The idea of evil: secular approaches, 22 – 23 November 2012

MANCEPT/MANCEV CONFERENCE
Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester

Thursday 22 November

Registration 9:30 – 10:00
10:00 – 11:30 Luke Russell (The University of Sydney)
Evil and the Qualitative Difference Revisited
Commentator: Richard Child (University of Manchester)
11:30 – 11.45 Break – tea/coffee
11.45 – 13.15 Eve Garrard (University of Manchester)
Speak No Evil?
Commentator: Philip Cole (University of Wales, Newport)
13.15 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Matthew Kramer (University of Cambridge)
A Theory of Evil
Commentator: Hillel Steiner (University of Manchester)
15:30 – 15:45 Break – tea/coffee
15:45 – 17:15 Gideon Calder (University of Wales, Newport)
Agency, social structures and secular evil
Commentator: Steve Cooke (University of Manchester)
Drinks 17:15- 18:30
19:00 Dinner

Friday 23 November

10:00 – 11.30 Paul Formosa (Macquarie University)
Evils, Wrongs, and Dignity
Commentator: Garvan Walshe (University of Manchester)
11.30 – 11.45 Break – tea/coffee
11.45 – 13.15 Shlomit Harrosh (Shalom Hartman Institute)
South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Moral Victory over Evil?
Commentator: Harry Lesser (University of Manchester)
13:15 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Stephen de Wijze (University of Manchester)
Political Evil – Warping the Moral Landscape
Commentator: Tom Porter (University of Manchester)
15:30- 15:45 Tea
15:45- 17:15 Adam Morton (University of British Columbia)
Small-Scale Evil
Commentator: Chris Daly (University of Manchester)
Conference ends

Places limited to 40 so book your place early.

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