Moral Philosophy Reading Group
Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact: [email protected]
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CEPPA Talk (online) – Paulina Sliwa (Vienna) & Tom McClelland (Cambridge)
Microsoft TeamsTitle: 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 philosophy theorising. But what is it for someone to objectify another person? A common theme is that objectification involves treating and viewing the other person ... Read more
Moral Philosophy Reading Group
Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams This week we'll be discussing 'Physician-Assisted Suicide: Two Moral Arguments' by Judith Jarvis Thomson. Contact: [email protected]
CEPPA Talk (In person) – Joel Joseph (St Andrews)
Title: Eliminative Harming without Intentions Location: Edgecliffe G03 Abstract: Consider the following pair of cases Roughshod. You are driving to the hospital for an emergency life-saving operation. If you do not make it in time, you will die. However, Victim is lying in the only road that will get you there in time. Although Victim ... Read more
Moral Philosophy Reading Group
Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact: [email protected]
Moral Philosophy Reading Group
This week we will discuss Joseph Heath's chapter 'Positive Social Time Preference', from his book Philosophical Foundations of Climate Policy Change. The chapter's a bit long, but readers can comfortably skip sections 6.2-6.5 and the equations. Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact: [email protected]
CEPPA Talk (in person) – Alexander Douglas (St. Andrews)
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)
Moral Philosophy Reading Group
This week we will be discussing Michael Otsuka and Alex Voorhoeve's article,'Equality Versus Priority' Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact: [email protected]
CEPPA Talk (online) – Orri Stefánsson (Stockholm)
Microsoft TeamsTitle: 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 improving someone’s chance of surviving (some period) is greater the more likely the person was to die before the improvement. I motivate this view by ... Read more
Moral Philosophy Reading Group
This week will be a work-in-progress session, discussing a draft paper by our very own Bradley Hillier-Smith, on 'Rights, Duties and Inviolability'. Here is the abstract: Rights entail corresponding negative duties not to violate those rights. On this, all rights-theorists agree. Yet there is disagreement on whether rights also entail positive duties to protect and ... Read more