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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:聽In this presentation, I aim to explain the three types of labour-聽administrative labour, hermeneutic labour and epistemic labour- that chronically ill people have to…

Title: Hume鈥檚 Account of Virtue and Its Place in the History of Ethics Abstract: Hume鈥檚 account of virtue is notoriously puzzling. On the one hand, he claims that the virtues…

Location:聽Edgecliffe G03 Title: Ought and the Transmission of Reasons Abstract:聽According to the widely held Weightiest Reasons view about how reasons for action and the practical ought are related to one…

Title:聽Beyond the Now:聽Epistemic Oppression and the 鈥淐ommon鈥� Sense of Incarceration Abstract:聽In this presentation, I narrate an聽encounter with 2 Black teenagers who attempted to steal my cellphone and the聽difficulty 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 she鈥檚 rational…

Title: Legislative Intent: A Rational Unity Account (co-authored with David Tan (Deakin University)) Abstract:聽Does the legislature have intentions concerning the effects of legislation? If so, how can that intent be…

Location:聽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: 鈥淐ompensation for Wrongful Life鈥� Abstract: In a recent case in the UK, a 20-year-old woman with spina bifida brought an action against her mother鈥檚 physician for failing to advise…

Location:聽Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Title: 鈥淧erson-Affecting Consequentialism: Equity-Regarding, Desert-Neutral, Repugnant鈥� Abstract: The philosophical literature on consequentialism regularly distinguishes between 鈥減erson-affecting鈥� and 鈥渋mpersonal鈥� moral justifications or accounts.聽聽 The 鈥減erson-affecting鈥�/鈥漣mpersonal鈥� distinction can…

Location:聽Edgecliffe G03 Title: Hume鈥檚 Account of Virtue and Its Place in the History of Ethics Abstract: Hume鈥檚 account of virtue is notoriously puzzling. On the one hand, he claims that…