Arbeitsgruppe „Philosophie et Kulturwissenschaft“

Programm

14h, Scott TITSHAW Sexuality, Gender Identity and U.S. Immigration Law Scott Titshaw will briefly review the history of discrimination against lesbians and gay men under United States immigration law. He will then present an overview of two aspects of current U.S. immigration law: asylum law for sexual minorities and the immigration law’s treatment of the marriages of gay, lesbian and transgender people. With regard to the latter point, he will explore the ways foreign, state and US federal laws interact in determining whether any marriage is valid for immigration purposes. Finally, Professor Titshaw will briefly describe his current interest in the recognition for immigration purposes of parent-child relationships resulting from assisted reproductive technology or from state or foreign legal recognition of same-sex relationships. Scott Titshaw is an Assistant Professor at the Mercer University School of Law in Macon, Georgia (USA). Prior to joining the faculty at Mercer, Professor Titshaw served as an Adjunct Professor at Mercer, at the University of Georgia and at the John Marshall School of Law, while practicing immigration and transactional law for twelve years with Arnall Golden Gregory LLP in Atlanta, Georgia. Professor Titshaw earned a B.A. from Georgetown University, a J.D., cum laude, from the University of Georgia School of Law, and an LL.M., magna cum laude, from the Universität Hamburg. After law school, Professor Titshaw clerked with U.S. District Court Judge Adrian Duplantier in New Orleans, Louisiana, and served as a translator with Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht). Professor Titshaw’s primary scholarship interests are immigration, comparative law, and issues concerning sexual minorities. His most recent publications are The Meaning of Marriage: Immigration Rules and Their Implications for Same-Sex Spouses in a World Without DOMA, 16 Wm. & Mary J. Women & L. 537 (2010) and a solicited article regarding the implications of DOMA on parent-child recognition under US immigration law, which will appear in the 2010 Symposium issue of the Florida Coastal Law Review. Prof. Titshaw antwortet gerne Fragen auf Deutsch 15h30, Ronald LOEFFLER Wilfrid Sellars‘ "Kantian" Theory of Moral Judgment A virtually unknown aspect of the American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars‘ (1912 – 1989) otherwise highly influential oeuvre is his elaborate practical philosophy, which culminates in an ingenious, broadly Kantian theory of moral judgment. This paper introduces the core of this theory, places it in the context of modern debates in meta-ethics, and assesses whether this theory meets the criteria of adequacy that, according to Sellars, any such theory ought to meet: a moral judgment’s power to motivate action, its objectivity, its being in the space of reasons, and (pace Kant) its naturalizability. Ronald Loeffler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Grand Valley State University, Michigan (USA). He earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy at Northwestern University in 2001 and also holds M.A. degrees in Philosophy from the University of London and the Freie Universität Berlin. His main research interests are in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and, more recently, meta-ethics. His work focuses on the relation between linguistic practice, linguistic meaning, and our common sense psychological abilities. His publications include: "Practice-Based Theories of Meaning (Philosophy Compass, 2009), "Normative Phenomenalism: On Robert Brandom’s Practice-Based Explanation of Meaning" (European Journal of Philosophy, 2005), "Intertheoretical Identity and Ontological Reductions" (Erkenntnis, 2005), and "Demonstrative Reference and Cognitive Signi ficance" (Synthese, 2001). Before joining the faculty at GVSU, Ronald Loeffler taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Carleton College. Prof. Loeffler antwortet gerne Fragen auf Deutsch