Moral Philosophy Reading Group
This week we will discuss A.S. Arridge’s article – ‘Should We Blow Up a Pipeline? Ecotage as Other-Defense’. Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact: [email protected]
This week we will discuss A.S. Arridge’s article – ‘Should We Blow Up a Pipeline? Ecotage as Other-Defense’. Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact: [email protected]
This week we will be reading C. Thi Nguyen’s ‘Value Capture?’. Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact: [email protected]
Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact: [email protected] We will meet in a hybrid format (online and in Edgecliffe G03) to discuss Eric Marcus’s article ‘Wanting and willing’ Eric Marcus, ‘Wanting and Willing’, abstract: How homogenous are the sources of human motivation? Textbook Humeans hold that every human action is motivated by desire, thus any heterogeneity derives … Read more
this week will have a Work in Progress session discussing Bradley Hillier-Smith’s draft paper, ‘The Egalitarian Case for Open Borders: Moral Arbitrariness’. Abstract: This paper argues that recent debates on egalitarian objections to immigration restrictions overlook a crucial, powerful normative principle that underpins objections to inequalities: any inequalities between morally equal persons – whether in goods, resources, welfare but also … Read more
This week we will discuss Tyler Cowen’s ‘What Do We Learn From The Repugnant Conclusion?’. Luca notes that if people find Section 3 hard to read, he is very happy to explain it at the MPRG. Additionally, he mentions that ‘(1) section 5 is not essential (but it is extremely fun) and (2) it is absolutely unnecessary to … Read more
This week, our visiting scholar B.V.E. Hyde (Leeds) will convene a special Work-in-Progress session on the topic of “Ethical Debates on Human Challenge Trials”. Hyde will present for around 5 minutes, providing a short explainer on some of the ethical debates surrounding controlled human infection models, which are a type of clinical trial in which patients are directly … Read more
This week we will be discussing Byron Williston’s article Climate Change and Radical Hope Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact: [email protected]
This week we will be discussing the first chapter from Jonathan Birch “The Edge of Sentience” called ‘A walk along the edge’. Jonathan will be there as well. Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact: [email protected]
CEPPA Talks (4-5.30pm on Thursday afternoon) Week 1 (18 Jan) – online and streamed from Edgecliffe G03 Selim Berker (Harvard) ‘Is there Anti-Fittingness?’ Week 2 (25 Jan) – Edgecliffe G03 Thom Brooks (Durham) ‘Justice and the Problem of Alienation’ Week 3 (1 Feb) – Edgecliffe G03 Jonathan Birch (LSE) ‘Debating proportionality at the … Read more
This week we will be discussing Selim Berker, ‘The Deontic, the Evaluative, and the Fitting”. ahead of their CEPPA talk right after this reading group. Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact: [email protected]