HT23 Week 1: Applied Ethics Graduate Discussion Group

20 January 14:30 to 16:30
Littlegate House and Zoom

Convenor: Dr Rebecca Brown

Weeks1, 3, 5 & 7, Fridays 14:30-16:30

Littlegate House

In Person: Oxford Uehiro Centre Seminar Room, Suite 1, first floor, Littlegate House, 16-17 St Ebbes St. OX1 1PT 
Via Zoom: email rocci.wilkinson@philosophy.ox.ac.uk for Zoom links if needed

*part 1 each week will be recorded for students registered on the class. Please inform Becky Brown if you wish your contribution to be edited out.

This session is for all University of Oxford Graduate students whose work has an applied ethics dimension.

Part 1: Dr Gabriel De Marco on Nudges.

Required Reading:

  1. Schmidt and Engelen’s “The Ethics of Nudging: and Overview” in Philosophy Compass, and
  2. Schmidt’s “Getting Real on Rationality – Behavioural Science, Nudging, and Public Policy” in Ethics

Part 2: Student work in Progress

Student Presenting: Chiara Innorta - Are parents being unreasonable? Reasonable disagreement in practice and conflict between parents and doctors

Student Responding: TBC

Email rocci.wilkinson@philosophy.ox.ac.uk  to sign up to the mailing list for this seminar series.