BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240328T151220Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20111223T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20111223T100000 SUMMARY:Living Responsibly: Reflecting on the Ethical Issues of Everyday Life UID:20240328T151220Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Praha\, Czech Republic DESCRIPTION:
Taking their professional responsibilities seriously\, practitioners of a wide variety of professions\, including medicine\, psychology and social work\; journalism\, tourism and the arts\; architecture\, civil engineering and the law\, engage in reflection about ethical issues as part of their daily practice. Most professions have an ethical code with which its members are expected to comply. But ethical issues are not to be found only in the workplace. Whether we are aware of it or not\, we all face ethical decisions every day. Or at any rate\, each day we make decisions that have ethical significance &ndash\; about\, for example\, what we eat\; how we behave towards others\, including strangers as well as family and friends\; about the extent to which we are willing to share what we have with others who have less\; about the energy we use in travelling and in heating our homes\, and about where we should shop for food\, clothes and the other essentials of modern life.
Probably the most talked about problems about the intention to live responsibly arise in relation to human induced climate change\, which has provoked heated debate at every level\, and global summits aimed at forging agreements about how to tackle the problems of global warming. As well as local and international regulation\, reflection about the problems of climate change have led also to mountains of advice about what we can to do to limit our impact on the planet &ndash\; from changes in the ways we produce and package goods\, to how we build\, heat and insulate our homes\; and from the advantages of using locally produced food and other necessities\, to those of recycling almost everything. Of course\, global warming is not the only area of life in which ethical living has become a major focus for many people. For example\, they are concerned also\, about a wide range of other issues including:
Living Responsibly: reflecting on the ethical issues of everyday life will facilitate dialogue about living more responsibly. It will be of interest to everyone who cares about living in ways that are respectful of others and respectful of the planet\, whether they are lay people or\, for example\, ethicists\, sociologists\, theologians\, anthropologists or psychologists who are interested in what it means to behave ethically\, and in what motivates ethical behaviour.
Abstracts are invited about any aspect of ethical issues in everyday life\, of which the following suggested topics and questions are merely exemplars:
FOOD
CLIMATE CHANGE and GLOBAL WARMING
RELATING TO AND CARING FOR OTHERS
BUSINESS
Papers will be considered on any related theme. The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 23rd December 2011. If an abstract is accepted for the conference\, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 23rd March 2012. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs\; abstracts may be in Word\, WordPerfect\, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:
a) author(s)\, b) affiliation\, c) email address\, d) title of abstract\,
e) body of abstract\, f) up to 10 keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: RL2 Abstract Submission.
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting\, characters or emphasis (such as bold\, italics or underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of the year. All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal\; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest\, then\, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs
Gavin J Fairbairn
Professor of Ethics and Language
Leeds Metropolitan University
Leeds
United Kingdom
Email: G.Fairbairn@leedsmet.ac.uk
Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Priory House\, Wroslyn Road
Freeland\, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
Email: el2@inter-disciplinary.net