Gregory Strom (Sydney): "A Case for the Practical Imagination"
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I claim that no acceptable account of ethical value can be compatible with the possibility that an agent is in what I term the "ought-ought gap" when she performs an ethically excellent action. (This is the gap expressed when someone says, for example, "I know that I ought to return the money…
Christian Loew: Causation and Asymmetry.
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Abstract: According to the standard view, the temporal direction of causation consists in a quantitative asymmetry: Causation is widespread in the forward direction but (almost) entirely absent in the backward direction. Earlier events frequently cause later events but later events (almost) never…
Joanne Lau & Mhairi Cowden (ANU), "The Language of 'Competence' and 'Capacity' in Children's Rights"
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The concepts of “capacity” and “competence” play a central role in moral and political philosophy by determining the moral status of a subject. More specifically, they play a central role in determining their rights, especially throughout the literature addressing the rights of children. Despite…
Ram Manikkalingam (Dialogue Advisory Group & University of Amsterdam), "Promoting Peace and Protecting Rights: How are Human Rights Good and Bad for Resolving Conflict?"
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National and international actors seek to protect human rights and resolve conflict to improve conditions for civilians in internal conflict. Practical efforts to protect human rights can be good for resolving conflict by advancing long term stability, identifying causes of conflict,…
Raamy Majeed (Sydney): Conditional Concepts & Conceiving On the Tea Balcony
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Abstract: According to the conditional analysis of phenomenal concepts, these concepts are conditional in the sense that what they pick out depends on what exists in the actual world. If there are nonphysical states of the relevant sort in the actual world, our phenomenal concepts must pick out…