Category Archives: Perspectives on Ethics
Joe Halpern, Moral Responsibility, Blameworthiness, and Intention: In Search of Formal Definitions
CANCELLED: Seminar Talk – Monday, Jan 26
In the new year…
William E. Scheuerman
Indiana University, Bloomington
Edward Snowden’s Lessons: Against the Anti-Legal Turn in Theories of Civil Disobedience
Monday, January 19
4-6 pm
Room 200, Larkin Building
15 Devonshire Place
Hirose’s Seminar Talk Cancelled
Please note that Iwao Hirose’s Seminar Talk scheduled for Monday, November 24th, has been cancelled.
CANCELLED – The Value of Statistical Life
Monday, November 24
4:00 – 6:00 pm
Room 200, Larkin Building
15 Devonshire Place
Iwao Hirose, McGill University
David Estlund Seminar Talk
The Puzzle of Plural Obligation
David Estlund
Department of Philosophy
Brown University
Monday, November 10
4 – 6 pm
Room 200, Larkin Building
15 Devonshire Place
Eric Nelson Seminar Talk
The Bargain Basis:
Rawls, Anti-Pelagianism and Moral Arbitrariness
Monday, November 3
4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Room 200, Larkin Building
15 Devonshire Place
Rajeev Bhargava @ the Centre for Ethics
Forms of Restraint and Religious Coexistence in Ancient Indian Political Thought
Monday, October 27, 2014
4:00 – 6:00 pm
Room 200, Larkin Building
15 Devonshire Place
This event is co-sponsored by the
Centre for South Asian Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
Next Seminar Talk
Mon, Jan 13, 2014
Seminar Talk, Ethics and the Public Interest
Democracy without the Consent of the Governed
Arthur Applbaum 
Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values
Professor of Ethics and Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Room 200, Larkin Building
15 Devonshire Place
Rights Forfeiture and Procedural Rights
Christopher Heath Wellman
Department of Philosophy
Washington University in St. Louis
Monday, Feb 25, 2013
3:00 – 5:00 pm
Room 200, Larkin Building
Abstract
In this paper I defend the stark thesis that, absent special circumstances, there are no judicial procedural rights. I first argue that there is no general moral right against double jeopardy. Next I explain why punishing a criminal without first establishing her guilt via a fair trial does not necessarily violate her rights. And finally, after responding to a number of possible objections, I consider the implications of my arguments for the human right to due process.
Immigration, Jurisdiction and Exclusion
Michael Blake
Professor of Philosophy & Public Affairs
University of Washington
Monday, November 26, 2012
3:00 – 5:00 pm
Room 200, 15 Devonshire Place
Background reading: Carens — Aliens and Citizens, Blake — Immigration