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HT15 Leverhulme Lecture (1/3)

27th Feb 2015 1:00pm-3:00pm

Speaker: Professor Neil Levy
Venue: Lecture Theatre, Oxford Martin School, Oxford OX1 3BD

Week 6: Friday 27 March, 1-3pm

Lecture One: Self-Control: A problem of self-management

In this lecture I argue that self-control problems typical arise from conflicts between smaller sooner and larger later rewards. I suggest that we often fail successfully to navigate these problems because of our commitment to a conception of ourselves as rational agents who answer questions about ourselves by looking to the world. Despite the attractions of this conception, I argue that it undermines efforts at self-control and thereby our capacity to pursue the ends we value. I suggest we think of self-control as a problem of self-management, whereby we manipulate ourselves.

Bio: Associate Professor Neil Levy is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, currently based at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne. Prior to taking up this position, he was Principal Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne, and Director of Research at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, Oxford. From 2015, he will be Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney. He is a wide ranging philosopher, who has published extensively on many topics including free will and moral responsibility, philosophy of mind and psychology and applied ethics. He is the author of Neuroethics (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Hard Luck (Oxford University Press, 2011), and Consciousness and Moral Responsibility (Oxford University Press. 2014), among other books.

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Please book for each lecture separately online. IMPORTANT: Please bring a print out of your booking confirmation with you to the event. If you are no longer able to attend, please cancel your place (either by emailing rachel.gaminiratne@philosophy.ox.ac.uk or by accessing your online booking).

Week 7: Tuesday 3 March, 3.30-5.30pm

Lecture Two: The Science of Self-Control

Week 7: Friday 6 March, 3.30-5.30pm

Lecture Three: Marshmallows and Moderation

We gratefully acknowledge the support of The Leverhulme Trust for their funding of Associate Professor Levy's Visiting Professorship.