british society for ethical theory: 1999 conference
Soran Reader
British Society for Ethical Theory
Conference,St Chad's College, Durham, 16-18 July 1999
It is still possible to register for this conference, and support is available help Postgraduate students attend, thanks to a donation from the Analysis committee and the Mind Association.
If you would like to come to the conference, and/or be a responder in one of the sessions, please send an e-mail to our Departmental Secretary, Kathleen Nattrass: k.l.m.nattrass@durham.ac.uk, as soon as possible. Accommodation (non-en-suite only) is still available.
If there is anything more you would like to know about the conference, please contact me: Soran Reader (w: 0191-374-7643; h: 0191-374-3185; c.s.r...@durham.ac.uk)
Programme
Friday 16th July
1pm Registration opens - St Chad’s College, North Bailey, Durham
3pm 1: Irwin Goldstein ‘The Magnetism of the Good and Ethical Realism’
4.45pm Tea
5.15pm 2: James Cornwell, ‘Ethical Objectivity and Internal Criticism’
7pm Dinner
8pm 3: Invited Paper: Sabina Lovibond, ‘Post-Humanist Reflections on a Socratic Thesis: "No-one acts against their better Judgement"’
9.30pm Walk around the peninsula; bar open.
Saturday 17th July
8.30am Breakfast
9.30am 4: Theo van Willigenburg, ‘Moral Compromises, Moral Integrity and the Objectivity of Plural Values’
11am Coffee
11.30am 5: Garrett Cullity, ‘Sympathy, Discernment and Reasons’
1pm Lunch [BSET AGM: Working Lunch in Chad’s Library]
2pm 6: Maria Merritt, ‘Virtue-Ethics and Situationist Personality
Psychology’
3.30pm Tea; Tour of Durham
5pm 7: Susan Hahn, ‘Two Standpoints of Moral Agency: Impersonality
and Identification’,
6.30pm Drinks reception
7pm Conference Dinner
9pm Riverside walk; bar open
Sunday 18th July
8.30am Breakfast
9.30am 8: Philip Stratton-Lake, ‘The Moral Law and Moral Laws’
11am Coffee
11.30am 9: Anthony Hatzimoysis, ‘The Natural, the Reductive and the
Normative’
1pm Lunch
2pm 10: Invited Paper: Peter Railton - ‘Hume and Kant - but not Hume versus Kant - on Normative Authority’
3.30pm Announcements; Conference closes.
3.45pm Tea