Wagga Philosophy Seminar, Tuesday June 16th, 4.15pm: Douglas Portmore

[Cohen, Daniel]

Tuesday, June 16, 4.15 pm (NOTE UNUSUAL TIME)

Douglas Portmore (Arizona State University)

Title: Performance Entailment

Abstract: Sometimes the performance of one option entails the performance of another. For instance, kissing my wife passionately entails kissing her. Given this, it seems that a theory of morality (or rationality) should tell us how the permissibility of the one relates to the permissibility of the other (assuming, that is, that the two are permissible), or tell us that there is no relation between the two. So one possibility is that it is permissible for me to kiss my wife because it is permissible for me to kiss her passionately, and it is permissible for me to kiss her passionately because kissing her passionately has some feature F (e.g., maximizes utility). A second possibility is that it is permissible for me to kiss my wife passionately because it is permissible for me to kiss her, and it is permissible for me to kiss her because kissing her has feature F. And a third possibility is that the two are unrelated: it is permissible for me to kiss her passionately because kissing her passionately has feature F, and it is permissible for me to kiss her because kissing her has feature F. I argue that we should accept the first possibility, and I explain the implications for theories of morality and rationality.

Location: Room 212, Marchant Hall, CSU Wagga Wagga.

Also available by videolink at our Canberra campus: Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CSU), Level 1, 10-12 Brisbane Avenue, Barton 2600. (Take the lift to level 1 and ring the doorbell at the door to your right).

For further information about Wagga philosophy seminars, see: waggaphilosophy.com<http://waggaphilosophy.com>

Daniel Cohen
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy | School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Charles Sturt University
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Wagga Wagga, 2678
Australia
Tel: +61 2 6933 2565
Email: dco...@csu.edu.au<mailto:dco...@csu.edu.au>

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