{"id":10392,"date":"2023-09-15T14:10:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T13:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/ceppa-talk-online-matthew-liao-nyu\/"},"modified":"2023-12-14T18:00:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T18:00:42","slug":"ceppa-talk-online-matthew-liao-nyu","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/ceppa-talk-online-matthew-liao-nyu\/","title":{"rendered":"CEPPA Talk (online) &#8211; Matthew Liao (NYU)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: <\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;color: black\">Threshold Deontology: Some Lessons from Vagueness<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abtract:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;color: black\">Threshold Deontology is the view that the positive consequences of an act do not normally override moral constraints, but when the positive balance of the consequences of an act is sufficiently great, it may be morally permitted, and possibly required to engage in an act that is otherwise morally prohibited. While many people find Threshold Deontology attractive, there are a number of issues regarding its nature and its structure that are under explored.\u00a0\u00a0For instance, suppose that there is a threshold above which a moral constraint against killing an innocent person becomes overridden.\u00a0\u00a0Where is this threshold?\u00a0\u00a0How do we identify it?\u00a0\u00a0In addition, what happens after one crosses this threshold?\u00a0\u00a0Does one become a full-on act-consequentialist?\u00a0\u00a0Drawing on the literature on vagueness, I shall argue that there is a sharp threshold for killing and that it is difficult for us to know where this threshold lies because in a certain range of cases, our moral faculty is not sufficiently reliable to be able to weigh competing moral values.\u00a0\u00a0I shall also explain why one does not become a consequentialist once one crosses the threshold for killing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Teams (online only)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Threshold Deontology: Some Lessons from Vagueness Abtract: Threshold Deontology is the view that the positive consequences of an act do not normally override moral constraints, but when the positive&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[20],"class_list":["post-10392","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-ceppa-talk","cat_ceppa-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/10392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/10392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10845,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/10392\/revisions\/10845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10392"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=10392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}