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Boston: ASPLP 2008

Friday, 15 August 2008 in Conferences, Notices by Simon Cabulea May | No comments

ASPLP: 28-29 August 2008

Via Jacob T. Levy

The Annual Meeting of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy will be held from 28-29 August, 2008, in conjunction with the American Political Science Association, at the Hynes Convention Center/ Boston Marriott Copley Place/ Sheraton Boston Hotel, in Boston, MA.

Conference schedule below the fold:

Evolution and Morality

Conference co-chairs:
Sanford Levinson (University of Texas)
James Fleming (Boston University)

Thursday, August 28

4:15 PM: Panel 1
Philip Kitcher (Columbia University): “Naturalistic Ethics without Fallacies”
Commentators:
Jonathan Beckwith (Harvard Medical School)
Robin B. Kar (Loyola Law School)
Chair: James Fleming

7:30 PM: Evening Reception

Friday, August 29

7:00 AM: Breakfast reception
7:50 AM: Annual business meeting

8:00 AM: Panel 2
Nita Farahany (Vanderbilt University): “Law and Behavioral Morality”
Commentators:
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Dartmouth University)
Jennifer Culbert (Johns Hopkins University)
Chair: Jacob T. Levy (McGill University)

10:15 AM: Panel 3
Larry Arnhart (Northern Illinois University): “Deep History in Biopolitical Science”
Commentators:
Daniel Lord Smail (Harvard University)
Richard Richards (University of Alabama)
Chair: Donald Horowitz (Duke University)

Conference attendees may be interested in continuing discussion at the separate APSA Panel 3-34, Genes, Justice, and the Politics of Biotechnologies, Friday, 2 PM, with the following papers:
Anja Karnein, Designing Our Children: Will This Create a New Inequality Between the Generations?
Bruno Macaes, When Politics Transcends Biology
Ashley Biser, Equal Yet Distinct: Plurality and the Politics of Genetics

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