Moral Philosophy Seminar
The Moral Philosophy Seminar (MPS) explores all areas and frameworks of moral philosophy, including normative ethics, applied ethics, and meta-ethics. Those who wish to be added to the mailing list should ask the convenor through email.
Seminars usually take place three times a term on Mondays in weeks 3, 5 & 7 at 4-6pm, in the Lecture Room at the Radcliffe Humanities building.
Moral Philosophy Seminar Convenor: Jeremy Fix
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Past Terms
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Sarah Paul (NYU-Abu Dhabi) |
Plan B Consistency |
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| Week 4 (1st Nov) |
Matthew Boyle (University of Chicago) |
Ethics and the First Person Perspective |
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Paul Bloomfield (University of Connecticut) |
Justice as the Virtue of Respect |
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Jed Lewinsohn (University of Pittsburgh) |
The ‘Natural Unintelligibility’ of Normative Powers |
| Week 2 (3rd May) |
Lucy O'Brien (UCL) and Marie Guillot (Essex) |
Self - Matters |
| Week 4 (17th May) |
Alexander Prescott-Couch (Oxford) |
Hermeneutic Injustice and the Public Sphere |
| Week 6 (31st May) |
Sam Berstler (Princeton/MIT) |
The Ethics of Word Twisting |
| Week 8 (14th June) |
Johann Frick (Princeton) |
Dilemmas, Luck, and the Two Faces of Morality |
| Week 2 (25th Jan) |
David Sussman (Illinois) |
'Retributivism Reconsidered' |
| Week 4 (8th Feb) | E. Sonny Elizondo (California) |
'Kantian Eudaimonism' |
| Week 6 (22nd Feb) |
Selim Berker (Harvard) |
'The Deontic, the Evaluative, and the Fitting' |
| Week 8 (8th March) |
Michael Rabenberg (Princeton) |
'Lucretius’ Puzzle' |
| Week 4 (3rd Nov) |
Michael Otsuka (LSE) |
'The case for a funded pension with a defined benefit (DB)' |
| Week 6 (16th Nov) |
Edward Lamb (Oxford) |
'Benefiting Those Who Would Benefit More' |
| Week 8 (30th Nov) |
Barry Maguire (Edinburgh) |
'Rewiring Ethics' |
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Gopal Sreenivasan (Duke University) |
Must the ends in courage be good? |
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Martin O'Neill (York) |
Social Justice, Democratic Socialism, and Collective Capital Institutions |
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Oded Na'aman (Martin Buber Society of Fellows, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
Meaningful Suffering |
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Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan) |
''What Has Gone Wrong? Populist politics and the mobilization of fear and resentment'' |
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| Week 2 (21st October) |
Vida Yao (Rice University) |
''Grace and Alienation '' |
| Week 4 (4th November) |
Brendan de Kenessey (Toronto) |
''What Makes Reasons Moral?'' |
| Week 6 (18th November) |
Louise Hanson (Durham) |
''Robust Moral Realism and Robust Aesthetic Realism'' |
| Week 8 (2nd December) |
John-Stewart Gordon (Vytautas Magnus University) |
''Ethics as a Method'' |
| Week 1 (14th January) | Luke Elson (Reading) | 'Nihilistic Despair' |
| Week 2 (21st January) | Gerald Lang (Leeds) | 'What's Wrong with Hypocrisy' |
| Week 3 (28th January) | Martin Sticker (Bristol) | 'The Normativity of Obligatory End' |
| Week 4 (4th February) | Philipp Gisbertz (Göttingen) | 'Human Dignity as a Moral Concept' |
| Week 5 (11th February) | Jeremy Fix (Oxford) | 'The Instrumental Rule' |
| Week 6 (18th February) | Robert Simpson (UCL) | 'What is Legitimation?' |
| Week 7 (25th February) | Lucy Campbell (Warwick) | 'Anscombe on Practical Knowledge and Practical Truth' |
| Week 8 (4th March) | Paulina Sliwa (Cambridge) | 'Hermeneutical Advice' |
| Week 8 (7th March, Special Session) | Robert Audi (Notre Dame) | 'Prospects for a Value-Based Deontology' |
| Week 2 (15th October) | Joe Horton (UCL) | 'The Exploitation Problem' |
| Week 3 (22nd October) | Cressida Gaukroger (Oxford) | "Privacy and the Importance of "Getting Away With It" |
| Week 5 (5th November) | Adam Shriver (Oxford) | 'Is Hedonism a Version of Axiological Monism?' |
| Week 6 (12th November) | Brian McElwee (Southampton) | 'Moral Progress and Moral Reproach' |
| Week 7 (19th November) | Jeremy Williams (Birmingham) | 'Anti-Abortion Advocacy, Violence, and Toleration' |
| Week 8 (26th November) | Fabienne Peter (Warwick) | 'Moral Self-Trust and its Limits' |
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Week 1 (23rd April) |
Theron Pummer (St Andrews |
"Optimising Outside Options" |
| Week 4 (14th May) | Patrick Tomlin (Warwick) | "Accidentally Killing on Purpose" |
| Week 7 (4th June) | Tom Dougherty (Cambridge) | "Degrees of Consent" |
For an archive of previous terms, please see here.
