[SydPhil] University of Sydney Philosophy Seminar Series, Supplementary Seminar: Daniel Muñoz

[Ryan Cox]

Hi everyone,

This week we are hosting a Supplementary Seminar to the usual University of Sydney Philosophy Seminar Series. Please note the unusual day and time below. (Also note that the scheduled time of the seminar has changed since the previous announcement).

Our speaker is Daniel Muñoz (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). The title of Daniel’s talk is “Is Self-Wronging Superstitious?”. Here’s the abstract for Daniel’s talk:

Duties to oneself have a distinguished history in moral philosophy. They can also smell a bit fishy. To some extent, the defenders of duties to oneself have cleared the air in recent years by developing solutions to the 'paradox of self-release'. But there remains another, more normative problem. Many classic duties to oneself -- like Kant's prohibition on recreational sex -- depend on a dubious kind of natural teleology. And while modern theories are less priggish, it is not clear that they are any more principled. In this talk, I argue that we can give principled and plausible accounts of a range of classic duties to self, such as the duty to develop one's talents, by basing our theory on the Self-Other Symmetry, the view that we owe the same basic duties to ourselves as to anybody else.

The talk will take place on Friday the 2nd of June at 1:30 p.m. in the Philosophy Seminar Room (N494) in the Quadrangle and will be simulcast via Zoom: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/88699564848.

All welcome!

Enquiries about the seminar series can be directed to ryan.cox at sydney.edu.au<mailto:ryan.cox at sydney.edu.au>

Ryan Cox
Associate Lecturer in Philosophy
Discipline of Philosophy
School of Humanities
University of Sydney
ryan.cox at sydney.edu.au<mailto:ryan.cox at sydney.edu.au>


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