Ethics

"Free Will: Moral and Legal Responsibility"

By Adam Kolber

Allan McCay brings me news of an event to be held on Nov. 15 in Sydney, Australia, entitled "Free Will: Moral and Legal Responsibility".  See here for logistical details.  The program and list of speakers is below (including the Neuroethics & Law Blog's very own Neil Levy):

Program

8.30am Registration

9.00am Welcome
Kevin Walton, Director, Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence

9.05am Justifying Punishment in a Deterministic World
Christopher Birch, Adjunct Professor, Sydney Law School

10.00am The Incompatibility of Retributive Desert and Determinism
Allan McCay, University of Sydney Foundation Program and Sydney Law School PhD candidate

10.55am Morning tea

11.25am Reason, Freedom and Punishment: A (Broadly) Hegelian Account
Philip A. Quadrio, University of New South Wales

12.20pm Extending Smilansky on Prepunishment
Neil Levy, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics

1.15pm Lunch

2.15pm The Role of Gestalts in Conscious Decision-Making
David Hodgson, Judge of Appeal, Supreme Court of New South Wales

3.10pm Autonomy, Moral Responsibility and Self-Control
Catriona Mackenzie, Macquarie University

4.05pm Afternoon tea

4.35pm Rational Capacities, Resolve, and Weakness of Will
Daniel Cohen, Charles Sturt University

5.30 ? 6.30pm Cocktail Reception

Contact

For further information, please contact:
Sydney Law School Events Co-Ordinator,
Tel. (02) 9351 0248
law.events@usyd.edu.au

Full post as published by Neuroethics and Law on October 03, 2008 (boomark / email).