"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
Mark Budolfson (Stanford): Harm, Complicity, and Compensation: Evaluating Some Common Forms of Argument in Ethics, Law, and Political Philosophy
As participants in contemporary society, each of us is in some sense complicit in a wide variety of harms to others. In light of this, a common…
Keith Hankins (Melbourne): Diversity, Disagreement, and the Search for Better States of Affairs
Diversity and disagreement are often thought to be obstacles that theories of justice must accommodate. Building on work by Lu Hong and Scott Page I…
Daniel Halliday (Melbourne): Exploitation and Mutual Advantage
One challenge facing moral condemnations of exploitation is the strong possibility that allegedly exploitative exchanges are mutually advantageous –…