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Conference Announcement: Norms & Analysis in Sydney

By Lawrence Solum

*NORMS AND ANALYSIS CONFERENCE*
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA :: 26-28 JUNE 2007

There is a picture of the world which is disenchanted - a world that contains only the ingredients of the natural sciences, with no mention of norms; no reasons to govern desires or obligations. But some of the objects in this world - one case is persons - seem to have among their persistence conditions norms and reasons. Is there a way to reconcile these pictures? Can we reconstruct reasons in an austere world? This conference explores these themes.

Speakers:
David Braddon-Mitchell (University of Sydney)
David Chalmers (Australian National University)
Julia Driver (Dartmouth College)
Frank Jackson (Austalian National University)
Kristie Miller (University of Sydney)
Daniel Nolan (University of Nottingham)
Peter Railton (University of Michigan)
Denis Robinson (University of Auckland)
Michael Smith (Princeton University)
Roy Sorensen (Dartmouth College)
Caroline West (University of Sydney)

Venue: Professorial Boardroom, The University of Sydney
Dates: 26-28 June 2007

Website: http://www.usyd.edu.au/time/conferences/norms_and_analysis.html

Conference organizers: David Braddon-Mitchell (University of Sydney), Uriah Kriegel (University of Sydney/Arizona), Adina Roskies (University of Sydney/Dartmouth) & Caroline West (University of Sydney)

Registration: Free if completed by 12 June, 2007.
To register, go to the conference website, or email with the subject line "Please register me for Norms and Analysis".
Funded by The Australia Research Council (ARC).

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