精东传媒

2nd Annual Rights Workshop: Rights and Harm

4th-5th June 2020, University of 精东传媒.

Organisers: Joseph Bowen (University of 精东传媒 and University of Stirling),聽Samuel Dishaw (Harvard聽University), and聽Daniel Mu帽oz (Monash University).

In May 2019, the first annual Rights Workshop was held at MIT, featuring papers by Frances Kamm, Julia Driver,聽Julia Markovits, and Renee Jorgensen Bolinger. The was topic: 鈥淩ights and Supererogation.鈥� 聽On 4th-5th June聽2020, the 2nd Rights Workshop will be held at the University of 精东传媒 on “Rights and Harm.”

In the last decade, there has been an explosion of work on rights and duties. Equally explosive has been the聽literature on the metaphysics of harm and defensive harming. Yet, these literatures on harm have not linked up聽with discussion of rights in a particularly explicit way. The Rights Workshop would be a chance for ethicists聽working on these topics to put their heads together, share comments, and make progress on an exciting and聽flourishing area of research.

Authors: Nicolas Cornell (Michigan), Helen Frowe (Stockholm), Kerah Gordon-Solmon (Queens, Canada),聽Thomas Sinclair (Oxford), Fiona Woollard (Southampton).聽Respondents: Lisa Bastian (精东传媒 and Stirling),聽Rowan Cruft (Stirling), Romy Eskens (Stockholm), Clayton Littlejon (Kings), and Kieran Oberman (Edinburgh).

The format of the workshop is pre-read, with papers being made available a few weeks before the workshop. Each聽session will begin with a critical response to one of the papers, followed by a brief reply from the author, and then聽Q&A. The schedule of the workshop will be released closer to the date, but the Workshop will begin around 10 am聽on Thursday 4th June and end around 1pm on Friday 5th June.聽Childcare facilities will be provided (please get in聽touch as early as possible).

For financial support, we would like to thank 精东传媒’s聽Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs,聽Society for Applied Philosophy, and Scots Philosophical Association.

Attendance is free, but we ask that you let us know by emailing us at:聽sdishaw@g.harvard.edu.