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SUMMARY:Role Ethics
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LOCATION:University of Manchester\, Manchester\, United Kingdom
DESCRIPTION:<p>Roles are socially pervasive and normatively demanding. They have an enormous and complex impact on our practical decision making. When judging whether she should illegally hack an apparently corrupt POLITICIAN&rsquo\;s bank account\, for example\, an INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST cannot ignore the specific duties and purposes of both her own and the politician&rsquo\;s social roles.</p>\n<p>High-profile discussions of particular roles can be found across the spectrum of applied ethics (e.g. COMBATANT in war ethics\; PRACTITIONER in medical ethics\; PARENT in family ethics\; WOMAN in feminist theory\; WORKER in economic policy)\, but work on role ethics as a topic in its own right is surprisingly rare. There are signs that this is changing and that roles <em>per se </em>are beginning to attain the profile they deserve within ethical and political theory. The ROLE ETHICS workshop is designed to foster this process.</p>\n<p><strong>Proposals in the form of an anonymous abstract are invited on the themes below. Deadline: 31 May 2013</strong></p>\n<p>One goal of the workshop is to achieve a greater understanding of both the unity and the diversity of roles. All roles seem to share a core set of features. They:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Have specifiable entry and exit conditions</em></li>\n<li><em>Generate obligations for their occupiers (qua occupiers)</em></li>\n<li><em>Entitle their occupiers (qua occupiers) to certain powers and privileges</em></li>\n<li><em>Have a social function.</em></li>\n</ul>\n<p>Yet roles can also be distinguished along a great many morally salient parameters\, such as:</p>\n<p>Voluntary (ADOPTIVE PARENT) vs involuntary (CONSCRIPT)\; highly codified (COMMANDING OFFICER) vs loosely specified (FRIEND)\; wWidely socially recognized (TEACHER) vs contested (SLAVE)\; biologically defined (GESTATIONAL MOTHER) vs socially constructed (&lsquo\;MUMMY&rsquo\;)\; easily left (ASSISTANT CHEF) vs inalienable (BIRTH CHILD)\; short-term (JUROR) vs long-term (DALAI LAMA)\; professional (DENTIST) vs ad hoc (WITNESS TO A MURDER)\; broad in brief (PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL) vs narrow in brief (EXPERT WITNESS)\; open to all (CONSUMER) vs invitation only (GODPARENT)\; decision making (EUTHANASIA PATIENT) vs decision facilitating (EUTHANASIA DOCTOR)</p>\n<p>Workshop contributors can use specific roles as case studies but should address general questions\, including but not limited to:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is a role? Is a unitary definition desirable?</li>\n<li>Are there generic ethical principles governing when and how someone may assume or abandon a role? Or when and how a role&rsquo\;s occupier may ignore or override its prescriptions?</li>\n<li>What <em>makes</em> a set of role obligations obligatory for its occupier? Is it always a matter of actual or hypothetical consent? Likewise\, what entitles an occupier to the powers attaching to the role?</li>\n<li>How do we determine what action is appropriate when a role&rsquo\;s obligations and entitlements are not clearly specified (e.g. the parental role)? And even when role-obligations are strongly codified (e.g. in a code of professional ethics)\, by what criteria may we evaluate the obligations and codes themselves?</li>\n<li>Is role ethics <em>sui generis</em> or is it the product of more general considerations that apply impartially to all persons\, or of responsibilities arising from special (non-impartial) relationships between persons?</li>\n<li>What does and what should govern the range and availability of roles within a given society?</li>\n<li>Do role obligations conflict with &lsquo\;ordinary&rsquo\; morality? Or does proper recognition of roles lead to a form of moral pluralism\, as apparently envisaged by Machiavelli for the case of high public office?</li>\n</ul>\n<p>For details on submitting\, see:</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Alex Barber;CN=Sean Cordell:
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