From: J. Hughes (jhughes@changesurfer.com)
Date: Fri Oct 05 2001 - 18:55:12 MDT
> Society for Empirical Ethics
>
>
> The Society for Empirical Ethics exists to further
> cooperative research into
> a naturalistic foundation for ethics.
>
> The Society's work is based on the following assumptions:
>
> * Attempts to ground morality in a religious metaphysic have failed.
> * Attempts to ground morality in pure reason have also not provided a
> solid foundation for ethical claims.
> * Ethical claims are not, however, irreducibly relative.
> * Ethical claims can instead be grounded in a conception of human
> flourishing.
> * Human flourishing is a feature of the natural world and amenable to
> empirical investigation.
> * Empirical investigation into human flourishing cuts across
> traditional disciplinary boundaries and will draw on the resources of,
> among others, philosophy, biology, psychology, sociology, anthropology,
> economics, history, comparative literature and comparative religion.
>
> The Society for Empirical Ethics welcomes researchers in any
> field who are sympathetic to the aims and assumptions outlined above. The
Society
> facilitates discussion by way of a listserve, coordinates
> research, and will be organizing conferences and sessions at academic
conferences.
>
> If you wish to join the listserve, or to become involved in some other
> way, please send a short paragraph describing yourself and your
> interests in empirical ethics to either of the addresses below.
Applications are
> processed by the board, so please allow a few days. More information about
the
> society can be found at our web-site:
>
> http://www.marlboro.edu/~nweiner/ethics/
>
> The Society for Empirical Ethics is a fledgling organization and we
> welcome suggestions for ways in which to promote empirical ethics as
> a focus of academic inquiry.
>
> Thank you for your interest, and we look forward to your
> participation.
>
> Robert Halliday
> Utica College of Syracuse University
> rhalliday@utica.ucsu.edu
>
> Neal O. Weiner
> Marlboro College
> nweiner@marlboro.edu
>
>
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> Robert Halliday D.Phil.
> Professor of Philosophy
> Utica College of Syracuse University
> 1600 Burrstone Road
> Utica, New York 13502-4892
> Tel (315) 792-3359
> Fax (315) 792-3292
> rhalliday@utica.ucsu.edu
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