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Rutgers Epistemology Conference 2019
Rutgers Epistemology Conference 2019 @ Hyatt Regency, Conference rm. BC
May 3 – May 4 all-day
The REC is a pre-read conference. The papers will be made available on April 15. Friday, May 3, 2019 1:30 – 3:15 pm     Alex Byrne (MIT)     Chair: TBD Coffee Break 3:45 – 5:30 pm     Susanna Rinard (Harvard)     Chair: TBD Dinner 7:30 – 9:15 pm     Jonathan Kvanvig (Washington University St Louis)     Chair: TBD Reception 9:30 – 11:00 PM Saturday, May 4, 2019 9:30 – 11:15 am     Anil Gupta (University[...]
The Ethics of Donor Conception
The Ethics of Donor Conception @ Kimmel Center, Room 802
May 3 – May 4 all-day
There are no reliable statistics on how many children are created in the United States from donated gametes. The CDC, which collects statistics on in vitro fertilization, reported that roughly 9,000 children were born from IVF with donated eggs in 2015. But according to the Donor Sibling, Registry, a survey of such parents found that 40% of those responding were never asked to report the birth of their child. And most births from donated sperm[...]
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Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology 5:30 pm
Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology @ Icahn School @Mount Sinai, Annenberg 12-16
May 23 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology is a speaker series conducted under the auspices of the Icahn School of Medicine Bioethics Program. It is a working group where speakers are invited to present well-developed, as yet unpublished work. The focus of the group is interdisciplinary, with an emphasis on topics in ethics, bioethics, neuroethics, and moral psychology. The meetings begin with a brief presentation by the invited speaker and the remaining time is devoted[...]
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Humane Understanding Conference
Humane Understanding Conference @ Fordham Lincoln Center
May 31 – Jun 1 all-day
As work on the nature of understanding has expanded in recent years, there has been increasing interest in the question of what might be distinctive about our understanding of other people, or humane understanding. Our conference will explore this question, and consider how recent debates might be enriched by insights from areas such as epistemology, the philosophy of science, the philosophy of social science, the hermeneutical tradition, and the “verstehen” tradition in Continental philosophy. Confirmed[...]