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 not make it in time, you will die. However, Victim is lying in the only road that will get you there in time. Although Victim…
Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
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This week we will discuss Joseph Heath’s chapter ‘Positive Social Time Preference’, from his book Philosophical Foundations of Climate Policy Change. The chapter’s a bit long, but readers can comfortably skip sections 6.2-6.5 and the equations. Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
Location: Teams (online only)
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)
Holding some ground on a greasy dancefloor: Caste, Queerness and South Asian Diaspora in the UK Sweaty, seductive sex club on a Saturday night London, and amidst some raunchy Bollywood music someone whispers to you a shloka. In the nudity of a sauna in Leicester, a stranger who desires you, randomly asks you your caste.…
This week we will be discussing Michael Otsuka and Alex Voorhoeve’s article,’Equality Versus Priority’ Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
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 improving someone鈥檚 chance of surviving (some period) is greater the more likely the person was to die before the improvement. I motivate this view by…
We use the plenary seminar time slot on occasions when we have a meeting of wider interest to the whole Arch茅 community.
This week will be a work-in-progress session, discussing a draft paper by our very own Bradley Hillier-Smith, on ‘Rights, Duties and Inviolability’. Here is the abstract: Rights entail corresponding negative duties not to violate those rights. On this, all rights-theorists agree. Yet there is disagreement on whether rights also entail positive duties to protect and…
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 so goes against one鈥檚 own reasoning. Indeed, such deference is rational in typical cases in which individuals treat others as authorities: for example, experts in…