CFP: The Good Life: Theory and Practice

Submission deadline: May 11, 2012

Conference date(s):
June 8, 2012

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Conference Venue:

Philosophy Department, University of Birmingham
Birmingham, UK, United Kingdom

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Conceptions of the good life have an obvious place in normative theory, and a clear relevance for a wide range of practical concerns, from individual autonomy and embodiment to development ethics and welfare economics. This workshop will bring together interdisciplinary scholars and students working on a range of practical issues for presentations and discussion, with the hope of illuminating the relationship that theory has to practice here. Likely focal points for discussion include (but are not limited to) health and illness, capability and functioning, preference deformation and adaption, and objectification and commodification of the self.

Call for abstracts

We invite abstracts from post-graduate students in philosophy and cognate disciplines on the 'Good Life' theme, broadly construed. An emphasis on connections and/or transitions between theory and practice involving conceptions of the good life would be especially welcome. Papers will be 10-15 mins in length, followed by questions.

Please send abstracts (of approximately 500 words) to Ben Bessey ([email protected]) by 11th May 2012.

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