Second Annual Meeting of the Midwest Ethics Society

May 3, 2008

Columbia, Missouri

Keynote Address:  Justification of Violence

Professor Joseph Martire, Missouri State University

Call for Papers:  Papers are invited on any topic in ethics.  20-30 minute reading time. 

Electronic submissions preferred; please submit papers or abstracts as MS Word or RTF to Dr. Mark Price:  mlprice@ccis.edu

Society Website:  www.ccis.edu/departments/Philosophy/midwest.htm

The Midwest Ethics Society is formed around a shared commitment to exploring the fundamental questions involved in living a good, moral life.  The Society offers a forum for thinkers to present varying perspectives on both theoretical and practical moral matters.  This forum is dedicated to providing a supportive, collaborative environment that is interdisciplinary and tolerant of divergent viewpoints.  The Midwest Ethics Society is intended, in short, to be a resource both to its diverse membership and to society at large.

Conference will be on the campus of Columbia College in the Lee Room of Dulany Hall.  1001 Rogers Street, Columbia, MO  65216. 

Schedule:

12:00  Justification of Violence, Joseph Martire, Missouri State University

1:00  Ethics of War on the Taliban, Bruce Ballard, Lincoln University

2:00  Public Reason and Childrearing, Dennis Arjo, Johnson County Community College

3:00  Affective Morality and Kant's Categorical Imperative, Andrew Johnson, Missouri State University

Dulany Hall is on the east side of N. 8th Street.  A parking lot is available on the west side of the street.