Events for the Florida Blue Center for Ethics
Southeastern Epistemology Conference
2012 Conference Schedule
9:30 – 10:30 Kevin McCain
(Alabama-Birmingham)
“Self-Support or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love
the Circle”
10:45 – 11:45 Ted Poston (South Alabama)
“Locating Bayesianism within an Explanationist Framework"
12:00 – 2:00 LUNCH BREAK
2:00 – 3:00 Jon Altschul
(Loyola)
“Epistemic Deontology and Feldman's Role Oughts"
3:15 – 4:15 Chase Wrenn
(Alabama)
"Utility, Virtue, and Good Scientific Judgment"
4:30 – 5:30 Sarah Wright (Georgia)
“Dual-Aspect Norms of Belief and Assertion: A Virtue
Approach to Epistemic Norms”
9:30 – 10:45 Jon Matheson (North
Florida)
“Evidentialism, Reliabilism, and the Generality Problem”
11:00 – 12:15 Michael Bishop (Florida
State)
“A Proposed Solution to the Generality
Problem"
12:15 – 2:00 LUNCH BREAK
2:00 – 3:15 Eli Chudnoff (Miami)
“Intuitive Awareness”
3:45 – 5:15 Jack Lyons (Arkansas) --
Keynote Address
"Cognitive Processes for Epistemologists"
Pediatric Bioethics Conference
Friday, November 2, 2012
University Center
Jacksonville, Florida 32224
Alissa
Hurwitz Swota, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the
Florida Blue Center for Ethics at UNF, organized the Fourth Annual
Pediatric Bioethics
Conference. The conference is sponsored by Wolfson Children's Hospital
in partnership with the University of North Florida and the Florida
Bioethics Network.
With talks on pressing issues by experts in
the field, the conference will serve as fertile ground for the
development and elucidation of best practices in pediatric bioethics.
This conference will include sessions such as ethical issues in
integrating complementary and alternative therapies, suspending judgment
while providing care and ethical issues in pediatric mental health.
For more information, Please contact Prof Alissa Hurwitz Swota, aswota@unf.edu.
5th Annual A. David Kline Symposium on Public Philosophy
Municipal Ethics (March 29-30, 2013)
Dr. Donald C. Menzel, President of Ethics Management
International
“The Ethics of Public Officials: Strong, Bent, Broken?”
This paper explores the ethicality of public officials,
elected and appointed, in the United States with particular interest in probing
for reasons, motivations, and circumstances that have led some to stray from
and others to stay on the ethical pathway. The reader should note that this
paper works with material on corruption and ethics, two subjects seldom joined
in the literature. Corruption can be defined as the (mis)use of one’s public
office for personal gain typically in the form of bribes, extortion, kickbacks,
awards and favors to friends. Corrupt behavior is generally illegal behavior as
set forth in laws and regulations. Ethics may be defined as values and
principles that guide right and wrong behavior (Menzel 2012). Another way of
saying this is that corruption and ethics, while defined differently, are two
sides of a common coin—behavior.
Dr. Curtis Ventriss, Rubenstein
School of Environment and Natural Resources
“The Ethics of decision-making and Civic Engagement:
Challenges and Prospects.”
The paper addresses the issue of fostering civic
stewardship that achieves the goals of social equity and participation in the
delivery of public services, while, at the same time, attempting to reconcile
these noble goals with the realities of hierarchy, specialization, and
professionalism.
For more information, Please contact Mitch Haney, mhaney@unf.edu
5th Annual John C. Maraldo Lecture in Comparative Philosophy
Dr. Roger T. Ames
“Confucian Role Ethics: A Challenge to the Ideology of
Individualism”
In the introduction of Chinese philosophy and culture into the Western academy,
we have tended to theorize and conceptualize this antique tradition by appeal
to familiar categories. Confucian role ethics is an attempt to articulate a sui
generis moral philosophy that allows this tradition to have its own voice. This
holistic philosophy is grounded in the primacy of relationality, and is a
challenge to a foundational liberal individualism that has defined persons as
discrete, autonomous, rational, free, and often self-interested agents.
Confucian role ethics begins from a relationally constituted conception of
person, takes family roles and relations as the entry point for developing
moral competence, invokes moral imagination and the growth in relations that it
can inspire as the substance of human morality, and entails a human-centered,
a-theistic religiousness that stands in sharp contrast to the Abrahamic
religions.
