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		<title>Shah on Mental Agency and Metaethics</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2010/06/18/shah-on-mental-agency-and-metaethics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Nishi Shah (Amherst) recent gave a paper, which he co-wrote with Matt Evans (NYU), at the Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar entitled &#8220;Mental Agency and Metaethics.&#8221; A copy of Nishi&#8217;s talk can be found here. Professor Shah would welcome any comments/suggestions. Here’s an abstract of his talk: Beliefs, desires, and intentions, are the central constituents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas on Practical Reasoning, the First Person, and Impartialism about Reasons</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2010/06/07/thomas-on-practical-reasoning-the-first-person-and-impartialism-about-reasons/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2010/06/07/thomas-on-practical-reasoning-the-first-person-and-impartialism-about-reasons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 03:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Alan Thomas (Tilburg University) will be giving a talk on Monday, June 7, at the Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar entitled &#8220;Practical Reasoning, the First Person and Impartialism about Reasons.&#8221; A copy of Professor Thomas&#8217;s talk can be found here. Professor Thomas would welcome any comments/suggestions. Here’s an abstract of his talk: This paper considers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smilansky on Should We Be Sorry That We Exist?</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2010/02/25/smilansky-on-should-we-be-sorry-that-we-exist/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2010/02/25/smilansky-on-should-we-be-sorry-that-we-exist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Normative Ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Saul Smilansky (University of Haifa) will be giving a talk on Monday, March 1, at the Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar entitled &#8220;Should We Be Sorry that We Exist?&#8221; A copy of Saul&#8217;s talk can be found here. Saul would welcome any comments/suggestions. Here’s an abstract of his talk: We can morally compare possible alternative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raz on The Guise of the Good</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2010/02/06/raz-on-the-guise-of-the-good/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2010/02/06/raz-on-the-guise-of-the-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Joseph Raz (Columbia and Oxford University) will be giving a talk on Monday, Feb. 8, at the Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar entitled &#8216;On the Guise of the Good.&#8217; A copy of Professor Raz&#8217;s talk can be found here. Professor Raz would welcome any comments/suggestions. Here’s an abstract of his talk: I will provisionally take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wedgwood on Instrumental Rationality</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2009/11/16/wedgwood-on-instrumental-rationality/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2009/11/16/wedgwood-on-instrumental-rationality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Ralph Wedgwood (Oxford University) will be giving a talk today at the Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar entitled &#8216;Instrumental Rationality.&#8217; A copy of Ralph’s talk can be found here and a handout for his talk is here. Ralph would welcome any comments/suggestions. Here’s an abstract of his talk: In this essay, I shall identify three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tännsjö on In Defence of Moral Realism</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2009/11/05/tannsjo-on-in-defence-of-moral-realism/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2009/11/05/tannsjo-on-in-defence-of-moral-realism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Torbjörn Tännsjö (Stockholm University) will be giving a talk next Monday at the Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar entitled &#8216;In Defence of Moral Realism.&#8217; A copy of Torbjörn’s talk can be found here and he would welcome any comments/suggestions. Here’s an abstract of his talk: I will present some ideas from a forthcoming book, &#8220;From [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sobel on Parfit on Subjectivism</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2009/06/24/sobel-on-parfit-on-subjectivism/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2009/06/24/sobel-on-parfit-on-subjectivism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor David Sobel (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) gave a talk recently at the Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar on &#8216;Parfit on Subjectivism.&#8217; A copy of the paper can be found here, and he would welcome any comments/suggestions. Here’s an abstract of his talk: Derek Parfit argues that all subjective accounts of normative reasons make wildly implausible claims. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finlay on Metaethical Contextualism Defended</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2009/06/12/finlay-on-metaethical-contextualism-defended/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2009/06/12/finlay-on-metaethical-contextualism-defended/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Stephen Finlay (University of Southern California) gave a talk recently at the Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar on &#8216;Metaethical Contextualism Defended&#8217;, which he co-wrote with Gunnar Björnsson. A copy of the paper can be found here and they would welcome any comments/suggestions. Here’s an abstract of the talk: Epistemic and deontic judgments (involving modals like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enoch on Giving Practical Reasons</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2009/05/25/enoch-on-giving-practical-reasons/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2009/05/25/enoch-on-giving-practical-reasons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 21:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor David Enoch (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) gave a talk today at the Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar on &#8216;Giving Practical Reasons.&#8217; A copy of David’s talk can be found here and he would welcome any comments/suggestions. Here’s an abstract of his talk: I am writing a mediocre paper on a topic you are not particularly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reisner on Abandoning the Buck Passing Analysis of Final Value</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2009/05/11/reisner-on-abandoning-the-buck-passing-analysis-of-final-value/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2009/05/11/reisner-on-abandoning-the-buck-passing-analysis-of-final-value/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 21:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Andrew Reisner from McGill University gave a talk today at the Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar on &#8216;Abandoning the Buck Passing Analysis of Final Value.&#8217; A copy of Andrew’s talk can be found here and he would welcome any comments/suggestions. Here’s an abstract of his talk: In the decade since the buck passing analysis of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bykvist on Objective versus Subjective Moral Oughts</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2009/05/08/bykvist-on-objective-versus-subjective-moral-oughts/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2009/05/08/bykvist-on-objective-versus-subjective-moral-oughts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 15:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Krister Bykvist from Oxford University gave a talk entitled &#8216;Objective verus Subjective Moral Oughts&#8217; this past Monday at the Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar. A copy of Krister&#8217;s talk can be found here and he would welcome any comments/suggestions. Here&#8217;s an abstract of his talk: It is common in normative ethics to abstract away from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Vice of Procrastination</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2009/05/07/the-vice-of-procrastination/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2009/05/07/the-vice-of-procrastination/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 17:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sergio Tenenbaum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Moral Psychology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since it might take a while till I have a version of my contribution to the Moral Philosophy Seminar that is in reasonable shape, I am posting meanwhile a link to a &#8220;companion piece&#8221; to it. The piece is called &#8220;The Vice of Procrastination&#8221; and is forthcoming in a volume on procrastination (the contributors tried [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woollard on Doing, Allowing and Imposing</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2009/01/21/woollard-on-doing-allowing-and-imposing/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2009/01/21/woollard-on-doing-allowing-and-imposing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Fiona Woollard from University of Sheffield gave a talk entitled &#8220;Doing, Allowing and Imposing&#8221; this past Monday at the Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar. Here is an abstract of her talk: The Doctrine of Doing and Allowing states that doing harm is harder to justify than merely allowing harm. I offer a defence of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sayre-McCord on Moral Dilemmas</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2009/01/03/sayre-mccord-on-moral-dilemmas/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2009/01/03/sayre-mccord-on-moral-dilemmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Geoffrey Sayre-McCord from UNC gave a talk entitled &#8220;A Moral Argument Against Moral Dilemmas&#8221; sometime ago at the Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar. Geoff considers whether there are any genuine moral dilemmas and offers a moral argument against them. Here is a paper version of his talk, and he welcomes any comments/suggestions.]]></description>
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		<title>Hare on Obligation and Regret</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2008/11/21/hare-on-obligation-and-regret/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2008/11/21/hare-on-obligation-and-regret/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Caspar Hare from MIT will be giving a talk this Monday at the Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar on &#8220;Obligation and Regret When There is No Fact of the Matter About What Would have Happened If You Had Not Done What You Did.&#8221; Here is an abstract of his talk: This paper is about conditional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lee on Is the Principle of Discrimination a Mere Convention?</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2008/11/06/lee-on-is-the-principle-of-discrimination-a-mere-convention/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2008/11/06/lee-on-is-the-principle-of-discrimination-a-mere-convention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Steven P. Lee, Donald R. Harter ‘39 Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, gave a talk recently at the Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar on “Is the Principle of Discrimination a Mere Convention?&#8221; Here is an abstract of his talk: This paper is a discussion of some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast of David Wiggins on Solidarity</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2008/10/30/podcast-of-david-wiggins-on-solidarity/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2008/10/30/podcast-of-david-wiggins-on-solidarity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor David Wiggins, the Wykeham Professor of Logic, Emeritus, at Oxford University gave a fantastic talk yesterday at the Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar on &#8220;The Solidarity at the Root of the Ethical.&#8221; With his permission, a podcast of his talk can be found here: Download audio file (wiggins1.mp3) UPDATE: Here is a handout to go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saunders on Fairness, Democracy, and Lotteries</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2008/06/03/saunders-on-fairness-democracy-and-lotteries/</link>
		<comments>http://ethics-etc.com/2008/06/03/saunders-on-fairness-democracy-and-lotteries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Saunders at Oxford University gave a talk yesterday at the Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar on “Fairness, Democracy, and Lotteries.” Here is an abstract of his talk: This paper challenges the common assumption that democracy requires majority rule. I assume that we can adopt a contractualist approach to uncover the demands of political equality and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elstein on Is There a Normative Question?</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2008/05/07/elstein-on-is-there-a-normative-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 23:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Elstein from University of Leeds gave a talk recently at the Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar on &#8220;Is there a normative question and if so, how can it be answered?&#8221; Here is an abstract of his talk: A neglected debate in metaethics is between Kantian and Humean expressivists. Kantian expressivists like Korsgaard hold that there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brown on A Life Worth Living</title>
		<link>http://ethics-etc.com/2008/02/27/brown-on-a-life-worth-living/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Matthew Liao</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Normative Ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Campbell Brown from University of Edinburgh gave a talk recently at the Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar on “How to Live a Life Worth Living.” An abstract of his talk is as follows: Although ubiquitous in population ethics, the notion of a “life worth living” resists easy analysis. Intuitively, one wants to say that a [...]]]></description>
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