Løgstrup lecture

I have kindly been invited to give the Løgstrup lecture at Aarhus this year, which is a great honour. See further details here

Løgstrup in Oxford

I will giving a paper at the centenary conference of the Iris Murdoch Society in Oxford, 13-15 July, St Anne’s College. Mark Hopwood and I have organised a panel discussing Løgstrup’s relation to Murdoch. My paper is entitled:

‘Eros, Axioms, Duty, and the Void: A Comparison Between the Structure of Murdoch’s Ethics, and Løgstrup’s’

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Løgstrup in Melbourne

I will be giving a seminar on Løgstrup at Deakin University in Melbourne on July 26th, see details here

I will also be giving the Max Charlesworth lecture on July 23rd, which will be on the subject of hope. I won’t be discussing Løgstrup explicitly, but he will be in the background of the talk!

Løgstrup in Toronto

I will be giving a seminar on my Løgstrup book in Toronto, on 20th September, 9.00-12.00, see details here:

Workshop on “The Radical Demand in Løgstrup’s Ethics” by Robert Stern

Hope

I was one of the guests on a BBC In Our Time programme today, on the subject of hope. Løgstrup is mentioned very briefly at the end, though not by me! It would have been nice to bring him in more, of course, as his views on hope are very interesting – but it seemed best to stick to more main-stream figures of the purposes of this programme…

Løgstrup and overdemandingness

I gave a paper at a conference at the University of Southampton on ‘How much does Morality Require of Us? Singer, Kant and Løgstrup’. I suggested that Løgstrup might provide an ideal middle way between Singer (who looks too demanding regarding the distant other) and Kant (who looks too undemanding regarding the proximate other), while Løgstrup’s distinction between the responsibility of the ethical demand, and our political responsibilities to others, may show what is wrong with Singer’s famous analogy between the child drowning in the pond, and those distant others who are in need, but less clearly ‘in one’s hands’.

Radio discussion of Løgstrup

Bjørn Rabjerg (Aarhus) and I were interviewed by Scott Stephen on Løgstrup for the ‘Philosopher’s Zone’ programme on ABC radio in Australia: see here

This also relates to the publication of my piece on life as a gift on the ABC website here.

 

Løgstrup in China

Back from three weeks teaching Løgstrup at Tsinghua University in China, with Bjørn Rabjerg. It was a great experience.

Bjørn and I also got to work on our new translation of The Ethical Demand. The photo is us working on the translation in the wonderful gardens of the Summer Palace in Beijing.

Løgstrup in China

From March 24th to April 14th, I will be in China with Bjørn Rabjerg, where we will be lecturing on Løgstrup at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Looking forward to the trip!

Luther as Philosopher

Partly inspired by my interest in Løgstrup, I have recently been successful in securing funding for a project on ‘Luther as Philosopher’, which will involve colleagues in York and Leeds. See details here