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CAVE HILL PHILOSOPHY SYMPOSIUM 2010
CONVERSATIONS VI:
Ethics and Applied Ethics
University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados
November 17-19, 2010
The broad theme for the sixth Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium (CHiPS) will be ethics and applied ethics. While these are flourishing areas in recent philosophy, we hope that, in keeping with the conception inspiring these conversations from the beginning, we will be able to bring together thinkers operating in and across different cultural and philosophical traditions. We would also hope to see papers discussing the impact of scientific enquiry on our conceptions of morality or revealing the mutual illumination that moral philosophy and other disciplines can provide when brought together. Proposals for thematic workshops addressing live issues would also be particularly welcome.
CHiPS VI will be held in the third week of November to coincide with UNESCO World Philosophy Day (this year November 18th ). The Symposium will begin on Wednesday 17th and end on Friday 19th. While the Symposium itself will mainly address the profession, we hope to include activities that will carry philosophy to a wider audience.
Our keynote speaker will be Dr Christien van den Anker, now Reader in
the
Department of History, Philosophy and Politics,
Faculty of Creative Arts Humanities and Education at the University of the West of England.
Dr van den Anker is lead editor of the Journal of Global Ethics and is
working on problems of human trafficking and forced migration. Recent
books include 'The Political Economy of New Slavery,' Palgrave, 2004,
and a series of four edited volumes on women's rights in Europe.
In an effort to ensure well-prepared, quality presentations, abstracts (300-500 words) are due by August 31, 2010. Participants whose abstracts are accepted by the vetting committee will then be required to submit their completed papers via email as an attachment in Open Office, Word or Wordperfect by the firm deadline of October 4, 2010 . (These papers will then be posted on-line for other participants to consult prior to the conference with the intention that time at the Symposium can be devoted much more to discussion than to exposition of the written papers.) We hope that revised papers will continue to be available on-line: those from the earlier symposia can be accessed from http://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/fhe/histphil/Philosophy/ChiPS/ .
Contact persons:
Dr. Frederick Ochieng’-Odhiambo: frederick.ochieng-odhiambo@cavehill.uwi.edu
Mr. Ed Brandon: edbrandon@gmail.com
Ms. Roxanne Burton: roxanneeburton@gmail.com
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