Brentyn Ramm (ANU): First-person Experiments
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First-person approaches to investigating experience are often criticised for their inability to resolve phenomenological disputes. Does a tilted plate look elliptical in some sense or does it look like a tilted circle (or both)? Philosophers disagree. Are there reliable first-person methods…
Matthew Hammerton (ANU): If there are agent-centered constraints then consequentialism is true
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Midterm Review It is widely supposed that if there are agent-centered moral constraints then some version of non-consequentialism is true. For example, suppose we accept the agent-centered constraint that you ought not kill even to prevent more killing by others. Many think that accepting such a…
Alexander Prescott-Couch (Harvard): Rational Reconstruction and the Role of Values in Social Scientific Idealization
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What roles should values play in social scientific inquiry given the aims of social science and the nature of its subject matter? That is a big question. This talk will focus on a related but narrower question: is there a role for values in guiding and assessing idealizations in social science and…