The Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE) is happy to announce that registrations for our next conference is open. The conference is free, and all are welcome. Registration is for catering and participant number purposes.
Register online here: Registration form <https://mqedu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_86bJluHsZKiv5I1>. *Call for registration: CAVE Conference: Perspectives on Empathy* Date: Wed & Thurs 4 - 5 November, 2015 Time: 09:00 - 17:00 (TBC) Venue: Robert Menzies College, Seminar Room 2 (by Trinity Chapel on Herring Rd), Macquarie University Empathy is a widely used concept in both social and moral domains of enquire. Empathy deficits are supposed to explain both moral and social impairments. It seems self-evident that empathy is a good thing: indeed, many writers think that empathy is integral to morality. But what is empathy? The term is used to cover a wide array of cognitive and affective processes. Which of these processes is fundamental to morality and how? Should we be skeptical about the claims made for empathy? Empathy is of interest to researchers across a range of disciplines including in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, psychiatry and psychology, moral psychology, ethics and aesthetics. Yet there is no clear agreement on what empathy is and the role it plays in moral development, social and moral cognition, imagination, and motivation. This conference seeks to bring researchers from across disciplines together to consider a range of questions about the nature, function and importance of empathy. *Keynote Speaker* - Heidi Maibom (Cincinatti), "Imagining Feelings" *Confirmed speakers* - Daniel Hutto (Wollongong), "Empathy: A Role for Narrative Engagement" - Kate Rossmanith (Macquarie), "Empathy in the Criminal Courts: Stories from the field" - Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie), "Empathy and film" - Jonathan McGuire & Robyn Langdon (NSW Mental Health Commission and Macquarie), "Empathy and mental illness" - Jeanette Kennett (Macquarie), "Empathy Scepticism" - Pei-hua Huang (Monash), "Empathy and Moral Enhancement" - Juanita Feros Ruys (ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Sydney), "Compassion that Defrauds: Medieval Reservations over Fellow-Feeling with Others" - T Oliver Skuse (Melbourne), "Why not just get away? Jesse Prinz on empathy" - Lauren Saling and Daniel Cohen (CSU), "Autism, moral judgement, and the necessity for empathy*"* - Yuri Cath (La Trobe), "Knowledge of experience and the limits of empathy" - Millicent Churcher (Sydney), "Reflective Empathy as a Moral Resource" The program is currently being finalised, and will be released soon. You can register at the following link: Registration form <https://mqedu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_86bJluHsZKiv5I1>. All information is available on our new website <http://www.mq.edu.au/research/research-centres,-groups-and-facilities/resilient-societies/centres/macquarie-university-research-centre-for-agency,-values-and-ethics/events> and on our Facebook page. <http://www.facebook.com/MQCAVE> Inquiries can be addressed to Kelly at arts.c...@mq.edu.au Have a great day! Kelly -- Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics Department of Philosophy Macquarie University Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia cave.mq.edu.au www.facebook.com/MQCAVE
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