Adrian College will host the 34^th Annual Conference for Value Inquiry. Our aim is to bring together scholars from diverse academic fields such as philosophy, English, the social sciences, law, and medicine, to provide an opportunity to discuss the theoretical and practical aspects of justice and moral responsibility.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Loren Lomasky: Is it Wrong to Eat Animals?

George Agich: Revisiting the Ethics of Managed Care

James S. Taylor: Autonomy and Choice

Loren Lomasky, Cory Professor of Political Philosophy, Policy and Law, and Director of the Political Philosophy, Policy and Law Program at the University of Virginia. He is author of Persons, Rights, and the Moral Community (Oxford University Press) and Democracy and Decision: The Pure Theory of Electoral Preference (with Geoffrey Brennan, Cambridge University Press). Lomasky (again with Brennan) is the winner of the American Philosophical Association's Gregory Kavka Prize in Political Philosophy for the paper "Is There a Duty to Vote?"

George Agich, Professor of Philosophy and and Director of Bowling Green State University's BGeXperience Program. Professor Agich has previously served as the Director of Ethics Consultation Services at the Cleveland Clinic and as Director of Consultation Services at Memorial Medical Services in Springfield, Illinois. He is author of Dependence and Autonomy In Old Age: An Ethical Framework for Long Term Care (Cambridge University Press) and Autonomy and Long Term Care (Oxford University Press)

James Stacey Taylor is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey. He is the editor of Personal Autonomy: New Essays (Cambridge University Press, 2005), and the author of Stakes and Kidneys: Why markets in human body parts are morally imperative (Ashgate Press, 2005). He has published numerous articles on autonomy, ethics, and the metaphysics of death in journals such as Social Philosophy & Policy, American Philosophical Quarterly, Public Affairs Quarterly, and the Journal of Social Philosophy. He currently serves as the President of the American Society for Value Inquiry.

For more information, contact Dr. James H. Spence at: jspence@adrian.edu

The 34th Annual Conference for Value Inquiry is sponsored by:

Adrian College, The Michigan Council for the Humanities, and The Society for Value Inquiry.