Where does morality come from? Baroness Warnock gives public lecture at University of York
Posted on 27 April 1998
The philosopher, Baroness Warnock, who chaired the government Committee on Human Fertility and Embryology, will give this year's Heslington Lecture on Wednesday 6 May. The lecture, which is open to the public and free of charge, will be entitled 'Where does morality come from?'.
Baroness Warnock, a life peer, is the former Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge. During her career there and previously as a philosophy tutor at Oxford, she chaired a number of significant government inquiries, including those on Animal Experimentation, Special Education, Environmental Pollution, and Human Fertility and Embryology.
The Heslington lectures have been an annual event at the University since 1965. Their theme is 'Religion and the modern world'. Previous speakers include Jonathon Porritt, Bruce Kent, Rabbi Julia Neuberger and Lord Habgood.
The Heslington Lecture will be at 8pm on Wednesday 6 May in lecture theatre V045 in Vanbrugh College at the University of York. Admission is free and all are welcome. There will be a chance for members of the audience to meet the speaker informally after the lecture.