Nature and Culture Reading Group Lent 2016
This term's reading group will focus on the topic of evolution and ethics, including evolutionary debunking arguments, evolution and teleological ethics, environmental ethics and the ethics of human enhancement. Meetings take place on Tuesdays 1-2pm, in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane, CB2 3RH. All are welcome to our events. In addition to philosophers and historians of science, we also hope to attract researchers from the biological sciences, psychology, and all branches of archaeology and anthropology. For details of the specific readings please see http://www.humannature.hps.cam.ac.uk/ReadingGroup <http://www.humannature.hps.cam.ac.uk/ReadingGroup>. If you have any trouble finding the readings please email [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. 19 January Street, S., 2006, “A Darwinian Dilemma for Realist Theories of Value”, Philosophical Studies 127: 109-166. Introduced by Tim Lewens 26 January Copp, D., 2008, “Darwinian Skepticism about Moral Realism,” Philosophical Issues 18: 186–206; Mogensen, A., forthcoming, "Do evolutionary debunking arguments rest on a mistake about evolutionary explanations?” Philosophical Studies. Introduced by Adrian Boutel 2 February Foot, P., 2001, Natural Goodness, ch.2 “Natural Norms”, ch.3 “The Transition to Human Beings” and ch. 5, “Human Goodness”. Introduced by Christopher Clarke 9 February Fitzpatrick, W. Teleology and the Norms of Nature, ch. 6 “Welfare and Natural Teleology”; Lott, M., 2012, "Have Elephant Seals Refuted Aristotle? Nature, Function, and Moral Goodness” Journal of Moral Philosophy 9: 1-23. 16 February Chubb, I., 2010, “The Role of Humility and Intrinsic Goods in Preserving Endangered Species”, Environmental Ethics 32: 165-182. 23 February Nolt, J., 2006, "The Move from Good to Ought in Environmental Ethics", Environmental Ethics 28 (4):355-374 (2006). 1 March Harris, J., 2009, “Enhancements are a Moral Obligation” and Juengst, E., 2009, “What’s Taxonomy Got to Do With It? Human Rights, Species Integrity and Science Policy” in Savulescu, J. and Bostrom, N. eds., “Human Enhancement”. 8 March Groll, D. and Lott, M., 2015, "Is There a Role for ‘Human Nature’ in Debates About Human Enhancement?”, Philosophy 90: 623-651. _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
