ECT Talk – Jessica Brown (St Andrews)

Title: 'Group Motivation' Abstract: We routinely treat groups, including governments and corporations, as agents with beliefs and aims who are morally responsible for their actions. For instance, we might blame an oil company for an oil spill pointing out that they knew the risk of their profits-first policies. In this paper I discuss a key ... Read more

CEPPA Talk – Renee Bolinger (Princeton University)

Title: 'Are We Entitled to Be Believed?' Abstract: Discussions in a variety of contexts (including at least epistemic injustice, moral encroachment, epistemic obligations of friendship) sometimes assume that speakers have a right or moral entitlement to be believed when they assert or testify that p: that they are wronged if their audience fails to believe them. It is controversial ... Read more