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CANCELLED – An Ethics of Attention. Daniel Stephens (U Buffalo) 5:30 pm
CANCELLED – An Ethics of Attention. Daniel Stephens (U Buffalo) @ Philosophy Hall 716
May 3 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
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CANCELLED – RESCHEDULED FOR NEXT SEMESTER ABSTRACT: Spurred partly by recent attempts to ethically assess various negative effects of the attention economy, philosophers have begun to pay more attention to the role that attention plays in our ethical lives. This has included some more general discussion of the ethics of attention. In this talk, I add to this recent discussion by outlining a proposal for a comprehensive ethics of attention. On my proposal, an ethics of[...]
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Cryptocurrency: Commodity or Credit? Asya Passinsky (Central European University) 12:00 pm
Cryptocurrency: Commodity or Credit? Asya Passinsky (Central European University) @ ZOOM
May 29 @ 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm
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Zoom link To this day, many theorists regard the commodity theory and the credit theory as the two main rival accounts of the nature of money. Yet cryptocurrency has revolutionized the institution of money in ways that most commodity and credit theorists could hardly have anticipated. Assuming that cryptocurrency is a new form of money, the question arises whether the commodity and credit theories can adequately account for it. This talk argues that they cannot.[...]
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