Title: On seeing women as objects: objectification and affordance perception Location: Teams (online only), the talk will be streamed from Edgecliffe G03 Abstract: Objectification is a central topic in feminist…
Title: Eliminative Harming without Intentions Location: Edgecliffe G03 Abstract: Consider the following pair of cases聽 Roughshod. You are driving to the hospital for an emergency life-saving operation. If you do…
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Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: Positive interest rates block green transitions, and there is no compelling reason not to fix the interest rate at zero Commentator: Carl Mildenberger (Zurich)
Title: Chance Prioritarianism Location: Teams (online only), and streamed from Edgecliffe G03 Abstract: I will defend what we could call survival chance prioritarianism, according to which the moral value of…
Title: Risk, Ambiguity, and Ethical Decision-Making Abstract: I argue that it can be rational to defer to an authority about what to believe or what to do even when doing…
Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: Green Bioethics: Environmental Sustainability and Health Care Commentator: Joseph Millum (58吃瓜) Abstract:聽Health care is ubiquitous in the industrialized world. Yet, every medical development, technique, and…
Location:聽Edgecliffe G03 Title: Is the future a utility monster? Abstract: I will revisit Nozick鈥檚 utility monster thought experiment and draw an analogy between imagined utility monsters and the long-term future.…
Title: Threshold Deontology: Some Lessons from Vagueness Abtract: Threshold Deontology is the view that the positive consequences of an act do not normally override moral constraints, but when the positive…
Title: Is There Anti-Fittingness?” Abstract: The permissible and the forbidden are privative opposites: each is a lack of the other. The good and the bad are, by contrast, polar opposites:…
Title: Justice and the Problem of Alienation Abstract:聽I will focus on why alienation is a problem for many of our major theories of justice (discussing political liberalism, capabilities approach and…
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