7:00 - 8:30 Friday Night: The Albert the Great Lecture

Castellani Art Museum Main Gallery

“Cooperating with Evil Doers” -- Alexander Pruss

Alexander Pruss is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University.  He holds a doctorate in Mathematics from the University of British Columbia and a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh.  He is the author of The Principle of Sufficient Reason: A Reassessment (Cambridge, 2006) as well as a variety of peer-reviewed essays in philosophical journals.

11:15 - 12:30 Saturday Morning:

St. Vincent’s Hall 407

“People, Races, and Some Limits of Social Construction”

-- Jorge L. A. Garcia

Jorge L.A. Garcia is a Professor of Philosophy at Boston College.  He holds a doctorate in Philosophy from Yale University.  He has published a variety of articles on topics in normative moral theory, race and bioethics.  Among his forthcoming articles include, "Revisiting African-American Perspectives and Medical Ethics," in African American Bioethics: Culture, Race, and Identity, "Being Unimpressed with Ourselves: Reconceiving Humility," Philosophia, "Health versus Harm: Euthanasia and Physicians' Duties," Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. 

6:15-7:30 Saturday Evening:

407 St. Vincent’s Hall

“Human Biotechnology: Do All the Big Ethical Objections Fail?” -- Gerald McKenny

Gerald McKenny is an Associate Professor of Theology and Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Notre Dame University.  He holds an Masters Degree of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and a Doctorate from the University of Chicago.  He is the author of To Relieve the Human Condition: Bioethics, Technology, and the Body (SUNY Press, 1997) and co-author of The Ethical (Blackwell, 2002).  He has also published over 30 articles on Christian ethics, biomedical ethics, theology and philosophy of medicine.