Aims and Topics
The conference will bring together students, experts, academics and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines to discuss ethical issues of theory and practice of rational decision. On the one hand, we would like to examine axiological assumptions in theories of decision making. On the other hand, we would like to consider moral dilemmas of searching efficiency and effectiveness in practice. Lectures or poster presentations can report state of theoretical and empirical researches, present paradoxes and limits, solved or unsolved theoretical and application moral problems in theory and practice of rational decision making.
Focus areas:
- Axiological assumptions in conceptions of rationality
a. Descriptive versus normative conceptions of rational decision making
b. Moral reasons of rational decision making
c. Ambiguities of “rationality” and their metaethical sources
d. Bounded rationality and unbounded ideals of decision making
e. The meaning, assumptions and implications of “ethical neutrality” in management sciences and economy
f. Instrumental versus value rationality
g. Moral principles in conceptions of effectiveness, efficiency and economy of actions - Moral sensitivity in rational decision making
a. Ethical aspects of rational decision making
b. Moral sensitivity in heuristics of decision making
c. Rational/irrational emotions and existential commitments
d. Rationality and responsibility - Moral principles of rational decisions, strategies and tactics
a. Moral criteria of effectiveness, efficiency and economy assessment
b. Moral principles in risk, change and innovation assessment
c. Ethics of idealized design
d. Moral values and taxonomy of resources
e. Axiological assumptions of political projects
f. Sustainable development and moral values
We are going to publish full texts (in a scientific monograph) and the book of abstracts
(after the conference). In order to promote economic equality, we do not charge a conference fee.