{"id":8618,"date":"2022-03-21T20:38:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T20:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/ceppa-talk-in-person-matthew-adler-duke-university\/"},"modified":"2022-05-25T14:09:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T13:09:06","slug":"ceppa-talk-in-person-matthew-adler-duke-university","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/ceppa-talk-in-person-matthew-adler-duke-university\/","title":{"rendered":"CEPPA Talk (in person) \u2013 Matthew Adler (Duke University)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Location:\u00a0<\/strong>Edgecliffe G03 and Teams<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> \u201cPerson-Affecting Consequentialism: Equity-Regarding, Desert-Neutral, Repugnant\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The philosophical literature on consequentialism regularly distinguishes between \u201cperson-affecting\u201d and \u201cimpersonal\u201d moral justifications or accounts.\u00a0\u00a0 The \u201cperson-affecting\u201d\/\u201dimpersonal\u201d distinction can be interpreted in various ways.\u00a0 I understand it as follows.\u00a0 A person-affecting justificatory framework sees individuals\u2019 well-being gains and losses\u2014well-being effects on persons\u2014as the fundamental moral considerations that underlie the moral goodness of outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>My research has investigated the implications of the person-affecting framework, using the concept of \u201cclaims-across-outcomes\u201d\u2014a concept that seeks to make the framework more rigorous and to draw clear implications from it. This talk will present and synthesize the results of this research program.<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell: the claims-across-outcomes framework argues for a moral-goodness ranking that satisfies an equity axiom (the Pigou-Dalton axiom), as opposed to utilitarianism; is neutral to individual differences in desert; and (extended to the variable-population context) implies the Repugnant Conclusion.\u00a0 In short, person-affecting consequentialism is equity-regarding, desert-neutral, and repugnant.\u00a0 Surprisingly, perhaps, the simple idea that moral goodness is grounded on well-being gains and losses has these upshots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location:\u00a0Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Title: \u201cPerson-Affecting Consequentialism: Equity-Regarding, Desert-Neutral, Repugnant\u201d Abstract: The philosophical literature on consequentialism regularly distinguishes between \u201cperson-affecting\u201d and \u201cimpersonal\u201d moral justifications or accounts.\u00a0\u00a0 The \u201cperson-affecting\u201d\/\u201dimpersonal\u201d distinction can&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-8618","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\/8618","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":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/8618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8770,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/8618\/revisions\/8770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8618"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=8618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}