Normativity and Nature in the Contemporary Philosophical Debate

In contemporary moral philosophy, the concept of nature plays an ambiguous and contested role in grounding normativity. While biological, psychological, and evolutionary accounts often invoke nature to explain human action and value, the transformative impact of modern technologies challenges the idea of a stable, self-contained natural order. This conference proposes an approach that neither treats nature as a direct source of moral obligations nor reduces it to a neutral empirical domain, but understands it as a field of meaning in which norms arise through interpretive, linguistic, and practical mediations. Normativity is thus conceived not as a deduction from natural facts, but as emerging within forms of life, shared vulnerabilities, and hermeneutic processes. Within this framework, particular attention is devoted to the status of concepts such as truth, knowledge, and reality as constitutive elements of scientific and technological practices. The goal is to develop conceptual tools that allow for a critical, multi-level, and interdisciplinary reconsideration of the relationship between nature and normativity, showing how moral norms emerge not from nature itself but from the interpretive mediation of practical subjects embedded in complex historical, cultural, and embodied contexts.