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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#212121">UPDATE: Due to restoration work taking place in the Quadrangle, there may be some difficulty accessing the Philosophy Seminar Room. The room is still accessible. You may just need to persist to find a way
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<span style="color:#212121">Today, Friday, the 11<sup>th</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of July, we have a special Anderson Seminar as part of the University of Sydney Philosophy Seminar Series. The speaker is Niko Kolodny (UC Berkeley). The
title of Niko’s talk is “Two Concepts of Consent”. Here is the abstract for the talk:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">When you consent, in the sense in which I’m interested, to my X-ing—say, my performing surgery on you—you make it the case that I no longer owe you a “negative” duty not to X. And when you consent to my not X-ing—say, my not aiding
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<span style="color:#212121">This phenomenon raises three questions. First, there is the question of “how consent works.” Why does your consenting to my X-ing, or to my not X-ing, make it the case that I no longer owe you a negative duty not to X, or a positive
duty to X? Second, there is the question of “what consent is.” What must take place for you to have made it the case that I no longer owe you a negative duty not to X, or a positive duty to X, because of your consent? Third, there is the question of “what
the conditions are.” What other conditions must be satisfied, and why must they be satisfied, in order for it to be the case that because you have consented, I do not wrong you by X-ing or by failing to X? This paper sketches answers to these three questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">Negatively, my answers run counter to certain widely held views, which are often what is in mind when consent is said to be the exercise of what Joseph Raz called a “normative power”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">Positively, I suggest that consent works in two ways. First, your “vacating” consent to my X-ing makes it the case that I no longer owe you a duty not to X by making it the case that my X-ing no longer sets back the interest that
gave rise to the duty. Second, your “non-vacating” consent to my X-ing makes it the case that I no longer owe you a duty to not to X without making it the case that my X-ing no longer sets back the interest that underlies the duty, while leaving that interest
in place. These two answers to the question of how consent works suggest two different accounts of what consent is. And these two answers to the question of how consent works help to specify and explain what the conditions are.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">The seminar will take place between<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>3:00pm and 4:30pm</b>, Friday the 11<sup>th</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of July in the Philosophy Seminar Room N494 in the Quadrangle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">Any questions about the seminar can be directed to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:ryan.cox@sydney.edu.au" title="mailto:ryan.cox@sydney.edu.au"><span style="color:#96607D">ryan.cox@sydney.edu.au</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Ryan Cox<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Associate Lecturer in Philosophy</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Discipline of Philosophy</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">School of Humanities</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">University of Sydney</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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