"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.
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Past Events
Kenneth Simons (UC Irvine): Actual, apparent, hypothetical, and implied-in-law consent in tort law
Kenneth Simons (UC Irvine)
Three different categories of consent exist, each of which justifiably precludes tort liability (and also some other forms of legal and moral…
Hannah Tierney (uSyd): Guilty Confessions
Hannah Tierney
What P.F. Strawson (1962) labelled the reactive attitudes—gratitude, resentment, forgiveness, love, and hurt feelings—have each generated rich areas…
Toni Erskine (ANU): Flesh-and-Blood, Corporate, Robotic? Moral Agents of Restraint and the Problem of Misplaced Responsibility in War
Toni Erskine (ANU)
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…