CSU Wagga Philosophy Seminar, 17 March, Anne Schwenkenbecher

[Cohen, Daniel]

Thursday, 17 March, 5.15pm -7.15pm (NOTE unusual day and time.)

 

Speaker: Anne Schwenkenbecher (Murdoch University)

 

Title: Collective moral action problems and ‘we-reasoning’

 

Abstract: Collective action problems occur where actions that are individually rational lead to suboptimal outcomes for all. Moral philosophy has its own type of collective action problems, which I call collective moral action problems. These are problems where in order to determine what is morally wrong or right we need to focus on sets of actions by two or more agents, rather than isolated individual actions. This may concern the ascription of moral responsibility for outcomes that have been brought about collectively (backward-looking). Or it may concern the question of individual obligations to collaborate towards producing specific outcomes (forward-looking responsibility). In this talk, I will focus on the latter problem. I will discuss whether the notion of ‘we-reasoning’ developed in recent literature on game theory can help us distinguish between problems that give rise to individual obligations and those that give rise to obligations that are genuinely held collectively by agents.

 

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

 

You can also participate in this seminar by videolink from our Canberra location: Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CSU), Level 1, 10-12 Brisbane Avenue, Barton ACT (take the lift to level 1 and ring the doorbell to your right). Parking is available behind the building. To be let in to the car park, stop temporarily in the bay, and call us on 6272 6277 or come up to our offices on level 1.

 

 

Upcoming philosophy seminars at CSU:

 

5 April, Wagga Wagga: Michael Brady (University of Glasgow)

13 April, Canberra: Katerina Hadjimatheou (University of Warwick)

20 April, Canberra: Simon Keller (Victoria University of Wellington)

 

For further details, please see: waggaphilosophy.com

 

 

 

Daniel Cohen
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy | School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Charles Sturt University

Boorooma St

Wagga Wagga, 2678

Australia

Tel: +61 2 6933 2565

Email: dco...@csu.edu.au

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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