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"Some Musings About the Limits of an Ethics that Can Be Applied – A Response To A Question That Confronted the Author When She Woke Up On November 9, 2016"

Lecture by Sarah Buss (Michigan)

The lecture was hosted by the The Dickson Poon School of Law, and will take place in SW1.18 Somerset House East Wing, London on 11 October 2019, 5pm (doors 4.30pm)

Please note attendees are required to register in advance.

Please arrive and be seated before 5pm (at which time the Lecture will commence). The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception for Society for Applied Philosophy members (6.30pm — 7.30pm).


Previous annual lectures include:

Annual Lecture 2018: How Democracy Can Inform Consent: The Cases of Internet and Bioethics, Professor Carol C. Gould (City University of New York)

Annual Lecture 2017: Three Mistakes about Doing Good (and Bad),Professor Philip Pettit (Princeton / ANU)

Annual Lecture 2016: Reclaiming ProportionalityProfessor Arthur Ripstein (University of Toronto)

Annual Lecture 2015: What's Wrong with Speciesism?Professor Shelly Kagan (Yale University)

Annual Lecture 2014: Applying virtue to ethicsProfessor Julia Annas (University of Arizona)

Annual Lecture 2013: Universal Healthcare in the Developing World: Solution or Siren? Some Preliminary ThoughtsProfessor Larry Temkin (Rutgers University)

Annual Lecture 2012: Death in Our LifeProfessor Joseph Raz (Columbia; Oxford)

Annual Lecture 2011: The Global Reach of Human RightsProfessor Amartya Sen

Annual Lecture 2010: Militant Modern AtheismProfessor Philip Kitcher

Annual Lecture 2009: Measuring Development, Poverty and Gender EquityProfessor Thomas Pogge

Annual Lecture 2008: Naturalism, Normativity, and Applied EthicsBaroness Onora O'Neill (Inagural SAP Annual Lecture)

Event details

SW1.17 & SW1.18, Somerset House East wing
Somerset House East Wing
Strand Campus, Strand, London WC2R 2LS