[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] TOMORROW: talk by Stephen A. Butterfill on 'Joint Action at the Roots of Ethical Cognition' - Thursday, June 12th 2025- 4pm (CET)

________________________________ From: Fanni Takatsy &lt;TakatsyF(a)ceu.edu&gt; Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2025 1:09 PM To: talks(a)cogsci.ceu.edu (talks(a)cogsci.ceu.edu) &lt;talks(a)cogsci.ceu.edu&gt; Subject: talk by Stephen A. Butterfill on 'Joint Action at the Roots of Ethical Cognition' - Thursday, June 12th 2025- 4pm (CET) Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the following talk<https://events.ceu.edu/2025-06-12/departmental-colloquium-stephen-b… by: Speaker: <https://www.butterfill.com/> Stephen A. Butterfill<https://www.butterfill.com/> (University of Warwick) Time: 4pm (to 6 pm) CET Date: Thursday, 12th June 2025 Venue: D002 (QS Vienna) and Zoom: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/92936053342?pwd=rmn17eP5dgRh6VqhW91t5DE8EYmrXf.1 Meeting ID: 929 3605 3342 Passcode: 154211 Chair: Günther Knoblich Title: Joint Action at the Roots of Ethical Cognition Abstract: Processes likely to be evolutionarily ancient and to appear early in development (perhaps linked to philosophers’ *moral sentiments*) influence adults’ ethical intuitions. What is the best computational description of these processes? The leading answers involve principles. Thus Greene (2015; 2017) models fast processes as operating in accordance with deontological principles such as ‘do not harm.’ On such a view, basic moral processes yield values adaptive in a pre-historic world. This talk defends a speculative alternative, one which involves capacities for joint action and no principles. Joint action is (so the proposal) at the root of ethical cognition in two ways: it enables us to converge on what feels disgusting, bitter, unfitting, or otherwise wrong; and, as I will explain, joint actions enable us to turn these feelings into a form of normative guidance by upholding norm-like patterns of behavior. While full-blown normative attitudes and legal codes are important tools for modern societies, the impossibility of explicitly codifying every useful value indicates that joint-action-based forms of normative guidance are indispensable. *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP to get access to the lecture hall. Best regards, Fanni ------------------------------------------------ FANNI TAKÁTSY Lab Manager/Research Coordinator, Social Mind Center ------------------------------------------------ [cid:42067b17-4991-4d34-9c89-2f5005166125] CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY Quellenstrasse 51. | 1100 Vienna, Austria takatsyf@ceu.edu<mailto:jeneia@ceu.edu> http://socialmind.ceu.edu/ http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/ ------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-subscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-unsubscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu