2010 Symposium: The Future of Ethics
(Except as noted, all sessions are in the main Conference Room, Courtyard Atlanta Executive Park/Emory)
Thursday, 8 April
----participant arrivals
3:--3:45pm: Introductions and background
4—5:45pm: SESSION I: ETHICS AND AESTHETICS
Speakers:
Richard Shusterman (Philosophy, Florida Atlantic University, USA):
“Enhanced Cognition, Ethic, and Some Problems of Self-knowledge”
Wojciech Malecki (Philology, University of Wroclaw, Poland)
“Against the Ethical Turn: Neopragmatism and New Aestheticism in Literary Studies”
Mary Magada-Ward (Philosophy, Middle Tennessee State University, USA):
“The Virtues and Dangers of Connecting Art to Life: Can Pragmatism Address Balthus?”
Colin Koopman (Philosophy, University of Oregon, USA):
“Moral Meliorism through Literature: Liberal Pragmatist Morality in Richard Rorty and William James”
----dinner
Friday, 9 April
----breakfast on one’s own, at hotel
9:30--11:15am: SESSION II: ETHICS, SCIENCE, POLICY
Speakers:
Jessica Wahman (Philosophy, Dickinson College, USA):
“Intuitions and Reasons in the 21st Century: A Pragmatic Prescription for Contemporary Ethics”
William S. Lewis (Philosophy, Skidmore College, USA)
“Evolutionary Psychology in the Service of Moral Philosophy: A Possible Future for Ethics?”
Nancy Tuana (Philosophy & Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State University, USA):
“Leading with Ethics, Aiming for Policy”
Michael Hoffmann (Philosophy, Georgia Tech University, USA):
“Climate Ethics: Visualizing and Structuring an Ethical Debate by Means of Logical Argument Mapping”
----break
11:30—12:45pm: SESSION III: PLENARY SESSION
----lunch
2:15--4pm: SESSION IV: MORAL AGENCY, REASONING & FEELING
Speakers:
Michael Sullivan (Philosophy, Emory University, USA)
“Ethics and the Return to the Good Life”
Eric Thomas Weber (Public Policy Leadership, University of Mississippi, USA):
“What Experimentalism Means in Ethics”
Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley (Philosophy & Religious Studies,
California State University—Bakersfield, USA):
“The Ethical Subject/Agent as Rational but Also as So Much More”
Jeff Edmonds (Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, USA)
“Toward an Ethics of the Encounter, Or How to Think With Your Heart”
4:15--6pm: SESSION V: PERCEPTIONS AND PRACTICES
Speakers:
Cynthia Gayman (Philosophy and English, Murray State University, USA)
“In Hope of Recognition: The Morality of Perception”
Vincent Colapietro (Philosophy, Penn State University, USA)
“Customary Reflection and Innovative Habits”
Cynthia Willett (Philosophy, Emory University, USA)
Feminism and Ethics
Paul C. Taylor (Philosophy, Temple University, USA)
Race, Institutions, Ethics
----dinner on one’s own; reservation assistance provided for dinner/entertainment
Saturday, 10 April
----breakfast on one’s own, at hotel
9:30--11:15am: SESSION VI: ETHICS & ECONOMICS, HUNGER,
CONSUMPTION, AND COMPETITION
Speakers:
Robert Innis (Philosophy, University of Massachusetts—Lowell, USA):
“Humanizing Hunger: Categories of Self-Development”
Zach VanderVeen (Research Associate, The Kettering Foundation, USA):
“Peirce and Practical Reason: Deduction, Induction, and Abduction at the Grocery Store”
Nikita Pokrovsky (General Sociology, Higher School of Economics,
Moscow State University, Russia)
“Environmental and Post-Consumerism Ethics Now and Then: From Thoreau’s Walden to the Ugory Philosophy Project in Kostroma, Russia”
Uliana Niklolaeva (Social and Political Research, Academy of Sciences,
Moscow, Russia)
“Back to the Future: Do the Primordial ‘Pressure Ethics’ Return?”
11:30—1:00pm: SESSION VII: BOUNDARY, PRAXIS, RELATION
Speakers:
Charles E. Scott (Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, USA)
“Ethics at the Boundary: Beginning with Foucault”
John T. Lysaker (Philosophy, Emory University, USA):
“The Future of Ethics: Twenty Notes”
John J. Stuhr (Philosophy, Emory University, USA)
“The Future of Ethics: Its All Relative”
7pm: Banquet Dinner (with round-trip transportation from hotel/restaurant)
Sunday, 11 April
--participant departures
Arrangements for Participants
Location:
With just a couple of exceptions, all sessions will be held at the Marriott Courtyard Executive Park Emory Hotel.
Lodging:
Participants will stay at the Marriott Courtyard Executive Park Emory. (If interested, see: http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/atlep-courtyard-atlanta-executive-park-emory/ ) The address is 1236 Executive Park Drive, Atlanta, GA 30329 USA; this is just less than 3 miles from Emory’s main campus
To make your reservation, please call either 800-321-2211 (the Marriott reservation number) or 404-728-0708 (direct to this particular hotel). You need to make your reservation by March 1, though I urge you to do this as soon as possible. When you make your reservation, reserve for the three nights of Thursday April 8, Friday April 9 and Saturday April 10. Say that you are part of the “Emory Philosophy Seminar” group. The group rate for rooms is: $74 (plus tax). This remarkably low rate also includes breakfast each morning and use of the hotel’s small gym or access to a larger health club nearby.
Travel, Arrival, and Departure:
You should arrive at the hotel prior to the first conference session at 3:30pm Thursday April 8. There will be a Banquet dinner on Saturday April 10, so participants may plan departures anytime on Sunday April 11.
By air: Atlanta’s Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, the largest in the country, is relatively easy to reach because of the large number of flights. Please you’re your own flight reservations.
To the Courtyard Executive Park Emory from the airport: Taxis take about 35 minutes and will cost about $45.00 (Tell the driver to take the Interstate 85 to the North Druid Hills Road exit, exit 89; after a right turn at the traffic light at the top of the exit ramp, the driver should take the first right onto Executive Park Drive; the hotel is about ¼ mile ahead on the right. There are several shuttle van services that come to Emory as well—often about three times as slowly and half as expensively. Another option is the city’s MARTA subway system: Take the subway without transfer from its southern terminus at the airport to the Lindbergh stop, and from there take a cab the short distance to Emory. Although a taxi is more expensive than these last two options, it is probably the best option for most. For more information and alternatives, see: www.atlanta-airport.com
By car: Exist I-85 at North Druid Hills Road, exit 89; stay or get in the far right lane; after a right turn at the traffic light at the top of the exit ramp, take the first right onto Executive Park Drive; the hotel is about ¼ mile ahead on the right. Parking is free.
Other:
Participants will receive free breakfasts at the hotel, complimentary morning and afternoon break service, and free lunches (no jokes, please) on Friday and Saturday. The Saturday Banquet will also be complimentary for all participants. Free transportation will be provided to a couple sessions at non-hotel locations and also for restaurants and dinner excursions on all three nights (with participants free to make individual or group dinner plans on Thursday and Friday).
As always, there is no registration fee.
If you would like any particular audio/visual equipment for your presentation/paper summary, please inform John Stuhr by March 1.
Format and Deadlines:
Please remember that complete copies of symposium papers will be made available in electronic format a month prior to the Symposium. For this reason, it is important, essential, required, etc. that you provide a copy of your final symposium paper by March 1, 2010. This paper should be no longer than 12 typed pages (without notes, or 15 typed pages with notes). Participants will have 12-15 minutes to summarize their papers, emphasize key points, develop implications, discuss and example, or the like. This will allow substantial time for discussion. Printed copies of all symposium papers will be made available in a spiral notebook at the event.
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