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Society for Applied Philosophy

Annual Conference 2007


PHILOSOPHY AND THE FAMILY


University of Birmingham Conference Park

29th June - 1st July

Friday 29th | Saturday 30th | Sunday 1st

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Friday 29th June
   
  10.30 - 11.30am SAP ECM  
   
 Sitting Room
 
     

Executive Committee members only

(tea and coffee at 10.30)

       
   11.30 - 1.30pm JAP EBM  
   

Syndicate Room A
(Peter Scott) :

 
     

JAP editorial board members only

(Lunch at 12.30)

       
 

12 - 2pm

Registration

 

   
 Lucas House Foyer : 
 
      Sandwich lunch will be catered during registration
       
  2 - 2.05pm Welcome  
   
Edgbaston Room : 
 
      Helen Beebee, University of Birmingham
       
 

2.05 - 3.30pm

Plenary Session I

 

 

 

Edgbaston Room :

     

Brenda Almond, University of Hull, UK
Conflicting Ideologies of the Family

Chair-commentator: David Archard (Lancaster University)

       
  3.30 - 4pm Tea  
       
  4 - 5pm Concurrent Sessions I  
   
Edgbaston Room : 
 
     

Daniela Cutas, University of Manchester, UK

Towards ethical (regulations of) natural and ‘artificial’ parenthood 

Chair-commentator: Stephen Wilkinson (Keele University)

 

 

Sitting Room :

 
     

Bryan Weaver and Fiona Woollard, University of Reading, UK

Forsaking All Others: The Norm of Monogamy

Chair-commentator: Ayelet Blecher-Prigat ( Sha'arei Mishpat, Israel )

 

 

Harborne Room :

 
     

Lawrence Lengbayer, United States Naval Academy, USA

Children, Gratitude and Respect: Filial Piety as a Vice

Chair-commentator: Marja Stuifbergen (UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands)

 

 

Peter Scott Room :
Split Session

 
     

First 30 minutes (4 - 4.30pm):

Mark Sheehan, University of Oxford, UK

Unnatural Choices and Unnatural Children:
Designer children and interfering with nature

Chair: Heather Draper (University of Birmingham)


Second 30 minutes (4.30 - 5pm):

David Shaw, University of St Andrews, UK
Rawls, Children and Abortion

Chair: Heather Draper (University of Birmingham)

       
 

5 - 6pm

Concurrent Sessions II

 

 

 

Edgbaston Room :

 
     

Mianna Lotz, Macquarrie University, Australia

Does it matter why we parent? The moral significance of procreative reasons

Chair-commentator: Friderik Klampfer (University of Maribor, Slovenia)

 

 

Sitting Room :

 
     

Ingrid Robeyns, Radboud University, The Netherlands

Are children public goods?

Chair-commentator: Sarah Hitchen (Lancaster University)

 

 

Harborne Room :

 
     

David Ciavatta, Ryerson University, Canada

The Family and the Bonds of Recognition

Chair-commentator: Paulus Kaufmann (University of Zurich)

 

 

 Peter Scott Room :

Split Session

 
   

First 30 minutes (5 - 5.30pm):

Elizabeth Brake, University of Calgary, Canada

Is Divorce Promise-Breaking?

Chair: Heather Draper (University of Birmingham)

Second 30 minutes (5.30 - 6pm)

Lucinda Ferguson, University of Alberta, Canada

Interpersonal Obligation, Spousal Support, and the Social Nature of Intimacy

Chair: Heather Draper (University of Birmingham)

       
 

6 - 7.30pm

Dinner

 

       
 

7.30 - 9pm

Plenary Session II

 

 

 

Edgbaston Room :

 
     

David Archard, Lancaster University, UK

Parental Obligations

Chair: John Tasioulas (University of Oxford)

       
  9.15pm

 Wine Reception

   
Peter Scott Foyer : 
 
     

All attendees welcome

     

 

 

Saturday 30th June
   
       
 

9 - 10am

Concurrent Sessions III

 

 

 

Edgbaston Room :

 
     

Jonathan Ives, University of Birmingham, UK

A framework for the acquisition of paternal responsibility and rights:
the philosophical fruit of an empirical labour
 

Chair-commentator: Heather Draper (University of Birmingham)

 

 

Sitting Room :

 
     

Samantha Brennan, University of Western Ontario, Canada

The Intrinsic Goods of Childhood

Chair-commentator: Bertha Manninen (Arizona State University , USA)

 

 

Harborne Room :

 
     

Anthony Wrigley, Keele University, UK

Harm Claims in Wrongful Life Cases?

Chair-commentator: Helen Beebee (University of Birmingham)

   

Peter Scott Room :

 
     

Adejoke Oyewunmi, University of Lagos, Nigeria

Socio-Cultural, Economic and Legal Dimensions of Child Labour:
A Perspective on the African Family

Chair: Heather Widdows (University of Birmingham)

   

Peter Scott

Syndicate Room A:

 
     

Pete Morriss, NUI Galway, Ireland

Marriage and Liberalism - An Underexplored tension?

Chair-commentator: Andrew Hall (Columbia University)

       
 

10 - 11.15am

Plenary Session III

 

 

 

Edgbaston Room :

 
     

Erica Haimes, University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK

Applied philosophy, sociology and families: making connections? 

Chair: Lorella Terzi (King's College London)

       
 

11.15 - 11.45am

Coffee

 

       
 

11.45am - 1pm

Plenary Session IV

 

 

 

Edgbaston Room :

     

Adam Swift, Balliol College, Oxford, UK

Legitimate Parental Partiality

Chair: Tom Sorell (University of Birmingham)

       
 

1 - 2pm

Lunch

 

       
 

2 - 3pm

Concurrent Sessions IV

 

   
Edgbaston Room
 
     

Muireann Quigley, University of Manchester, UK

A Right to Reproduce: Interests, Liberty, Equality, and Brute Bad Luck

Chair-commentator: Tom Walker (Keele University)

   
Sitting Room :  
 
     

Nat Coleman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

School Choice, School Selection, and Equal Opportunity

Chair-commentator: Tom Sorell (University of Birmingham)

   
Harborne Room : 
 
     

Femke Takes, Radboud University, The Netherlands

The child’s best interests’ in the debate on gamete donation

Chair-commentator: Lucy Frith (University of Liverpool)

   

Peter Scott Room :

Split Session 

 
     

First 30 minutes (2 - 2.30pm):

Marilea Bramer, University of Minnesota, USA

The Place of Personal Relationships in Kantian Moral Theory

Chair: Christian Perring (Dowling College, New York)

Second 30 minutes (2.30 - 3pm):

Serena Olsaretti, University of Cambridge, UK

Family responsibilities and liberal equality

Chair: Christian Perring (Dowling College, New York)

       
 

3 - 4pm

Concurrent Sessions V

 

 

 

Edgbaston Room :

 
     

Aliza Avraham , University of Haifa, Israel

Should the Non-Identity Problem prevent us from Licensing Parenthood?

Chair-commentator: Stuart Oultram (Keele University)

 

 

Sitting Room :

 
     

Thornton Lockwood , Fordham University, New York, USA

The Nature and Moral Status of the Family in Aristotelian Social Thought

Chair-commentator: Heather Widdows (University of Birmingham)

 

 

Harborne Room :

     

Mark Vopat , Youngstown State University, Ohio, USA

Justice, Religion and the Education of Children

Chair-commentator: Jonathan Ives (University of Birmingham)

 

 

Peter Scott Room :
Split Session

   

First 30 minutes (3 - 3.30pm):

Rita Manning , San Jose State University, California, USA

Reason, Sentiment and Family Obligation

Chair: Lorella Terzi (King's College London)

Second 30 minutes (3.30 - 4pm):

Joseph Millum, National Institute of Health Clinical Centre, USA

How to be a responsible parent

Chair: Lorella Terzi (King's College London)

       
       
 

4 - 4.30pm

Tea, and JAP Meet the Editor session

 

   
 jap
 

Journal of Applied Philosophy Meet the Editor Session

       
 

4.30 - 6pm

Plenary Session V

 

 

 

Edgbaston Room :

     

Sally Sheldon, University of Kent, UK

Fragmenting Fatherhood

Chair: Chris Megone (University of Leeds)

       
 

6 - 7pm

Society for Applied Philosophy AGM

  AGM will be held in the Edgbaston Room

       
  8pm  Dinner  
     

 

 

Sunday 1st July
   
 

9.30 - 11am

Plenary Session VI

 

 

 

Edgbaston Room :

 
     

Bonnie Steinbock, University of Albany/SUNY, USA

Wrongful Life and Procreative Decisions

Chair: Neil Manson (Lancaster University)

       
  11 - 11.30am Coffee  
       
 

11.30am - 12.30pm

Concurrent Sessions VI

 

 

 

Edgbaston Room :

     

Bertha Manninen, Arizona State University, USA

Pleading men and virtuous women: Considering the role of the father in the abortion debate

Chair-commentator: Tom Sorell (University of Birmingham)

 

 

Sitting Room :

 
     

Judith Suissa, IOE, University of London, UK

Parents and Parenting; Recovering the Philosophical Terrain

Chair-commentator: Christian Perring (Dowling College, New York)

 

 

Harborne Room :

 
     

Jacqueline Laing, London Metropolitan University, UK

The new reproductive technologies and the family

Chair-commentator: Eleni Kalokairinou (University of Cyprus)

 

 

Peter Scott Room :

Split Session

     

First 30 minutes (11.30am - 12pm):

Stanley Vodraska, Canisius College, Buffalo, USA

The Human Family is not essentially a Civil Institution

Chair: Ben Colburn (University of Cambridge)

Second 30 minutes (12 - 12.30pm):

Ben Colburn, University of Cambridge, UK

Autonomy-Promoting Liberalism and Family Relationships

Chair: Stanley Vodraska (Canisius College, Buffalo)

       
  12.30 - 1.30pm

Lunch

 
       
  1.30 - 3pm Plenary Session VII  
   
Edgbaston Room :  
 
     

Hugh LaFollette, University of South Florida, USA

The Morality of Wishing

Chair: Heather Draper (University of Birmingham)

 

3 - 3.30pm

Tea and Close of Conference

 

 

 

 

Please ensure any outstanding business is completed by the close of conference

     

 

 


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