[SydPhil] Conference program — Becoming Good: Virtue & Moral Development in Ancient Ethics

[Timothy Smartt]

Conference — “Becoming Good: Virtue & Moral Development in Ancient Ethics”
1-2 August 2024
The University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney

The Institute for Ethics & Society at The University of Notre Dame Australia will host a two-day conference exploring new research on ancient perspectives on moral formation. The conference is being held in connection with an upcoming issue of the Australasian Philosophical Review on Ancient Ethics.

Professor Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell) will deliver the keynote address, which will also form the lead article of the journal issue.

The conference will be held on The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Sydney campus (Broadway) and online. All participants are welcome, including undergraduates, HDR students, faculty, and members of the wider community. Registration essential.

To register, please email Tim Smartt (timothy.smartt at nd.edu.au<mailto:timothy.smartt at nd.edu.au>)

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PROGRAM

Thursday 1 August

10:15am Morning Tea

10:30am Conference opening

10:45am Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell) “Aristotle on Learning by Doing Voluntary Actions” (Keynote session)
Commentator: Patricia Marechal (UCSD)

1:00pm Lunch

2:30pm Sukaina Hirji (Penn) “An Aristotelian Theory of Agency”

4:00pm Break

5:00pm Refreshments

5:30pm Roger Crisp (Oxford) “On Becoming Good: From Aristotle, through Hume and Sidgwick, and Back Again” (2024 Moral Philosophy & Ethics Education Annual Lecture)


Friday 2 August

9:30am Morning Tea

9:45am Rachel Singpurwalla (Maryland) “Friendship and Virtue in Plato’s Ethics and Politics”

11:15am Break

11:30am Margaret Hampson (St. Andrews) “Becoming a Tyrant: Plato on Moral Education and the Failure of Philia”

1:00pm Lunch

2:15pm Marta Jiménez (Complutense University of Madrid) “Is Righteous Indignation a Form of Proto-Justice? Aristotle on Becoming Just by Feeling the Right Emotions”

3:45pm Break

4:00pm Antonio Ferro (Heidelberg) “Learning vis-à-vis Habituation: Yet Another Approach to the Continuity Problem”
5:30pm Close


Becoming Good: Virtue & Moral Development in Ancient Ethics is supported by David Bronstein’s ARC Future Fellowship project ‘Virtue with Aristotle: Recovering an Ancient Ethical Theory for Our Time’, with funding from a UNDA Big Ideas grant in support of developing the new Notre Dame Centre for History of Philosophy.



Tim Smartt
Lecturer and Research Fellow
Institute for Ethics & Society
University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney

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