LOCATION CORRECTION: The next meeting of the Moral Sciences Club (Christian List, 31 October, 2.30-4.15 pm) will be in the *Jane Harrison room at Newnham College.* Apologies for the first email, which wrongly stated that the meeting would be in the Barbara White room.
-- 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 On 26 October 2017 at 12:27, Moral Sciences Club <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
