“Intercultural Understanding: Wittgensteinian Approaches

at the Crossroads of Epistemology and Ethics”

28th & 29th January 2020

Faculty of Philosophy, University of Valencia, Avda. Blasco Ibáñez 30, 46010 Valencia

TUESDAY 28TH JANUARY – Room: Aula Multimedia

09:00 Registration

09:15 Welcome

09:30 – 10:30 Chon Tejedor (University of Valencia, Spain) “Justice, Entitlement and the
Conditions for Intercultural Understanding.”

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 –12:00 Open Session:

o Eran Guter (The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Israel) “Aspect Blindness and the
Courage to See.”
o Britt Harrison (University of York, United Kingdom): “Brideshead Revisited: Intercultural
Understanding and/as Hinge Epistemology.”

12:00 – 12:15 Coffee break

12:15 – 13:15 Constantine Sandis (University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom) “Foreign

Thoughts and Conceptual Enlightenment.”

13:15 – 14:45 Lunch: Bar Mestalla, C/ Poeta Micer Mascó 25, 4010 Valencia.

14:45 – 15:45 Witold Jacorzynski (CIESAS, Mexico) “The Challenge of Interculturalism:

Wittgenstein’s Approach.”

15:45 – 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – 17:00 Sofia Miguens (Universidade do Porto, Portugal): “Truth in Ethics and
Intercultural Understanding: Cora Diamond on a dispute between Bernard Williams and David
Wiggins.”

17:00 – 17:15 Coffee break

17:15 – 18:30 Postgraduate Session:

o Alice Morelli (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy) “Seeing Differently, Behaving
Differently: Intercultural Understanding between Ethics and Aesthetics.”
o Andrea Aversa & Giovanni Gigliotti (University of Calabria, Italy) “Wittgensteinian
Approaches to Rationality and Intercultural Conflict”
20:30 Dinner: NomÏt, Gran Via del Marqués del Túria 58, 46005 Valencia.

WEDNESDAY 29TH JANUARY – Morning: Aula Multimedia / Afternoon: F11

09:30 – 10:30 Leo K. C. Cheung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong):
“Wittgenstein, Xunzi and the Possibility of Intercultural Understanding.”

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 –12:00 Open Session:

o Gilad Nir (University of Leipzig, Germany) “Ethical Truth, Ethical Nonsense and Ethical
Transformation.”
o Neil O’Hara (University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom): “Local Moral Certainty and
the Possibility of Cross-Cultural Understanding.”

12:00 – 12:15 Coffee break

12:15 – 13:15 Gorazd Andrejč (University of Gröningen, Netherlands): “The Politics of

Interreligious Understanding and Its Sources of Normativity.”

13:15 – 14:45 Lunch: Bar Mestalla, C/ Poeta Micer Mascó 25, 4010 Valencia.

14:45 – 15:45 Meena Dhanda (University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom) “Caste

Identity, Prejudice and Anti-Casteism.”

15:45 – 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – 17:00 Carla Carmona (University of Sevilla, Spain) & Neftalí Villanueva (University
of Granada, Spain): “Normativity and Situated Judgements: Jumping Over One's Own
Shadow?”

17:00 – 17:15 Coffee break

17:15 – 18:30 Postgraduate Session:

o Manuel Almado Holgado (University of Granada, Spain): “Similar Background or Similar
Structure?”
o Gabriele Baroni (University of Valencia, Spain): “Context, Form of Life and Language
Games: Guatemala’s New Religions in Wittgenstein’s Perspective.”

20:00 Meet at the main entrance of the Philosophy Faculty for a walk through Valencia’s
old quarter.

21:30 Closing dinner: La Lluna, C/ San Ramón 23, 46003 Valencia.

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ORGANISING COMMITTEE

§ Chon Tejedor (University of Valencia)

§ Carmen Martínez Sáez (University of Valencia)
§ Teresa Castillo (University of Valencia)
§ Javier Castellote (University of Valencia)
§ Marta Cabrera Miquel (University of Valencia)
§ Ana Batalla (University of Valencia)
§ Virginia Ballesteros (University of Valencia)

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

§ Vicente Sanfélix Vidarte (University of Valencia)

§ Nicolás Sánchez Durá (University of Valencia)
§ David Pérez Chico (University of Zaragoza)
§ Carla Carmona Escalera (University of Sevilla)

Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation & Universities, the European Union
and the University of Valencia as part of the research projects:

§ Intercultural Understanding, Belonging and Value: Wittgensteinian Approaches, 2019–

2021(PGC2018-093982-B-I00). PI: Chon Tejedor (University of Valencia).
§ Self-Knowledge, Moral Responsibility and Authenticity, 2017–2019 (FFI2016-75323-P).
PI: Josep Corbí and Carlos Moya (University of Valencia).