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Lecture Tony Coady (University of Melbourne) – ‘Reason, Religion and Democratic Discourse’

16 June 2014 @ 17:00 - 19:00

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Lecture Tony Coady (University of Melbourne) – ‘Reason, Religion and Democratic Discourse’ June 16, 2014 17:00 – 19:00 Faculteitskamer Oude Turfmarkt, 147, 1012 GC Amsterdam Tony Coady is one of Australia’s best-known philosophers. His book Testimony: a Philosophical Study (OUP, 1992) has been particularly influential and more recently he published Morality and Political Violence (CUP, 2008) In 1990 he founded and became director of the Centre for Philosophy and Public Issues at the University of Melbourne, the first center in Australia to be concerned with broad issues…
Lecture Tony Coady (University of Melbourne) - ‘Reason, Religion and Democratic Discourse’ June 16, 2014 17:00 – 19:00 Faculteitskamer Oude Turfmarkt, 147, 1012 GC Amsterdam Tony Coady is one of Australia's best-known philosophers. His book Testimony: a Philosophical Study (OUP, 1992) has been particularly influential and more recently he published Morality and Political Violence (CUP, 2008) In 1990 he founded and became director of the Centre for Philosophy and Public Issues at the University of Melbourne, the first center in Australia to be concerned with broad issues of philosophy and public affairs. In 2005, he gave the Uehiro Lectures on Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, which were subsequently published in 2008 by Oxford University Press under the title, Messy Morality: the Challenge of Politics. He is currently a Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, together with Steve Clarke and Julian Savulescu, entitled ‘Moral Conservatism, Human Enhancement and the “Affective Revolution” in Moral Psychology’ (2013-15). Admission is free, but seats are limited. Please register by sending an e-mail to: t.r.v.nys@uva.nl

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16 June 2014
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University of Amsterdam, Oude Turfmarkt 147, University of Amsterdam, 1012 GC Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Oude Turfmarkt 147, University of Amsterdam, 1012 GC Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Amsterdam, North Holland 1012 GC The Netherlands

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Thomas Nys
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Lecture Tony Coady (University of Melbourne) – ‘Reason, Religion and Democratic Discourse’

June 16, 2014

17:00 – 19:00

Faculteitskamer

Oude Turfmarkt, 147, 1012 GC Amsterdam

Tony Coady is one of Australia’s best-known philosophers. His book Testimony: a Philosophical Study (OUP, 1992) has been particularly influential and more recently he published Morality and Political Violence (CUP, 2008) In 1990 he founded and became director of the Centre for Philosophy and Public Issues at the University of Melbourne, the first center in Australia to be concerned with broad issues of philosophy and public affairs. In 2005, he gave the Uehiro Lectures on Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, which were subsequently published in 2008 by Oxford University Press under the title, Messy Morality: the Challenge of Politics.

He is currently a Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, together with Steve Clarke and Julian Savulescu, entitled ‘Moral Conservatism, Human Enhancement and the “Affective Revolution” in Moral Psychology’ (2013-15).

Admission is free, but seats are limited. Please register by sending an e-mail to: t.r.v.nys@uva.nl

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