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Humanity’s moral compass has transformed significantly over the years. A.C. Grayling, Antonia Case, and Daniel Crimston explore the shifting sands of attitudes towards ‘good’ and ‘bad’.
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Brisbane Writers Festival
2016 Highlights
Panel
Moral Compass – SOLD OUT
SLQ Auditorium 1, State Library of Queensland
Stanley Pl, South Brisbane QLD 4101, Australia
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Professor Frederick d’Agostino
Professor Frederick d’Agostino is a philosopher and social scientist based at The University of Queensland. he has edited the Australasian Journal of Philosophy; Politics, Philosophy and Economics; and the Routledge Companion to Political and Social Philosophy. Professor d’Agostino is passionate about people, and will engage with artists and audiences both on the ground and online throughout the Festival.
Daniel Crimston
Daniel Crimston is a University of Queensland researcher who investigates moral boundaries, moral judgments and decision making, and social behavior. He has written for The Conversation and co-authored the study, ‘Moral expansiveness: Examining variability in the extension of the moral world’, which was recently published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
A.C. Grayling
A. C. Grayling is the Professor of Philosophy at the New College of the Humanities, London. He is the author of over thirty books of philosophy, biography and essays including, most recently, The Age of Genius. He is a columnist for Prospect magazine, and a regular contributor to leading newspapers in the UK, the US and Australia. He is a Vice President of the British Humanist Association, and in 2015 served as the Chair of the judging panel for the Booker Prize.