Dear all, The Moral Sciences Club's first meeting of the year will be held on Tuesday 10th October. We are delighted to welcome Seth Lazar (ANU), who will be giving a talk entitled 'Doing the most Good: Moral Options and Optimisation' (a paper co-written by Christian Barry, ANU). Here is the abstract:
In recent work, a number of philosophers have convinced a broad audience that, even if morality gives us latitude to pursue our own projects rather than always maximise the good, if we do choose to sacrifice our own interests for the sake of others, we must do something like the most good we can—we should get the most moral bang for our buck. This idea underpins the Effective Altruist movement. But there is an alternative view, according to which I am free to sacrifice my interests inefficiently if I want to. This paper explores these two views, first making clear the centrifugal force that forces us to these extremes, and away from a more moderate middle ground, and then arguing against the first extreme, and for the second. The meeting will be held at 2:30 until 4:15, in the Barbara White Room at Newnham College, and will be followed by tea and coffee. If you would like to have dinner with Seth Lazar in the evening following his talk at the Moral Sciences Club, please email the secretaries of the club ([email protected]) by midday on Monday. This dinner is open to anyone who has attended the talk and it will take place at around 7pm at a location to be determined (those who sign up for dinner will be notified of the details by email closer to the time). -- Karamvir Chadha and Cathy Mason 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.
