Kimberley Brownlee (Warwick): "Getting Rights out of Wrongs"
Seminar
Abstract: Sometimes, we gain new moral rights by acting wrongly. Sometimes, we gain new moral rights (in addition to restitution rights) from other people acting wrongly. This paper presents a typology of these rights. It then analyses why some wrongs can change the moral ballgame in this way to…
Ellen Clarke (Leeds): “The Metaphysics of Sex Categories"
Seminar
Abstract: The folk take sex categories to be exhausted by the binary of male and female, but this sits badly with the biological reality of intersex conditions. Alison Stone has argued that we should adopt an HPC (homeostatic property cluster) account of sex categories so that we can accommodate…
Feasibility and Poverty workshop
Workshop
This workshop is co-organised by Nic Southwood and Professor John Dryzek (UC) and is part of the activities of Nic's ARC Future Fellowship, “Feasibility in Politics: Taking Account of Groups and Institutions” and John’s ARC Laureate Fellowship, “Deliberative Worlds: Democracy, Justice, and a…
Anna Mahtani (LSE): "The designators that matter"
Seminar
Abstract: Suppose that you have a choice of two actions, A and B, and suppose that action A has better prospects for everyone than action B. Then many would conclude that A is “ex ante pareto superior” to B, and so that you should do A rather than B. I have argued that a person’s prospects can…
Motherhood under the microscope: Perspectives from the social sciences
Seminar
What makes a good mother? What makes a mother at all? Where does motherhood come from? The nature of motherhood has perhaps never been more controversial or debated as it is today. The ANU Gender Institute and Centre for Philosophy of the Sciences invite you to this special National Science Week…
Marta Halina (University of Cambridge): "Insightful AI"
Seminar
In March 2016, DeepMind’s computer program AlphaGo surprised the world by defeating the world-champion Go player, Lee Sedol. AlphaGo has a novel, surprising and valuable style of play, and has been recognized as “creative” by the AI and Go communities. This paper examines whether AlphaGo engages in…
Kimberley Kessler Ferzan (Virginia): #BelieveWomen and the Presumption of Innocence: Clarifying the Questions for Law and Life
Seminar
In September 2018, Christine Blasey Ford accused Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, of sexually assaulting her when the two were teenagers. Ford’s supporters told us to #BelieveWomen, while Kavanaugh’s supporters invoked the presumption of innocence. My aim in this talk is not to reconcile…