Frances Kamm Graduate Masterclass
Workshop
Professor F M Kamm will give a graduate masterclass on some of her recent work. The event is open to all, but HDR students are particularly encouraged to attend, and will be prioritised in the discussion. Session 1 will take place between 1pm and 2.20pm. The focus will be Professor Kamm's work in…
Kate Vredenburgh: Philsoc Seminar
Seminar
Predictively powerful yet opaque models are increasingly used by governments and private actors to make high stakes decisions in the healthcare system, the judicial system, the labor market, and so on. In response to this phenomenon, I argue for a right to explanation as an important, overlooked…
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong: How Contrastivism Helps to Solve the Problems of Mental Causation and Moral Responsibility
Seminar
How Contrastivism Helps to Solve the Problems of Mental Causation and Moral Responsibility Although most discussions of moral responsibility focus on whether our choices are free, an equally serious issue concerns whether our choices are efficacious or impotent. We cannot be morally responsible for…
Material Evidence and Cognitive Evolution
Workshop
There is growing interest in developing interdisciplinary collaborations between philosophy and archaeology. On one hand, philosophers of science are becoming increasingly interested in the unique nature of the archaeological method, which raises important questions concerning evidence,…
Concern, Respect, and Cooperation symposium
Symposium
Concern, Respect, and Cooperation symposium. The speakers are Nomy Arpaly, Sergio Tannenbaum, Katie Steele, Krister Bykvist, and Garrett Cullity. Further details will follow closer to the date.
Mark Budolfson: Quantifying animal wellbeing and estimating optimal tradeoffs against human wellbeing, developing policy-relevant population ethics, and integrating the results into policy analysis for climate change and beyond
Seminar
Quantifying animal wellbeing and estimating optimal tradeoffs against human wellbeing, developing policy-relevant population ethics, and integrating the results into policy analysis for climate change and beyond. Abstract: Animal welfare is almost never incorporated into large-scale policy analyses…
Cailin O'Connor: “Why Do Retractions Fail?”
Seminar
Abstract: It has been widely documented that retracted papers are often cited long after they have been retracted. Scientific beliefs, such as in the truth of positive findings that have failed to replicate, likewise tend to persist for a significant period after they have been refuted. In this…