The Natural Method

Ethics, Mind & Self
Themes from the Work of Owen Flanagan

September 28-29, 2017

THE NATURAL METHOD

Ethics, Mind & Self: Themes from the Work of Owen Flanagan

REGISTRATRION IS FREE. PLEASE RSVP.

JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN HUMANITIES INSTITUTE
the Ahmedieh Lecture Hall
Smith Warehouse, Bays 4 & 5
114 South Buchanan Boulevard
Durham, NC 27708

 

Thursday, September 28

2:00:  Welcome

2:15-3:30: Patricia Churchland, Morality from a Neurobiological Perspective (chair: Andrew Terjesen)

Coffee break

4:00-5:15:  Robert McCauley, The History of Science and the Science of History (chair: Donald Dryden)

5:15-6:30:  Gillian Einstein, Close Encounters of the First and Third Kind: Comparative Perspectives on Bodily States (chair: Ken Winkler)

 

Friday, SEPTEMBER 29

9:00:  Continental breakfast

9:30:  Welcome

9:45-11:00:  George Graham, Addiction and Ultimate Concern: Flanagan Paired (chair: Serife Tekin)

Coffee break

11:30-12:45:  Peggy DesAutels, Virtuous Women (chair: Ana Santiago)

Lunch on own

2:15-3:30: Robert Van Gulick, (Consciousness Reconsidered)2 (chair: Stephen Martin)

3:30-4:45: David Wong, Why Forgiveness Is So Elusive (chair: James Mahon)

Coffee break

5:15-6:30: P.J. Ivanhoe, Wagging Tails and Riding Elephants: Why Study Non-Western Philosophy? (chair: Wenqing Zhao)

6:30-7:00:  Owen Flanagan, Remarks (chair: Joe Neisser)

7:00-9:00:  Reception

SPONSORED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY; TRINITY COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES; CENTER FOR COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE; CENTER FOR PHILOSOPHY, ARTS AND LITERATURE; CENTER FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY; KENAN INSTITUTE FOR ETHICS; and THE MIT PRESS