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Title:聽Autonomy and control over one鈥檚 social self-consciousness Abstract: Humans have the capacity to absorb 鈥� to feel 鈥� others鈥� feelings. More particularly we feel others鈥� feelings about ourselves: at least as long as we are awake, we are subject to being self-consciously affected in our interactions with others. We are capable of social self-consciousness, and…

Title:聽The Incomparable Value of the Individual Abstract: Kant believed that every human being should be treated as an end in itself. In the聽Groundwork, Kant explains many of our duties by arguing that their violation would involve treating a human being as a mere means. But we cannot explain all of our duties that way. Nor…

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 conditions on blaming and notions of moral authority, proposing instead an account based on a conception of moral interactions聽as fundamentally dialogical in character. According to…

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 the human soul. The methodological assumption that underlies the architecture of the聽Republic聽is that philosophical questions about topics that we might today group under the heading…

Title:聽Multiple Aims of Science and the New Demarcation Problem Abstract: TBC Location: Edgecliffe G03

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 everyday experiences fit the description. The clearest parallel is with aesthetic experiences. The Acquaintance Principle (Budd, 2003) says that an agent can only appreciate an…

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 and severe events. As a case study, I use avalanche risk: a form of voluntary risk taking in which the individual is often partly responsible…

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 focus on a-thinned out version of African forms of this belief. 鈥楾hinned-out鈥� in that I am not interested in this or that substantive version of…

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 one theory rather than another. Building on the framework of moral empiricism (which I鈥檝e developed elsewhere), I propose an 鈥淓motion-Based鈥� methodology for environmental ethics. The…