The 2024 Knox Lecture is only a couple of weeks from us. This year’s lecture will be delivered by Professor Elisabeth Anderson the Max Shaye Professor of Public Philosophy, John Dewey Distinguished University Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan. The talk is titled: ‘Categorical Inequality and the Economy of Esteem’. … Read more
This week we will meet to discuss Joel Joseph‘s work-in-progress paper ‘The Problem of Secondary Permissibility’ (email [email protected] for a copy of the paper) Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact: [email protected]
This week we will discuss Dale Dorsey’s article “A Perfectionist Humean Constructivism’.
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]