Ben Sachs
CEPPA Talk – Martin Smith (Edinburgh)
Title: 'Lexical Priority, Decision Theory and De Minimis Risk' Abstract: Say that one moral requirement takes lexical priority over another just in case violations of the former can never be outweighed or counterbalanced by violations of the latter. While lexical priority is arguably a feature of many ethical systems, attempts to model it within the framework of ... Read more
CEPPA Talk – Hallie Liberto (University of Maryland)
Title: 'Consent and the Question of Dynamics' Abstract: In this paper, I first argue that “rights-waiving” is not an accurate, general description of the operation persons perform when they grant permissive consent. It fails to describe the change to the structure of the normative world that I call authority-retaining permissive consent. This is the kind ... Read more
CEPPA Talk – Katharine Jenkins (Glasgow)
Title: 'How To Be a Pluralist About Gender' Abstract: There are various of attractive accounts of gender kinds on offer (Haslanger 2012, Asta 2018), as well as accounts of the ontology of human social kinds (or social groups) more broadly (Mallon 2016, Ritchie 2020) that are much more conducive to feminist aims than a lot ... Read more
Online Workshop: Universal Basic Income and the Meaning of Work
The Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs University of St. Andrews This workshop took place 25-26 February, 2021. The four presented papers were: Deryn Thomas – University of St. Andrews/University of Stirling: "Basic Income and The Collective Benefits of Work". Paper here and slides here. Maria Koumenta – Queen Mary University of London: ... Read more