Food is often produced, distributed, and consumed in families. What does this imply for food justice and for justice in, of and for the family? Current debates over the family – over parental authority, children’s upbringing, the right to procreate, the reproduction of injustice, and so on – tend to neglect the special place of […]
Restrictive public health policies limit individual freedoms in the pursuit of collective health goods. According to a widely endorsed principle of “least restrictive alternative”, only the lowest level of restrictiveness necessary to achieve a public health goal is justified. However, the same restrictions affect different people differently, and the same good benefits different people differently. Arguably, what […]
Join us for a day of talks exploring how engaged methodologies promote inclusive research and teaching. Schedule: 11.00am: Welcome 11.15–12.30: Albert Atkin: Visibility as Epistemic Exploitation 12.30–13.30: Lunch 13.30 – 14.45: Tareeq Jalloh: Against Restricting Rappers’ Freedoms 14.50 – 16.05: Megan Blomfield: Epistemic Injustice and Asylum Claims 16.05 – 16.30: tea break 16.30 – 17.45: Suki Finn: Strategically Engaged Social Kinds […]
Much of our memories, narratives, and knowledge are social in character: collectively generated and interdependent. To a large extent, the philosophical discourses on these issues – questions of how we ‘think together’ – have been conducted separately. Thinking together: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Collective Memory & Collective Knowledge attempts to bring these discourses into dialogue and, what is […]
NOVA Institute of Philosophy (Research project “Present Democracy for Future Generations”, PTDC/FER-FIL/6088/2020) CONVENORS Malte Jauch (University of Essex) & André Santos Campos (NOVA University Lisbon) ORGANISATION University of Essex IFILNOVA – NOVA Institute of Philosophy (Research project “Present Democracy for Future Generations”, PTDC/FER-FIL/6088/2020) The Society for Applied Philosophy Programme 9h30 – 10h30 Nicola Mulkeen (University of Newcastle) AI, […]
June 16th – 17th, St. John’s College, University of Cambridge Lightfoot Room, Old Divinity School Programme
Annual Lecture 2023: Planning and its function in our lives Professor Michael E Bratman (Stanford University). The lecture will take place at 4.00 ‑5.30pm (BST) on Thursday 14 September. The Lecture will take place in the Nash Lecture Theatre, King’s College, London N.B. attendees are required to register in advance. Attendees please arrive before 4pm, at which […]
Place and location: 16th to 19th of August, 2023, Stockholm University Campus Albano Conference theme: Social ontology and the social sciences Confirmed keynote speakers: Michael E. Bratman, Stanford University Katharine Jenkins, University of Glasgow Muhammad Ali Khalidi, City University of New York Emma Tieffenbach, University of Geneva Vanessa Wills, The George Washington University Panel on […]
One of the key reasons to develop, implement and provide access to assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) is that they enable users to have offspring to whom they are genetically related. The moral standing and the political significance of the desire to have genetically related offspring, and of enabling access to ARTs to fulfil it, has […]
This workshop focuses on the ethics of interaction with digital technologies, and in particular on the use of so-called persuasive technologies, which include recommender systems, bottom-less news feeds, and micro-targeted advertising. These technologies have in common that they exert forms of a‑rational, manipulative, or nudging-related influences on human users. To explore the ethics of persuasive […]