Location: Edgecliffe 104 Title: Should hate speech be against the law? Abstract: Hate speech has become increasingly prevalent, fuelled by social media, political polarization, and the rise of extremist groups.…
Location: Teams (online only) Title: Superogation Abstract: This paper considers the relation between supererogation and duties (also here referred to as聽obligations) from a nonconsequentialist point of view. It first considers…
Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: Climate Change as a Philosophical Problem Commentator: Qu芒n Nguyen (Edinburgh) Abstract: The paper this talk belongs to speaks to two main points. One is that the…
Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: Two Moralities of Recognition Abstract:聽TBA
Location:聽Edgecliffe G03 Title: The Quest for Additionality Abstract: Many people aim to make the world a better place by spending their money in certain ways. The school of 鈥渆ffective altruism鈥�…
Title: On seeing women as objects: objectification and affordance perception Location: Teams (online only), the talk will be streamed from Edgecliffe G03 Abstract: Objectification is a central topic in feminist…
Title: Eliminative Harming without Intentions Location: Edgecliffe G03 Abstract: Consider the following pair of cases聽 Roughshod. You are driving to the hospital for an emergency life-saving operation. If you do…
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Location: Teams (online only)
Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: Positive interest rates block green transitions, and there is no compelling reason not to fix the interest rate at zero Commentator: Carl Mildenberger (Zurich)
Title: Chance Prioritarianism Location: Teams (online only), and streamed from Edgecliffe G03 Abstract: I will defend what we could call survival chance prioritarianism, according to which the moral value of…
Title: Risk, Ambiguity, and Ethical Decision-Making Abstract: I argue that it can be rational to defer to an authority about what to believe or what to do even when doing…
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