CFA: On the body and human identity
NOTRE DAME CENTER FOR ETHICS & CULTURE
14th ANNUAL FALL CONFERENCE
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: The Body and Human Identity
November 7-9, 2013
[W]e know a person only in his or her embodied presence. In and through that body the person is a living whole. For certain purposes, we may try to “reduce” the embodied person simply to a collection of parts, thinking of the person (from below) simply as the sum total of these parts. But we do not know, interact with, or love others understood in that way; on the contrary, we know them (from above) as a unity that is more than just the sum of their parts.
– Gilbert Meilaender, “The Gifts of the Body”
The Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture will devote its fourteenth Annual Fall Conference to the theme: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: The Body and Human Identity. In customary interdisciplinary fashion, this conference will take up a host of questions related to the human meaning of the body and life as an embodied self. These questions will be pursued in the contexts of philosophy, theology, political theory, law, history, economics, the biosciences, literature, and the arts.
We welcome the submission of abstracts drawing on a wide range of moral and religious perspectives and academic specialties. Possible issues to be explored include:
• Teleology and the Human Body
• The Incarnation and the Eucharist • Beauty and the Human Form • Property in the Body • Aging and Relations Among the Generations • Artificial Intelligence • Torture • Marriage, Procreation, and Parenting • Thought, Language, and the Body • “Personhood” and the Body • Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging • Epistemology and the Body • The Definition and Meaning of Death • Mind, Body and Dualism • The Body in Literature and the Arts • Memory and Identity • End of Life Decision-making • Human/Nonhuman Chimeras and Hybrids • Genetics and Evolutionary Biology • Vulnerability and Suffering • “Health” and the Ends of Medicine • Transhumanism • Systems Biology • Eating and Gastronomy • Performance Enhancement in Sport
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One-page abstracts for papers should include name, affiliation, address, and e-mail address (if available). Session Presentations will be limited to twenty minutes. Please note that we will not be accepting panel proposals this year.
The deadline for submissions is Friday, July 5, 2013. Notification of acceptance will be sent by Friday, August 23, 2013. One-page abstracts, along with your full contact information, should be e-mailed to ndethics@nd.edu or mailed to:
Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture
14th Annual Fall Conference
424 Geddes Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556