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CALL FOR PAPERS: Bearing and Rearing Children: The Ethics of Procreation and Parenthood. University of Cape Town May 26-28 2008 Sponsored by: *The Department of Philosophy, University of Cape Town, South Africa *The Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics, Georgia State University, USA *The Society for Applied Philosophy, UK Web address: http://www.gsu.edu/ethics Keynote speakers: Hugh LaFollette, Cole Chair in Ethics, University of South Florida, USA Jeff McMahan, Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University, USA This conference will address a range of ethical issues that arise from concerns about the life any future child might reasonably be expected to enjoy, about what makes someone a parent, and about what rights and duties a parent has. Possible topic areas include the right to procreate, the duty to (or not to) procreate, the role of the state in facilitating procreation, duties of prospective procreators to future children and relevant third parties, how disability bears on procreative decisions, the foundation and scope of parental rights and duties, the relevance of the distinction between 'causal' and 'custodial' parenthood, and how justice bears on procreative decision-making. For further details about this conference and guidelines on submitting proposals see: http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwphl/ethics/events/Capetownflyer2008-6.pdf Hilde Lindemann Associate Professor of Philosophy 503 South Kedzie Hall Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 517-353-3981 [log in to unmask]