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St Cross Special Ethics Seminar: On Moral Experts

Thursday, 19 October '17   5:30pm – 7pm BST
Lecture Theatre, St Cross College, 61 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LZ
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Abstract to follow.

Speaker: Dr John-Stewart Gordon

Bio: John-Stewart Gordon, MA in philosophy and history from the University of Konstanz (2001) and Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Göttingen (2005), Germany. He is full professor and Head of the Research Cluster for Applied Ethics at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. From 2010-2016, he was Co-director of the Hans Jonas-Institute at the University of Siegen, Germany. Furthermore, he is member of the board of Bioethics since 2007, general editor of the newly established book series Philosophy and Human Rights at Brill, and he has been area-editor and board member of the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2007-2014). John has written and edited several books in the context of practical philosophy and also published peer-reviewed articles and special issues at international leading journals and encyclopaedias. He taught philosophy and bioethics at several universities in Germany, Canada, and Lithuania. His current research project on moral expertise is funded by the Straniak Foundation and enables him to conduct his research at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford (9-11.2017), the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto (1-4.2018), and at An Foras Feasa at Maynooth University (7-9.2018).

Tickets

Available until Thu 19 Oct '17 11:30am

Location

Lecture Theatre, St Cross College, 61 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LZ