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…
Abstract: Grounding and causation are both determination relations. Causation is typically understood to relate events through time, such that causes determine their effects. The throwing of the rock causes the window to break. Grounding is typically understood to relate facts at a single time, such that grounds determine their groundees. The microphysical constitution of…
Reading: tbc Location: Edgecliffe 104
Abstract:聽Semantic theories are supposed to be theories of meaning, so ascriptions of meaning should play a role in guiding and constraining our semantic theories. To play this role, however, we need to know the meaning of “means” itself. In this paper I develop a semantics for the verb “means,” as it is used to specify…
This semester we are reading Finneron-Burns “What We Owe to Future People: A Contractualist Account of Intergenerational Ethics”. Organiser: Ida Miczke (izm1)
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