5th Annual McDowell Conference
Fall 1994 Program

PHILOSOPHY AND MORAL EDUCATION

Friday, November 18, 1994
Ward Circle Building, Room 2
1:00 pm to 6:00 pm

SCHEDULE

1:00 pm - 3:15 pm Session I:

“Opening Remarks: Freedom, Virtue and Education"
Jeffrey Reiman, William Fraser McDowell Professor of Philosophy, American University

“Teaching for Moral Growth”
Nel Noddings, Professor of Philosophy and Education, Stanford University

“Making Free with Virtue"
Michael Slote, Professor of Philosophy, University of Maryland

3:15 pm - 3:45 pm Coffee and Donuts

3:45 pm - 6:00 pm Session II:

“Politics as Moral Education”
Amelie Oksenberg Rorty, Professor of Philosophy, Mount Holyoke College

“Virtue, Autonomy, and Moral Education”
Teresa McGarrity, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, American University

“Teaching Virtue Versus Moral Training”
Phillip Scribner, Associate Professor of Philosophy, American University

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