Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
Edgecliffe 104Reading: Nick Zangwill’s 2021 paper, "Our Moral Duty to Eat Meat”. Location: Edgecliffe 104
Reading: Nick Zangwill’s 2021 paper, "Our Moral Duty to Eat Meat”. Location: Edgecliffe 104
Reading: Dan Baras’s 2023 paper, "Carbon Offsetting” Location: Edgecliffe 104
Reading: Keshav Singh’s paper, “What’s in an Aim?”. This paper discusses a central issue for positions that attempt to ground normativity in constitutive features of agency. Location: Edgecliffe 104
Reading: This Wednesday, we are discussing the paper “The Women of Trachis: Fictions, Pessimism, Ethics” by Bernard Williams See you all next Wednesday, November 5th, from 5-6pm at Edgecliffe (room 104). Location: Edgecliffe 104
Reading: For next week’s MPRG, we are returning to Abelard Podgorski’s paper, “Complaints and Tournament Population Ethics”. Our new PhD colleague, Ida Miczke, will guide the discussion. Please find the paper attached, or by accessing the following link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/phpr.12860. Below are some suggested questions from Ida to help us focus in on different aspects of the paper. ... Read more
Reading: Nick Zangwill’s 2021 paper, "Our Moral Duty to Eat Meat”. Location: Edgecliffe 104
Reading: Thomas Hurka - The Well Rounded Life Location: Edgecliffe 104
Reading: Nick Zangwill’s 2021 paper, "Our Moral Duty to Eat Meat”. Location: Edgecliffe 104
Title: Merely Imagined Moralities Abstract: Artworks and other cultural products (films, novels, operas, pop songs, etc.) often express heroic, pessimistic, melancholy, or dark ways of looking at the world (also referred to as ‘perspectives’). Sometimes, these worldviews appear politically inflected; we may, for instance, describe a work as "feminist" or "patriotic" according to the worldview ... Read more
Title: The (Aesthetic) Value of Environmental Activism Abstract: TBC Location: Edgecliffe G03