Options must be internal (but don’t blame me if I don’t always do what I ought) - Toby Solomon
Seminar
Speaker: Toby Solomon Abstract: Many people believe that ought implies can. However, when the ``ought’’ in question is the ``ought’’ of ``rationally ought’’ there is a tension between this thesis and another—that the demands of rationality should be first-person accessible. Or, in other…
Knowledge and Algorithmic Predictions in the Legal Realm - Eleonora Cresto
Seminar
Speaker: Eleanora Cresto In this talk I discuss the epistemic status of algorithmic predictions in the legal realm. I make two main claims. My first claim is that algorithmic predictions do not give us knowledge – not even probabilistic knowledge. The situation, however, is relevantly…
Power, Costs, Collective Action, and Solidarity: A Footnote to ‘Two Logics of Collective - Arash Abizadeh
Seminar
Speaker: Arash Abizadeh It has seemed to some that the more costly it would be to exercise one’s agential power over some issue, the less agential power one has. I argue against this cost thesis and diagnose the intuition behind it as reflecting a truth about having general-power over a…
Experiments of Living Constitutionalism
Lecture
Experiments of Living Constitutionalism urges that the Constitution should be interpreted so as to allow both individuals and groups to experiment with different ways of living, whether we are speaking of religious practices, family arrangements, political associations, civic associations, child-…
Social Scripts - Tom Dougherty
Seminar
Speaker: Tom Dougherty Social scripts specify the normal way for people to interact in certain situations. For example, a social script for a restaurant conversation explains why the world over, these conversations take a similar form. I will discuss what social scripts are, how they shape…
Assessing International Adjudication: The World Court at 100
Lecture
The Permanent Court of International Justice, based in the Peace Palace in The Hague, heard its first case a century ago. Its post-war successor, the International Court of Justice, is at the busiest point in its history, with 16 contentious cases before it, from every region of the globe. It also…
Belief and its Linguistic Representation - Frances Egan
Seminar
Speaker: Frances Egan Abstract: Beliefs play a central role in our commonsense practice of predicting and explaining behavior. For example, we appeal to Alice’s belief that vaccines are dangerous to predict and explain her refusal to get…