'Ethical Challenges: Morality, Philosophy and the 21st Century'
The Philosophy department at the University of Southampton is pleased to announce an exciting and innovative series of free lectures beginning in 2012.
Ethics
Wind farm
Human life in the 21st century continues to generate new and challenging ethical questions. It does so despite – indeed partly because of - advances in scientific knowledge. There is an increasing tendency in our broader culture to believe that science provides the only form of knowledge there is, but it is far from clear that such knowledge alone can deal with the moral difficulties we face today. For example, we may have evolved to behave in certain ways, but the question of how we should act now remains open; and science may give us technological power, but it does not tell us how to use it.
This new series of annual lectures will address ethical challenges that 21st century humanity faces. It will examine how these force us to explore the limits of our physical, biological, economic, legal and historical knowledge, and pose new, unavoidable and distinctively philosophical questions.
Programme:
1st May 2012
18:00, Lecture Theatre B, Avenue Campus
'The public and private morality of climate change' - John Broome (Whites Professor of Moral Philosophy, Oxford)
23rd October 2012
18:00, venue tbc
'Clean Trade in Natural Resources' - Leif Wenar (Chair of Ethics, King's College London)
These public lectures are free and open to all. For more information please contact us: humanitieslearn@soton.ac.uk
