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The Pro*Doc "Human Life" at the Philosophical Seminar of the University of
Basel in connection with the Centre for Ethics in Zurich are hosting the
following conference:
"Disability and the Good Human Life"
Date: 3rd to 5th of June, 2010
Place: University of Basel, Switzerland
Organizers: PD Dr. Barbara Schmitz (Philosophisches Seminar, Basel)
lic. phil. Franziska Felder (Centre for Ethics, Zurich)
Questions about the possibility and the content of a good human life for
disabled human beings are central to discussions both in bioethics and in
political philosophy. Our symposium aims to bring together scholars from
various fields and disciplines to discuss questions concerning the quality
of life for disabled people.
Speakers:
- Jackie Leach Scully (Newcastle)
- John Harris (Manchester)
- Tom Shakespeare (Newcastle)
- Barbara Schmitz (Basel)
- Thomas Schramme (Hamburg)
- Simo Vehmas (Jyväskylä)
- Franziska Felder (Zürich)
- Jonathan Wolff (London)
- Hans Reinders (Amsterdam)
Preliminary Programme:
Thursday, 3rd of June 2010
14.30 Introduction
15.00 - 16.30 Jackie Leach Scully (Newcastle): Who'd want to be like
that?: Or whether disability is always bad
16.30 Break
17.00 - 18.30 John Harris (Manchester): Disability or Enhancement:
Which do you want, for yourself, your children, your society, and what
should we want for you?
Friday, 4th of June 2010
9.00 - 10.30 Tom Shakespeare (Newcastle): Nasty, brutish and short:
The predicament of disability and embodiment
10.30 Break
11.00 - 12.30
Barbara Schmitz (Basel): Something else? Cognitive disability and the
human form of life
12.30 Lunch
14.00 - 15.30 Thomas Schramme (Hamburg): Comparative and
non-comparative Perspectives on disability
15.30 Break
16.00 - 17.30 Simo Vehmas (Jyväskylä): Confronting silly relativism in
disability studies
Saturday, 5th of June 2010
9.00 - 10.30 Franziska Felder (Zürich) : The morality of inclusion and
the challenge of disability
10.30 Break
11.00 - 12.30 Jonathan Wolff (London): Adaptation and disability, and
how political philosophy should respond to
empirical findings
12.30 Break
13.15 - 14.45 Hans Reinders (Amsterdam): If Friendship Is What Counts,
Why Should Disability Be A Problem? Aristotelian Musings On The Good
Life
14.45 - 15.30 Final discussion
Location: University of Basel, Philosophical Seminar, Nadelberg 6-8,
4051 Basel, Switzerland.
Room: Cave (on Thursday), Grosser Hoersaal, Schoenes Haus (on Friday
and Saturday).
The conference is open for all but registration is needed.
For Registration please contact:
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Tel. +41 61 2672770
For further questions please do not hesitate to contact:
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Franziska Felder, <[log in to unmask]>
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