Lectures+ event with Professor Conor Gearty

Is Britain’s eagerness to abolish the Human Rights Act really due to concerns over national security or is it an attempt to protect the fort they have built around their fantasy island of English exceptionalism?

If you would like a chance to debate your views on this topic with others of various disciplines and Professor Conor Gearty, the Director of the Institute of Public Affairs and Professor Human Rights Law at LSE, read on!

LSE United Nations Society is offering all students of LSE the chance to participate in pre-lecture and post-lecture seminars as part of their Lectures+ series. These seminars will allow for an in-depth discussion of this topic with Professor Conor Gearty in a small group setting.

"Human Rights After Brexit: Still on Fantasy Island?"

Professor Conor Gearty will be holding a public lecture titled “Human Rights After Brexit: Still on Fantasy Island?” on 8 December (Thurs), from 6pm-8pm to discuss his new book, ‘On Fantasy Island’. Discussion points include reasons behind the battle to repeal the Human Rights Act, its potential implications on immigration following Brexit and what the best solution to this dilemma may be.

Pre-lecture and post-lecture seminars

• Pre-lecture seminar: Participants are to discuss specific chapters from the book ‘On Fantasy Island’. Questions that arise during the discussion will be compiled and addressed by Professor Gearty during the lecture or at the post-lecture seminar
• Post-lecture seminar: An exclusive seminar with Professor Gearty where questions on the book or lecture can be explored in greater detail

Please note that participation in the post-lecture seminar is contingent on attendance in both the pre-lecture seminar and the public lecture.

Dates and time:

• Pre-lecture seminar: 30 November (Wed), 1:00pm-2:00pm
• Public lecture: 8 December (Thurs), 6:30pm-8:00pm
• Post-lecture seminar: 9 December (Fri), 11:00am-12:30pm

Sign-ups are open now (link)

Successful applicants will be notified at a later date via email.

For more information, please contact the Lectures+ Officers Celine Toh (H.L.Toh) or Heather Hong (H.Hong7)

Invitation to PBS Research Seminar – Dr Oliver Scott Curry, Is it good to cooperate? Testing the theory of morality-as-cooperation in 60 societies, 1 December, 12.30-2pm, QUE 3.28/9

** This is a ticketed event, please register for your free ticket here **

Hi All

You are invited to the following PBS Research Seminar:

Title

Is it good to cooperate? Testing the theory of morality-as-cooperation in 60 societies

Abstract
What is morality? And to what extent does it vary around the world? The theory of morality-as-cooperation argues that morality consists of a collection of biological and cultural solutions to the nonzerosum problems of cooperation and conflict recurrent in human social life. This theory predicts that specific forms of cooperative behaviour – helping kin, helping your group, reciprocating, being brave, deferring to superiors, dividing disputed resources, and respecting prior ownership – will be considered morally good wherever they arise, irrespective of culture. This prediction challenges widely held ‘cultural relativist’ views of morality. The present study tests this prediction by investigating the moral valence of these seven cooperative behaviours in the ethnographic records of 60 societies. The results provide strong support for the theory: the moral valence of cooperative behaviour is uniformly positive; and the majority of these cooperative moral values appear in the majority of cultures, in all regions of the world. These findings provide new insights into moral universals and moral variation. And they indicate that morality-as-cooperation could provide the unified theory of morality that the behavioural sciences have hitherto lacked.

Speaker

Dr Oliver Scott Curry is a Senior Researcher, and Director of the Oxford Morals Project, at the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford. His research investigates the nature, content and structure of human morality, using a range of techniques from philosophy, experimental psychology and comparative anthropology. Oliver’s work argues that morality is best understood as a collection of biological and cultural solutions to the problems of cooperation and conflict recurrent in human social life. He has recently tested this theory of ‘morality as cooperation’ by means of a comprehensive cross-cultural survey of the moral values of 60 traditional societies. He is currently developing a new psychological measure of moral values for use in cross-cultural research.

Date:

1 December 2016

Time:

12.30-2.00pm

Venue:

Queens House, QUE 3.28/9

Maps to the venue can be found here

Lunch will be provided at this event

Best wishes

Terri-Ann Fairclough

PhD Programme and Communication Administrator

Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science

3rd Floor, Queens House

London School of Economics and Political Science

Houghton Steet, London WC2A 2AE

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CfP: 2017 Joint Session Aristotelian Society

Joint Session Call for Papers 2017 Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Call For Papers The 91st Joint Session The University of Edinburgh, 14-16 July 2017 About The Joint Session is a three-day conference in philosophy that is held annually during the summer by the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association. It has taken place at nearly every major university across the United Kingdom and in Ireland. Since 1910, the Joint Session has grown to become the largest gathering of philosophers in the country, attracting prestigious UK and international speakers working in a broad range of philosophical areas. Inaugurated by the incoming President of the Mind Association, the Joint Session includes symposia, open and postgraduate sessions, and a range of satellite conferences. The 91st Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association will be held at the University of Edinburgh 14-16 July 2017. This year’s local organiser is Aidan McGlynn, and the official Edinburgh website can be found here.

Metaphysics Through Centuries – December 2nd – Senate House

Hello everyone,

There will be a metaphysics workshop on Friday Dec 2nd, at the Senate House. We’ll cover different times in the history of metaphysics, including some contemporary debates. Please join us! The workshop is organised by UCL Philosophy, in collaboration with the Institute of Philosophy.

Some details

Metaphysics Through Time

9.00-9.30 Coffee

9.30-10.30 Alternative Possibilities in Context
– Alexander Kaiserman (Oxford)

11-12 Against Dispositionalism
– Carlotta Pavese (Duke)

LUNCH

14.00-15.15 Type Distinctions of Reason and Hume’s Separability Principle
– Hsueh Ming Qu (Singapore)

15.45-17 Modality in Aristotle
– Simona Aimar (UCL)

PUB & WORKSHOP DINNER

You can find further details here:

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/philosophy/news-events/metaphysics-through-centuries

Hope to see you there!

Simona

Wed 30 Nov | PhD Triangle Conference Programme| University of Essex | Colchester

There are two LSE PhD candidates presenting at this conference: Philippe van Basshuysen (Philosphy, Logic & Scientific method) and Sarah Trotter (Law) .

The LSE Human Rights Doctoral Network

The Human Rights Doctoral Network is open to LSE MPhil / PhD students from any department or discipline who are working in the area of human rights. The Network has a Moodle page to assist LSE doctoral students from a wide variety of departments to share information and ideas, support each other and develop new collaborations.

Human Rights Doctoral Research Forum

The Centre for the Study of Human Rights is a member of the Human Rights Doctoral Research Forum – a collaboration with Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex and the Centre of Governance and Human Rights at the University of Cambridge.

The Forum aims to encourage participation and collaboration by doctoral students researching human rights from the partner institutions. Students from all all three partner institutions have presented and commented on their work at special networking and workshop events.

Many thanks and best wishes

Heidi

Heidi Elfriede El-Megrisi

Centre Manager

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Centre for the Study of Human Rights

Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE

Location on campus:
8th Floor, Tower 3, Clement’s Inn

Tel: +44 (0)207-955-6428

H.E.El-Megrisi

PhD Triangle Programme.pdf

Lectures+ event with Professor Conor Gearty

Is Britain’s eagerness to abolish the Human Rights Act really due to concerns over national security or is it an attempt to protect the fort they have built around their fantasy island of English exceptionalism?

If you would like a chance to debate your views on this topic with others of various disciplines and Professor Conor Gearty, the Director of the Institute of Public Affairs and Professor Human Rights Law at LSE, read on!

LSE United Nations Society is offering all students of LSE the chance to participate in pre-lecture and post-lecture seminars as part of their Lectures+ series. These seminars will allow for an in-depth discussion of this topic with Professor Conor Gearty in a small group setting.

"Human Rights After Brexit: Still on Fantasy Island?"

Professor Conor Gearty will be holding a public lecture titled “Human Rights After Brexit: Still on Fantasy Island?” on 8 December (Thurs), from 6pm-8pm to discuss his new book, ‘On Fantasy Island’. Discussion points include reasons behind the battle to repeal the Human Rights Act, its potential implications on immigration following Brexit and what the best solution to this dilemma may be.

Pre-lecture and post-lecture seminars

• Pre-lecture seminar: Participants are to discuss specific chapters from the book ‘On Fantasy Island’. Questions that arise during the discussion will be compiled and addressed by Professor Gearty during the lecture or at the post-lecture seminar
• Post-lecture seminar: An exclusive seminar with Professor Gearty where questions on the book or lecture can be explored in greater detail

Please note that participation in the post-lecture seminar is contingent on attendance in both the pre-lecture seminar and the public lecture.

Dates and time:

• Pre-lecture seminar: 30 November (Wed), 1:00pm-2:00pm
• Public lecture: 8 December (Thurs), 6:30pm-8:00pm
• Post-lecture seminar: 9 December (Fri), 11:00am-12:30pm

Sign-ups are open now (link)

Successful applicants will be notified at a later date via email.

For more information, please contact the Lectures+ Officers Celine Toh (H.L.Toh) or Heather Hong (H.Hong7)

Rethinking the Ethics of Embryo Research: Genome Editing, 14 Days and Beyond (public conference, 7 December)

The Progress Educational Trust‘s public conference ‘RETHINKING THE ETHICS OF EMBRYO RESEARCH: GENOME EDITING, 14 DAYS AND BEYOND‘ – http://www.progress.org.uk/conference2016 – is now only two weeks away, taking place in London from 9.30am–5pm on Wednesday 7 December 2016.

Speakers include PROFESSOR MAGDALENA ZERNICKA-GOETZ from the University of Cambridge (leader of recent research in which human embryos were cultured in vitro for 13 days, the longest time ever achieved), DR KATHY NIAKAN from the Francis Crick Institute (the first researcher licensed by the UK regulator to use genome editing in human embryo research), and LORD GEORGE CAREY from the House of Lords (former Archbishop of Canterbury).

There will also be Keynote Addresses by BARONESS MARY WARNOCK (who originally proposed the 14-day limit on human embryo research, and whose Warnock Report is arguably the world’s most influential analysis of the ethics of assisted reproduction and embryo research) and PROFESSOR SIR IAN WILMUT (creator of Dolly the sheep, the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell).

Other confirmed speakers and chairs include:

• DR SIMON FISHEL (Founder and President of CARE Fertility, and one of the first researchers to demonstrate that embryos are capable of responding to their environment)

• PROFESSOR BRUCE WHITELAW (Deputy Director of the Roslin Institute, and pioneer in research involving transgenic and genome-edited animals)

• SALLY CHESHIRE (Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority)

• PROFESSOR ALISON MURDOCH (Former Director of the Newcastle Fertility Centre, and leader of the first research in which an early embryo was created from a human nuclear transfer procedure)

• PROFESSOR DAVID JONES (Director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre)

• PROFESSOR SARAH FRANKLIN (Director of the University of Cambridge‘s Reproductive Sociology Research Group)

• PROFESSOR STEPHEN WILKINSON (bioethicist and author of the book Choosing Tomorrow’s Children: The Ethics Of Selective Reproduction)

• DR ROGER HIGHFIELD (Director of External Affairs at the Science Museum Group)

• FIONA FOX (Chair of the Progress Educational Trust and Chief Executive of the Science Media Centre)

• SARAH NORCROSS (Director of the Progress Educational Trust)

Conference sessions include:

• ‘THE WARNOCK REPORT AND THE 14 DAY RULE‘

• ‘THE 14 DAY RULE: CALLING TIME ON EMBRYO RESEARCH‘

• ‘GENOME EDITING: CRISPR AT THE CUTTING EDGE‘

• ‘WHAT’S SO SPECIAL ABOUT THE STATUS OF THE EMBRYO?‘

The conference is supported by Merck (gold sponsor), the Anne McLaren Memorial Trust Fund (silver sponsor), the Medical Research Council and the London Women’s Clinic (bronze sponsors) and Caribou Biosciences (drinks reception sponsor).

Full details of the conference, including the agenda and how to book places, can be found at http://www.progress.org.uk/conference2016

Please email sstarr with any queries.

Best,

Sandy Starr

Progress Educational Trust

+44 (0)20 7278 7870

http://www.progress.org.uk

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Upcoming talk at the Aristotelian Society

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The Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 2016-2017 | Volume CXVII | Issue No. 1 Upcoming Talk Monday, 28 November 2016 | 17.30 – 19.15 ‘Generality, Extensibility, and Paradox’ James Studd (Oxford) The Woburn Suite Senate House University of London Malet Street London WC1E 7HU United Kingdom Chaired by Tim Crane (Cambridge), President of the Aristotelian Society View the draft paper | View the 2016/17 Programme ABOUT James Studd is the University Lecturer in the Philosophy of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow and Tutor at Lady Margaret Hall. In addition to the philosophy of mathematics, he works on the philosophy of logic, with occasional forays into the philosophy of language and metaphysics. He is currently writing a book about absolute generality (forthcoming with OUP). FURTHER INFO Join us for dinner with the speaker after the talk! All are welcome and there are a small number of subsidized places available for graduate students and members of the Society. Please register for dinner by emailing the Editor, Guy Longworth (G.H.Longworth), by the end of the week. For further information, please visit our website.

Call for Papers: University of Reading Philosophy Society 6th Undergraduate Conferance

CFP Spr2017.pdf

LSE United Nations Society: Let’s talk about internships’

I am writing on behalf of the Careers Division of LSE United Nations Society.

The society is organising an event entitled ‚Let’s talk about internships’ on Wednesday 20th November, 6:30-8:00pm.

A panel of students who have recently completed internships at different parts of the UN system will be sharing their personal experiences and give students the opportunity to have an intimate discussion and ask outstanding questions.

The speakers include:

– Leonor Maria R. Gomes, 1st Year MSc Human Rights, 6-month internship in Department of Public Information (New York, HQ)

– Ralph Chow, 2d Year Economics, 3-months internship in UN-Habitat (New York HQ)

– Victoria Malowa, 1st Year MSc International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies, 6-month internship at the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON) in Nairobi, Kenya

Link to Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/969898946448624/

Could you kindly include this event in the department newsletter? I believe that this event will be of interest to many Philosophy students.

Thank you and have a nice day.

Best regards, Antonia