John Broome (Oxford/ANU): Lessons from Economics
Seminar
Abstract: Some areas of philosophical value theory could benefit from an infusion of methods from economics. I shall talk about two examples. One is the theory of the value of equality, which is often understood as a debate between egalitarianism and prioritarianism. The other is population ethics…
Elizabeth Kahn (Durham University): 'Social Structural Standards as Human Rights
Seminar
Social Structural Standards as Human Rights The Universal Declaration of Human Rights identifies a broad range of rights that its writers agreed deserved international recognition as being owed to humans everywhere out of respect for their inherent dignity (United Nations General Assembly 1948).…
Hannah Tierney (uSyd): Guilty Confessions
Seminar
What P.F. Strawson (1962) labelled the reactive attitudes—gratitude, resentment, forgiveness, love, and hurt feelings—have each generated rich areas of research. But the reactive attitude that gets the most attention has historically been resentment, especially as it relates to blame and moral…
Thor Grünbaum (Copenhagen): Thursday seminar
Seminar
Preceded by a pre-talk for graduate students from 1:30-3:30PM in the Benjamin Library Abstract: In this talk, I argue that the long-term memory involved in retaining an agent’s intentions over time and bringing them to mind again, when the agent needs it, is a special kind of memory. This kind of…
Sarita Rosenstock (UC Irvine): Democracy in Space
Seminar
Abstract: While there is a vast and illuminating literature on how various voting schemes instantiate democratic values, the common practice of determining legislative representation by geographic location has been relatively unexplored in formal political philosophy. In this talk, I…
Nevin Climenhaga (ACU): The Structure of Epistemic Probabilities
Seminar
The first Thursday Seminar for the semester will be given by Nevin Climenhaga (ACU), from 3:30-5:30PM in Coombs Extension LT 1.04. The talk will be preceded by a pre-talk for the graduate students at 1:30PM in the Benjamin Library, and followed by drinks and dinner. Please let me Justin know, at…
Toni Erskine (ANU): Flesh-and-Blood, Corporate, Robotic? Moral Agents of Restraint and the Problem of Misplaced Responsibility in War
Seminar
Who – or what – are ‘moral agents of restraint’ in war? This is a critical moment for such an enquiry. Two different movements – one in the academic sphere, another in the realm of practice – contribute to its timeliness. First, within the just war tradition, a recent rift between ‘traditionalists…