You are welcome to attend this hybrid seminar in-person at St Cross College or online (Zoom). See registration details below.
Title
Dimensions of valuation: Contrasting moral expansiveness and moral capacity
Abstract
Scholars who seek to understand how individuals differ in their scope of moral regard have typically focused on variations in the total number of entities that are ascribed moral standing. However, this focus leaves important questions unanswered about the nature of people's moral capacity. For example, two people may be equally morally expansive but differ substantially in the degree to which they value strangers over animals. More generally, recent research suggests that people may treat moral concern as a finite, zero-sum resource, such that expanding moral concern to additional entities entails a dilution of moral concern in other spheres. This talk will review the existing evidence for a "capacity-based" dimension of moral concern and demonstrate how it contrasts with a dimension of moral expansiveness.
Speaker
Dr Josh Rottman (Franklin & Marshall College). Josh Rottman is currently on sabbatical from Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania, where he is an Associate Professor of Psychology. Josh’s interdisciplinary research investigates the cognitive science of moral boundaries, primarily through experimental studies with children and adults. Josh's work spans issues related to the heterogeneity of the moral domain, intergroup bias, environmentalism, purity and disgust, and the role of testimony in shaping moral beliefs. More information is available at joshuarottman.com
Registration
In-person registration: The seminar will be held in the St Cross Room, St Cross College (61 St Giles’, Oxford). Registration required – register here https://bookwhen.com/uehiro/e/ev-srfj-20221020173000
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Zoom registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_K-Fd6rnaT-unSi5h--22qQ
Links
Watch on YouTube - to follow
MP3 audio file - to follow
Transcript file - to follow
Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities
About the Seminar Series
The New St Cross Special Ethics Seminars are jointly arranged by the Oxford Uehiro Centre and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities.
