Dear all This is a reminder that tomorrow, Professor Michael Otsuka (LSE) will give a talk entitled "How it Makes a Moral Difference that One is Worse Off than One Would Have Been". An abstract is included below.
The meeting will be held at 5:15pm on Tuesday, 5 November, in the Boys Smith Room (found in the Fisher Building), St. John's College. For more information, including details about our fees, and our 2013-2014 programme, please visit our website at http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc. We look forward to seeing many of you there. Best, Kyle Mitchell and Shyane Siriwardena ABSTRACT: In this paper, I argue that it makes a moral difference whether an individual is worse off than she could have been. Here I part company with consequentialists such as Parfit and side with contractualists such as Scanlon. But, unlike some contractualists, I reject the view that all that matters is whether a principle can be justified to each particular individual, where such a justification is attentive to her interests, complaints, and other claims. The anonymous goodness of a distribution also matters. My attempt to reconcile contractualist and consequentialist approaches proceeds via a serious of reflections on cases. -- Kyle Mitchell and Shyane Siriwardena Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc
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