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The Simone Weil Lectures on Human Value

Faculty of Theology and Philosophy

School of Philosophy

First instituted in 2000, the Simone Weil Lectures on Human Value are held in Sydney and Melbourne each year, inviting a distinguished international scholar to give a lecture and seminar at ACU.

The lectures are not intended to be a forum for engaging specifically with the work of Simone Weil, but are inspired by Weil's commitment to recognising the full humanity of our fellow human being, by her moral idealism and by her commitment to social justice issues

2010 Simone Weil Lecture on Human Value

We are very pleased to announce that the Simone Weil Lecture in 2010 will be given by Antony Duff.  The lecture will take place in August in Melbourne and Sydney. More information about the 2010 lecture will be available soon.  

About Antony Duff

Antony Duff is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling, and a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is internationally renowned for his work on the philosophy of criminal law - in particular on the philosophy of punishment, and on issues that connect the philosophy of action with the basic principles of criminal liability.

Amongst his many publications he has written Trials and Punishments; Criminal Attempts; and Punishment, Communication and Community. More recently, he has published Answering for Crime, which focuses on the structures of criminal responsibility; and, with Lindsay Farmer, Sandra Marshall, and Victor Tadros, The Trial on Trial III: Towards a Normative Theory of the Criminal Trial. 

Vist Antony Duff's website.

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Previous Simone Weil Lectures

- 2009 Knowledge and Prejudice by Miranda Fricker

- 2008 Uprootedness, Narratives and National Conflict by Jonathan Glover 

- 2007 (Lecture cancelled)

- 2006 Terrorism and Religion by Susan Mendus

- 2005 Moral Clarity by Susan Neiman

- 2004 The Conversation of Mankind by Stephen Mulhall

- 2003 "I Want to Die, I Hate My Life": Phaedra's Malaise by Simon Critchley

- 2002 A Wonderful Life: Philosophy and Biography by Ray Monk

- 2001 A Moral Witness by Avishai Margalit

- 2000 Human Action and the Kantian Imperatives by Christine Korsgaard