Limits of Duty
| Created: | 2013-06-21 15:01 |
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| Institution: | Faculty of Philosophy |
| Description: | Talks recorded at the Limits of Duty workshop at Newnham College Cambridge on 14th June 2013. The purpose of the workshop is primarily to foster engagement with issues of supererogation, (over) demandingness, and the value and foundation of duty, and other issues surrounding the limits of duty broadly construed. (Photograph copyright Ad Meskens) |
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The nature of duty and its limits
Keynote paper given by David Owens (University of Reading). On one influential theory of promising, promising involves the transfer of a right to determine whether you do...
Collection: Limits of Duty
Institution: Faculty of Philosophy
Created: Fri 21 Jun 2013
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? Specifying the Limits of the Robustness of Associative Duties across Change
Paper given by Robbie Arrell (Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne). Special relationships generate associative duties that exhibit robustness...
Collection: Limits of Duty
Institution: Faculty of Philosophy
Created: Fri 21 Jun 2013
Supererogatory Spandrels
Paper given by Claire Benn (University of Cambridge) cmab3@cam.ac.uk cambridge.academia.edu/ClaireBenn. The ‘good-ought tie-up’, a thesis that denies that there can be any...
Collection: Limits of Duty
Institution: Faculty of Philosophy
Created: Fri 21 Jun 2013
Demandingness objections in ethics
Paper given by Brian McElwee (University of St. Andrews). Moral theories are frequently rejected on the basis that they are too demanding. I aim to establish what structure...
Collection: Limits of Duty
Institution: Faculty of Philosophy
Created: Fri 21 Jun 2013
Kant’s moral theory and demandingness
Paper given by Alice Pinheiro Walla (Trinity College, Dublin). This paper addresses problems arising from Kant’s distinction between perfect and imperfect duties. Firstly, I...
Collection: Limits of Duty
Institution: Faculty of Philosophy
Created: Fri 21 Jun 2013