Role Ethics Network: Workshop I

This is the first of three workshops for the AHRC Role Ethics Network.

The various roles we occupy (FRIEND, PARENT, BOSS, etc.) shape a great deal of our practical decision-making. This influence is under-acknowledged and poorly understood within theoretical ethics. Or to be accurate, the importance of roles is recognized in work on particular morally charged cases (military roles, gender roles, family roles, etc.), but there has been precious little cross-domain work on the ethical significance of roles per se. Given how socially pervasive they are, and given the enormous impact they clearly have on our normative outlook, the literature on roles in general within ethical and political theory is surprisingly thin and scattered. The network exists to fix this.

If you would like to come along, or to read abstracts and see the timetable, or to just register an interest in the project or later events, go to the project website, from where you can contact the project leads by email. No registration required beyond sending us an email and receiving a confirmation (this helps with catering and room size). All welcome.