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Title: Responsibility, Causality, and Carbon Accounting Abstract: 聽Carbon accounting standards hold companies accountable (i.e. responsible) for the greenhouse gas emissions from their value chains, but what is the basis for this allocation of responsibility? There may be a partial causal 鈥榣ogic鈥� that underpins this assignment of responsibility, but this is not explicitly reflected on or…

4.05-4.45pm: Miguel de la Cal Moreno – Manufactured Disorientation and Climate Change Abstract: Many people experience Anthropogenic Climate Change (ACC) as overwhelming and intimidating, recognising its seriousness and the need to act while feeling unable to determine what to do or how to decide what to do. This paper characterises this experience as moral disorientation.…

Viviante Fairbank – The Responsible-Inquiry Model of Journalism Abstract: On the traditional, so-called Informational Model of journalism, the primary role of journalism in a functioning democracy is to provide people with true information about a certain range of important topics. Although this model is appealing, I argue that it is unsatisfactory; importantly, it does not…

Title:聽Hume鈥檚 One and Only Definition of Virtue Abstract: Hume鈥檚 moral philosophy is seen by many as a form of virtue ethics that includes two different definitions of virtue. On the one hand, Hume seems to define virtue as a mental quality generating utility and agreeableness to oneself or others. On the other hand, he also…

Yoshinari Hattori – Why We Must Believe in Free Will and Moral Responsibility: Reconsidering Their Foundations Abstract: This presentation argues that the practice of blaming wrongdoers鈥攅specially directing resentment or indignation towards them鈥攊s rationally indispensable for us. Pereboom contends that directing resentment or indignation at others is a form of harming them and is unjustified. As…

Omar Ruiz Rivera – Moral Skill Abstract: This talk is about moral skill鈥攖he capacity for morally excellent behaviour. In particular, I engage with Shepherd鈥檚 (2022) view that moral skill is 鈥渓imited in scope, and precarious鈥� (p. 713). To defend this view, Shepherd relies on a distinction between global and local moral skill. The former involves…

Title:聽Relational Value: Problems and Prospects Abstract: The concept of 鈥渞elational value鈥� is widely used in the environmental ethics and policy literatures. In this talk, I will critically assess this use, considering what relational value might add to our existing value categories and what problems it might produce for our thinking about the value of the…

Title:聽Going First: Integration with Compensation as a Duty of Justice. Abstract: Racial segregation remains deeply entrenched in many societies such as the United States. (Liberal) integrationists argue that we have a duty to integrate because integration is necessary for racial justice (Anderson 2010). (Egalitarian) pluralists reject a duty to integrate (Shelby 2014, 2016). They hold…

Title:聽Conflated Questions in the Ethics of Belief Abstract: It鈥檚 common to suppose that epistemology can be understood in close structural parallel with ethics: as ethics is about what to do, epistemology is about what to believe. In this paper I draw attention to an important limit of such parallelisms: in reasoning to belief, agents are…

Title:聽The Right to a Healthy Environment and the Case of Climate Change Abstract: Once regarded as a marginal proposal in international human rights, the right to a healthy environment has gained surprisingly widespread acceptance in domestic law across the world. 聽Recently, the right has become an important part of global climate advocacy, often anchoring legal…

We are delighted to invite you to a special joint CEPPA/Arch茅 Seminar to introduce the new Professorial Fellow Jennifer Saul, who will give a talk about her recent research, entitled ‘When Norm Violations Come Out of the Shadows’.

Title:聽Democratic Instrumentalism and the Threat of Authoritarianism Abstract: The instrumentalism of the title says roughly that the form of governance that would be feasibly best in any circumstances is any one whose establishment and operation would bring about consequences morally no worse than those of any other that might instead be put in place.聽 I…