The Language of Consciousness
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This conference focuses on the language used to describe consciousness, including especially the language of "what it is like" and perceptual reports. Speakers include David Bourget, Wylie Breckenridge, Berit Brogaard, Jonathan Farrell, and Daniel Stoljar. Program Thursday July 28 9.30-11.00:…
Luara Ferracioli (ANU), "Morality in Migration: Duties of Inclusion and Exclusion"
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This paper focuses on two questions regarding the movement of persons across international borders: do states have a right to unilaterally control their borders, and if so, are migration arrangements simply immune to moral considerations? Against theorists like Joseph Carens and Arash Abizadeh, I…
Leif Wenar (King's College, London), "The Nature of the Claim"
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Rights are the distinctive normative concept of modernity, and the claim-right is the paradigm of rights. Kant, Hart and Steiner defend one traditional view of what claim-rights are, while Bentham, Raz and Kramer champion the other. The paper sets out a new analysis superior to both,…
Raul Saucedo (Yale/ANU), "Plurallism: The Priority of All Things"
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Plurallism is the thesis that all things together are ontologically prior to each thing on its own as well as to any other things together. A bit more explicitly, it is the thesis that the plurality of all things is prior to every single thing and to any other plurality of things. Plurallism is…
Marilyn Friedman (Vanderbilt), "Dependence, Disability, and Liberal Citizenship"
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Some feminists have recently challenged the view that independence is a desirable or possible moral status. They have also argued against liberal conceptions of citizenship that require citizen autonomy understood as independence. While these critiques have some merit, I argue that they…