Moral Evil in Practical Ethics

 

Moral Evil in Practical Ethics

University of Oxford, 21-22 January 2012

Moral Evil in Practical Ethics is an interdisciplinary international two-day conference organised by the Science and Religious Conflict Project Team, under the auspices of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and kindly sponsored by The Mind Association and the Society for Applied Philosophy. The conference will examine and promote discussion of the role of evil as a moral concept in practical ethics, exploring its positive and negative implications to moral thought and practice.

A drinks reception and conference dinner will take place on 21 January at University Club.

Registration: Registration is now closed as the conference is fully subscribed. If you wish to be added to the waitlist, please email rachel.gaminiratne@philosophy.ox.ac.uk with the subject "MEPE Registration Waitlist".

Conference dinner: Please also indicate whether or not you wish to attend the optional drinks reception and dinner on 21 January at a cost of £60.00 per person, and if so, notify me of any special dietary requirements.

  Speakers and papers:

• Gwen Adshead (Broadmoor Hospital) - Can We Treat Evil?

• Claudia Card (University of Wisconsin-Madison) - The Challenges of Global and Local Misogyny

• Steve Clarke (University of Oxford) - A Religious Conception of Evil

• Eve Garrard (University of Manchester) - What Use Is the Concept of Evil to Us?

• Shlomit Harrosh (University of Oxford) - Moral Enhancement and the Duty to Eliminate Evildoing

• John Kekes (University of Albany) - The Secular Problem of Evil

• Robin May Schott (Danish Institute for International Studies) – The Scale of Evil

• Arne Johan Vetlesen (University of Oslo) - Narratives of Entitlement

• Alan Wolfe (Boston College) - Evil in General, Political Evil in Particular

http://www.src.ox.ac.uk/2012conf.htm