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…
Please join us on for the Second edition of the Philosophy of Climate Science (PhiCliSci) working group, which will bring together philosophers and climate scientists to discuss central themes relating…
Title:聽Resisting the unexperienced Abstract: An experience is epistemically transformative when you can鈥檛 know what it鈥檚 like without having the experience. Though this characterisation doesn鈥檛 neatly fit聽transformative聽experiences, a surprising number of…
Title:聽Multiple Aims of Science and the New Demarcation Problem Abstract: TBC Location: Edgecliffe G03
Title:聽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:聽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…
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