The idea of evil: secular approaches

Conference organizers

• Stephen de Wijze (MANCEPT/Politics) [email protected]
• Catherine Abell (MANCEV/Philosophy) [email protected]
• Eve Garrard (MANCEPT/Philosophy) [email protected]

Places limited to 40 participants so register early. 

Book at http://estore.manchester.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=220&modid=2&compid=1

Thursday 22  November

Registration   9:30 - 10:00

10:00 - 11:30 Luke Russell (The University of Sydney)

Evil and the Qualitative Difference Revisited

Commentator:  Richard Child (University of Manchester)

11:30 – 11.45 Break - tea/coffee

11.45 – 13.15   Eve Garrard (University of Manchester)

Speak No Evil?

Commentator:  Philip Cole (University of Wales, Newport)

13.15 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30  Matthew Kramer (University of Cambridge)

A Theory of Evil

Commentator:  Hillel Steiner   (University of Manchester)

15:30 – 15:45  Break – tea/coffee

15:45 – 17:15  Gideon Calder (University of Wales, Newport)

Agency, social structures and secular evil

Commentator:  Steve Cooke (University of Manchester)

Drinks 17:15- 18:30

19:00  Dinner

Friday  23 November

10:00 – 11.30  Paul Formosa (Macquarie University)

Evils, Wrongs, and Dignity

Commentator:  Garvan Walshe (University of Manchester)

11.30 – 11.45 Break - tea/coffee

11.45 – 13.15   Shlomit Harrosh (Shalom Hartman Institute)

South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Moral Victory over Evil?

Commentator:  Harry Lesser (University of Manchester)

13:15 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30   Stephen de Wijze (University of Manchester)

Political Evil – Warping the Moral Landscape

Commentator:  Tom Porter (University of Manchester)

15:30- 15:45   Tea

15:45- 17:15   Adam Morton (University of British Columbia)

Small-Scale Evil

Commentator:  Chris Daly (University of Manchester)

Registration fee:

• Academics £50
• Students £25                 

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