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Conference Announcement Theme: The Philosophy of D A Masolo Subtitle: Featuring Self and Community in a Changing World Type: International Conference Institution: Philosophy Department, University of Johannesburg Location: Johannesburg (South Africa) Date: 24.–25.3.2012 __________________________________________________ Programme: Saturday, 24 March 2012 9.00 – 9.05 Prof T Metz: Welcome 9.05 – 10.15 Prof D A Masolo, University of Louisville ‘Freedoms and Ends: Constructing a Pluralist Society in the Twenty-first Century’ 10.20 – 11.30 Prof P A Tabensky, Rhodes Phil ‘Non-Epistemic Reasons for Believing: The Case of African Philosophy’ 11.30 – 11.50 Break 11.50 – 13.00 Mr M Letseka, UNISA Educ ‘Educating for Ubuntu’ 13.00 – 14.00 Lunch 14.00 – 15.10 Prof K Horsthemke, Wits Educ ‘Some Doubts about “Indigenous Knowledge” and the Argument from Epistemic Injustice’ 15.15 – 16.25 Dr M F Murove, UKZN Ethics ‘The Ethic of Ukama and Ubuntu Beyond the Indigenization of an Ethic of Ethnicity’ 19.00 – 22.00 Reservations made at Lucky Bean on 7th Street in Melville; feel free to come or to strike off on your own. Sunday, 25 March 2012 8.30 – 9.35 Prof A Olivier, UFH Phil ‘On Being an African’ 9.40 – 10.45 Ms M Tshivhase, UJ Phil ‘Personhood: Social Approval or a Unique Identity?’ 10.45 – 11.00 Break 11.00 – 12.05 Dr M Koenane, UNISA Phil ‘Masolo’s Two Forms of Communitarianism’ 12.10 – 13.15 Dr B Matolino, UKZN Phil ‘An Appraisal of D A Masolo’s Contribution to the Development of African Communitarianism’ 13.15 – 14.15 Lunch 14.15 – 15.20 Prof T Metz, UJ Phil ‘Competing Conceptions of Ethics in African Philosophy’ 15.25 – 16.30 Dr K Behrens, Wits Bioethics ‘Two Conceptions of Personhood’ Venue: Philosophy Department, University of Johannesburg Humanities Common Room C-Ring 319 Convenor: Prof Thaddeus Metz (079 839 2989) Logistics: Mr Adrian Erasmus (072 237 7816) Attendance at and participation in the workshop is free of charge, but, in order to arrange suitable catering and transport, people must register beforehand, ideally by 15 March, by writing Mr Adrian Erasmus <[email protected]>. __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
