Photo opportunity: 5.30pm, Thursday 23 October, Conference Room, First Floor, Tower Building, University of Dundee, Baroness Warnock and University staff.
Baroness Mary Warnock - Britain’s foremost authority on reproductive ethics - will give a public lecture at the University of Dundee on Thursday 23 October. The lecture will take place at 5.30pm in the Conference Room, 1st Floor, Tower Building,
The lecture is the first in a new series introduced by the Department of Philosophy which has recently been awarded £1000 per annum from the Royal Institute of Philosophy to fund public events.
In this first year, the Department will use these funds for a series of public lectures on the theme of Creativity. Five invited speakers will give their perspective on different aspects of creativity.
Baroness Mary Warnock is a crossbench peer, moral philosopher and author of a number of books including The Intelligent Person’s Guide to Ethics.
She will draw on her experience as chair of the hugely-influential Parliamentary Committee of Enquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology to present a talk entitled Creating Human Life. The Enquiry led to the Human Fertilisaton and Embryo Act 1990 and the creation of the HFE Authority.
Baroness Warnock remains one of the UK’s most pre-eminent authorities on the hotly contested issues surrounding human creativity, including embryos and fertilisation.
Dr Timothy Chappell, Head of the University of Dundee’s Department of Philosophy, said, "Philosophy is all about using reasoned argument to straighten out our world views. We especially need cool and rational thinking on hot and complex issues like creating human lives.
The distinguished philosopher Mary Warnock has made a huge contribution to our society in this area. So we in the University of Dundee’s Philosophy Department are delighted to welcome Baroness Warnock to inaugurate our Creativity Lectures 2003 - the first of what we hope will become an annual series of public lectures, funded by a grant from the Royal Institute of Philosophy."
Editors’ notes
The Royal Institute of Philosophy is a national organisation dedicated to promoting the study and practice of philosophy in the UK.
Other lectures in the series:
Father Fergus Kerr OP on Creativity in Theology
Poet Douglas Dunn on Creativity in Poetry
Dr Berys Gaut on The Value of Creativity
Professor Margaret Boden on The Creative Mind.
By Esther Black, Press Officer 01382 344768 e.z.black@dundee.ac.uk