CFP: Human-rights based ethics?

DATE OF CONFERENCE: April 18-19, 2014 (Friday-Saturday)

Call for Submission of Abstracts by March 1, 2014. Any promising abstract
will receive a prompt reply requesting a more developed abstract for
timely blind review. Abstracts should be sent to Professor Clark Butler at
[email protected]  Later submissions will be considered only if a time slot
remains or a cancellation occurs.

PURPOSE: Papers address issues related to or bearing on the question: Can
normative ethics can be based solely on a human rights standard? The idea
will be put to the test of other normative ethical positions such as
ethical pluralism, communitarianism, care ethics, contract theory, etc.
Time will be devoted to discussion. It will also be put to the test of
work in applied ethics.

INVITED SPEAKERS:
Professor of Philosophy James Sterba (University of Notre Dame) in moral
  philosophy
Distinguished Professor of Political Science and International Relations,
  Mark Gibney, University of North Carolina-Asheville
David Marshall, Chief, Global Issues Section, New York Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

SPONSOR: Human Rights Institute, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort
Wayne Campus, Purdue University System. Two of the four previous
conferences have led to books by Purdue University Press.

PLACE: Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne Campus, Fort Wayne Indiana.