Research Seminar in Decision and Action Theory: Jonas Hertel (Oxford)
Location: Ludwigstr. 31, ground floor, Room 021.
10.07.2024 10:00 – 12:00
Title:
Potential and Moral Status
Abstract:
This talk considers various objections to the view that the moral status of individuals depends on their potential, for example, the potential to develop higher cognitive capacities. I argue that these objections have revisionary implications that go far beyond those commonly recognised. Even if we cannot identify the flaws in these objections, it is more plausible that these objections have flaws we cannot identify than that their revisionary implications are true.