ElAnt v1n7 - Duty, Interest and Practical Reason
DUTY, INTEREST, AND PRACTICAL REASON
Aristotle, Kant, and the StoicsThe Program in Classics, Philosophy and Ancient Science at the University of Pittsburgh announces a conference supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities to be held 18-20 March 1994.
The conference will pair scholars working on ancient (Aristotelian or Stoic) ethics with scholars working on modern (Kantian) ethics in order to re-evaluate the traditional view that ancient 'teleological' ethics and modern 'deontological' ethics are fundamentally opposed.
Speakers include:
John McDowell Barbara Herman Julia Annas Christine Korsgaard Jennifer Whiting Allen Wood Terence Irwin Stephen Engstrom James Allen John Cooper Jerome Schneewind.The full program has been posted in the Philosophy Dept. (events elsewhere on the 9th floor bulletin board) and in the Classics Dept.
PLEASE NOTE. NEH funds will provide up to $200 in travel funds for fifteen independent or younger scholars. For further information contact:
Thomas Berry,
Dept. of Philosophy,
Univ. of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh
PA 15260,
U.S.A.
FAX: 412-624-5377.
COPYRIGHT NOTE: Copyright remains with authors, but due reference should be made to this journal if any part of the above is later published elsewhere.
Electronic Antiquity Vol. 1 Issue 7 - February 1994 edited by Peter Toohey and Ian Worthington antiquity-editor@classics.utas.edu.au ISSN 1320-3606