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Conference Announcement "War and Self-Defence" International Conference Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield Sheffield (United Kingdom) 25-27 August 2010 __________________________________________________ Recent years have seen a rapid growth of interest in just war theory. The current political climate has confronted us with important and difficult questions about, amongst other things, the moral status of combatants, the moral status of non-combatants, the possibility of wars waged by non-state actors, and the conditions under which one can be said to have a just cause for war. Many writers take the answers to these questions to be based, at least in part, on considerations about what individuals may do in self-defence, or other-defence. Others have denied the existence of any substantive relationship between the ethics of self-defence and the ethics of national-defence. This conference, hosted by the Sheffield Philosophy department, will bring together leading researchers in the field, and offer an opportunity for scholars to present recent research in this area. The conference is generously sponsored by the Mind Association, The Leverhulme Trust and The Aristotelian Society. Keynote Speakers Frances Kamm (Harvard) Jeff McMahan (Rutgers) David Rodin (Oxford) Noam Zohar (Bar Ilan) Parallel Session Speakers Daniel Statman (Bar-Ilan) Uwe Steinhoff (Hong Kong) Yitzhak Benbaji (Bar-Ilan) Helen Frowe (Sheffield) Adam Hosein (Chicago) Shawn Kaplan (Adeplhi) Saba Bazargan (UC San Diego) Gerald Lang (Leeds) Kasper Lippert–Rasmussen (Aarhus) Graham Long (Newcastle) Michael Neu (Sheffield) Iddo Porat (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Massimo Renzo (Stirling) Daniel Schwartz (Aston) Victor Tadros (Warwick) Registration To register for the conference, please download the Registration Form by clicking on the link on the right. The completed form should be emailed to: [email protected] The Residential Delegate rate is £200.00, and includes two nights' en suite accommodation, all meals (including the conference dinner) and attendance at the sessions. The Local Delegate rate, for those wishing to arrange their own accommodation, is £125.00. Please note that a late registration fee of £20.00 will apply from June 1st (inclusive). Conference website: http://www.shef.ac.uk/philosophy/research/conferences/warconference.html __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
