral Virtue
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break
12:00 – 13:00 Francesco Chiesa (University of Trento)
Respect-based Tolerance and its Limits
13:00 – 14:00 Markus Seethaler (University of Graz)
Tolerance and Moral Disagreement
14:00 – 15:30 Lunch
15:30 – 16:30 Sonja Rinofner (University of Graz)
Tolerance and Ressentiment: Why Tolerance Strikes Us as a Burdened
Virtue
16:30 – 17:30 Aljosa Kravanija (University of Ljubljana)
Toleration as Check on Our Moral Vigilance
17:30 – 18:00 Coffee Break
18:00 – 19:00 Johannes Drerup (University of Koblenz-Landau)
Education of the Emotions, Intolerance and the Politics of Fear
19:30 Evening Reception
Poster presentation: Ingrid Hoegler, Johannes Wagner (University of Graz)
Tolerance Contextualized: Perceptual and Affective Dimensions of a
Balance of Reasons
Saturday 06, October 2018
09:00 – 10:00 Christina Chuang (Nanyang Technological University)
Tolerant behavior and empathy
10:00 – 11:00 Hannah Read (Duke University)
Tolerance and Empathy
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 Giorgi Tskhadaia (Pompeu Fabra University)
Between Reason and Sensorium when Conceptualizing Tolerance
12:30 – 13:30 Jann Schlimme (Hannover Medical School)
Intersubjective resonance – a condition for being tolerant?
13:30 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 16:00 Sophie Loidolt (TU Darmstadt)
Practices of Enlarged Mentality: Tolerance, Otherness, and Plurality
16:00 – 17:00 Harald Stelzer (University of Graz)
‘Let it pass’. Between careless tolerance and committed intolerance