Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs
Festival of Philosophy
Philosophy, Principles and Practice:
A Four-day Festival of Public Philosophy
Tuesday 9 to Friday 12, March 2010
The Centre for Philosophy and Public Affairs (CEPPA), in association with the University Music Centre, presents a series of philosophical and musical engagements with issues of academic and public interest. Over the course of four days, students, staff and members of the public have the opportunity to listen to, meet, and engage with a number of leading figures. As they are confirmed, full details of times and locations will be posted on the CEPPA website http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ceppa All are welcome.
Part I: Philosophy, Morality and Policy
Tuesday 9th March
I. 11.00am Seminar by Professor Susan Mendus FBA
Room G03 Departments of Philosophy, The Scores
'Some Puzzles about Religious Belief'
Professor of Philosophy, and former Director of the Morrell Centre for the Study of Toleration, University of York. Vice President (Social Sciences) of the British Academy. Author of Feminism and Emotion (2000), Impartiality in Moral and Political Philosophy (2002), and Religious Toleration in an Age of Terrorism (2007)
II. 5.15pm: Annual Sir Malcolm Knox Lecture delivered by Prof. Mendus
'Religious Terrorism and Political Liberalism'
Chaired by Principal Louise Richardson, School III, St Salvator’s Quad, North Street
followed by reception in Lower College Hall.
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Wednesday 10th March
III. 11.00am. Seminar by Prof. Mendus on the subject of the Knox Lecture
Hebdomadar's Room, St Salvator's Quad (south west corner)
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IV. 4.15pm. Seminar by Dr Adrian Walsh
'Economic Casuistry and the Moral Phenomenology of Money'
Room 104, Departments of Philosophy, Edgecliffe, The Scores
Associate Professor in Philosophy, University of New England, Research Associate, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne; Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs. Co-author of Ethics, Money and Sport (2007) and The Morality of Money (2008)
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Part II: Music, Morality and Meaning
Thursday 11th March
V. 10.30am Why Beauty Matters
The Senate Room, St Mary's College, South Street
VI. 11.30am Lecture by Roger Scruton ‘On Music and Morality’
Senate Room, South Street
Formerly Professor of Aesthetics, Birkbeck, London University, and Professor of Philosophy, Boston University. Currently Visiting Professor, Oxford University, and Visiting Fellow, Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs. Author of The Aesthetics Of Music (1997), Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (2004), Gentle Regret (2005), and Beauty (2009).
VII. 2.00pm Roger Scruton in Dialogue with James MacMillan on Art and the Sacred
The Senate Room, St Mary's College, South Street
VIII. 3.30pm. Performance of Schubert's Quartettsatz by the Rusalka Quartet.
With analysis and philosophical commentary by Roger Scrution
St Salvator’s College Chapel, North Street
IX. 5.15pm Performance of Scruton’s opera The Minister by ensemble
St Salvator’s College Chapel, North Street
X. 6.45pm Reception
Younger Hall
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Friday 12th March
X. 10.30am The Music of MacMillan
The Senate Room, St Mary's College, South Street
XI. 11.30 am Lecture by James MacMillan CBE 'Music, Modernity and Meaning”
The Senate Room, St Mary's College, South Street
Formerly lecturer in Music, Manchester University, Affiliate Composer of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Composer/Conductor with the BBC Philharmonic between 2000 and 2009. Currently Principal Guest Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic. Composer of The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, Veni, Veni, Emmanuel, Quickening, etc. Author of ‘Music and Modernity’ (2009).
XII. 2.00pm James MacMillan in dialogue with Roger Scruton on Music and Modernity
The Senate Room, St Mary's College, South Street
XIII. 3.30pm Musically illustrated discussion by James MacMillan:
'A composer's instinct on the Meaning of Music'.
The Senate Room, St Mary's College, South Street
XIV. 5.15pm Performance of selection of choral works by James MacMillan.
St Salvator’s College Chapel, North Street
XV. 6.45pm Reception
Younger Hall
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