"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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Past Events
Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund): Are Probabilities Values?
Wlodek Rabinowicz
According to the fitting-attitude analysis of value (FA-analysis), to be valuable is to be a fitting object of a pro-attitude. A very similar…
John Basl (NEU): Why Everyone Has It Wrong About the Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles
John Basl (NEU)
Many of those thinking about the ethics of autonomous vehicles believe there are important lessons to be learned by attending to so-called Trolley…
Alexandra Oprea (ANU): Counterproductive Altruism: The Other Heavy Tail
Alexandra Oprea (ANU)
Effective Altruism (henceforth EA) is an influential new social movement and philosophical approach “which applies evidence and reason to working out…