This seminar is open to graduate students, supervisors, master students, and other researchers at the department (if they contact the organizer in advance).
Organizer: Gunnar Björnsson
Spring 2020
8 May: Conrad Bakka, "Can Third-Factor Explanations Block Debunking Arguments?", Comments: Stina Björkholm
20 March, online only: Conrad Bakka, "How Do Debunking Arguments Debunk?", Comments: Simon Knutsson
13 March: Stina Björkholm, "Hybrid theories and dual meaning", Comments: Conrad Bakka
26 February, 10.15–12.00: Simon Knutsson, "Thinking comparatively", Comments: Thomas Schmidt (HU Berlin)
Autumn 2019
4 October: D734, Conrad Bakka (w. Jonathan Egeland Harouny), "The Structure of Debunking Arguments: Explanatory Concession is Not Enough", Comments: Stina Björkholm
18 October: D793, Nils Sylvan (aka Nils Säfström), "The Basicalist Solution to the Partiality Problem for the Fitting Attitude Account of Value", Comments: Francesca Bunkenborg
1 November: D734, Francesca Bunkenborg, "Moral encroachment of moral belief", Comments: Conrad Bakka
29 November: D734, Shu Ishida, "What makes discrimination morally wrong? Harm-based views revisited", Comments: Romy Eskens
6 December: D734, Stina Björkholm, "Hybrid views about semantic meaning and the Frege-Geach problem", Comments: Simon Knutsson; Romy Eskens, "What generates the obligation to continue aid?", Comments: Robert J. Hartman
16 December: D734, Zak Kopeikin (PhD Candidate, University of Colorado Boulder), "Diana’s dress and Lincoln’s pen- A Confusion in Ontology", Comments: Andrea Asker
Spring 2019
15 February: Nils Säfström, "The Partiality Problem for the Fitting Attitude Account of Value", commentator: Romy Eskens
15 March: Simon Knutsson, "Many-valued logic as a reply to sequence arguments", commentator: Daniel Ramöller
22 March: Romy Eskens, "Whom to Save When Supererogatory Rescue Attempts Fail?", commentator: Lisa Hecht
Cancelled! 5 April: Nils Säfström, commentator: TBD
12 April: Stina Björkholm, commentator: Conrad Bakka
3 May: Nils Säfström, commentator: Romy Eskens
10 May: Conrad Bakka, comentator: Nils Säfström
Autumn 2018
21 September: Conrad Bakka, "Error Theory, Hypothetical Reasons and Instrumental Rationality", commentator: Andreas Mogensen (Oxford)
5 October: Mats Ingelström, "Evidence for Well-Being", commentator: Simon Knutsson
12 October: Nils Säfström, "The Partiality Problem for the Fitting Attitude Account of Value", commentator: Jimmy Goodrich
9 November: Mats Ingelström, "What Subjective Well-Being is", commentator: Daniel Ramöller
16 November: Stina Björkholm, "Moral Certitude for Quasi-Realists", commentator: Nils Säfström
7 December: Jimmy Goodrich, TBA, commentator: Stina Björkholm
Spring 2018
June 1: Mats Ingelström, Review of Anna Alexandrova's book, commentator Nils Säfström
May 25: Stina Björkholm, "How to Tell a Quasi-Realist from a Realist", commentator: Jimmy Goodrich
May 4: Nils Säfström, "The Partiality Problem for the Fitting Attitude
Account of Value", commentator: Stina Björkholm
April 27: Antonin Broi, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV): "The measurability objection against utilitarianism", commentator: Mats Ingelström
March 23: Simon Knutsson, "Meta-formal value theory", commentator: Bart Streumer
February 2: Daniel Ramöller, "A general map of complaint views on aggregation", commentator: Simon Knutsson
January 19: Lisa Hecht, "Rights Forfeiture Unconstrained", commentator: Nils Säfström
Autumn 2017
December 8: Mats Ingelström, "Science, Well-Being & Social Progress", commentator: Lisa Hecht
November 24: Conrad Bakka, '"No Possibility of Being Wrong"', commentator: Stina Björkholm
November 17: Daniel Ramöller, 'Impartiality as incommensurability', commentator: Mats Ingelström
November 3: Nils Säfström, 'The Normative Response Aproach to value', commentator: Jimmy Goodrich
October 27: Daniel Ramöller, 'On the Holy Grail of Aggregation', commentator: Simon Knutsson
October 20: Lisa Hecht, 'Repairing Justified Harm to the Innocent', commentator: Jimmy Goodrich
September 15: Jimmy Goodrich, 'Harming mere members', commentator: Lisa Hecht
Spring 2017
February 7 Lisa Hecht: 'Provocateurs and Their Rights to Self-Defence’. Commentator: Mats Ingelström.
April 4 Matteo Cresti (Turin, visiting SU): 'Mapping the Relationship between Metaethics and Normative Ethics'. Commentator: Conrad Bakka.
April 11 Daniel Ramöller: 'A Welfarist Reply to Nozick's Wilt Chamberlain Argument'. Commentator: Mats Ingelström.
May 2 Nils Säfström: 'Betterness, Fitting Attitudes, and the Partiality Problem'. Commentator: Conrad Bakka.
May 23 Conrad Bakka: 'The Epistemic Challenge for Normative Realism'.
Autumn 2016
September 27 Lisa Hecht: 'Creating and Avoiding Risk to Oneself: An Argument to Discount Disproportionate Harm to Wrongdoers?'. Commentator: Conrad Bakka.
October 4 Nils Säfström: 'The Right and the Good... and the Fitting' (presentation of dissertation project).
October 18 Daniel Ramöller: 'Scanlon's Contractualism and Egalitarian Restrictions'. Commentator: Tim Campbell (IFS).
November 29 Mats Ingelström: 'A Dilemma for Subjective Well-Being Measurement'. Commentator: Daniel Ramöller.
