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 es...
Limits of Duty
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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)
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 du...
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 ...
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 imper...
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 dete...