{"id":11529,"date":"2024-04-15T15:23:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T14:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/book-workshop-in-person-daniel-munoz-unc-chapel-hill\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T17:56:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T16:56:13","slug":"book-workshop-in-person-daniel-munoz-unc-chapel-hill","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/book-workshop-in-person-daniel-munoz-unc-chapel-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Workshop (in person) – Daniel Mu\u00f1oz (UNC Chapel Hill)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Workshop on Daniel Mu\u00f1oz’s forthcoming book\u00a0What We Owe to Ourselves<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
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Date:\u00a0<\/i>15 May\u00a02024<\/div>\n
Location:\u00a0<\/i>Edgecliffe 104<\/div>\n
Registration required:<\/i>\u00a0email Theron Pummer (tgp4@st-andrews.ac.uk)<\/span><\/div>\n
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Provisional Schedule<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
945am: Coffee\/tea, welcome<\/div>\n
10am: Jordan MacKenzie (Virginia Tech)<\/div>\n
1115am: Thomas Schmidt (Humboldt University)<\/div>\n
1225pm: Lunch<\/div>\n
130pm: Quinn White (Harvard University)<\/div>\n
240pm: Coffee\/tea<\/div>\n
300pm: Kerah Gordon-Solmon (Queen\u2019s University)<\/div>\n
415pm: Joseph Bowen (University of Leeds)<\/div>\n
5:25pm: Walk around town or go to pub<\/div>\n
630pm: Dinner<\/div>\n
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About the Workshop<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
This is a\u00a0pre-read<\/b>\u00a0event. The book manuscript will be circulated to all participants by 15 April. There are 20 spaces available at the catered workshop, and 10 spaces available at the dinner. Please let me (tgp4) know if you have any access requirements I\u00a0should be aware of which will help you attend this event.<\/span><\/div>\n
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About the Book<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
What We Owe to Ourselves<\/i>\u00a0is under contract with OUP. The book aims to unify, in a fresh and systematic way, the two main concepts in deontological morality. \u201cRestrictions\u201d forbid us from harming others for the greater good; \u201cprerogatives\u201d permit us not to harm ourselves. Mu\u00f1oz argues that both concepts share a source in obligations. Restrictions consist in unwaived obligations to others, and prerogatives are waivable obligations we have to ourselves. Just as you owe it to me not to harm me for someone else\u2019s greater good, you owe it to yourself not to harm yourself.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The key to this project is a thesis that Mu\u00f1oz calls the Self-Other Symmetry: we owe the same basic things to ourselves as to a relevantly similar other. In the past, Symmetry has been criticized as being too restrictive, since we clearly have extensive freedoms when it comes to our own bodies and things. For me to slap your arm would be morally wrong; for me to slap my own is merely foolish. But the right way to understand this issue, Mu\u00f1oz argues, is not by invoking a mysterious moral asymmetry between self and other. There is a simpler explanation: when I harm others, I might very well lack their consent, but I am always a willing party to my own intentional choices. Rather than a moral anomaly, our relation to ourselves is fundamentally like our relation to a consenting other. The limits of what I may do to myself can be derived from the limits of consent in general.<\/span><\/div>\n
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What’s more, the book is the first Self-Other Symmetric take on restrictions and prerogatives. The standard view is that prerogatives come from the special goodness of self-interest, while restrictions come from the special nastiness of blood on one\u2019s own hands. This makes the moral agent seem rather self-centered, caring more about a good time and clean hands than about, say, reducing global poverty. Mu\u00f1oz wants to turn this picture inside-out. You should care about everybody equally. But the choice of what happens to your body is still yours. This follows from the obligations that people owe you. I may not take your spare kidney (even if I need it more), since I am restricted by my obligations to you. You may keep the kidney if you wish, since you owe this to yourself. But the optimal choice\u2014the \u201csupererogatory\u201d deed beyond the call\u2014is to waive the obligations that you are owed for the sake of someone else\u2019s greater good. Equal concern for all beings is the ideal, but when the sacrifice falls on you, the choice belongs to no one else.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Funding and Support<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
For supporting this workshop, we are grateful to the Scots Philosophical Association, the Society for Applied Philosophy, the Department of Philosophy at the University of 58³Ô¹Ï, and CEPPA.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Registration<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
Again, to reserve a spot at the workshop, please register by emailing Theron Pummer (tgp4).<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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