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Submissions are invited on any topic related to ethics and values in medicine, the ethical practice of medicine, and biomedical ethics in general.
In addition to the standard scholarly component of this conference, which will include panels and paper presentations, the conference will include six keynote speakers who will work closely with pre-med and health-related professions students in classrooms and labs, discussing the ethical practice of medicine. (Confirmation of participation by six nationally-known experts in the field of medical ethics is currently being secured for the keynote addresses.)
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Submission deadline: 15 January, 2010
Acceptance notification: 1 February, 2010
Conference dates: 13-16 April, 2010
Submissions should be formatted for blind review with a separate cover page containing names, affiliations, and contact information. We will consider papers, abstracts of papers, and proposals for panels. All submissions must include an abstract of no more than 500 words. Send electronic submissions to: pace@utpa.edu (There is a strong possibility that some or all conference papers will be published in a volume of conference proceedings.)
Sponsored by the Pan American Collaboration for Ethics in the Professions (PACE), University of Texas – Pan American (UTPA), and local hospitals and businesses in the Rio Grande Valley
"Paddling the Moral Rapids" The Journal of Ethics in Mental Health will host its fourth conference from May 13 to 15, 2010 in Peterborough, Ontario.
Invited speakers include:
Jennifer Radden PhD University of Massachusetts Dept. of Philosophy,
Louis Charland PhD University of Western Ontario Depts. of Psychiatry and Philosophy, and
Francoise Baylis PhD Dalhousie University Canada Research Chair in Bioethics and Philosophy.
The program is varied so as to appeal to different interests and perspectives, including healthcare workers, people living with or recovered from a mental health or addiction problem, their families, academics, policy makers, and students.
Details about each day's sessions, socializing/networking activities, registration and accommodations are available at www.jemh.ca. The conference will be held in Peterborough, Ontario which is about a 90 minute drive northeast of Toronto or a 3 hour drive west of Ottawa.
Some influential theories of distributive justice, fairness and equality, like that of John Rawls, discuss fair distribution in terms of shares of primary goods available to people. The main criticism of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum of these views is that it is not the goods that are ultimately important, but what they allow us to do and be, the kind of lives they enable us to live. Giving everyone a laptop or some other piece of technology is no good in and by itself, according to their ‘capability approach’. Some people will be able to make good use of it and increase their level of functioning, whereas others who are for example illiterate or do not have access to a reliable power supply cannot possibly convert their possession of this particular technology into anything useful in their lives. Human functioning and capabilities are therefore at the centre of the work of Nussbaum and Sen. The capability approach is thoroughly normative, since it demands that people are brought to a minimum level of capabilities necessary to lead flourishing lives.
Although the capability approach has been widely adopted in development thinking, hardly any work has been done on the interrelations between the capability approach and technology. This is remarkable, since technology by definition aims at expanding human capabilities. In recent years, however, publications have started emerging on this topic, most of them concerned with ICT and more in particular with ICT and developing countries. A possible reason for this may be the high expectations regarding the positive contributions ICT will make in issues concerning development and global justice. One of the icons of ‘ICT for Development’ or e-development is the poor farmer in a developing country who now has access to crop prizes thanks to his mobile phone and as a result can eliminate the middlemen. The capability approach may be able to provide a lens through which such ICT applications can be critically scrutinized and evaluated.
In this special issue of Ethics and Information Technology the relevance and implications of the capability approach for ICT will further be explored, though not merely confined to the context of developing countries. We invite contributions concerning both theoretical and applied issues from all over the world and with relevance for either Western countries, developing countries, or both.
Some of the issues that can be addressed are the following:
The editors at Ethics and Information Technology are seeking articles for a special issue in this area. Submissions will be double-blind refereed for relevance to the theme as well as academic rigor and originality. High quality articles not deemed to be sufficiently relevant to the special issue may be considered for publication in a subsequent non-themed issue.
Closing date for submissions: February 28, 2010
To submit your paper, please use the online submission system, to be found at www.editorialmanager.com/etin.
For any questions or information regarding this special issue, please contact the managing editor,
Noëmi Manders Huits,
N.L.J.L.Manders-Huits@tudelft.nl
Ethics and Information Technology (ETIN) is the major journal in the field of moral and political reflection on Information Technology. Its aim is to advance the dialogue between moral philosophy and the field of information technology in a broad sense, and to foster and promote reflection and analysis concerning the ethical, social and political questions associated with the adoption, use, and development of IT.
The 36th Conference on Value Inquiry “Wrongdoing and Its Consequences” will be held at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale Illinois 16-18 April 2010. Broad participation is sought. Papers, and proposals for papers, that address concerns of individual and collective wrongdoing, what makes acts seriously morally wrong, the proper responses to wrongdoing, and the justification of legal punishment are particularly welcome. Early Submission is strongly encouraged and advised. Papers should be between 20-25 minutes reading time. Papers may be practically or theoretically oriented. Topics may be disciplinary and range over issues within a single field of value inquiry such as normative ethics, applied ethics, aesthetics, political theory, or economics. Topics may be interdisciplinary and range over issues between two or more fields of value inquiry. Topics may even be meta-disciplinary and range over purely conceptual issues important for fuller understanding of matters of social justice and individual responsibility.
Keynote Speakers
Larry May, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University. His War Crimes and Just Wars appeared in 2007 and his Aggression and Crimes Against Peace appeared in 2008 (both Cambridge University Press). His most recent work is on genocide and global justice
Randall E. Auxier, Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, is the editor of Library of Living Philosophers and The Pluralist. He has written on various topics related to value, especially the relation of purposes and ideals to moral development.
Submissions Deadline: January 3, 2010
Papers, abstracts or proposals (in MS Word or PDF) may be submitted in electronic form to cviconference@siu.edu or in hard copy form to:
Professor George Schedler, Conference Coordinator, 36th Conference on Value Inquiry
Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University, Mail Code 4505, 980 Faner Drive, Carbondale, Illinois 62901
For more information please visit our website: web site: http://philosophy.siuc.edu/CALLFORPAPERS.htm
Trust in digital environments (e-trust) affects the activities of millions of individuals involving a wide range of social dynamics. This pervasive phenomenon raises new ethical problems, such as the occurrence of e-trust relationships between human and artificial agents and the emergence of trust in on-line contexts.
The ethical debate on e-trust has been characterised by the tension between two opposite positions. One considers e-trust as a different phenomenon from trust. It argues that trust requires embodied interactions characterised by emotional, cultural and physical aspects and hence that trust could not arise in digital contexts, where such kinds of interactions are impossible. The other position rejects the assumption of embodied interactions as a necessary condition for the occurrence of trust, and focuses on the analysis of the main characteristics and of the ethical features of e-trust.
The purpose of this special issue of Ethics and Information Technology, entitled “The Case for e-Trust: a New Ethical Challenge”, is to address explicitly the issues concerning the ethical nature of e-trust.
Submitted papers are requested to explore issues concerning the following research questions:
1. What are the fundamental and distinctive aspects of e-trust?
2. Should e-trust be regarded as an occurrence of trust on-line or as an independent phenomenon in itself?
3. What are the ethical implications of e-trust?
4. To what extent artificial agents can be involved in an e-trust relationship?
5. What is the influence, if any, of the context on the emergence of e-trust?
Submissions will be double-blind refereed for relevance to the theme as well as academic rigor and originality. High quality articles not deemed to be sufficiently relevant to the special issue may be considered for publication in a subsequent non-themed issue of Ethics and Information Technology.
Closing date for submissions: March 1st 2010
To submit your paper, please use the Springer online submission system, to be found at www.editorialmanager.com/etin
Please contact the special guest editors for more information:
Mariarosaria Taddeo,
mariarosariataddeo@gmail.com
Luciano Floridi,
luciano.floridi@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Or the managing editor,
Noëmi Manders-Huits
N.L.J.L.Manders-Huits@tudelft.nl
Ethics and Information Technology (ETIN) is the major journal in the field of moral and political reflection on Information Technology. Its aim is to advance the dialogue between moral philosophy and the field of information technology in a broad sense, and to foster and promote reflection and analysis concerning the ethical, social and political questions associated with the adoption, use, and development of IT.
The 2010 Forum on Philosophy, Engineering & Technology (fPET-2010) is an outgrowth of the Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering (WPE-2007 in Delft and WPE-2008 in London). The mission of the Forum is (1) to encourage reflection on engineering, engineers, and technology by philosophers and engineers alike and (2) to build bridges between existing organizations of philosophers and of engineers.
fPET-2010 will be held as an intensive one-day meeting on 9-10 May 2010 (Sunday evening-Monday) at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO.
Abstracts (500-750 words) are invited for submission in one of three tracks:
Track One: Philosophy (reviewing by philosophers) Track Two: Engineering ethics and other interdisciplinary topics (mixed reviewing) Track Three: Reflections of practitioners (reviewing by engineers)
All submissions will be blind-reviewed by the program committee. Those accepted for presentation at fPET-2010 will be scheduled for 30-minute talks (inclusive of Q&A). All abstracts accepted for fPET-2010 will be published online at the Forum website and in a printed volume available at the meeting. A volume of selected papers from fPET-2010 will be published by a major publisher.
Instructions: Abstracts may be submitted electronically at www.philengtech.org/submission. Notification of acceptances will be sent by 1 March 2010.
Abstracts (500-750 words) due Monday, 28 December 2009 www.philengtech.org.
The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics invites applications for its newly launched five-year project, the Lab on “Institutional Corruption” — roughly defined as legal, even currently ethical acts which tend either to weaken the effectiveness of an institution, or that weaken public trust of the institution. The aim of the Lab is to study institutional corruption with both an empirical and normative focus. The empirical research will explore whether and when institutional corruption exists. The normative project will develop tools to address institutional corruption when it is found to exist. Some of the work will be done by the Lab; some of it has already been done and simply needs better translation across institutional fields; and some we hope to inspire by providing a better framework into which the work might fit. The ultimate objective of the Lab is to produce a set of tools that institutions might use both to understand the problem of “institutional corruption,” and to respond to it.
The project invites applications from all disciplines, and is especially eager to build upon relatively new research in sociology, behavioral economics, and psychology, as well as to develop multidisciplinary approaches that might integrate the work of different fields directed at a common problem.
The core of the Lab will be made up of Research Fellows, who will be in residence at Harvard. Research Fellows in residence will be expected to devote the majority of their time to the research project, and participate in a weekly seminar designing the work of the Lab, and evaluating its progress.
A broad range of researchers are invited to submit proposals to the Lab, either to become residential Research Fellows, or to propose joint or collaborative research projects.
Tenured and untenured faculty are invited to participate, so long as their work during the fellowship is primarily directed towards the project of the Lab. Alternatively, faculty members are invited to propose projects that they would direct but that would be executed at the Lab. Postdoctoral applications are eagerly encouraged, as well as proposals from researchers in industry or government seeking sabbatical time to pursue research directly relevant to the project. Researchers need not be located at Harvard.
The deadline date for receipt of applications for projects beginning September 2010 is January 15, 2010.
Further details about the Project, the Operational Plan, and procedures for submitting an application are available on our website: http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/lab.
Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
Indiana University
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Bloomington, Indiana 47405-3602
Telephone (812) 855-6450; FAX (812) 856-4969
Questions pertaining to this web site can be sent to appe @ indiana.edu