Events Archive (March 2007)
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Workshop ‘Philosophy & Architecture’
Architecture is a discipline founded on a wide and intricately branched body of knowledge. When that knowledge is appealed to at the intersection of culture and technology, a creative process begins to unfold which, it is hoped, can lead to the making of good buildings. The awareness of the intellectual foundation of architecture has become a natural part of the approach to design at the Department of Architecture, Building and Planning at Eindhoven University of Technology. Not, however, so self-evident as to render the careful scrutiny and review of the grounds and motives of this attitude superfluous.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Lecture ‘Ethics and Architecture’
Studium Generale (Eindhoven University of Technology) and the 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology are together organizing a public lecture on the topic ‘Ethics and Architecture’. The lecture will be given by architect Nicolas Ray, author of the book ‘Architecture and its Ethical Dilemmas’.
Monday, March 19, 2007
Colloquium: Can terrorism be justified?
Photo by Jim Watson
By Tomis Kapitan (DeKalb), 15.30 - 17.00 h, room b4.140, TPM-building, TU Delft
Abstract
If terrorism is understood to be politically-motivated violence directed against civilians or noncombatants, then there is widespread sentiment that it can never be justified. To the contrary, I argue that there may very well be cases where recourse to terrorism satisfies the standard jus ad bellum and jus in bello conditions for just war, provided that the jus in bello discrimination principle is interpreted as calling for the immunity for those who are ‘innocent’ of the grievances that motivate the violence in the first place. Such cases occur when a community is faced with an existential threat from an aggressor that itself uses terrorist tactics and whose own population publicly supports the aggression. I illustrate this argument in relation to the contemporary conflict between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs.
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Expert meeting ‘Bioterrorism & Dual Use’
“...the very same research/discoveries that can be used for beneficial purposes can also often be used to cause harm. Life sciences discoveries relevant to the progress of medicine, for example, may often have implications for bioweapons development. Questions thus arise about how the relevant research should be controlled and whether or not, or the extent to which, restrictions should be placed on the dissemination of information.” - Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE).
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