Professor Jeanette Kennett from Macquarie University will deliver this year’s Brian Medlin Memorial lecture on the theme of ‘Pleasure and Addiction’.

Professor Kennett is one of Australian leading philosophers and joined Macquarie in 2009 as a CoRE joint appointment between the Philosophy Department and the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science.

Her current research focus is on the contribution the sciences can make to our understanding of the cognitive and affective underpinnings of moral reasoning, moral judgment, and moral agency, and the implications for meta-ethics and moral psychology.

She is also revisiting the issue of self-control and responsibility, with a focus on addiction, in the light of recent empirical work.

Professor Kennett has been awarded five ARC Discovery Grants and published very extensively in leading journals.

Event details:

Date: Thursday, 21 July 2016
Time: 4:45pm for 5pm start (followed by light refreshments)
Location: Studio Rooms, Ground Floor (behind Grind and Press), Professional Services Building, Flinders University

For catering purposes please rsvp by Tuesday 19 July 2016 to https://pleasureandaddiction.eventbrite.com.au

Campus map: http://www.flinders.edu.au/about_the_campus_files/Documents/maps/campus_map.pdf
The Studio Rooms are located at J10 on the attached map above, nearest carparts are P5and P6.

About Brian Medlin:

Professor Brian Medlin was appointed as Foundation Professor of Philosophy at Flinders in 1966, and during his tenure became a public figure as a champion of left-wing politics and a leader of the anti-Vietnam movement. He died in 2004.