Allan McCay brings me news of an event to be held on Nov. 15 in Sydney, Australia, entitled "Free Will: Moral and Legal Responsibility". See here for logistical details. The program and list of speakers is below (including the Neuroethics & Law Blog's very own Neil Levy):
Program
8.30am Registration
9.00am Welcome
Kevin Walton, Director, Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence
9.05am Justifying Punishment in a Deterministic World
Christopher Birch, Adjunct Professor, Sydney Law School
10.00am The Incompatibility of Retributive Desert and Determinism
Allan McCay, University of Sydney Foundation Program and Sydney Law School PhD candidate
10.55am Morning tea
11.25am Reason, Freedom and Punishment: A (Broadly) Hegelian Account
Philip A. Quadrio, University of New South Wales
12.20pm Extending Smilansky on Prepunishment
Neil Levy, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics
1.15pm Lunch
2.15pm The Role of Gestalts in Conscious Decision-Making
David Hodgson, Judge of Appeal, Supreme Court of New South Wales
3.10pm Autonomy, Moral Responsibility and Self-Control
Catriona Mackenzie, Macquarie University
4.05pm Afternoon tea
4.35pm Rational Capacities, Resolve, and Weakness of Will
Daniel Cohen, Charles Sturt University
5.30 – 6.30pm Cocktail Reception
Contact
For further information, please contact:
Sydney Law School Events Co-Ordinator,
Tel. (02) 9351 0248
law.events@usyd.edu.au
This looks like a great event! These days, moral responsibility can oftentimes be forgotten in the legal profession. Good to see such emphasis on it. :)
Posted by: Legal Transcription | 10/06/2008 at 01:49 PM