Event co-Hosted with ECT and FPST. Title: Extractivist epistemologies Abstract: This paper (which is very much a work in progress) will develop the concept of extractivist epistemology as a way…
Climate Change, COVID-19, Justice, and Quality of Life Abstract:Justice would appear to require that those who are the principal beneficiaries of a history of economic and political behavior that has…
Title: An Agential Account of Poverty Abstract: Poverty has traditionally been conceived as a state of deprivation. To be poor is to lack something that is essential to human flourishing.…
Title: Justice Before Role Obligations Abstract: Many believe that agents in the justice system are morally constrained to follow certain assigned roles, understood as excluding the exercise of moral judgement:…
Title: The Labours of Chronic Illness Abstract:In this presentation, I aim to explain the three types of labour-administrative labour, hermeneutic labour and epistemic labour- that chronically ill people have to…
Title: Humes Account of Virtue and Its Place in the History of Ethics Abstract: Humes account of virtue is notoriously puzzling. On the one hand, he claims that the virtues…
Location:Edgecliffe G03 Title: Ought and the Transmission of Reasons Abstract:According to the widely held Weightiest Reasons view about how reasons for action and the practical ought are related to one…
Title:Beyond the Now:Epistemic Oppression and the Common Sense of Incarceration Abstract:In this presentation, I narrate anencounter with 2 Black teenagers who attempted to steal my cellphone and thedifficulty of insisting…
Title: Epistemic Akrasia: No Apology Required Abstract: It is natural to think that rationality imposes some relationship between what a person believes, and what she believes about what shes rational…
Title: Legislative Intent: A Rational Unity Account (co-authored with David Tan (Deakin University)) Abstract:Does the legislature have intentions concerning the effects of legislation? If so, how can that intent be…
Location:Edgecliffe G03 Title: How to Build Morality into AI Abstract: AI is spreading fast. We humans need to figure out the best way to prevent AI from making the worst…
Title: Compensation for Wrongful Life Abstract: In a recent case in the UK, a 20-year-old woman with spina bifida brought an action against her mothers physician for failing to advise…
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