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Title: Multiple Aims of Science and the New Demarcation Problem Abstract: TBC Location: Edgecliffe G03

Title: The Democratic Soul in Plato and Whitman Abstract: In Books II-IV of the Republic, Plato famously proposes an analogy between the constitution of the Greek city-state and the constitution of…

Title: Hypocrisy as Evasion Abstract: Hypocrites attract moral condemnation and are widely thought to lack standing to criticise others. This paper argues against attempts to explain this that appeal to moral…

Title: Revisiting the Spinoza Controversy in an age of Environmental Crisis Abstract: Modern scientific naturalism arguably tries to ontologically describe or account for the entirety of the natural world using…

Title: The Incomparable Value of the Individual Abstract: Kant believed that every human being should be treated as an end in itself. In the Groundwork, Kant explains many of our duties by…

Title: Autonomy and control over one’s social self-consciousness Abstract: Humans have the capacity to absorb – to feel – others’ feelings. More particularly we feel others’ feelings about ourselves: at least…

Title: Hope and the Powers of Shared Agency Abstract: This paper argues that Kant’s theory of radical evil exalts the powers of organized, shared and institutional, agency. In section 1, I…

Title: The (Aesthetic) Value of Environmental Activism Abstract: TBC Location: Edgecliffe G03

Title: Merely Imagined Moralities Abstract: Artworks and other cultural products (films, novels, operas, pop songs, etc.) often express heroic, pessimistic, melancholy, or dark ways of looking at the world (also…

Title: Tbc Abstract: Tbc Location: Edgecliffe G03

Title: Responsibility, Causality, and Carbon Accounting Abstract:  Carbon accounting standards hold companies accountable (i.e. responsible) for the greenhouse gas emissions from their value chains, but what is the basis for…

4.05-4.45pm: Miguel de la Cal Moreno – Manufactured Disorientation and Climate Change Abstract: Many people experience Anthropogenic Climate Change (ACC) as overwhelming and intimidating, recognising its seriousness and the need…