Title: Philosophical Foundations of Green-House Gas Accounting Abstract: International agreements such as the Kyoto protocol and the Paris agreement require countries to measure and track their greenhouse gas emissions.聽 Companies…
Title:聽Two Moralities of Recognition Abstract: According to moralities of recognition, fundamental moral norms are norms for living together. Moral norms explain how living in unity is possible despite being separate…
Title: Internal Validity, External Validity and the Evaluation of Thought Experiments in Applied Ethics and Political Philosophy Abstract: Thought experiments clearly play a central role in much contemporary ethical theorising.…
Title: Happy Immoralists and Satisfied Loners: A Pragmatic Perspective on Disagreement about Well-being Abstract: Can a morally bad person live well? Can a person without friends achieve well-being? There is…
Title: Goodness as Natural Perfection. Abstract: In this paper I outline Aristotle鈥檚 conception of human functioning, which I take to be a viable and illuminating ground for determining human goods.…
Please join us on聽31 October (4-5.30pm) for the launch of the Philosophy of Climate Science (PhiCliSci) working group, which will bring together philosophers and climate scientists to discuss central themes…
Title: Killing vs Headaches: Wide Proportionality and Limited Aggregation Abstract: Philosophers who have discussed 鈥榣imited aggregation鈥� have focussed discussion on cases in which we must choose which of two groups…
Title: Global Health Equity through Decolonizing Health Research Ethics in Africa: Leveraging Kwame Nkrumah鈥檚 Analysis of Neocolonialism. Abstract:Background: The foundational contention of this paper is that, arguably, the ultimate ethical…
You are warmly invited to the book launch for聽Bradley Hillier-Smith鈥檚 brand-new book聽The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees聽(abstract below).聽The author will be interviewed by Kieran Oberman (LSE), after which we…
Title:聽Emotion-Based聽Environmental Ethics: The Radical Implications of Taking Wonder Seriously Abstract: In environmental ethics, we find many competing theories of environmental value, but little discussion of the epistemological grounds for believing…
Title:聽The Idea of Ancestry in African Philosophy Abstract: This paper concerns itself with the rationality of belief in ancestral existence. Although belief in ancestral existence remains widespread globally, I shall…
Title: Philosophical Challenges in Risk Communication of Rare and Severe Events Abstract: In this talk, I will discusses different philosophical challenges in communicating and dealing with the risk of rare…
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