Clas Weber (ANU): Centered Communication
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Abstract: According to an attractive account of belief, our beliefs have centered (i.e. de se) content. According to an attractive account of communication, we utter sentences to express our beliefs and share them with our audience. However, the two accounts are in conflict: if our utterances…
Andrew Biro (Arcadia University), "The Good Life in the Greenhouse? Democratic Citizenship as Climate Change Strategy"
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With atmospheric CO2 concentrations at 390 ppm and rising, and the Kyoto Protocol set to expire, recent campaigns by high-profile climate change activists have drawn attention to rapidly closing windows, both climatological and political. At the same time, both academics and activists are…
Stephan Hartmann (Tilburg), "No-Alternatives Arguments"
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We show that the observation that no one has yet found an alternative to a proposed theory confirms the theory in question. Our discussion has repercussions for various other philosophical problems, which we will point out. The talk is based on joint work with Richard Dawid (Vienna).
Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside): The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors
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Abstract: Do professional ethicists behave any morally better than do non-ethicists of similar social background? If not, do they at least show greater consistency between their normative attitudes and their outward behavior? Despite a long philosophical tradition associating philosophical…
John Broome (Oxford University), "Climate Morality"
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Citizens have two sorts of interest in climate change. They need to know what their governments should do about it, so they can participate well in the political process, and they need to know what they should do about it themselves. I shall argue that the answers to these questions have different…
Laura Valentini (Oxford University), Justice, Legitimacy, and the Global Order
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The existing global institutional order is far from being morally faultless. But what standards should we employ to evaluate its moral failings, and guide its reform? Should they be standards of legitimacy or standards of justice? The bulk of the literature on international ethics has focused on…