Title:聽Relational Value: Problems and Prospects Abstract: The concept of 鈥渞elational value鈥� is widely used in the environmental ethics and policy literatures. In this talk, I will critically assess this use, considering what relational value might add to our existing value categories and what problems it might produce for our thinking about the value of the…
Omar Ruiz Rivera – Moral Skill Abstract: This talk is about moral skill鈥攖he capacity for morally excellent behaviour. In particular, I engage with Shepherd鈥檚 (2022) view that moral skill is 鈥渓imited in scope, and precarious鈥� (p. 713). To defend this view, Shepherd relies on a distinction between global and local moral skill. The former involves…
Yoshinari Hattori – Why We Must Believe in Free Will and Moral Responsibility: Reconsidering Their Foundations Abstract: This presentation argues that the practice of blaming wrongdoers鈥攅specially directing resentment or indignation towards them鈥攊s rationally indispensable for us. Pereboom contends that directing resentment or indignation at others is a form of harming them and is unjustified. As…
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…
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…
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.…
Abstract: It is commonplace to think that composition is explained by relations—what I call the relational idea. Many argue that taking this seriously requires rejecting the idea that classical mereology—the most well-known formal theory of parthood—tells us anything important about the nature of composites. In this paper, I have two aims. First, I want to…
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