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]
Title: Is There Anti-Fittingness?" Abstract: The permissible and the forbidden are privative opposites: each is a lack of the other. The good and the bad are, by contrast, polar opposites: badness is anti-goodness, not non-goodness. What about the fitting and the unfitting, the appropriate and the inappropriate, the apt and the inapt, the warranted and ... Read more
This week we will be reading Sarah Fine's paper 'Migration' from The Oxford Handbook of Distributive Justice. Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact: [email protected]
Title: Justice and the Problem of Alienation Abstract: I will focus on why alienation is a problem for many of our major theories of justice (discussing political liberalism, capabilities approach and republicanism) and what might be done about it. Location: Edgecliffe G03
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]
Title: Debating proportionality at the edge of sentience Abstract: Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects or spiders? How do we tell whether a person unresponsive after severe brain injury might be suffering? When does a fetus in the womb start to have conscious experiences? Could there even be rudimentary feelings ... Read more