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| The UK based Society for Applied Philosophy was an early initiative in giving professional philosophy a voice in the critical examination and discussion of matters of public and social importance. Through its conferences and workshops, and especially its Journal of Applied Philosophy , the SAP can plausibly claim to have been a significant contributor to the major developments in the area that English language philosophy has seen since then. However, two powerful trends have marked this development - the tendency for applied philosophy to become more narrowly conceived as 'applied ethics', and a further tendency to specialization within this conception. Thus bioethics, business ethics, international ethics, and so on have all become sub-areas of philosophy in their own right, with societies, journals, degree courses of their own.
While such proliferation is to be welcomed, there is a danger that the common philosophical ground on which these various specialisms meet should suffer neglect, and that areas of applied philosophy not naturally thought of as 'ethics' disappear from view. It is with the purpose of countering these dangers that the Society for Applied Philosophy is sponsoring a special conference whose aim is to bring together some of the leading figures (both as speakers and discussants) in the different areas of applied philosophy in an exploration of the common ground their specialisms share.
Saturday
13th pm Bioethics
as applied philosophy Commentator: Carol Gould (Center for Global Ethics, Temple University) Chair: David Archard (Lancaster University and Chair of the SAP)
International Ethics as applied philosophy Jeff McMahan, Dept of Philosophy, Rutgers University Commentator:
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Sunday 14th am Environmental Philosophy as applied philosophy Andrew Light, Philosophy and Public Affairs, University of Washington at Seattle Commentator: Melinda Roberts, Dept of Philosophy, College of New Jersey Chair: Gordon Graham, Princeton Theological Seminary
Business Ethics as applied philosophy Tom Donaldson, Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania Commentator: Shelly Wilcox, Temple University Chair: Suzanne Uniacke, Hull University and Editor, Journal of Applied Philosophy
Sunday
14th pm Ethics as applied philosophy James P Sterba, Joan B Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame and President, American Philosophical Association (Central Division) Chair: David Archard, Lancaster University and Chair of the SAP The conference will be held in Erdman Hall, the Center for Continuing Education of Princeton Theological Seminary. Places are limited and priority will be given in accordance with the plan for a published volume of papers (see below). Online registration for the conference is available at: t.b.a shortly
Successful registrations will be confirmed early in July after decisions have been made on submitted abstracts. PUBLICATION PLANS One aim of the conference is a special issue of the Journal of Applied Philosophy which, it is expected, will also be published subsequently as a free standing book. This will not be the publication of the conference proceedings, but a set of essays specially commissioned from authors who have attended the conference. With this end in view, proposals of not more than 500 words are invited for essays on any topic that falls under the general theme of the conference. Some suggested sub-themes are these:
Conference places will be allocated in the first instance to those whose abstracts are chosen for POTENTIAL inclusion in the volume. Any remaining places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Essay proposals should be submitted by 1st June 2007 to admin@appliedphil.org. Decisions will be notified by 30th June. PLEASE NOTE : No previously published papers will be accepted. The final version of all papers must be prepared AFTER participation in the conference.
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