Archives for HOOVER
CHAIRE HOOVER Louvain-La-Neuve
21 mars 2023
Mich "What is wrong with the ‘Maximum Available...
Mardi intime de la Chaire Hoover par Kevin Hartmann
To what extent the Maximum Available Resources (MAR) clause is committed with equality? Since the enactment of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, States are obliged to devote the maximum available resources...
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16 mars 2023
Climate Ethics Workshop #1 / BIP #17 Climate Justice:...
14:00 - 14:05 Opening remarks
14:05 - 14:15 General introduction to the project by Adrian Blau.
14:15 - 14 55 One Concept of Distributive Fairness: Fairness as Equity. (Pierre André)
15:55 - 15:35: Defending (Some) Thought Experiments. (Catarina Neves)
15:35 - 15:50:...
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14 mars 2023
Mich "Post-Truth Politics and the Rise of Bullshit"
Mardi intime de la Chaire Hoover par Adrian Blau (King's College London)
Many writers have claimed that we live in an era of post-truth politics. I argue that ‘post-truth’ politics is better understood in terms of irrationality. I expand Habermas’s account of communicative rationality,...
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08 mars 2023
"Post Darwinian Societies Seminar" #8
Epictetusian Rationality and Evolutionary Stability
Grégory Ponthière
An economic interpretation of Epictetus's precept of 'Taking away aversion from all things not in our power' consists of extending the domain of indifference beyond its boundaries under non-ethical preferences, so as to...
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07 mars 2023
Mich "When is spreading conspiracy theories wrong and why?"
Mardi intime de la Chaire Hoover par Levon Babajanyan (Yerevan State University, Armenia)
Over the last decades, the ethical acceptability of the spread of conspiracy theorizing is getting more and more interest. The scholars consider normative arguments of silencing conspiracy theories...
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