On Proportionality and Justice - Quantitative Aspects of Justice and Fairness

Technische Universität München &

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München,

January 6 - 7, 2010

1.   Inter-University Conference on Justice and Fairness at TU München

The conference is interdisciplinary: We invite (analytical) philosophers, mathematicians, lawyers, economists, computer scientists, theologysts, physicians, didactic, media scientists and other scholars interested in discussing these or other related topics to join the workshop, for an exchange of ideas on these subjects. Contributions focused on quantitative and analytical issues of fairness are especially encouraged, but papers on any aspect of justice are welcome.

Justice has at least two sides. Actually, there is a huge effort and focus on institutionalization. Whether this and its associated costs and bureaucracy is of value or not may one question among others. Sometimes this view, especially in Germany omits that finally a human ought to make a decision. A decision, he/she has to take the responsibility for. A glance at history shows us that the quantification of law was going hand in hand with a humanization and equalization of society. As there is a widespread altercation with justice among scholars form diverse faculties we invite them to an interdisciplinary discussion. Our thoughts and actions, our perception, imagination, and experience depend more and more on informational, computational, and robotic systems with increasing complexity and autonomy. What are their epistemic, ethical, and societal challenges for the future of mankind? The workshop will promote scholarly dialogues on all aspects of this turn of society.

RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS
We call for papers that cover topics pertaining to analytical and quantitative aspects of fairness and justice from the following list (but not restricted to this list): · Analytical philosophy: from quantity to quality, sets, structures, processes
· Ontology /Theory of Mind: limits of revaluation
· Metaphysics: foundation of quantification ...
· Ethics: institutional vs. human-centered view, problem of comparison ...
· Law: compensation & degree of penalty ...
· Economics: insurances, value of human as capital goods ...
· Business studies: benefits, earnings & compensation ...
· Representation in media: representation of humans and life in economic, quantitative terms
· Literature: cross-culture comparisons & concepts
· Healthcare: value of quality time and care
· Medicine: transplantation, ranking in palliative care, emergency medical aid ...
· Theology: concepts in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism ...
· Computer Science: how to handle short resources intelligent and fair, e.g. under constraints?
· Mathematics: game theory, geometry, etc.
· Didactics: How to teach quantification understandable?
· ...

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