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Conference Announcement: Persons by Convention at Sydney

By Lawrence Solum

PERSONS   BY   CONVENTION
The University of Sydney, December 16-18 2008.

http://web.mac.com/slezak/Persons_by_Convention/Home.html

Some things in world are perfectly real, but not perhaps instances of natural kinds. Corporations, nations, swimming pools are all rightly so called because of sets of conventional practices in which they are involved. Could persons fall into this category? In the last decade or so a number of theorists have argued so. This conference focuses on the state of this debate?both exploring new ways to make sense of the idea, and new stumbling blocks to its progress.

Speakers include:
David Braddon-Mitchell (Sydney)
Brian Garrett (ANU)
Mark Johnston (Princeton)
Sarah-Jane Leslie (Princeton)
Catriona Mackenzie (Macquarie)
Kristie Miller (Sydney)
Denis Robinson (Aukland)
Carol Rovane (Columbia)
David Shoemaker (BGSU)
Caroline West (Sydney)

Registrations will open shortly. For more information see
http://web.mac.com/slezak/Persons_by_Convention/Home.html or email
Michael Slezak at m.slezak@usyd.edu.au .

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on November 03, 2008 (boomark / email).