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Annual Conference

Society for Applied Philosophy
ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2007

PHILOSOPHY AND THE FAMILY

University of Birmingham Conference Park
29th June-1st July 2007
 

Keynote speakers | Event Programme | Costs, Payment and Registration | Travel Info and Venue


Themes


The Conference will explore some or all of the following themes:

  • Family values and society
  • What is the family?
  • The family in the history of philosophy
  • Family obligations
  • Global significance of the family
  • Children's rights and welfare
  • Family law & jurisprudence on family law
  • Family and family partiality in ethical theory
  • Sociobiology & philosophy on the family
  • Relationships, emotions and sex


This is an interdisciplinary conference accepting proposals from a wide range of subjects from any relevant discipline.

 

 


Keynote speakers


Brenda Almond

Vice-President, Society for Applied Philosophy
University of Hull, UK
Conflicting Ideologies of the Family

Hugh LaFollette
University of South Florida, USA
The Morality of Wishing

 

Bonnie Steinbock

University at Albany/SUNY, USA
Wrongful Life and Procreative Decisions

 

David Archard

University of Lancaster, UK

Parental Obligations

 

Sally Sheldon

University of Kent, UK
Fragmenting Fatherhood

 

Erica Haimes
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

Applied philosophy, sociology and families: making connections?

Adam Swift
Balliol College, Oxford, UK

Legitimate Parental Partiality

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Event Programme


 

Full Programme

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Costs, Payments and Registration


  • Dinner, Lunch, B&B, Friday p.m.- Sun p.m., plus reg fee - £280
  • SAP members discount rate - £260
  • Day delegate (full weekend) reg fee + lunch) - £140
  • Day delegate (single day) - £70;


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Travel Arrangements and Venue Information


 

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