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Actual Causality: A Survey, Joseph Halpern (Cornell)
4:10 pm
Actual Causality: A Survey, Joseph Halpern (Cornell)
@ Faculty House, Columbia U
Dec 7 @ 4:10 pm
What does it mean that an event C “actually caused” event E? The problem of defining actual causation goes beyond mere philosophical speculation. For example, in many legal arguments, it is precisely what needs to be established in order to determine responsibility. (What exactly was the actual cause of the car accident or the medical problem?) The philosophy literature has been struggling with the problem of defining causality since the days of Hume, in the 1700s. Many of the definitions have been couched[...]
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Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology
5:30 pm
Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology
@ Icahn School @Mount Sinai, Annenberg 12-16
Dec 13 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology is a speaker series conducted under the auspices of the Icahn School of Medicine Bioethics Program. It is a working group where speakers are invited to present well-developed, as yet unpublished work. The focus of the group is interdisciplinary, with an emphasis on topics in ethics, bioethics, neuroethics, and moral psychology. The meetings begin with a brief presentation by the invited speaker and the remaining time is devoted[...]
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