Week of Events
Monday, November 6, 2023
No events on this day.
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
No events on this day.
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
No events on this day.
Thursday, November 9, 2023
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November 9, 2023 -Plenary Seminar: No Meeting
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November 9, 2023 -Moral Philosophy Reading Group
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November 9, 2023 -CEPPA Talk (online) – Lara Buchak (Princeton)
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November 9, 2023 -Epistemology Seminar: Lara Buchak (Princeton) (co-hosted with CEPPA) “Faith, Authority, and Epistemic Communities”
Plenary Seminar: No Meeting
We use the plenary seminar time slot on occasions when we have a meeting of wider interest to the whole Arch茅 community.
Moral Philosophy Reading Group
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…
CEPPA Talk (online) – Lara Buchak (Princeton)
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…
Epistemology Seminar: Lara Buchak (Princeton) (co-hosted with CEPPA) “Faith, Authority, and Epistemic Communities”
Abstract:聽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 a domain, interpersonal advisors, and religious traditions.…
Friday, November 10, 2023
No events on this day.
Saturday, November 11, 2023
No events on this day.
Sunday, November 12, 2023
No events on this day.