Beyond the nuclear family: the philosophy of close personal relationships

September 10, 2015 - September 11, 2015
Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Umeå University, Sweden

Umeå
Sweden

Sponsor(s):

  • Riksbankens Jubileumfond
  • The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Science

Speakers:

David Archard
Queen's University, Belfast
Maren Behrensen
Linköping University, Sweden.
Rice University
Clare Chambers
Cambridge University
Daniela Cutas
Umeå University
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Timothy Fowler
University of Bristol (UK)
Anca Gheaus
University of Sheffield
Kalle Grill
Umeå University
Goedecke Klara
Uppsala University (Sweden)
Mianna Lotz
Macquarie University
Anna Smajdor
University of East Anglia
Bonnie Steinbock
University at Albany (SUNY)
Adam Swift
University of Warwick

Organisers:

Daniela Cutas
Umeå University
Anca Gheaus
University of Sheffield
Kalle Grill
Umeå University

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There is no registration fee, but if you would like to attend please send a message to [email protected]before September 1st.

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September 10

9:00 – 9:10      Welcome and introduction

9:10 – 10:00    Adam Swift (Warwick University), Family Values and Family Structures

10:05 – 10:55  Daniela Cutas (Umeå University and University of Gothenburg), Beyond the sexual family: what do we value and how can we protect it?

10:55 – 11:10  coffee break

11:10 – 12:00  Klara Goedecke (Uppsala University), With a little help from my friends: intimacies and solidarities in men's friendships

12:05 – 12:55  Anna Smajdor (University of East Anglia), Who put the R in ART? In vitro fertilisation to fulfil non-parental relationship needs

12:55 – 14:00  lunch break

14:00 – 14:50  Kalle Grill (Umeå University), Should parents love each other?

14:55 – 15:45  Maren Behrensen (Linköping University), Identification, care, and poly parenting

15:45 – 16:00  coffee break

16:00 – 16:50  Mianna Lotz (Macquarie University), Vulnerability in the parent-child relationship

16:55 – 17:45  Titti Mattsson (Lund University), The design of the legal family and its implications from a vulnerability perspective

19:00   dinner at (TBA)

 

September 11

9:00 – 9:50      Bonnie Steinbock (University of Albany), Procreative Liberty, Procreative Responsibility, and the Non-Identity Problem

9:55 – 10:45    Anca Gheaus (Umeå University and Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield), The Best Available Parent

10:45 – 11:00  coffee break

11:00 – 11:50  Clare Chambers (University of Cambridge), Against Marriage: An Egalitarian Defence of the Marriage-Free State

11:55 – 12:45  Elizabeth Brake (Arizona State University), The right to care: extending access to caring relationships

12:45 – 14:00  lunch break

14:00 – 14:50  Tim Fowler (University of Bristol), Against the parity principle: theorising parental disagreement

14:50 – 15:05  coffee break

15:05 – 15:55 Jake Earl (Georgetown University), A partial defence of the baby lottery

16:00 – 16:50  David Archard (Queen’s University), Partiality and relationship goods

16:50 – 17:00  Concluding remarks

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September 1, 2015, 2:00pm CET

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