Photos: “Virtue & Happiness” Summer Seminar 2016

24 scholars in psychology, philosophy, and theology discussed ideas for a week at “Virtue & Happiness” (or “Virtue Camp” as at least one participant named it), an intensive seminar with 5 faculty, held at beautiful Moreau Seminary in South Bend, Indiana.

Our full album is up on our Flickr page , and we’ll post another sampling tomorrow.

 

Group photo: “Virtue & Happiness” Summer Seminar

This week on the Virtue Blog, I’ll post photos from our first summer seminar, “Virtue & Happiness”.

I took our group photo on the grounds of Moreau Seminary, the location for our week-long series of seminars, discussions, great food, and walks around the lakes.

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~ Valerie Wallace, Associate Director, Communications

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From left: Darcia Narvaez, Chip Lockwood, Kristina Grob, Anne Baril, Jason Welle, Indra Liauw, Fr. Michael Sherwin, Wenqing Zhao, Santiago Mejia, Olivia Bailey, Ryan Darr, Gus Skorburg, Leland Saunders, Mihailis Diamantis, Sukaina Hirji, Jennifer A. Frey, Hollen Reisher, Candace Vogler, Owen Flanagan, Yuan Yuan, Amichai Amit, Brian Ballard, Parisa Moosavi, Sungwoo Um, Anselm Mueller, John Meinert, Samuel Baker, Tom Angier, Kate Phillips, Jaime Hovey, Matthew Dugandzic. Photo by Valerie Wallace.

Wrapping up the week: live tweeting from “Virtue & Happiness” Summer Seminar #VHML16

We’ve finished our week at Moreau Seminary at the University of Notre Dame with our group of young scholars and five faculty for our first summer seminar, “Virtue & Happiness”. Here are some of our tweets of the last day –

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“What are the ends of righteous anger?”- live tweeting from “Virtue & Happiness” Summer Seminar

We’re on day 4 of our week at Moreau Seminary at the University of Notre Dame with a group of young scholars and five faculty for our first summer seminar, “Virtue & Happiness” and live tweeting the presentations and discussions @UChiVirtue #VHML16.

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“Happiness is not just a good for the agent” – live tweeting from “Virtue & Happiness” summer seminar

We’re in residence for a week at Moreau Seminary at the University of Notre Dame with a group of young scholars and five faculty for our first summer seminar, “Virtue & Happiness”. Live tweeting the presentations and discussions @UChiVirtue #VHML16.

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Interview with Leland Saunders, Summer Session Participant

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This post is part of a series of interviews with our incoming class for the “Virtue & Happiness” 2016 Summer Seminar. Leland Saunders is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Seattle Pacific University.

Valerie Wallace: Where are you from?

Leland Saunders: I currently live in Seattle, where I’ve been for the past four years. Though, when people here ask me where I’m from, I tell them I’m from Baltimore.

VW: Tell me about your research.

LS:  I’ve mostly been working on areas related to empirical approaches to moral psychology. I’m interested in what psychological and neurological research can and cannot contribute to our understanding of moral psychology. Some of my recent work has been focused on addressing what I take to be some pretty fundamental conceptual questions that often get overlooked in some of these debates, in particular, what sort of psychological process or processes get labeled “reasoning.” This relates to another, broader concern I have to respond to a certain kind of debunking project being pursued by some fairly prominent empirical moral psychologists who argue that reasoning has such a limited role in our moral psychology that it cannot possibly satisfy the normative conditions for moral justification. Beyond that, I am interested in pursuing an empirically-informed virtue ethical account of moral psychology. I’ve started developing some ideas in this area, and I’m excited to flesh them out more during this summer seminar.

VW: What are you most looking forward to about this summer’s Virtue & Happiness seminar?

LS: Three things, really. The first is related to my research interest, and getting to talk to some really smart people about the relationship between empirical moral psychology and virtue ethics. The second, relatedly, is just to get to know some really interesting people who enjoy thinking about the same things I do. And third, to learn about some new new directions in research in virtue and happiness. 

VW: What are your non-academic interests?