The talk was presented at The Organic and the Normative conference, taking place in Ljubljana between July 30 and August 1, 2024. Learn more:
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Abstract:
In this presentation, I will argue that while 4E and other biologically inspired currents in philosophy rightly claim that “organisms cast a web of significance on their world” (Di Paolo et al. 2010, p. 39) and therefore each individual “is an ontological center that imbues interactions with the environment with significance they do not have in its absence” (Ibid., p. 47), this is not enough to say that normativity is part of life itself. This is closer to salience, not value or norm. Thus, it refers to a basic non-indifference (positiveness or negativeness) of things or events, taken as a means to preserve individual autonomy. But how do values and norms emerge on this basis? I will sketch an answer, taking norms especially as factors devoted to stabilizing certain complex behavioral strategies of group problem-solving.
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Konrad Werner is a philosopher holding a PhD from Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. Currently serving as an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, he has also been a research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University. Dr. Werner’s research spans various areas, including philosophy of perception, philosophy of mind (enactivism/embodied cognition), theory of institutions, applied ontology, and meta-philosophy. In 2023, he attained his Habilitation in philosophy from the University of Warsaw, Poland.
The conference is part of the “Vital Normativity: Beyond the Is/Ought Divide” project, which is part of the “New Horizons for Science and Religion in Central and Eastern Europe“ initiative organised by the Ian Ramsey Center of the University of Oxford in cooperation with the John Templeton Foundation. The event is also made possible with the kind support of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana.
We are grateful to the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts (ZRC SAZU) for hosting us in their venue.
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