"The Centre for Moral, Social and Political Theory" in the School of Philosophy organises a lunchtime seminar every week. The MSPT seminar normally takes place on Mondays from 12:30 to 2:00 in Coombs seminar room D. The current convenor for the MSPT seminar series is Oliver Rawle (oliver.rawle@anu.edu.au). Recent and upcoming papers are listed below.
MSPT Seminars are announced on both the the philsoc mailing list, and the CMSPT mailing list.
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Past Events
Connie Rosati (Arizona): Normativity and the Naturalistic Fallacy
In Principia Ethica, G. E. Moore famously accused ethical naturalists of committing the “naturalistic fallacy.” Critics charged that this was no…
David Sobel (Syracuse): The Impotence of the Demandingness Objection
My thesis is that the Demandingness Objection cannot itself provide good reason to break with Consequentialism since it must presuppose the truth of…
Lisa Ellis (Otago): The collective ethics of flying
Unconstrained and accelerating greenhouse gas emissions associated with air travel threaten everyone's wellbeing. Popular discourse notwithstanding,…