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
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