Dear all, Chris Cowie (Cambridge University) will be speaking at the next meeting of the Moral Sciences Club with a talk titled *Biting the Bullet in Non-Identity Cases*. The abstract for this is below:
*Consequentialists are uniquely well-placed to explain the nature of our obligations to future people. But their view seems to have the implausible implication that we should create very large populations. Parfit termed this implausible implication 'the repugnant conclusion'. In this article I discuss an increasingly popular consequentialist response to the repugnant conclusion. The response is based on the claim that (human) life is misery.* The meeting will be held on Tuesday the 26th from 2.30 until 4.15 in the Sidgwick Hall in Newnham College. The meeting will be followed by tea and coffee in the philosophy faculty. For those who have not yet paid, there is a yearly membership fee of £7.50 for students and £15 for others (alternatively, students can pay a one-off fee for the meeting of £2 and others can pay a one-off fee of £3). These fees can be paid online (at the following link: http://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=75&prodvarid=87) or in cash on the day. We look forward to seeing many of you there. Best wishes, Adam Bales and Daisy Dixon -- Daisy Dixon and Adam Bales Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
