"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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Contact
- Oliver Rawle
Past Events
Peter Graham (University of Massachusetts): Subjectivism, Actualism, and Beneficial Sacrifice
Presently there are two very lively debates ongoing in normative ethics: the Actualism/Possibilism debate and the Subjectivism/Objectivism…
Jeff Howard (UCL): Hate Speech, Criminal Incitement, and Intervening Agency
One of the most powerful arguments against hate speech is that it is dangerous: it increases the likelihood that listeners will engage in violence…
Rosa Terlazzo (Kansas State University): Must Adaptive Preferences be Prudentially Bad for Us? Adaptive Preferences, Transformative Experience, and Well-being
Some philosophers writing on adaptive preference insist that they are prudentially bad for us, while others argue that they can be prudentially good…