Varieties of Virtue Ethics
8th – 10th January 2015, Oriel College, Oxford
The third annual conference of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham.
The aim of this conference was to bring together experts from a range of disciplines to explore the varieties of virtue ethics, both within and across disciplinary boundaries. To what extent are the varieties of virtue ethics rooted in different conceptions of a single underlying concept, and to what extent have they taken on lives of their own? What, if any, is the underlying common core that legitimises calling an approach a ‘variety of virtue ethics’? Most importantly, what can theorists from philosophy, social science and theology learn from each other’s work?
