John Passmore Lecture 2014
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2014 John Passmore Lecture: Liability, Proportionality, and the Number of Aggressors If a fully culpable attacker would otherwise kill an innocent victim, he is morally liable to be killed in defense of the victim. Suppose there were a thousand such people appearing in rapid succession…
Anca Gheaus (Sheffield): Parental partiality, fair equality of opportunity and justice
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The family is a powerful vehicle of transmitting inequality inter-generationally (for instance, via bequests but also via everyday interactions between parents and children). In particular, it disrupts the fair equality of opportunity, which requires that individuals with the same level of inborn…
Feminist ripostes to the responsibility to protect doctrine
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Part of the Gender Institute 2014 Public Lecture Series, Feminist Theory Now RSVP via Eventbrite The concept that the experience of armed and societal conflict is gendered has been repeatedly confirmed by the Security Council in relation to the Women, Peace and Security agenda. However,…
James Joyce (Michigan): Prior Probabilities as Expressions of Epistemic Value
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Imprecise prior probabilities can be used to model beliefs when data is sparse, equivocal or vague. They can also provide a way of representing certain kinds of indecision or uncertainty about epistemic values and inductive policies. If we use the apparatus of proper scoring rules to model a…