For the past several years, the University of Pennsylvania has had the privilege of housing and organizing Elizabeth Anscombe's personal archive, which includes over 600 catalogued items. During this time, Collegium Institute and the Department of Philosophy have collaborated to organize a number of events and conferences that have promoted research on various aspects of Anscombe’s thought.

For this year's Penn Philosophy Department conference, we will be exploring the contemporary significance of Anscombe's writings on the topic of justice. These writings span the course of her career and address many of her major philosophical concerns, such as the nature of moral obligation, the recovery of virtue ethics, the concept of murder and just war, the dignity of human life, and the sources of normativity.

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Invited Speakers:

• John Haldane (University of St Andrews)
• Claire Finkelstein (University of Pennsylvania)
• Fr. David Goodill, OP (University of Oxford)
• Katharina Nieswandt (Concordia University)
• Joshua Stuchlik (University of St Thomas)

 

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Schedule:

• 9:00 – 10:15 John Haldane, "Anscombe, Natural Law, Justice and the Law"
• Break
• 10:30 – 11:45 Katharina Nieswandt, "What Is A Common Good?"
• Lunch
• 12:45 – 2:00 David Goodill, "Language and Right: Anscombe on the Recognition of Human Dignity"
• Break
• 2:15 – 3:30 Joshua Stuchlik, “On Having Blood on One’s Hands: Anscombe, Absolutism, and Dirty Hands”
• Break
• 3:45 – 5:00 Claire Finkelstein, Title Forthcoming