Moral philosophy workshops at the University of Sheffield
The following two workshops on topics in moral philosophy planned here in Sheffield next month will take place on consecutive days so it seems worth advertising them together here.
1. Workshop on Self-Defence and National-Defence Humanities Research Institute University of Sheffield, 19th June 2009
10.00 – 10.30 – Registration and Coffee
10.30 – 11.45 – Suzanne Uniacke (Hull)
11.45 – 12.15 – Tea and Coffee
12.15 – 13.30 - Helen Frowe (Sheffield)
13.30 – 14.30 – Lunch
14.30 – 15.45 – Gerald Lang (Leeds)
15.45 – 16.15 – Tea and Coffee
16.15 – 17.30 – Gerhard Øverland (CAPPE, Melbourne)
Paper titles tba.
Just war theorists have often drawn an analogy between war and self-defence in order to understand the moral foundations of a permission to kill during wartime. A standard view is that defensive wars are just because, much like individuals have the right to defend themselves against attack, states have the right to defend themselves against aggression from other states. Some accounts hold that war is the collective exercising of individual rights of defence. Others argue that nations themselves have rights – of territorial and political sovereignty – that they may lethally defend. Recent literature has questioned both the nature of this relationship between individual rights and state rights, and existence of the relationship itself.
This workshop, part of a series of events on just war theory to be held at Sheffield, will address these issues. There will be a nominal fee for registration that will include refreshments on the day, with an additional fee for those wishing to have lunch.
Those wishing to participate should email Helen Frowe (H.Frowe@shef.ac.uk), indicating whether they plan to attend dinner in the evening.
We are grateful to the Leverhulme Trust for their generous support of this project.
2. Workshop on Constructivism and Practical Reason Humanities Research Institute University of Sheffield, 20th June 2009
Speakers
10.00 - registration and coffee
10.30 - Jussi Suikkanen (University of Leeds): "'Restricted Constructivism'"
11.45 - coffee
12.15 - Michael Ridge (University of Edinburgh): "Kantian Constructivism:
Something Old, Something New"
1.30 - lunch
2.30 - Carla Bagnoli (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): "The Activity of Practical Reason"
3.45 - coffee
4.15 - T. M. Scanlon (Harvard University): "Constructivism: What? And Why?"
5.45 - end of workshop.
This is the third of four planned events making up an AHRC-funded project on Constructivism in Practical Philosophy.
(This is a change to the line-up we advertized earlier. Professor Scanlon will now be speaking at this June workshop and not at the conference planned later for 14th-16th August. Details of this conference to follow.)
To register for this workshop please go here:
http://constructivism09.wordpress.com/registration/
Project Coordinators
James Lenman (j.lenman@sheffield.ac.uk)
Yonatan Shemmer (y.shemmer@sheffield.ac.uk)
Administrative Assistant
Heather Arnold (h.e.arnold@sheffield.ac.uk)
Any inquiries please to Heather Arnold: h.e.arnold@sheffield.ac.uk
We are grateful to the Arts and Humanties Research coucil for their generous support of this project.
The general website for the project is here:
http://constructivism09.wordpress.com/
It contains some information about local accommodation in Sheffield that may be especially helpful to anyone planning to attend both events.
We stress that if you do wish to attend both events you need to register separately for each.