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Ethics for the 21st century
Edinburgh, 2-4 July 2009

List of abstracts -May 24, 2009

Andersson, Anna Karin, Harvard University
Embryonic Stem Cells And Property Rights

Angell, Kim, Department of Political Science and the Ethics Programme, University of Oslo
Challenging David Miller’s Quasi-Lockean Argument for Territorial Rights

Behrensen, Maren, Boston University
Trust without Cultural Homogeneity

Bell, Derek, Newcastle University
Duties of Global Climate Justice

Bomann-Larsen, Lene, University of Oslo
Violation of freedom without interference

Brecher, Bob, University of Brighton
Why there is no such thing as political terrorism

Broady Preiss, Joshua, Bucknell University
Why Brian Barry Ought to be a Multiculturalist: Contractualism, Identity, and Impartiality

Brownlee, Kimberley
Investigative Freedom and Vicarious Responsibility

Bryan, Zhaler, University of Oxford
Last Resort: A 21st Century Reassessment

Cerutti, Furio , Univ. of Florence
Global Challenges For Ethics And Politics

Child, Richard, University of Manchester
The Dual-Component Model of Distributive Justice: Reconciling the Impersonal and Personal Standpoints on Global Justice

Cook,Philip, London School of Economics
Child-Citizenship: Goods and Votes for Children in the 21st Century

De Angelis, Gabriele, Universidade Nova, Lisbon
The Distinction between Values and Norms. Public Disputes on Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis.

De Wispelaere, Jurgen, Trinity College Dublin
Procuring Permission: Exploring the (Moderate) Case for Organ Transplant Tax Credits

Deckers, Jan, University of Newcastle
Justice, negative ‘GHIs’, and the consumption of farmed animal products

Eyal, Nir Harvard University
Coercion in the fight against medical brain drain

Feeney,Oliver, National University of Ireland, Galway
On monolithic alternatives: against the notion of genetic enhancements as a singular moral entity

Gertz, Nolen, New School for Social Research
Just and Unjust Killing

Goppel, Anna, University of Zurich
The Targeted Killing of Terrorists – Moral Limits to State Lethal Use of Force

Gunn, Alastair, and Thudhope, Kelly, University of Waikato
Public consultation, values and the regulation of genetically modified
organisms: the New Zealand experience

Habib, Allen, University of Calgary
Non-Renewable Resources and Future Generations

Heyward, Clare, DPIR, Oxford University
Is climate change a matter of cultural justice?

Holly, David, UCL
Prima Facie Rights vs. Goal-Rights and the Problem of Risk.

Hope, Simon, Stirling University
'Green Hypocrisy', Human Rights, and Vulnerability

Howard, Jeffry, University of Oxford
Democratic Education in an Age of Terror: A Habermasian Reconceptualization of Rawlsian Civic Education for the 21st Century

Høyer Toft, Kristian, independent researcher
Global corporate social reesponsibility and global justice – two sides of the same story?

Humphrey, Matthew, University of Nottingham
Climate Change Activism and Democratic Deliberation

Hunter, David, Keele University
New genetic technologies, changing people and luck egalitarianism

John, Stephen, University of Cambridge
Dodging our obligations of care? How to understand the savings argument in favour of publicly funded Pre-Natal-Diagnosis

Jones, Peter, Newcastle University
Scientific Development, Relgious Belief, and Politics Decision-Making

Jubb, Robert, University of Oxford
The tragedy of non-ideal theory

Kassner, Joshua, University of Baltimore
Global Climate Change: The Moral Limits of State Sovereignty

Knight, Carl, University of Glasgow
A Pluralistic Approach to Climate Change

Kuntz, JR, University of Edinburgh
A Litmus Test for Exploitation: James Stacey Taylor's Stakes and Kidneys

Lægaard, Sune, Centre for the Study of Equality and Multiculturalism, University of Copenhagen
Territorial rights and the right to exclude immigrants

Lesser, Harry, University of Manchester
Should there be a right to the free movement of labour?

Levvis, Gary, University of Connecticut
Trafficking on the Internet (Pornography, Prostitution and Sex): The Failure of Ethical Theory to Assess Technology and Assist Public Policy”

Lippert-Rasmussen, Kasper , University of Aarhus
The Doctrine of the Double Effect: Permissibility, Deliberation, and Meaning

Loi, Michele, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano
Eugenics, opportunity, and lotteries.

Long, Graham,Politics, Newcastle University
Environmentally Just War

Louk, David, University of Oxford
Hostis Humani Generis? Assessing the Moral Status of Enemy Combatants in International Humanitarin Law

Makoto, Usami, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Climate Change, Rights, and Fairness

Martzoukou, Vicky, University College London
Claims to resources in the context of the European Convention on Human Rights.

May, Simon Cabulea, Virginia Tech
Compromise and Reconciliation in Democratic Transitions

Millett, Arabella, University of Edinburgh
A Libertarian Defence of Animal Rights

Mohan, Chandra, Singapore Management University
The Satyam Saga : Enron Once More?

Molloy, Sean, University of Edinburgh
Has Kant Led Ethics Too Far Away From Politics?

Mookherjee, Monica, University of Keele
Justice, Amnesty and Evil

Moore, Thomas, University of Westminster
Ethical warfare? Australia and the ‘war on terror’
Theme:Just War theory

Moraro, Piero, University of Stirling
Civil disobedience: Why an activist should plead not guilty

Mras, Gabriele, University of Vienna, Department of Philosophy
On the Need, Relevance, and Limitation of Ethical Reasoning

O'Brien, Charlotte, University of Liverpool
What kind of freedom does the free movement of persons within the EU embody?

Pattison,James, University of the West of England,
Private warriors, humanitarian intervention, and civil-military relations

Pellegrino, Gianfranco, Luiss Guido Carli University – Rome
Environmental migrants and positional responsibilities for climate change

Power, Susan, Trinity College Dublin
Transformative Occupation: A Chasm in Natural Resource Protection

Preda, Adina, University College Dublin
Email: Adina.Preda@ucd.ie

Renzo, Massimo, University of Stirling
Crimes against Humanity and the Limits of International Criminal Law

Robson,Stephen, Murdoch University
Title: Changing conceptions of rights, freedom and justice as applied to the Indigenous public policy in Australia

Rubel, Alan, Berman Institute for Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University and Georgetown
Nanosensors and Privacy Rights

Sandberg, Joakim, University of Birmingham
Are Microlenders Exploiting the Poor? On Interest Rates, Usury and Justice

Saunders, Ben
Defining the Demos

Schwenkenbecher, Anne, Humboldt University Berlin
Terrorism Against Non-Innocents – The Ethical Implications of a So Called Wide Definition

Scott, Niall,UCLAN
Anarchism and Bioethics

Segall, Shlomi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Justice of Fair Skin (and Other Problems): Towards a Luck Egalitarian View of Health and Genetic Enhancements

Seglow, Jonathan, Royal Holloway, University of London,
Immigration and Freedom of Movement

Shaw, David, University of Glasgow
Discriminating against the dying

Sideri, Katerina, University of Exeter
Regulating enhancement: A virtue ethics perspective

Smilansky, Saul, University of Haifa
Moral Paradoxes, Morality in the Future, and the Future of Morality

Spagnoli, Filip, Belgian Central Bank
The Ticking Bomb Falacy, Torture and Human Rights After 9-11
Rights, freedom and justice

Spiekermann,Kai, The University of Warwick
A clear conscience on the cheap: Voluntary carbon offsets, the undemandingness problem and motivational robustness

Vaha, Milla, European University Institute
International Society and the Chain of Responsibilities: Looking for the Duty-Bearers within the System of the States

Widerquist, Karl, University of Reading
Five False Claims of Political Philosophy: Modern theories of power and rights evaluated in light of anthropological evidence

Williams, Jeremy, London School of Economics
'Wrongful Life and Abortion'

Woods, Kerri, University of York
Solidarity with the future: Climate change and environmental citizenship

Woollard, Fiona, University of Sheffield
Damaging the Environment and the Non-Identity Problem

Zellentin,Alexa, University of Oxford
Treating Citizens as Equals in the context of Pluralism

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Ethics for the 21st century Edinburgh, 2-4 July 2009

List of abstracts -May 24, 2009

Ethics for the 21st century
Edinburgh, 2-4 July 2009