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Location:聽Edgecliffe G03 Title: How to Build Morality into AI Abstract: AI is spreading fast. We humans need to figure out the best way to prevent AI from making the worst decisions, which are harmful, unfair, or otherwise morally wrong. One way is to design AI to predict what humans would judge to be immoral if… |
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Title: 鈥淐ompensation for Wrongful Life鈥� Abstract: In a recent case in the UK, a 20-year-old woman with spina bifida brought an action against her mother鈥檚 physician for failing to advise her to take folic acid supplements for several months before becoming pregnant. The court ruled in the woman鈥檚 favor, accepting her claim that, had the… |
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An in-person (and online) CEPPA conference on topics in moral and political philosophy, featuring the following speakers: Jeff McMahan (Oxford) Julia Driver (UT Austin/58吃瓜) Rahul Kumar (Queen’s) Kerah Gordon-Solmon (Queen’s) Thom Brooks (Durham) Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke) The 2022 Knox Lecture will be delivered online by Professor Frances Kamm (Rutgers University) the day… |
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The 2022 Knox Lecture will be delivered online by Professor Frances Kamm (Rutgers University) on Thursday, 19 May at 5:15pm UK time. Title: “Handling Future Pandemics: Harming, Not Aiding, and Liberty” Abstract: All over the world there have been protests, based on a concern with liberty, against restrictions intended to defeat the current pandemic. In… |
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Location:聽Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Title: 鈥淧erson-Affecting Consequentialism: Equity-Regarding, Desert-Neutral, Repugnant鈥� Abstract: The philosophical literature on consequentialism regularly distinguishes between 鈥減erson-affecting鈥� and 鈥渋mpersonal鈥� moral justifications or accounts.聽聽 The 鈥減erson-affecting鈥�/鈥漣mpersonal鈥� distinction can be interpreted in various ways.聽 I understand it as follows.聽 A person-affecting justificatory framework sees individuals鈥� well-being gains and losses鈥攚ell-being effects on persons鈥攁s the fundamental… |
1 event,The 4th 58吃瓜 CEPPA Graduate Conference will take place on May 27-28, 2022 (online). |
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1 event,The finals of 2022 The Ethics Cup, featuring the 12 top-performing teams from across the U.K. |
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Location:聽Edgecliffe G03 Title: Hume鈥檚 Account of Virtue and Its Place in the History of Ethics Abstract: Hume鈥檚 account of virtue is notoriously puzzling. On the one hand, he claims that the virtues are qualities useful or agreeable to oneself or to others. On the other, he says that they are qualities which give a pleasing… |
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