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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online only) – David Boonin (University of Colorado Boulder)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Teams (online only) \nTitle: Two Puzzles About the Ethics of Divestment \nAbstract: Suppose you own stock in Acme Corp. and you learn that it consistently acts in seriously immoral ways. What should you do? A common answer maintains that owning stock in Acme Corp. makes you complicit in its immoral behavior and that you should therefore divest yourself of it. But as Steven M. Cahn has argued\, there seems to be something puzzling about this answer. If you sell your stock to someone\, then they will own it. If it’s wrong to own the stock\, then they’ll be doing something wrong. So if you divest yourself of the stock\, you’ll be helping someone do something wrong. But it seems wrong to help someone do something wrong. So how can a company’s immoral behavior make it wrong for you to own stock in the company but not make it wrong for you to get rid of the stock by selling it to someone else? In this talk\, I will present two versions of Cahn’s divestment puzzle and explain the reasoning that leads to each of them. I will then discuss the published responses that have appeared since Cahn first presented the puzzle and argue that none of them succeed as solutions to either version. I will conclude by defending an alternative response to the puzzle.
URL:/philevents/event/ceppa-talk-online-david-boonin-university-of-colorado-boulder/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Joel Joseph":MAILTO:jj73@st-andrews.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online) – Zoë Johnson King (Harvard)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Working on Yourself\n\nAbstract: This is a thesis-antitheses-synthesis kind of talk. We begin with a question: How should one react to one’s own moral achievements and moral failures\, and to the moral achievements and moral failures of other people? One answer that might seem initially compelling is that we should be harsher on ourselves than we are on others: we should be modest about our own moral achievements while celebrating others’ moral achievements\, and we should show more leniency in response to others’ moral failures than in response to our own. As compelling as this answer might seem\, a smorgasbord of recent trends in popular moral thought push back against it in various ways\, and it paints an odd picture of how good people are supposed to talk to each other. That’s the thesis and its antitheses. The synthesis is the central idea of this talk: the idea of working on yourself. I’ll say what working on yourself is and why it matters morally\, and I’ll also introduce the idea of a deliberate self-improvement\, which is my name for what you bring about when you try to work on yourself and succeed. With these two notions in hand\, I’ll argue that the initially-compelling answer and its intuitive counterphenomena can all be accommodated by an account that emphasizes the importance of not only working on yourself\, but also encouraging and facilitating others’ work on themselves\, all while recognizing the enormous diversity of impediments to their doing either of these that particular individuals might encounter. We’ll see that some apparent self/other asymmetries have solid metaphysical or moral underpinnings\, while others dissolve. I’ll then discuss some cool upshots and one remaining deeper puzzle; in brief\, the puzzle concerns whether we should prioritize working on ourselves over supporting others’ work on themselves and\, if so\, what could explain this division of labor.\nCo-hosted with ECT.
URL:/philevents/event/ceppa-talk-online-zoe-johnson-king-usc/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Nick Kuespert":MAILTO:nk94@st-andrews.ac.uk
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