The Power of Images | Peter Herbst Seminars 2013
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Critique of Calculation. Labour, Productivity, Limits and Love in Dogville I propose to interpret Lars Von Trier's Dogville (2003) as a film that continues with a philosophical tradition of critique of reification in contemporary capitalism. I thus explore notions of labour, productivity and…
Christian Barry (ANU) & David Wiens (ANU): Benefiting from wrongdoing and preserving wrongful harm
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Some moral theorists argue that we can incur special duties to victims of a wrongdoing simply in virtue of receiving benefits that are causally downstream of the wrongdoing, even if we are wholly innocent of the wrongdoing. These arguments aim to show that benefiting constitutes a ground of moral…
Linus Huang (ANU): The Nativist Input Problem: Why Evolutionary Psychology Still Can't Explain Human Intelligence
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One distinctive feature of human intelligence is a high level of flexibility. Human thought is flexible roughly in the sense that , "there is no end to the kinds of problems human reason can deal with" (Horgan & Tienson, 1996). However, no theory to date has adequately explained such unique…