Hallie Liberto (University of Maryland)<\/b> \u2013 \u201cConsent and the Question of Dynamics\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n
Thursday 22 October from 4:00 pm \u2013 5:30 pm. <\/b><\/p>\n
Abstract: In this paper, I first argue that \u201crights-waiving\u201d is not an accurate, general description of the operation persons perform when they grant permissive consent. It fails to describe the change to the structure of the normative world that I call authority-retaining<\/i> permissive consent. This is the kind of permissive consent we use in cases of sexual consent, medical consent, consent to a visitor in the home, consent to another reading one\u2019s diary or manuscript \u2013 any type of consent wherein the consenting agent retains the normative power to withdraw consent throughout the event. \u201cRights-waiving\u201d gets the operation wrong, obscuring the real dynamics of rights. Second, I argue that the inaccurate account of the operation of consent gives rise to a variety of other misconceptions about how consent works and what it means for an act to be nonconsensual, especially in the realm of sexual ethics. <\/p>\n
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This meeting will be hosted, in collaboration with CEPPA and Arch\u00e9 Philosophical Research Centre\u2019s Feminism and Social Theory Seminar, on Teams: <\/p>\n