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Title: Merely Imagined Moralities Abstract: Artworks and other cultural products (films, novels, operas, pop songs, etc.) often express heroic, pessimistic, melancholy, or dark ways of looking at the world (also referred to as 鈥榩erspectives鈥�). Sometimes, these worldviews appear politically inflected; we may, for instance, describe a work as “feminist” or “patriotic” according to the worldview…

Title:聽The (Aesthetic) Value of Environmental Activism Abstract: TBC Location: Edgecliffe G03

Title:聽Hope and the Powers of Shared Agency Abstract: This paper argues that Kant鈥檚 theory of radical evil exalts the powers of organized, shared and institutional, agency. In section 1, I illustrate the paradoxicality of radical evil and the novelty of Kant鈥檚 鈥渆mpowering鈥� conception focused on human agency. In section 2, I argue that radical evil…

Title:聽Autonomy and control over one鈥檚 social self-consciousness Abstract: Humans have the capacity to absorb 鈥� to feel 鈥� others鈥� feelings. More particularly we feel others鈥� feelings about ourselves: at least as long as we are awake, we are subject to being self-consciously affected in our interactions with others. We are capable of social self-consciousness, and…

Title:聽The Incomparable Value of the Individual Abstract: Kant believed that every human being should be treated as an end in itself. In the聽Groundwork, Kant explains many of our duties by arguing that their violation would involve treating a human being as a mere means. But we cannot explain all of our duties that way. Nor…

Title:聽Hypocrisy as Evasion Abstract: Hypocrites attract moral condemnation and are widely thought to lack standing to criticise others. This paper argues against attempts to explain this that appeal to moral conditions on blaming and notions of moral authority, proposing instead an account based on a conception of moral interactions聽as fundamentally dialogical in character. According to…

Title:聽The Democratic Soul in Plato and Whitman Abstract: In Books II-IV of the Republic, Plato famously proposes an analogy between the constitution of the Greek city-state and the constitution of the human soul. The methodological assumption that underlies the architecture of the聽Republic聽is that philosophical questions about topics that we might today group under the heading…