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
This week we will be discussing Jacob Blumenfeld's article 'Climate Barbarism: Adapting to a Wrong World' Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact: [email protected]
Title: Risk, Ambiguity, and Ethical Decision-Making Abstract: I argue that it can be rational to defer to an authority about what to believe or what to do even when doing so goes against one’s own reasoning. Indeed, such deference is rational in typical cases in which individuals treat others as authorities: for example, experts in ... Read more
This week we will be discussing Jacob Blumenfeld's article 'Climate Barbarism: Adapting to a Wrong World' Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact: [email protected]
Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: Green Bioethics: Environmental Sustainability and Health Care Commentator: Joseph Millum (St Andrews) Abstract: Health care is ubiquitous in the industrialized world. Yet, every medical development, technique, and procedure impacts the environment. By 2017, the National Health Service’s Health, and Social Care sectors had a carbon output (CO2) of 27.1 million tons. Carbon ... Read more
This week we will discuss Guy Kahane's article 'Our Cosmic Insignificance' Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact: [email protected]
Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: Is the future a utility monster? Abstract: I will revisit Nozick’s utility monster thought experiment and draw an analogy between imagined utility monsters and the long-term future. I argue that the far future can be seen as a real-life utility monster. This is the case if the three premises that form the ... Read more
Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact: [email protected]
Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact: [email protected]
The Future of Work and Income Research Network ([email protected]) Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs Department of Philosophy, University of St Andrews Workshop to be held in person Free to attend Confirmed Speakers: Anca Gheaus, Central Europea University Andrea Veltman, James Madison University Philippe Van Parijs, University of Leuven