Christian List (LSE): From Degrees of Belief to Beliefs: Lessons from Judgment-Aggregation Theory
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From Degrees of Belief to Beliefs: Lessons from Judgment-Aggregation Theory (based on joint work with Franz Dietrich) What is the relationship between degrees of belief and (all-or-nothing) beliefs? Can the latter be expressed as a function of the former, without running into paradoxes? We…
Johannes Himmelreich (LSE): Responsibility Gaps: the case of autonomous military drones
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I argue that there is no responsibility gap problem for autonomous military drones. In order to get clear about the issue, I first distinguish different ways of understanding the responsibility gap problem and identify the way which is pertinent to autonomous military drones. I then argue that…
Cecile Fabre (Oxford): Complying with peace agreements
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Political philosophers in general and contemporary war ethicists have not given much attention to the ethics of peace agreements - even though wars typically end with the conclusion of peace treaties between belligerents (whether they negotiate directly with one another, or under the auspices of…
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…