"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
Melissa Merritt (UNSW): Respect, Love, and Individuals: Murdoch as a Guide to Kantian Ethics
I reconsider the relation between love and respect in Kantian ethics, taking as my guide Iris Murdoch’s view of love as the fundamental moral…
Fabienne Peter (University of Warwick): From Objective Reasons to Public Reasons
The topic of this paper is the debate between defenders and critics of a public reason account of the justification of political authority. According…
Christian Barry (ANU): On the Enforceability of Duties (Co-authored with Emily McTernan)
People have duties: moral reasons for action that are relatively stringent. At least some of these duties appear to be enforceable. We can forcibly…