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Ethics and Politics Beyond Borders:
The Work of Onora O’Neill
24-26 SEPTEMBER 2009
10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1
Convenor: Professor David Archard, Lancaster University
PROGRAMME
Onora O’Neill is one of the most prominent contemporary moral and political philosophers. Her work spans public policy, global justice and bio-ethics, as well as the foundations of morality and the study of Kant.
This interdisciplinary international conference will bring together philosophers and political theorists to address the central themes in O’Neill’s scholarship. It will provide a forum for critical reflection on her thought, situated against the background of broader discussion of the particular scholarly and policy debates that she has influenced through her writing. The conference will seek to emphasise the way in which O’Neill’s work challenges both the formal, conceptual borders of rigid and opposed approaches to problems in philosophical ethics, and the political borders of existing states and regions.
Panels will address the philosophical and political topics on which O’Neill has made her most significant contributions. They include her original reinterpretation of Immanuel Kant’s ethical and political theory; her contributions to the exploration of the ethical status of children and the family; her approach to problems of global justice; and her refinement and elaboration of the conceptual resources available to theorists working in applied ethics and applied political theory, most notably through her work on trust, autonomy, and consent.
About the Convenor
Professor David Archard is Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy at Lancaster University. He has published widely in social, political, legal and applied moral philosophy, specialising in the areas of sexual consent and children, family and the state. He is Honorary Chair of the Society for Applied Philosophy, and a Member of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.
Sponsored by the Centre de
recherche en éthique de
l'Université de Montréal.