“I’m surprised,” said the German philosopher whose name I’ve forgotten but next to whom I was walking towards the ice-cream parlour, “how little argument there is here.” I have to admit it – had he chosen his parallel sessions unluckily, he could easily have been left with the notion that the ESPMH is an argument-free zone: […]
Category: Conferences
Quick Update from Germany…
I’m currently at the ESPMH conference in Tübingen – and having found a cybercafe, I’ll try to make the odd post about what’s happening if I get the chance. In the meantime, have some of this: I went to see Hegel’s house in Stuttgart on Monday. It was closed. Then open. Then somewhere in between. […]
New Directions in Bioethics Workshop, UCL, 29-30.vi.09
Details here. As David mentioned before, he, Søren and I are all going to be giving papers. […]
New Directions in Bioethics: Bioethics Workshop at UCL 29-30 June
Thought this might be of interest to some of our readers – and not just because all of the editors of this bog are speaking at this workshop! […]
Event: Medicine Under Pressure: Arts Week highlight
This looks like an interesting event at Queen Mary, University of London on the 29th of April. High-profile lawyer Phil Shiner will join a timely debate on ethics, medicine and human rights, an Arts Week event. In ‘Medicine Under Pressure: The Law and Ethics of Medicine in Conflict Situations’ a panel of distinguished legal and […]
Conference: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008: New Directions in Biolaw and Bioethics
Keele, March 30th. Details below the fold. […]
CFP: Mental Disorder
Friday 6th March 2009 University of Warwick This one-day workshop will be the second event of a new Multidisciplinary Research Network on The Concepts of Health, Illness and Disease, funded by the AHRC. The network is managed by Dr Havi Carel (UWE) and Dr Rachel Cooper (Lancaster). For more information on the network: http://www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss/courses/philosophy/ahrc_chid_network.shtml Within […]
CFP: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: ALSP 2009 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
ASSOCIATION FOR LEGAL AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY (ALSP) 2009 Annual Conference ‘Ethics for the 21st Century’ July 2-4, 2009 University of Edinburgh – Department of Politics and IR, ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum http://www.lifelong.ed.ac.uk/alsp2009/ Outline The last two decades have seen profound social and economic changes in all areas of our lives. To name but […]
And the language of bioethics is… ?
Going to conferences can often be a frustrating experience. Going may be good for refreshing your academic network but there is rarely any deep discussion of the topics on the agenda and many of the presentations are to be blunt rather boring. I therefore count myself very lucky to have attended 3 interesting conferences within […]
Food without much thought…
By David Hunter Something that always surprises me at bioethics conferences, especially given the number of vegetarians in the field, is the absence of quality or sometimes even any vegetarian food. Take the recent International Association of Bioethics (IAB) Congress in Croatia. The lunches were fairly awful especially for vegetarians (although the KFC looking chicken […]