Recent years have seen widespread concerns about the quality of our public moral and civic discourse, especially but not only online. Misinformation, disinformation, epistemic bubbles and echo chambers, increased polarisation, moral grandstanding: all have been claimed to harm the quality of such discourse. Recent philosophical work in this space has included analyses of the pros and cons of moral grandstanding (or ‘virtue-signalling’); informal ‘social punishment’ (e.g. sanctions such as boycotts or online naming and shaming campaigns); and the rise of ‘private censorship’ (e.g. social media deplatforming). How, in such an environment, should we pursue the necessary task of public moral discourse?
Keynote speakers
- Linda Radzik (Texas A&M), Moral Criticism of the Dead
- Brandon Warmke (Florida), Grandstanding and Cancel Culture
Conference dates: 10-12 September 2025
Venue: The historical building of the University of Pardubice, nám. Čs. legií 565, 530 02 Pardubice, Czech Republic, Room 03004.
Attendance is free of charge. Registration is required for both in-person and on-line participation. Please follow this link.
Link for on-line participation: Join MS Teams meeting
For further information please e-mail Alexei Anisin (alexei.anisin@upce.cz).
This conference is hosted under the auspices of the ERC-CZ project “Combatting Self-Righteousness” (grant no. LL2308) led by Professor John Lippitt and generously supported by the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MŠMT).
