The University of Tennessee Southern’s School of Arts and Humanities and the University of St. Andrews鈥� Arch茅 Philosophical Research Centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysics, and Epistemology will be hosting a two-day online workshop on the Metaphysics of Building. The aim of this workshop is to bring together scholars working on the metaphysics of building, broadly…
This semester we are reading Finneron-Burns “What We Owe to Future People: A Contractualist Account of Intergenerational Ethics”. Organiser: Ida Miczke (izm1)
This semester we are reading Finneron-Burns “What We Owe to Future People: A Contractualist Account of Intergenerational Ethics”. Organiser: Ida Miczke (izm1)
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 to act while feeling unable to determine what to do or how to decide what to do. This paper characterises this experience as moral disorientation.…
Reading: Wittgenstein – Lecture on Ethics (p.42-51 in this edition.) Location: Edgecliffe 104
This semester we are reading Finneron-Burns “What We Owe to Future People: A Contractualist Account of Intergenerational Ethics”. Organiser: Ida Miczke (izm1)
Viviante Fairbank – The Responsible-Inquiry Model of Journalism Abstract: On the traditional, so-called Informational Model of journalism, the primary role of journalism in a functioning democracy is to provide people with true information about a certain range of important topics. Although this model is appealing, I argue that it is unsatisfactory; importantly, it does not…
Reading:tbc Location: Edgecliffe 104
Reading: Ida Miczke will lead us in a discussion of Jessica Fischer鈥檚 recent paper, 鈥淐onsequentialism and the Separateness of Persons鈥�. Location: Edgecliffe 104
This semester we are reading Finneron-Burns “What We Owe to Future People: A Contractualist Account of Intergenerational Ethics”. Organiser: Ida Miczke (izm1)
Title:聽Hume鈥檚 One and Only Definition of Virtue Abstract: Hume鈥檚 moral philosophy is seen by many as a form of virtue ethics that includes two different definitions of virtue. On the one hand, Hume seems to define virtue as a mental quality generating utility and agreeableness to oneself or others. On the other hand, he also…
Reading:tbc Location: Edgecliffe 104