1 - 2pm

Registration

2 - 3pm

Concurrent Session I

Mary Ogilvie Theatre:

Supreme Emergencies Revisited

Daniel Statman, University of Haifa

Chair-Commentator - Oliviero Angeli (University of Oxford)

Seminar Room 1:

Commercial Surrogacy and Baby Selling

Stuart Oultram , Keele University

Chair-Commentator - Tista Bagchi (University of Delhi)

Seminar Room 2:

Effects of Moral/Legal Rules

Adina Preda , University of Manchester

Chair-Commentator - Eleni Kalokairinou (University of Cyprus)

Seminar Room 3:

The Role of Thought Experiments in Applied Ethics

Adrian Walsh , University of New England (Australia)

Chair-Commentator - Stelios Vervidakis (University of Athens)

Seminar Room 4:

We Don't Talk Much Anymore: Philosophy on Divorce (and Love and Marriage)

Scott Stewart , University of Cape Breton

Chair-Commentator - Richard Keshen (Cape Breton University, Canada)

3 - 4pm

Concurrent Session II

Mary Ogilvie Theatre:

Sexual Objectification: the unlikely alliance of feminism and Kant

Jules Holroyd , University of Sheffield

Chair-Commentator - Leslie Treiger-Bar-Am (University of Oxford)

Seminar Room 1:

Rights or Policy? Arguing for the Rights-based Approach to Disability Services

Jurgen De Wispelaere and Judy Walsh , University College Dublin

Chair-Commentator - Lorella Terzi (University of London)

Seminar Room 2:

An Idealist Theory of Punishment

Thom Brooks , University of Newcastle

Chair-Commentator - Gordon Graham (University of Aberdeen)

Seminar Room 3:

Still no Prima Facie Obligation to Obey the Law

Kimberley Brownlee , Corpus-Christi College, Oxford

Chair-Commentator - Mark Coeckelbergh (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)

Seminar Room 4:

The Role of Institutions in Cosmopolitan Justice

Andras Miklos , Central European University, Budapest

Chair-Commentator - Gillian Brock (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

4 - 4.30pm

Tea

4.30 - 6pm

Plenary Session I

Mary Ogilvie Theatre:

Rethinking Ethics

Allen Buchanan , Duke University

Chair - Tom Sorrell (University of Essex)

6 - 7.30pm

Dinner

7.30 - 9pm

Plenary Session II

Mary Ogilvie Theatre:

Just War

Frances Myrna Kamm , Harvard University

Chair - John Tasioulas (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)

Journal of Applied Philosophy Wine Reception

hosted by Basil Blackwell

9 - 10am

Concurrent Session III

Mary Ogilvie Theatre:

The Right of National-Defence and the Ethics of War

Michael Paulin , King's College London

Chair-Commentator - Thomas Mertens (Radboud University, The Netherlands)

Seminar Room 1:

Modus Vivendi and the Foundations of Liberalism

Enzo Rossi , University of St Andrews

Chair-Commentator - Liz Ashford (University St Andrews)

Seminar Room 2:

Markku Oksanen , University of Kuopio, Finland

Chair-Commentator - Chris Belshaw (The Open University)

On What's Fishy About Civic Engagement

David Kline , University of North Florida

Chair-Commentator - John Tasioulas (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)

PANEL SESSION I

Seminar Room 4:

Responsibility in Legal and Moral Philosophy

Claire Valier , Birkbeck, University of London

Chair-Commentator - John Oberdiek (Rutgers, New Jersey)

10 - 11am

Concurrent Sessions IV

Mary Ogilvie Theatre:

Are Child Welfare Arguments For Restricting Assisted Reproduction 'Eugenic'?

Stephen Wilkinson , Keele University

Chair-Commentator - Michael Kottow (University of Chile, Santiago)

Seminar Room 1:

The Case for Authority

Attila Tanyi , Central European University (Budapest)

Chair-Commentator - Neils Nijsingh (Utrecht University)

  Seminar Room 2:

Utility and Capability

Ingrid Robeyns , University of Amsterdam

Chair-Commentator - Valerie Tiberius (University of Minnesota)

  Seminar Room 3

How to Distinguish Between Legitimate and Illegitimate Targets in War

Uwe Steinhoff , University of Oxford

Chair-Commentator - Shahrar Ali (University of London)

PANEL SESSION II

Seminar Room 4:

Responsibility in Legal and Moral Philosophy

Matt Matravers , University of York

Chair-Commentator - Paul Litton (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda USA)

11 - 11.30am

Coffee

11.30 - 1pm

Plenary Session III

Mary Ogilvie Theatre:

Infanticide

Jeff McMahan , Rutgers University

Chair - Suzanne Uniacke (University of Hull)

1 - 2pm

Lunch

2 - 3.30pm

Plenary Session IV

Exploitation in Clinical Research

Alan Wertheimer , Vermont University

Chair - David Archard (Lancaster University)

3.30 - 4pm

Tea

4 - 5pm

Concurrent Sessions V

Mary Ogilvie Theatre:

Truth Commissions, Amnesty, and Reconciliation

Colleen Murphy , Texas A+M University

Chair-Commentator - Piers Benn (Imperial College London)

Seminar Room 1

Virtually All Human Beings as Rightholders: A Non-Speciesist Approach

Matthew Liao , John Hopkins University (Baltimore)

Chair-Commentator - Christopher Grau (Florida International University)

Seminar Room 2

Epistemic Continence in the Information Age

Neil Manson , University of Cambridge

Chair-Commentator - Linda Russell (University of Campeche, Mexico)

Seminar Room 3

Paternalism and Perfectionism

Jonathan Quong , University of Manchester

Chair-Commentator - Mark Sheehan (Keele University)

Seminar Room 4

Global Justice and the Distribution of Natural Resources

Tim Hayward , University of Edinburgh

Chair-Commentator - Mandy Bosma (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)

5 - 6pm

Society for Applied Philosophy AGM

6 - 7.30pm

Dinner

7.30 - 9pm

Plenary Session V

Mary Ogilvie Theatre:

The Current Relevance of Kierkegaard's Critique of the Public Sphere

Hubert L. Dreyfus , Berkeley University

Chair - Stephen Burwood (University of Hull)

9.30 - 10.30am

Concurrent Session VI

Mary Ogilvie Theatre:

Embodiedness, Communication and Criticism of the Internet.   The Elusiveness of the Ethics of Technology

Paul Sollie , Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan (Netherlands)

Chair-Commentator - Aaron Lambert (University of Chicago)

Seminar Room 1

Individual Responsibility in Egalitarian Justice

Faith Armitage , London School of Economics and Political Science

Chair-Commentator - Carol Gould (George Mason University, Virginia)

Seminar Room 2

Plato on Applied Ethics, Normative Ethics, and Meta-Ethics

Chris Megone , University of Leeds

Chair-Commentator - Thom Brooks (University of Newcastle)

Seminar Room 3

Severe Poverty as a Human Rights Violation

Liz Ashford , University of St Andrews

Chair-Commentator - Deen Chatterjee (University of Utah)

 Coffee, and JAP Meet the Editor session

Journal of Applied Philosophy Meet the Editor Session

hosted by Basil Blackwell

11am - 12.30pm

Plenary Session VI

Mary Ogilvie Theatre:

The Moral Basis of Public Policy on Gambling

Will Barrett , University of Melbourne (Australia)

Chair - Gordon Graham (University of Aberdeen)

12.30 - 2pm

Lunch

2 - 3pm

Concurrent Sessions VII

Mary Ogilvie Theatre:

Needs and the Moral Foundations of Rights

Rowan Cruft , University of Stirling

Chair-Commentator - Keith Horton (Australian National University)

Seminar Room 1:

The Ethos of the Market

Rutger Claassen , Utrecht University 

Heidelberglaan (Netherlands)

Chair-Commentator - Marie-France Lebouc (Laval University, Quebec)

Seminar Room 2:

Why Should we Compensate Voluntary Losses?

Simon Wigley , Bilkent University, Ankara (Turkey)

Chair-Commentator - Shlomi Segall (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)

Seminar Room 3:

Raz, Adding Reasons and Saving the Many

Georgia Testa , University College London

Chair-Commentator - Chris Megone (University of Leeds)

Ethics, rhetoric and politics of post-conflict reconstruction:
How can the concept of social contract help us in understanding how to make peace work?
Sirkku K. Hellsten, University of Birmingham

Chair-Commentator - Dave Archard (University of Lancaster)

3 - 3.30pm

Tea

3.30 - 4.30pm

Presidential Address

Mary Ogilvie Theatre:

Informed Consent and Genetic Data

Onora O'Neill , University of Cambridge

Chair-Commentator - Gordon Graham (University of Aberdeen)

4.30pm

Close of Conference

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