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KEYNOTE SPEAKER Peter Kemp

Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Department of Philosophy of Education at the Danish University of Education, Copenhagen, since 2001. Executive Director of the Centre for Ethics and Law, Copenhagen, since 1993.
President of FISP (Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie) since 2003.

Education: cand. theol. University of Aarhus 1964; studies in Strasbourg, Heidelberg, Paris, Munich and Tübingen 1965-69; dr. theol. University of Copenhagen, 1973; Fil.dr. University of Gothenburg, 1991.

Academic positions: Associated Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen, 1972-1989, Professor (docent) at University of Copenhagen 1989-2001. Ordinary professor at the Danish University of Education, Copenhagen, since 2001.
Visiting Professor for a year at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden 1987-88,
Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Vienna winter 1988-89 and summer 1990. Delegate for the Univ. of Copenhagen to the Inter-University Center in Dubrovnik, Jugoslavia 1979-1993, and co-director of four two-weeks seminars at IUC in 1981, 1984, 1986 and 1988. President for the Danish Academy of Applied Philosophy 1986-1988. President of Nordic Institute of Philosophy 1980-89.

Member of the Collective Board (and co-founder of) Filosofisk Forum (Philosophical Society) in Copenhagen since 1980. Elected member of l'Academie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences, since 1984. Elected member of l'Institut International de Philosophie, Paris, since 1989. Member of Different Commissions for the Danish Government: On Technological Risks (1988), On Ethical Committee's and the Control of Experiments on Human Beings (1989) and On Bioethics in Biotechnology (1997-99). Chairman of the Conference on Social Development between Intervention and Integration, Copenhagen, 1995, sponsored by the United Nations and the Danish Government. Chairman of the International Conference on Bioethics and Biolaw, Copenhagen, 1996, under the protection of UNESCO.
Chairman of the Second International Conference on Bioethics and Biolaw, Copenhagen 1998, under the protection of UNESCO. Chairman of the International Conference on Future Food and Bioethics, Copenhagen, 2002, hosted by the Danish Government.

Main publications:
Théorie de l'engagement, I-II, Seuil, Paris, 1973 (dissertation in theology, University of Copenhagen 1973);
Éthique et Médecine, Tierce et INSERM, Paris 1987;
Co-editor of:
Technologies et Sociétés , Galilée, Paris, 1980; and
The Narrative Path. The later Works of Paul Ricœur MIT-Press, Mass., 1989.

Most recent books
Det Uerstattelige, Copenhagen, 1991 (Swedish version dissertation in philosophy at the University of Gothenburg ); German transl.: Das Unersetzlische - eine Technologieethik, Wichern Verlag, Berlin, 1992. French transl.: L'irremplaçable, Une éthique de la technologie, Editions du Cerf, Paris, 1997.
Lévinas, Copenhagen, 1992. French transl.: Levinas, une introduction philosophique L'encre marine, Paris, 1997
Tid og fortælling. Introduktion til Paul Ricœur, Aarhus Universitetsforlag, Aarhus, 3. edition, 1999.
Praktisk Visdom. Om Paul Ricœurs etik, Forum, København, 2001.
Den bioetiske vending (The Bioethical Turn) (co-editor), Spektrum, København, 1997.
Le discours bioéthique, Les Éditions du Cerf, Paris, 2004.

In preparation:
La vie éthique, Essais, Edition l'Harmattan, Paris, to be published in 2005.