Two abstracts have been added (those of Emily Riehl and Gabor Lukacs) and the timetable has been slightly modified (exchanged talks of Paré and Bunge). -- The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy--the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. --J.K. Galbraith [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]