Conversations on Ethics April 30, 2010

> NYU Philosophical Society
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> Conversations on Ethics
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> Alex Voorhoeve and Steve Pyke
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> Thursday April 22, 7-9 pm, in NYU's Silver Center, Rm. 714
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> 100 Washington Square
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> Free and open to the public; info: [email protected]
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> Was Socrates right about dialogue?
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> In the Phaedrus, Socrates argues that written philosophy is
> inferior to philosophical dialogue, and claims that the
> latter 'renders the man who engages in it as happy as any
> human being can be'. Drawing on the exchanges in
> Conversations on Ethics, Alex Voorhoeve assesses Socrates'
> arguments and examines what we can hope to gain from
> discourse on ethics.
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> Portraits of Philosophers
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> Steve Pyke discusses his photographic style, why he chose
> to photograph philosophers, how he approaches his subjects,
> and what his portraits reveal.
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> Alex Voorhoeve
> is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the London School of
> Economics. Conversations on Ethics (Oxford University Press,
> 2009), which collects interviews on moral philosophy with
> eleven leading thinkers, is his first book.
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> More info on http://personal.lse.ac.uk/voorhoev
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> Steve Pyke
> is one of the world's leading portrait photographers and
> regularly photographs for the New Yorker. He supplied the
> portraits for Conversations on Ethics. He has published
> eight books, including Philosophers, the second volume of
> which will appear this year with OUP. More info on http://www.pyke-eye.com
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