Seeing beyond the human: attending with iris murdoch and mary midgley – symposium

PROGRAM:

24th September
THB G011
10.00am coffee

10.30-11 Chrysa Sachpazi
“The Sublime Reconsidered: Murdoch’s Critique of Kant”

11-11.30 Ian Kidd
‘Moral vanity and the admiration of animals’

Keynote 1: 12-1pm Ellie Robson
‘The biologist amongst philosophers’: Mary Midgley’s Zoological Approach to Aristotle’s Ethics
1-2pm lunch

2.30-3pm Priyansha Malik
“Being Seen: Iris Murdoch’s Ethics of Attention and Its Moral Significance in Contemporary Loneliness”

3-3.30pm Ferdia Stone Davies ‘Attending to the whole: worlds of meaning and disciplinary knowledge’

discussion 3.30-4pm

Keynote 2: 4-5pm Lucy Oulton ‘
The details of our world deserve our respectful and loving attention’: how Iris Murdoch attends beyond the human.’

REGISTER HERE TO ATTEND IN PERSON OR TO ATTEND ONLINE:

https://tinyurl.com/airesymposium

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