Dear All, The next meeting of the Moral Sciences Club will be held on Tuesday 31 October. We are delighted to welcome Christian List (LSE), who will be giving a talk entitled 'Beyond consequentialization: How to represent moral theories in a canonical form'. Here is the abstract:
This talk will revisit the debate on whether all moral theories admit a consequentialist representation, i.e., whether every theory has a consequentialist counterpart theory with the same action-guiding recommendations. A positive answer is often thought to challenge the distinction between consequentialism and deontology. I will defend a negative answer, but show that moral theories can be represented in a more general form, namely by “reasons structures”: specifications of which properties of the options matter, and how they do so. Reason-based representations capture several key distinctions: consequentialism vs non-consequentialism, universalism vs relativism, monism vs pluralism, atomism vs holism, teleology vs its absence. The analysis clarifies the extent to which moral theories are underdetermined by their action-guiding content. The talk is based on joint work with Franz Dietrich. An accompanying paper is available at: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/list/PDF-files/WhatMatters.pdf 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 Christian List 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.
