Donnerstag, 30. September 2021, 10:00 - 18:00 iCal

P&E Conference Vienna 2021

Responsibility and Cooperation in Times of Uncertainty

Sky Lounge
Oskar-Morgenstern Platz 1 , 1090 Wien Wien

Konferenz


Weitere Termine

Freitag, 01. Oktober 2021, 10:00 - 17:30

Our world has always been uncertain but in recent history complexity and interdependence have become its major features. International challenges such as the Covid-19 crisis, climate change, and effects of globalisation raise central questions about cooperation and responsibility and call for an interdisciplinary approach in tackling them.

 

Ever since the global financial crisis of 2008 it has become apparent that a purely economic perspective is inadequate to anticipate and meaningfully incorporate the relevant causal mechanisms of the present challenges. Climate change and the consequences of globalisation have come to the forefront of economic, political, and moral debates. One common feature of these complex and uncertain scenarios is that we cannot solve the problems at hand alone. Instead, we have to cooperate as individuals and collectives, despite putatively conflicting interests. Yet, cooperation requires reciprocal trust. How can mutual trust and cooperation prevail in such scenarios, where outcomes are uncertain? Do we have a responsibility to cooperate under such uncertain conditions? And who is responsible for the decisions made through collective action? Do our capabilities and resources have an influence on our obligations?

 

Philosophy and Economics (P&E) is dedicated to finding answers to these questions through the interdisciplinary analysis of concepts such as cooperation, uncertainty and responsibility. While philosophy provides analytical frameworks and theoretical concepts crucial for comprehensive engagement with said problems, economics enables researchers to formalize and quantitatively study them. However, it is the association of the two that can yield the most insightful and innovative results.

 

Establishing a dialogue between philosophy and economics, students and staff of the P&E Programme at the University of Vienna will host a conference that will tackle these issues. On the 30th of September and the 1st of October 2021, Vienna will be the site where experts, academics, and students will contribute to this dialogue. Be one of them – join us!

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Veranstalter

MA programme P&E , Faculty of Philosophy, University of Vienna


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Kontakt

P&E Conference Team
Institut für Philosophie
+43-1-4277-46184
pe-conference.philosophy@univie.ac.at