Dinner discussion: The Ethics and Consequences of Individual and Collective Rationalization
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A dinner dicussion with Lee Ross and Avishai Margalit.
Room 270, Stanford Law School
This event is part of a series of special events to celebrate the 30th anniversary of SCICN. The panel will explore the role of rationalizations, including collective counterfactual narratives, in justifying intergroup violence and creating barriers to the mending of relationships in conflict and post-conflict contexts: Ethical and pragmatic considerations.
Lee Ross is the Stanford Federal Credit Union Professor of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University and co-founder of the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation. His influential research has included investigations of the fundamental attribution error, and for identifications and analyses of such psychological phenomena as attitude polarization, reactive devaluation, belief perseverance, the false consensus effect, naive realism, and the hostile media effect. He has participated in public peace processes and “track two” diplomacy in Northern Ireland, the Caucuses and the Middle East.
Avishai Margalit is a Visiting Professor from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. He is the winner of the 2012 Ernst Bloch Prize in Philosophy and is considered one of the foremost thinkers and commentators on the contemporary human condition, the moral issues of our time, and current problems facing Western societies. In addition to his influence as a philosopher, he is highly regarded for his profound and cogent observations of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the broader struggle between Islam and the West.
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