PAST MORAL PHILOSOPHY SEMINARS
2017
Michaelmas Term 2017
Week 1 (09 October) Seth Lazar (ANU) "Moral Options and Optimisation" (Abstract)
Week 2 (16 October) Randall Curren (Rochester) "Aristotle's Eudaimonic Supposition" (Abstract)
Week 3 (23 October) Joanna Burch-Brown (Bristol) "Synthetic practical judgment, creativity and agency" (Abstract)
Week 4 (30 October) David Owens (KCL) "The Truth in Conventionalism" (Abstract)
Week 5 (06 November) Larry Temkin (Rutgers) Jointly-hosted with the Uehiro Centre "Obligations to the Needy: Effective Altruism, Pluralism, and Singer’s Pond Example" (Abstract)
Week 6 (13 November) Bashshar Haydar (American University, Beirut) "Two Types of Emergencies: Hypocrisy and the Moral Demands of Assistance" (Abstract)
Week 7 (20 November) Kim Ferzan (Virginia Law School) "The Means Principle and Optimific Wrongs" (Abstract)
Week 8 (27 November) Pekka Väyrynen (Leeds) "Normative Explaination Unchained" (Abstract)
Trinity Term 2017
| 24 April | David Brink (UCSD) "Two Kinds of Culpability" (Abstract) | |
| 1 May | Douglas MacLean (UNC, Chapel Hill) "A Plea For Humanism" (Abstract) | |
| 8 May | Michael Otsuka (LSE) "Personal Identity, Substantial Change, and the Significance of Becoming" (Abstract) | |
| 15 May | Thomas Hurka (Toronto) "More Seriously Wrong/More Importantly Right" (Abstract) | |
| 22 May | Peter Singer (Princeton & Melbourne) "What Should We Maximise?" (Abstract) [Video] | |
| 29 May | Ralph Wedgwood (USC) "Three Conceptions of the Measurement of Value" (Abstract) | |
| 5 June | Thomas Scanlon (Harvard) "Contractualism and Justification" (Abstract) | |
| 12 June | Véronique Munoz-Dardé (UCL and UC Berkeley) "The Priest, the Liberal and the Harlot: Liberalism and Sexual Desire" |
Hilary Term 2017
| 16 Jan | Kristi Olson (Bowdoin College), 'The Solidarity Solution: Fairness as a Relational Ideal' [Abstract] |
| 18 Jan | Amartya Sen (Harvard, supplemental session co-sponsored with the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative), ‘Democracy and Social Decisions’ [Abstract] |
| 23 Jan | Tom Sinclair (Oxford), 'The Claimability of Directed Duties' [Abstract] |
| 30 Jan | Campbell Brown (LSE), 'Is Close Enough Good Enough?' [Abstract] |
| 6 Feb | Cécile Fabre (Oxford), 'In Defence of Spies – Espionage in War' [Abstract] |
| 13 Feb | Massimo Renzo (KCL law), 'Revolution and Intervention' [Abstract] |
| 20 Feb | Simon Blackburn (Cambridge & UNC Chapel Hill), 'Cats, Vagabonds, and True Feelings' [Abstract] |
| 27 Feb | Johanna Thoma (LSE), ' Temptation and Preference-Based Instrumental Rationality ' [Abstract] [Video] |
| 6 Mar | Susanne Burri (LSE), 'The Option Value of Life' |
| 9 Mar |
Robert Audi (Notre Dame, supplementary session, Thursday of 8th week) |
2016
Michaelmas Term 2016
| Oct 10 | John Broome (Stanford, ANU, Swedish Collegium, Uppsala): 'Reason Fundamentalism and What is Wrong With it' [Abstract] [Video] |
| Oct 10 | Ad hoc session with ELAC: Michael Boylan (Marymount): 'War Rape: Using Women as Instruments of War' (Held at Corpus Christi Auditorium, Corpus Christi College) [Abstract] |
| Oct 17 | Sir Richard Sorabji (Oxford): 'Free Speech, its Value, a Proposal for its Boundaries and How to Open Ears When Free Speech Fails to do so' [Abstract] |
| Oct 20 | Tom Shakespeare (East Anglia): 'Good Enough Lives? A disability challenge to procreative beneficence' (Held at Corpus Christi Auditorium, Corpus Christi College, 4:00pm-6:00pm) [Abstract] |
| Oct 24 | Hillel Steiner (Manchester, emeritus): 'Exploitation, Intentionality and Injustice' [Video] |
| Oct 31 | Derek Parfit (Oxford): 'The Non-identity Problem' (Held at Corpus Christi Auditorium, Corpus Christi College, 4:00pm-6:00pm) [Abstract] [Video] [Handout] |
| Nov 7 | Avia Pasternak (University College London): 'In Defence of Political Rioters' [Abstract] [Video] |
| Nov 14 | Shelly Kagan (Yale) Combined with Uehiro Lectures in the Martin School: 'Consequentialism for Cows' [Video] |
| Nov 21 | Zofia Stemplowska (Oxford), 'The Descendants: Changing Identity to Mitigate Injustice' [Abstract] |
| Nov 28 | Richard Kraut (Northwestern), 'Well-Being and Virtue' [Abstract] |
Trinity Term 2016
| Apr 25 | Douglas Husak (Rutgers): 'Drug Proscriptions as Proxy Offenses [Abstract] [Video] |
| May 2 | Stephanie Collins (Manchester): 'Institutions’ Emotional Duties' [Abstract] [Video] |
| May 9 | Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus): '(Luck and relational) egalitarians of the world, unite!' [Abstract] [Video] |
| May 16 | Gustaf Arrhenius (Stockholm): ‘Imprecision in Population Ethics’ [Abstract] [Video] |
| May 23 | N. Ann Davis (Pomona College): ‘Through the Neoliberal Glass Darkly: Effective Altruism, Philanthrocapitalism, and the Pursuit of the Good’ [Abstract] [Video] |
| May 30 | Allen Buchanan (Duke, Arizona, and Law KCL): 'Moral Progress' [Abstract] [Video] |
| Jun 6 | Matthew Adler (Duke University School of Law): ‘Fairness, Claims, and Prioritarianism: Accounting for Responsibility and Desert’ [Abstract] [Video] |
| Jun 9 | Alec Walen (Rutgers): 'Eliminative Killing and the Targeting of Noncombatants; A Positive Account' [Abstract] [Video] |
| Jun 13 | Frances Kamm (Harvard): 'The Purpose of My Death: Death, Dying, and Meaning' [Abstract] |
Hilary Term 2016
| Jan 18 | Samuel Scheffler (NYU): 'Temporal Parochialism and Its Discontents' [Abstract] (NB: This meeting of the Moral Philosophy Seminar will also be a Uehiro Lecture and will be held in the Lecture Theatre, Oxford Martin School, not at the Radcliffe Humanities Building) |
| Jan 25 | Fiona Woollard (Southampton): 'Harming Your Foetus: Pregnancy and Difficult Deontological Distinctions' [Abstract] [Video] |
| Feb 1 | Janet Radcliffe-Richards (Oxford) – The MPS-Uehiro Practical Ethics lecture: "Metaphysical Pitfalls in Practical Ethics: Feminism, Environmentalism, Bioethics, and Everywhere Else" [Abstract] [Video] |
| Feb 8 | Joseph Raz (Columbia and Oxford): 'Intention and Value' [Abstract] [Video] |
| Feb 15 | Henry Shue (Oxford): 'Ice and Urgency: Antarctic Melting, Sea-level Rise, and Future Generations' [Abstract] |
| Feb 22 | Leif Wenar (Kings College, London): 'Unity Theory' [Abstract] [Video] |
| Feb 29 | Emily McTernan (University College, London): 'Contextualism, Responsibility, and Moral Luck' [Abstract] [Video] |
| Mar 7 | Ulrike Heuer (Leeds): 'When All Goes Wrong: Responsibility for Failure and Negligence' [Abstract] |
2015
Michaelmas Term 2015
| Oct 12 | Holly Lawford-Smith (Sheffield) 'Offsetting White Privilege' [Abstract] [Video] |
| Oct 19 | Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke) 'Moral Responsibility and Contrastive Mental Causation' [Abstract] [Podcast] |
| Oct 26 | Onora O’Neill (Cambridge) 'Positivists, Pluralists and the Justification of Human Rights' [Abstract] [Podcast] |
| Nov 2 | Jonathan Parry (Stockholm) (Birmingham) 'Consent and the Justification of Defensive Force' [Abstract] [Podcast] [Video] |
| Nov 9 | Jonathan Glover (King’s College, London) 'Surveillance and the Future of Private Space' |
| Nov 16 | Miranda Fricker (Sheffield) 'Explaining Forgiveness' [Abstract] [Podcast] [Video] |
| Nov 23 | Hugh LaFollette (University of South Florida) 'The Greatest Vice?' [Abstract] [Video] |
| Nov 30 | Lea Ypi (LSE) 'Structural injustice and the irrelevance of attachment ' [Abstract] [Video] |
Trinity Term 2015
| Apr 27 | Stephen Darwall (Yale) 'Taking Account of Character' [Abstract] [Podcast] [Video] |
| May 4 | Nils Holtug (Copenhagen) 'Global Luck Egalitarianism and International Migration' [Abstract] [Podcast] |
| May 11 | Derek Parfit (Harvard, NYU, Rutgers) 'Deontological Prohibitions and What We Together Do.' [Video] |
| May 18 | Larry Temkin (Rutgers) 'Some Scattered Thoughts about the Good, Reasons, and the Structure of Moral Theory' [Abstract] [Video] |
| May 25 | Laura Valentini (LSE) '“When in Rome, Do as the Romans Do” Respect, Positive Norms, and the Obligation to Obey the Law' [Abstract] |
| Jun 1 | Johann Frick (Princeton) 'Contractualism and Social Risk' [Abstract] [Video] |
| Jun 8 | Jonathan Dancy (Texas and Reading) 'Instrumental Reasoning Again' [Abstract] [Video] |
| Jun 15 | Elijah Millgram (Utah) 'Who Was the Author of Nietzsche's Zarathustra?' [Abstract] |
Hilary Term 2015
| Jan 19 | Helen Frowe (Stockholm) 'Are We Required to Turn the Trolley?' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| Jan 26 | Brad Hooker (Reading) 'De Lazari-Radek and Singer on Evolutionary Debunking Arguments and the Role of Moral Rules' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| Feb 2 | No talk |
| Feb 9 | Derek Parfit (Oxford) 'Can We Avoid the Repugnant Conclusion?' [Abstract] [Podcast] [Photos] |
| Feb 16 | Alex Voorhoeve (LSE) 'Priority or Equality for Possible People?' [Abstract] [Podcast] [Photos] |
| Feb 23 | Kim Brownlee (Warwick) 'Social Contribution Injustice' [Abstract] [Podcast] |
| Mar 2 | Victor Tadros (Warwick) 'Permissibility in a World of Wrongdoing' [Abstract] [Podcast] |
| Mar 9 | Jeremy Williams (Birmingham) 'Public Reason and Personal Identity' [Abstract] [Podcast] |
2014
Michaelmas Term 2014
| Oct 13 | Billy Dunaway (Oxford), 'Objectivity and Triviality' [Abstract] |
| Oct 20 | Alex Gregory (Southampton) 'Reasons as Good Bases' [Abstract] |
| Oct 27 | Robert Audi (Notre Dame) 'A Theory of Intuition and Its Role in Rational Disagreement' [Abstract] |
| Nov 3 | Pauline Kleingeld (Groningen) 'A Kantian Solution to the Trolley Problem' [Abstract] |
| Nov 10 | Cora Diamond (Virginia) 'Murdoch Off the Map, or Taking Empiricism Back from the Empiricists' |
| Nov 17 | Richard Rowland (Oxford) 'Why Moral Convergence Matters' [Abstract] |
| Nov 24 | Nicholas Shackel (Cardiff) 'Normative Rationality and Constitutive Rationality' |
| Dec 1 | Christine Korsgaard (Harvard) [Joint event with the Uehiro Centre; lecture to be held in the Oxford Martin School] 'The Moral and Legal Standing of Animals - Lecture 1: Animals, Human Beings and Persons' [Abstract] |
| Apr 28 | David Brink (UCSD) 'Responsibility, Incompetence, and Psychopathy' [Abstract] |
| May 5 | Axel Honneth (Frankfurt/Columbia) 'The Idea of Social Freedom. On the Intellectual Roots of Socialism' (joint meeting with post-Kantian seminar) [Abstract] |
| May 12 | Michael Otsuka (LSE) 'How it Makes a Moral Difference that One is Worse Off than One Could Have Been' [Abstract] |
| May 19 | Paul Bloomfield (Connecticut) 'Morality Is Necessary For Happiness' [Abstract] |
| May 26 | Julia Driver (Washington University, St. Louis) 'Appraisability and Moral Agency in Hume's Account of Virtue' [Abstract] |
| Jun 2 | Krister Bykvist (Stockholm) 'Being, Non-Being, and Well-Being' [Abstract] |
| Jun 9 | Regina Rini (Oxford) 'Abortion, Ultrasound, and Moral Persuasion' [Abstract] |
| Jun 16 | Richard Holton (Cambridge) 'Moral Resolve' [Abstract] |
| Jan 20 | Alex Silk (Birmingham) |
| Jan 27 | Nathaniel Adam Tobias |
| Feb 3 | Justin Clarke-Doane (Birmingham) 'Debunking and Indispensability' [Abstract] |
| Feb 10 | Anna Alexandrova (Cambridge) 'Values Fit for Science: The Case of Child Well-Being' [Abstract] |
| Feb 17 | Weyma Lübbe (Regensburg) 'Aggregation and Separability: Limits to the redescription-of-outcomes strategy in defending aggregative consequentialism' |
| Feb 24 | Yair Levy (Oxford) 'Cognitivism about intention' [Abstract] |
| Mar 3 | Joseph Raz (Columbia/KCL) 'The Guise of the Bad' [Abstract] |
| Mar 10 | Elizabeth Ashford (St Andrews) 'Severe Poverty as a Systemic Human Rights Violation’ |
2013
Michaelmas Term 2013| Oct 14 | Seth Lazar (ANU) 'Ethics and Expectations: Part I' [Abstract] |
| Oct 21 | Robert Audi (Nebraska) 'Moral Properties' [Abstract} |
| Oct 28 | Philip Stratton-Lake (Reading) ''Self-evidence, understanding, and intuition' [Abstract] |
| Nov 4 | Julia Annas (Arizona) 'Why Virtue Ethics does not have a Problem with Right Action' [Abstract] |
| Nov 11 | Charles Pigden (Otago) 'Promises, Promises: Hume, Searle, Godwin and the Duke of Wellington' [Abstract] |
| Nov 18 | Jesse Prinz (CUNY) 'The Moral Self' [Abstract] |
| Nov 25 | Jussi Suikkanen (Birmingham) 'Ethical Theories and the Correlation Problem' [Abstract] |
| Dec 2 | Max Baker-Hytch (Oxford) 'On the Evolutionary Epistemological Challenge to Moral Realism' [Abstract] |
| Apr 22 | Neil Sinhababu (Singapore) 'Desire's Explanations' [Abstract] |
| Apr 29 | Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund) 'Goodness and Numbers' [Abstract] |
| May 6 | Bennett Helm (Franklin & Marshall / Princeton) 'Being Bound by Communal Norms' [Abstract] |
| May 13 | Candace Vogler (Chicago) 'Looking Forward' [Abstract] |
| May 20 | Elijah Millgram (Utah) 'Millian Metaethics' [Abstract] |
| May 27 | Ralph Wedgwood (USC) 'The External Goal of Rationality' [Abstract] |
| June 3 | James Dreier (Brown) ' Moral Explananda ' [Abstract] |
| June 10 | Michael Gibb (Oxford) 'Defending a Relational Moral Theory' [Abstract] |
| Jan 14 | Don Loeb (Vermont) 'Has Moral Expressivism Lost its Way?' [Abstract] |
| Jan 21 | Martin O'Neill (York) ' Freedom without Resentment: Strawson, the Whisky Priest and the Objective Attitudes ' [Abstract] |
| Jan 28 | Paulina Sliwa (Cambridge) 'Moral Worth and Moral Knowledge' [Abstract] |
| Feb 4 | Mark Schroeder (USC) 'The Price of Supervenience' [Abstract] |
| Feb 11 | Erasmus Mayr (Oxford) 'Moral Responsibility - 'metaphysical' or 'normative'?' [Abstract] |
| Feb 18 | Ralph Bader (Oxford) 'Extrinsic Value’ [Abstract] |
| Feb 25 | John Hyman (Oxford) 'Voluntariness and Choice' [Abstract] |
| Mar 4 | Regina Rini (Oxford) 'Moral Psychology and the Narrative Self' [Abstract] |
2012
Michaelmas Term 2012| Oct 8 | Christian Piller (York) 'Valuing Human Life' [Abstract] |
| Oct 15 | Carla Bagnoli (Wisconsin/Modena & Reggio Emilia) 'Kantian Structuring: An objectivist account of practical knowledge' [Abstract] |
| Oct 22 | Constantine Sandis (Oxford Brookes) 'Action in Ethics' [Abstract] |
| Oct 29 | Josh Parsons (Oxford) 'Preposcriptions and prescriptivism' [Abstract] |
| Nov 5 | Patrick Todd (Munich/Innsbruck) 'The Perfection of Morality' [Abstract] |
| Nov 12 | John Skorupski (St Andrews) 'The Ontology of the Normative' [Abstract] |
| Nov 19 | Wayne Martin (Essex) 'Antinomies of Autonomy: German Idealism and English Mental Health Law' [Abstract] |
| Nov 26 | Maria Alvarez (King's College London) [Abstract] |
| Apr 23 | Guy Fletcher (Edinburgh) 'Moral Judgement Internalism Explained (Away)' [Abstract] |
| Apr 30 | Matthew Chrisman (Edinburgh) 'Should the Meta-Language of Meta-Ethics be Non-Normative?' [Abstract] |
| May 7 | Ulrike Heuer (Leeds) 'Intentions, Permissibility, and the Reasons for Which We Act' [Abstract] |
| May 14 | Michael Thompson (Pittsburgh) 'You and I' and reasons of justice [Abstract] |
| May 21 | Frank Jackson (Princeton) 'Subjective and Objective Obligation Revisited' [Abstract] |
| May 28 | David McNaughton (Florida State) 'Consequentialism, Reasons, Benefits, and the Good' [Abstract] [Paper] |
| June 4 | Alison Denham (Tulane/Oxford) 'Debunking Nietzsche: Why the Transfiguration Thesis is neither original nor true' [Abstract] |
| June 11 | Sergio Tenenbaum (Toronto) 'Moral Faith and Moral Reason' [Abstract] |
| Jan 16 | Anthony Price (Birkbeck) 'A Quietist Particularism' [Abstract] |
| Jan 23 | James Lenman (Sheffield) ‘Scepticism about Moral Intuition’ [Abstract] |
| Jan 30 | Alison Hills (Oxford) 'Cognitivism about moral judgement' [Abstract] |
| Feb 6 | Jonas Olson (Stockholm) ‘Projectivism and Error in Hume’s Ethics’ [Abstract] |
| Feb 13 | Toby Ord (Oxford) 'How to be a Consequentialist About Everything’ [Abstract] |
| Feb 20 | Simon Blackburn (Cambridge) ‘Ways of Misunderstanding Hume’ [Abstract] |
| Feb 27 | Debbie Roberts (York) ‘Thick Concepts and the Fact-Value Distinction’ [Abstract] |
| Mar 5 | Roger Teichmann (Oxford) 'The Importance of the Past’ [Abstract] |
2011
Michaelmas Term 2011| Oct 10 | Jim Griffin (Oxford/Rutgers) 'The Idea of Ethics' |
| Oct 17 | Charles Pigden (Otago) 'Queerness Reconfigured' [Abstract] |
| Oct 24 | Matthew Noah Smith (Yale) 'Bootstrapping and the Authority of Intentions' |
| Oct 31 | Uri Leibowitz (Nottingham) 'Explaining Moral Knowledge' |
| Nov 7 | Jonathan Webber (Cardiff) 'Virtue and Attitude' |
| Nov 14 | Tim Chappell (Open University) 'The varieties of knowledge' |
| Nov 21 | Gerald Lang (Leeds) 'Good Luck, Bad Luck, and Moral Luck' |
| Nov 28 | Lucy Allais (Sussex/Witwatersrand) 'Retributive Justice, Restorative Justice and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission' |
| May 2 | Derek Parfit (Oxford) - CANCELLED |
| May 9 | Brad Hooker (Reading) 'The Definition of Morality' [Abstract] |
| May 16 | Rahul Kumar (Queen's University) 'Risking and Wronging' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| May 23 | Tristram McPherson (University of Minnesota Duluth) 'Reference Magnets on Normative Twin Earth' [Abstract] |
| May 30 | Derek Parfit (Oxford) 'The Kantian Argument for Rule Consequentialism' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| Jun 6 | Kieran Setiya (Pittsburgh) 'Knowing Right From Wrong' [Abstract] |
| Jun 13 | Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA) 'Reflection and Responsibility' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| Jun 20 | Josée Brunet (University of Montreal) 'The Correctness of Reasoning' - CANCELLED |
| Jan 17 | Simon Rippon (Oxford) 'Chess as a Normative Practice' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| Jan 24 | Luke Russell (Sydney) 'Evil and Extremity' [Abstract] |
| Jan 31 | NO SEMINAR |
| Feb 7 | Michael Smith (Princeton) 'Naturalism, Absolutism, Relativism' [Abstract] |
| Feb 14 | Graham Oddie (Colorado) 'On desires as value data' [Abstract] |
| Feb 21 | Wayne Sumner (Toronto) 'End-of-Life Care: Where are the Ethical Lines?' [Abstract] |
| Feb 28 | Tom Pink (KCL) 'Freedom, choice and autonomy' [Abstract] |
| Mar 7 | Bruno Verbeek (Leiden) 'A (limited) vindication of voluntarism' [Abstract] |
2010
Michaelmas Term 2010| Oct 11 | Michael Ridge (Edinburgh) 'Relocating Normative Thought and Discourse' [Abstract] |
| Oct 18 | Jonathan Way (Stirling) 'Transmission and the Wrong Kind of Reason' [Abstract] |
| Oct 25 | Paul Russell (University of British Columbia) 'Critical Compatibilism and the Limits of Free Will' [Abstract] |
| Nov 1 | Raimond Gaita (King's College, London) 'Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline’ [Abstract] |
| Nov 8 | Cecile Fabre (Lincoln, Oxford) 'Internecine war killings' [Abstract] |
| Nov 15 | R.Jay Wallace (Berkeley) 'The Bourgeois Predicament' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| Nov 22 | Philip Pettit (Princeton) ‘A Genealogy of the Concept of Promising’ [Abstract] [Photos] |
| Nov 29 | James Lenman (Sheffield) |
Trinity Term 2010
| Apr 26 | Edward Harcourt (Oxford) 'Love and the Origins of Authority in Infancy' |
| May 3 | Candace Vogler (University of Chicago) 'You Owe it to Yourself' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| May 10 | Veronique Munoz-Dardé (UCL) 'The Puzzle of Museums' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| May 17 | Herlinde Pauer-Studer (Vienna) 'Practical Reason, Autonomy, and Bad Action' [Abstract] [Photo] |
| May 24 | Lubomira Radoilska (Cambridge) 'Akrasia, Addiction, and Autonomy' [Abstract] |
| May 31 | Daniel Star (Boston University) 'Weighing Reasons' (with Stephen Kearns) [Abstract] [Photos] |
| Jun 7 | Alan Thomas (University of Kent) 'Practical Reasoning, the First Person and Impartialism about Reasons' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| Jun 14 | Nishi Shah (Amherst College) 'Mental Agency and Metaethics' [Abstract] [Photo] |
Hilary Term 2010
| Jan 18 | Nic Southwood (Oxford) 'In Defence of the Moral/Conventional Distinction' [Abstract] [Photo] |
| Jan 25 | Raimond Gaita (KCL and Australian Catholic University) 'Is Morality 'Inescapable'?' [Abstract] - CANCELLED |
| Feb 1 | Max de Gaynesford (Reading) 'Integrity and Time: Parfit’s Russian Nobleman' [Abstract] [Photo] |
| Feb 8 | Joseph Raz (Oxford) 'The Guise of the Good' [Abstract] |
| Feb 15 | Raffaele Rodogno (Aarhus) 'Emotions and Morality' [Abstract] [Photo] |
| Feb 22 | Angelika Krebs (University of Basel) 'Dialogical Love' [Abstract] [Photo] |
| Mar 1 | Saul Smilansky (Haifa) 'Should We Be Sorry That We Exist?' [Abstract] |
| Mar 8 | Hallvard Lillehammer (Cambridge) 'Intuitions and Causes' [Abstract] [Photos] |
2009
Michaelmas Term 2009
| Oct 12 | Lucy Allais (Sussex/Witwatersrand) 'Retributive Justice, Restorative Justice, and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission' [Abstract] - CANCELLED |
| Oct 19 | Janet Radcliffe Richards (Oxford) 'Metaphysics for the management of sex' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| Oct 26 | Robert Audi (Notre Dame) 'Kantian Intuitionism as a Framework for the Justification of Moral Judgments' [Abstract] |
| Nov 2 | Mark Schroeder (University of Southern California) 'The Ubiquity of State-Given Reasons' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| Nov 9 | Torbjörn Tännsjo (Stockholm) 'In Defence of Moral Realism' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| Nov 16 | Ralph Wedgwood (Oxford) 'Instrumental rationality' [Photos] |
| Nov 23 | David Owens (Sheffield) 'Wronging' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| Nov 30 | Christoph Fehige (Saarbrücken) 'The structure of Benevolence' [Abstract] [Photos] |
Trinity Term 2009
| Apr 27 | Sergio Tennenbaum (University of Toronto) 'Intention and Commitment' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| May 4 | Krister Bykvist (Oxford) 'Objective verus Subjective Moral Oughts' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| May 11 | Andrew Reisner (McGill) 'Abandoning the Buck Passing Analysis of Final Value' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| May 18 | Stephan Finlay (University of Southern California) ' Metaethical Contextualism Defended ' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| May 25 | David Enoch (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 'Giving Practical Reasons' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| Jun 1 | Matthew Hanser (Santa Barbara) 'Deferring to Others' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| Jun 8 | Simon Robertson (University of Southampton) 'Creating Reasons' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| Jun 15 | David Sobel (Nebraska - Lincoln) 'Parfit on Subjectivism' [Abstract] [Photos] |
Hilary Term
| Jan 19 | Fiona Woollard (Sheffield) 'Doing, Allowing and Imposing' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| Jan 26 | Jens Johansson (Oxford) 'Temporalism About Death's Badness' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| Feb 2 | CANCELLED - Janet Radcliffe-Richards (Oxford) 'Group Equality' [Abstract] |
| Feb 9 | Sarah Stroud (McGill) 'Partiality as Plural Agency' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| Feb 16 | Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Dartmouth) 'Degrees of Freedom and Responsibility' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| Feb 23 | Richard Kraut (Northwestern) 'Against Absolute Goodness' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| Mar 2 | Christine Tappolet (Montreal) 'Personal Autonomy and Self-Control' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| Mar 9 | Pekka Vayrynen (Leeds) 'A Wrong Turn to Reasons?' [Abstract] [Photos] |
2008
Michaelmas Term
| Oct 13 | David Heyd (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): 'A Value or an Obligation: Rawls on Justice to Future Generations' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| Oct 20 | no seminar - Society for Applied Philosophy Lecture by Onora O'Neil |
| Oct 29 | (WEDNESDAY) David Wiggins (Oxford) - The Solidarity at the Root of the Ethical [Abstract] [Podcast] |
| Nov 3 | Steven Lee (Hobart and William Smith Colleges): 'Are the Moral Rules of War Mere Conventions' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| Nov 10 | Michael Boylan (Marymount) 'Racial Profiling and Genetic Privacy' [Abstract] [Photo] |
| Nov 17 | Thomas Porter (Oxford), 'Moral Norms and Institutional Norms' [Photos] |
| Nov 24 | Caspar Hare (MIT) 'Obligation and Regret When There is no Fact of the Matter About What Would Have Happened if you had not Done What you Did.' [Paper] [Photos] |
| Dec 1 | Frances Kamm (Harvard) [Photo] |
Trinity Term
| April 21 | Elijah Millgram (Utah): ‘Mill’s Incubus’ [Abstract] [Photos] |
| April 28 | Rae Langton (MIT): 'Esteem in the Economy of Sexual Oppression' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| May 5 | Daniel Elstein (Leeds): ‘Is there a Normative Question, and if so, how can it be answered?’ [Abstract] [Photos] |
| May 12 | Terence Irwin (Oxford): 'Prudence, morality, and the importance of persons: a dilemma for Sidgwick' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| May 19 | Chris Heathwood (Boulder): ‘Desire-based Theories of Welfare, of Pleasure, and of Reasons’ [Abstract] [Photos] |
| May 26 | Ben Bradley (Syracuse): ‘A Defence of Hedonism’ [Abstract] [Photos] |
| June 2 | Ben Saunders (Oxford): ‘Fairness, Democracy, and Lotteries’ [Abstract] [Photos] |
| June 9 | Frans Svensson (Arizona): ‘Virtue, Advice, and Approval’ [Abstract] [Photos] |
Hilary Term
| January 14 | CANCELLED |
| January 21 | Geoffrey Ferrari (Oxford): ‘Supervenience and Rightmaking’ [Abstract] [Photos] |
| January 28 | Miranda Fricker (Birkbeck): ‘The Relativity of Blame’ [Abstract] [Photos] |
| February 4 | Neil Sinclair (Nottingham): ‘Presumptive Arguments for Moral Realism’ [Abstract] [Photos] |
| February 11 | Richard Holton (MIT): 'Determinism, Self-Efficacy and the Phenomenology of Free Will' [Abstract] [Photos] |
| February 18 | Campbell Brown (Edinburgh): ‘How to Live a Life worth Living’ [Abstract] [Photos] |
| February 25 | Kent Hurtig (Stirling): ‘The Value of Rationality’ [Abstract] [Photos] |
| March 3 | Sigrun Svavarsdottir (Ohio State): ‘The Practical Role of Value Judgments’ [Abstract] [Photos] |
2007
Michaelmas Term
October 10: (Wednesday!!) Geoff Sayre McCord (Chapel Hill): ‘A Moral Argument against Moral Dilemmas’ Abstract [Photos]
October 15: Rebecca Roache (Oxford): ‘'Is Human Enhancement Too Risky?’ [Photos]
October 22: Bart Streumer (Reading): 'Are There Irreducibly Normative Properties?' Abstract [Photos]
October 29: Fabienne Peter (Warwick): ‘Fairness, Rationality, and Legitimacy’ Abstract [Photos]
November 5: Michael Garnett (Birkbeck): 'Republican Freedom and the Politics of Preference Manipulation' [Photos]
November 12: Uwe Steinhoff (Hong Kong): ‘Efficient Ethics: Which Ethic Should I Rationally Make My Own, and Which Should I Propagate to Others?’ Abstract
November 19: Philip Pettit (Princeton): ‘Substantive Moral Theory’
November 26: Nadeem Hussain (Stanford): 'Constructivism and Metaethics’ [Photos]
Trinity Term
23 April: James Morauta (Oxford): ‘Reasons to Intend’ Abstract PHOTOS
30 April: John Broome (Oxford): ‘Responding to Reasons’ Abstract PHOTOS
7 May: Gunnar Bjornsson (Gothenburg): ‘“Objectivist” Traits of Moral Phenomenology and Moral Discourse Do Not Support Moral Objectivism’ Abstract PAPER PHOTOS
14 May: Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund): ‘Value Relations’ PHOTOS
21 May: Eve Garrard (Keele) & David McNaughton (Florida): ‘Humility’ PAPER
28 May: Jussi Suikkanen (Reading): ‘Minimalist Contractualism’ Abstract PHOTOS
4 June: Peter Singer (Princeton): ‘Bystanders to Genocide and Bystanders to Poverty’ Abstract PHOTOS
11 June: Dennis McKerlie (Calgary): ‘Equality, Priority, and Temporal Parts of Lives’ Abstract PAPER PHOTOS
Hilary Term
15 January: Elinor Mason (Edinburgh): ‘Moral Responsibility and Moral Theory’ PHOTOS
22 January: Tom Hurka (Toronto): ‘Asymmetries in Value’ PHOTOS
29 January: Neil Levy (Melbourne): ‘Frankfurt, Free Will, and Agents’ Capacities’
5 February: John Skorupski (St Andrews): ‘Consequentialist Arrogance’ PHOTOS
12 February: Simon Kirchin (Kent): 'The Shapelessness Hypothesis' PHOTOS
19 February: Brian McElwee (Oxford): ‘The Rights and Wrongs of Consequentialism’ PHOTOS
26 February: Guy Kahane (Oxford): ‘If Nothing Matters’ PHOTOS
5 March: Francois & Laura Schroeter (Melbourne & Monash/Fribourg): ‘Rational Improvisation: A Third Way in Metaethics’ PHOTOS
2006
Michaelmas Term
9 October: Ulrike Heuer (Leeds) 'Wrongness and Reasons' PHOTOS
16 October: Charles Pigden (Otago) 'Snare’s Puzzle: What is the Argument of which Hume’s No-Ought-From-Is is the Premise?' PHOTOS
23 October: Alex Voorhoeve (LSE) 'Why Losses Shouldn't Count. A Critique of the Complaint Model'
30 October: Jens Timmermann (St Andrews) 'Kantian dilemmas' PHOTOS
6 November: Tim Mulgan (St Andrews) 'Consequentialist Theism' PHOTOS
13 November: Russell Shafer-Landau (Madison) 'Moral and Theological Realism' PHOTOS
20 November: Martin Peterson (Cambridge) 'Are Persons Mere Containers for Wellbeing?' PHOTOS
27 November: Michael Brady (Glasgow) 'The irrationality of recalcitrant emotions' PHOTOS
2005
Michaelmas Term
17 October: Wayne Sumner (Toronto), 'Utility and capability'. PHOTOS
24 October: Christopher Woodard (Nottingham) 'Pragmatism and teleology'.
31 October: Doug MacLean (UNC Chapel Hill) 'Is longevity a value?'
7 November: Nicholas Sturgeon (Cornell), 'Moral explanations revisited'. PHOTOS
14 November: Susan Wolf (UNC Chapel Hill), 'Moral obligation'. PHOTOS
21 November: Daniel Star (Oxford), 'Moral reasons: ultimate and derivative'. PHOTOS
28 November: John Gardner (Oxford), 'Corrective justice'. PHOTOS
13 June: Margaret Gilbert (Connecticut at
Storrs), 'Rationality in Collective Action'.
PHOTO
6 June:
Alison Hills (Bristol), 'The sceptic and the egoist'.
PHOTOS
30 May:
Gerald Lang (Oxford), 'The limits of self-defence'.
PHOTOS
23 May: James Dreier (Brown), 'Negation for expressivists'.
PHOTO
16 May: Daniel Markowits (Yale), 'Contract and collaboration'.
PHOTOS
9 May: Marc Fleurbaey (Pau visiting Oxford),
'Four approaches to
responsibility-sensitive egalitarianism'.
PHOTOS
2 May: Iwao Hirose (Oxford), 'Aggregation in ethics'.
PHOTOS
25 April:
Tony Coady (Melbourne), 'The unity of the virtues'.
PHOTOS
7 March: Philip Stratton-Lake (Reading),
'Eliminativism about derivative prima facie duties'.
PHOTOS
28 February: Robert Sugden (East Anglia), 'The responsible self: how to live with inconsistent preferences'.
PHOTO
21 February: Folke Tersman (Stockholm), 'The
latitude idea'. PHOTOS
14 February: Nick Bostrom (Oxford), 'Infinite
ethics'.
7 February: Simon Blackburn (Cambridge),
'Quasi-realism no fictionalism'.
31 January: Derek Parfit (Oxford), 'Harming people as a means and treating people merely
as a means'. PHOTO
17 January: Geoff Sayre-McCord (North Carolina),
'Rational agency and normative concepts'.
PHOTOS
2004
29 November: Serena Olsaretti (Cambridge):
'Scanlon on substantive responsibility'. PHOTOS
22 November: Robert Merrihew Adams (Oxford):
'What's so great about altruism?'. PHOTOS
15 November: Oswald Hanfling (Open): 'How
we trust one another: keeping promises and telling the truth'
8 November: Catherine
Wilson (British Columbia): 'Belief in a Just World: A Problem for Moral Philosophy'.
PHOTOS
1 November: Michael Zimmerman (North Carolina
at Greensboro): 'Is moral obligation objective or subjective?'
25 October: Robert Audi (Notre
Dame): 'The grounds and structure of reasons for action'.
PHOTOS
18 October: Stephen Darwall (Michigan):
'Second-Personal Reasons and the Dignity of Persons'.
PHOTOS
14 June: Erik Carlson (Uppsala): 'Incomparability
and Measurement of Value'.
7 June: Ruth Chang (Rutgers): 'All
Things Considered'.
31 May:
Rae Langton (Edinburgh): 'Speaker's Freedom and Maker's Knowledge: a
Millian Defence of Pornography?'
24 May: Jay Wallace (Berkeley): 'Moral
Reasons and Moral Motivation. Some Reflections on Rationalism in Ethics'.
17 May:
Agnieszka Jaworska (Princeton): 'Caring
and Internality'.
10 May: Brian Ellis (Melbourne): 'Social Eudemonism'.
3 May: Michael Rosen (Oxford):
'Against Rationalism'.
26 April: Philippa Foot (Oxford): 'Goodness
and Happiness'.
8 March: Michael Otsuka (University
College London): 'Scepticism about Saving the Greater Number'.
1 March: Elijah Millgram (Utah):
'Reasonably Virtuous'.
23 February: Mark Kalderon (University College
London): 'Moral Pyrrhonism and Noncognitivism.'
16 February: Donald Regan (Michigan):
'How Should We Deal With Friends or Associates Whose Behaviour We
Think Is Immoral or Self-Destructive: Are the Cases of Personal
Relations and International Trade Relations Usefully Analogous?'
9 February: Keith Hyams (Linacre College):
'Justice and Consent: When is a Deal a Fair Deal?'
2 February: Elizabeth Ashford (St Andrews):
'Severe Poverty as a Human Rights Violation'.
26 January: Roger Crisp
(Oxford): 'Hedonism Reconsidered'.
19 January: Anthony Price (Birkbeck): 'On
the so-called logic of practical inference.'
2003
24 November: James Griffin (Oxford,
Rutgers, CAPPE at ANU): 'An Unacknowledged Problem with Human Rights'.
PHOTOS
10 November: James Lenman (Sheffield), 'Anscombe's
Saucer; Desires and Desirability Characteristics'.
PHOTOS
3 November: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Dartmouth), 'Moderate Pyrrhonian
Moral Skepticism'. PHOTOS
27 October: Adrian Moore (Oxford), 'Realism
and the absolute conception'.
20 October: Brad Hooker (Reading), 'Fairness'.
PHOTOS
13 October: David Velleman (Michigan), 'A
Sense of Self'. PHOTOS
16 June: Douglas MacLean (North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 'Procedural
Virtue'. PHOTOS
9 June: Susan Wolf (North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 'The Meanings
of Lives'.
PHOTOS
2 June: Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund), 'The buck-passing account of value
and some of its problems'. PHOTOS
19 May: Frances Kamm, (NYU visiting Harvard), 'Failures of Just War Theory'.
PHOTO
12 May: Amartya Sen (Cambridge),
'Why Must Justice Be Seen To Be Done?'
PHOTOS
5 May: Nathan Holcomb (Oxford), 'Regarding Oneself as Free'.
PHOTOS
28 April: Max Kolbel (Birmingham), 'Indexical relativism vs genuine relativism'.
PHOTO
10 March: Jonathan Glover (KCL), 'Dignity and violence: an empirical approach
to ethics'. PHOTO
3 March: Nick Zangwill (Oxford),
'Supervenience and moral epistemology'. PHOTO
24 February: David Rodin (Oxford), 'Ethics and the "war on terrorism"'. PHOTOS
17 February: Jonathan Dancy (Reading), 'What do reasons do?'
PHOTO
10 February: Joseph Raz (Oxford and Columbia), 'The force of numbers'.
3 February: Christian Piller (York), 'Ewing's problem: should we always
do what we think we should do?' PHOTOS
27 January: Richard Holton (Edinburgh), 'Is strength of will rational?'
PHOTOS
20 January: David McCarthy (Bristol), 'The good, the bad and the incomplete'.
PHOTOS
2002
2 December: Gustaf Arrhenius (Stockholm, visiting Oxford), 'Normative
population theory'. PHOTOS
25 November: T. M. Scanlon (Harvard), 'Metaphysics and Morals'.
PHOTOS
18 November: Thomas Pogge (Columbia, visiting Oxford), 'Justice'.
PHOTOS
11 November: Thomas Hurka (Toronto), 'Back to the future: how to do normative
ethics'. PHOTOS
4 November: John Skorupski (St Andrews, visiting Oxford), 'Internal reasons
and the scope of blame'. PHOTOS
28 October: Bernard Williams (Berkeley and Oxford), 'Ought, must,
and the aims of morality'. PHOTOS
21 October: Mary Warnock, (House of Lords), 'Public and private morality'.
PHOTOS
14 October: Susan Hurley (Warwick and Oxford), 'Animal action in the
space of reasons'. PHOTOS
10
June: Jeremy Watkins (Oxford), 'Forgiveness and its place in ethics'.
PHOTOS
3
June: Jeff Seidman (Oxford), 'Rationality and Reflection'.
PHOTOS
27
May: Michael Zimmerman (North Carolina at Greensboro), 'Taking luck
seriously'. PHOTOS
20
May: Fred Feldman (Massachusetts at Amherst), 'Hedonism and the shape of a
life'. PHOTOS
13
May: Andrew Reisner (Oxford), 'Believing what’s good for you: epistemic and
non-epistemic reasons for belief'.
PHOTOS
6
May: Allan Gibbard (Michigan), 'Thoughts and Norms'.
PHOTOS
29 April: Michael Smith (ANU), 'Relative and neutral value after
Moore'. PHOTO
22 April: Sven Danielsson (Uppsala), 'The supervenience of intrinsic
value'. PHOTOS.
4
March: Frank Jackson (ANU), 'Who's afraid of analytical descriptivism?'.
PHOTOS
25 February: Michael Slote (Miami), 'Moral sentimentalism'.
PHOTOS
18
February: Malte Gerhold (Oxford), 'The meaningful life and the good life'.
PHOTOS
11
February: Michael Ridge (Edinburgh), 'Avoiding the Frege-Geach problem in
meta-ethics'. PHOTOS
28 January: Sabina Lovibond (Oxford), 'G. E. Moore and the Source of
Value'. PHOTO
21
January: Matthew Liao (Oxford), 'What's wrong with agency accounts of human
rights'. PHOTO
14 January: Onora O'Neill (Cambridge), 'Real
autonomy?'. PHOTOS
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