Invitation to the seminar
The Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences invites you to a seminar entitled “Normativity, Its Sources and Validity“, which will take place on February 9, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. in meeting room No. 94 on the 4th floor, in the premises of the Institute (Klemensova 19, Bratislava).
The main paper of the seminar will be presented by the Head of the Department of Normativity and Human Rights Research, Prof. Tatiana Sedová, and will be devoted to the main topic of the sources and validity of normativity with an emphasis on the relevance and productivity of this issue to the hypotheses of the project.
Program
Tatiana Sedová (IP SAS)
Nomativity: Between Metaphysics and Ethics
Branislav Fábry (Faculty of Law, Charles University)
Individual autonomy, neurotechnology and legal sciences
Martin Foltin (IP SAS)
The Social Nature of Human Rights: From Transcendental Ideals to Intersubjective Recognition
Tomáš Kollárik (IP SAS)
Analysis of Paternalism in Argumentation: A Critical Contribution to the Definition of Self-Determination in Normative Discourses
Jakub Švec (IP SAS)
The Social Nature of Normativity in John Stuart Mill’s Work – Between Individual and Collective Autonomy
Eva Smolková (IP SAS)
Creation, Process of Conception and Functioning of Norms and Principles in Contemporary Environmental Thinking
Experts in the field of philosophy, law, sociology, political science as well as the general public are invited.
The seminar will be held on the VEGA project No. 2/0118/24 “The social nature of normativity as a starting point for explaining the relationship between individual and collective autonomy”.
