CEPPA Talk (online only) 鈥� Jeff McMahan (Oxford University)
Title: 鈥淐ompensation for Wrongful Life鈥� Abstract: In a recent case in the UK, a 20-year-old woman with spina bifida brought an action against her mother鈥檚 physician for failing to advise…
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CEPPA Talk (in person) 鈥� Matthew Adler (Duke University)
Location:聽Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Title: 鈥淧erson-Affecting Consequentialism: Equity-Regarding, Desert-Neutral, Repugnant鈥� Abstract: The philosophical literature on consequentialism regularly distinguishes between 鈥減erson-affecting鈥� and 鈥渋mpersonal鈥� moral justifications or accounts.聽聽 The 鈥減erson-affecting鈥�/鈥漣mpersonal鈥� distinction can…
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Enrico Galvagni 鈥� CEPPA Work-In-Progress Talk (in person)
Location:聽Edgecliffe G03 Title: Hume鈥檚 Account of Virtue and Its Place in the History of Ethics Abstract: Hume鈥檚 account of virtue is notoriously puzzling. On the one hand, he claims that…
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CEPPA Talk (in person) 鈥� Brian Hedden (ANU)
Location:聽School 6 Title: Counterfactual Decision Theory Abstract: I defend counterfactual decision theory, which says that you should evaluate an act in terms of which outcomes would likely obtain, were you…
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CEPPA Talk (in person) 鈥� C茅cile Fabre (Oxford)
Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: The Morality of Gossip Abstract: Gossip is pervasive and wide-ranging. It lubricates and wrecks social relationships. Many people openly confess to loving it yet acknowledge that…
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CEPPA Talk (in person) 鈥� Ben Sachs-Cobbe (精东传媒)
Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Title: What鈥檚 wrong with teaching our children to be good citizens? Abstract: Character education is a common part of schooling in the U.S. and U.K.,…
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CEPPA Talk (online only) 鈥� Sally Haslanger (MIT)
Location: Teams (online only) Title: Ideology, Culture, and Social Meaning Abstract: My aim in this paper is to sketch a conception of ideology that draws on the critical theory tradition.…
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CEPPA Talk (online only) 鈥� Nancy Fraser (The New School)
Location:聽Teams (online only) Title: Three Faces of Capitalist Labor: Uncovering the Hidden Ties among Gender, Race, and Class Abstract: Dissatisfied with identity-based politics, many activists and intellectuals are now seeking…
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CEPPA Talk (online only) 鈥� Jason Brennan (Georgetown)
Location: Teams (online only) Title: Laissez-Faire Democracy? Reasons to Regulate Votes Abstract: Most economists and political philosophers accept a simple argument for empowering governments to regulate citizens鈥� and private firms鈥�…
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CEPPA Talk (online only) 鈥� Shelly Kagan (Yale)
Location: Teams (online only) Title: “Death, Deprivation, and Rational Regret” Abstract:聽 Is death a bad thing? According to the deprivation account, death is bad because the dead don’t get the…
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CEPPA Talk (online only) 鈥� Heather Battaly (University of Connecticut)
Location: Teams (online only) Title:聽Can Fanaticism be a Liberatory Virtue? Abstract:聽Quassim Cassam (2022a) and Paul Katsafanas (2019) have argued that fanaticism and extremism are normatively negative concepts鈥攃haracterized by, e.g., perverted…
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