Dear All, The next meeting of the Moral Sciences Club will be held on Tuesday 7th November. We are delighted to welcome Victor Tadros (Warwick), who will be giving a talk entitled 'Killing and Aggregation'. The abstract is below:
This paper assesses the relationship between two facts that are central to the morality of war. The first is that war involves killing many people. We thus need to know the significance of interpersonal aggregation of harm for the morality of killing. Second, many people fighting in war are responsible for posing threats to others, and some are highly culpable. A standard view is that the number of people who are responsible for posing threats to innocents in war, and who will be killed to avert those threats, is significant if their responsibility is not great, but it is not significant if these people are highly culpable. Drawing on issues in the philosophy of free will and responsibility, I criticize this view, arguing that culpability does not have as great significance for liability to be harmed as many think. 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 Victor Tadros 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 <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> _____________________________________________________ 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.
