The conference aims to contribute to the debate surrounding sentience in animal ethics by investigating, in a novel way, the connections between sentience and key moral attitudes such as feelings of empathy towards and the recognition of the vulnerability of sentient beings. The Value of Sentience: Empathy, Vulnerability, and Recognition...
The 4th Annual Conference of the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics
The Centre for the Study of Global Ethics (CSGE) at Birmingham is delighted to announce its next annual conference, on the theme of a post-liberal world. Theme: A Post-liberal World? Keynote Speakers: Alison Jaggar (Birmingham & Boulder) Jason Stanley (Yale) Ryoa Chung (Montréal) Public lecture by Jonathan Wolff (Oxford) on Social Inequality and Structural Injustice This conference...
Implementing an opt-out organ donation policy in England: Philosophical and Policy Questions
The workshop, supported by the Society for Applied Philosophy and The Wellcome Trust will take place over the course of one day and will include 3 presentation sessions and a panel discussion Within the philosophical and policy literature on organ donation, it is often claimed that a legitimate alternative in...