'Truth and Faith in Ethics' Conference

An International Moral Philosophy Conference—Truth and Faith in Ethics—will be presented in Sydney in June 2008 (24th-27th). The event is presented by the University of Notre Dame Australia, with support from the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney.

Theme

Anti-consequentialist thinking unites many philosophers with faith to many philosophers without it. Many Christian and non-Christian ethicists today share common concerns (eudaimonism, virtue ethics, deontological prohibitions, tradition and community, natural law and rights, human dignity…). The aim of this Conference is to bring together moral philosophers with overlapping interests working in Catholic and non-Catholic contexts. The Conference will explore such questions as:

“Is mainstream moral philosophy growing closer to Catholic moral tradition or further away?”
“What can Christian ethics learn from secular ethics, and vice versa?”
“What difference, if any, has faith made to ethical debate and practice?”

Speakers

John Finnis (University of Oxford)
Julia Annas (University of Arizona)
John Haldane (University of St. Andrews)
Raimond Gaita (University of London, Australian Catholic University)
Anthony O’Hear (University of Buckingham)
Nancy Sherman (Georgetown University)
Jude Dougherty (Catholic University of America)
Peter Coghlan (Australian Catholic University)
Christopher Cordner (University of Melbourne)
Edward Spence (Charles Sturt University)
Robert George (Princeton University)
Hayden Ramsay (University of Notre Dame Australia)

URL: http://www.nd.edu.au/sydney/philosophyconference/

RSA Ethical Futures

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Journée d’études "LA RATIONALITÉ DE PLOTIN"

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
UPR 76 — CENTRE JEAN PÉPIN
Journée d’études
LA RATIONALITÉ DE PLOTIN
Vendredi 14 décembre 2007

Matinée
9 h Accueil avec une tasse de café
9 h 30 Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé, Wilfried Kühn : Ouverture
Présidence : Michel Narcy
10 h - 11 h 15 Riccardo Chiaradonna (Rome)
« Essentialisme et idéalisme : Plotin, Aristote, Alexandre d’Aphrodise ».
11 h 15 - 12 h 30 Isabel Koch (Aix en Provence)
« Plotin critique de la phantasia stoïcienne ».

Après-midi
Présidence : Pierre Thillet
14 h 30 - 15 h 45 Pavlos Kalligas (Athènes)
« Logos as a principle of rationality in Plotinus ».
Pause café
16 h 15 - 17 h 30 Denis O’Brien (Paris)
« Plotin : rationnel ou irrationnel ? »

Une discussion est prévue après chacune des conférences.
La journée d’études aura lieu au Campus CNRS, Bâtiment D, 7 rue Guy-Môquet, Villejuif, Métro Paul-Vaillant Couturier. Renseignements au 01 40 38 25 05 (Wilfried Kühn)

Atelierele de Etica Aplicata > Noiembrie 16

Am adus la zi site-ul Atelierelor de Etica Aplicata (Centrul de Cercetare in Etica Aplicata). Pentru urmatoarea intalnire (i.e., pentru 16 noiembrie, orele 17.00., sala 4) este de citit cartea lui Bernard Gert, Common Morality. Deciding What to Do.

Url: www.ccea.ro/aea/