Edgecliffe 104

Reading: Rae Langton’s paper, "Objective and Unconditioned Value” Location: Edgecliffe 104

Reading: Aliza Ashraf will lead us in discussing Eugene Marshall’s paper, “Spinoza on the Problem of Akrasia”. Location: Edgecliffe 104

Reading: Jason Kawall’s “Moral Realism and Arbitrariness”. Location: Edgecliffe 104

Reading: Ida Miczke will lead us in a discussion of Jessica Fischer’s recent paper, “Consequentialism and the Separateness of Persons”. Location: Edgecliffe 104

Reading: Wittgenstein - Lecture on Ethics (p.42-51 in this edition.) 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