{"id":452,"date":"2017-06-09T18:53:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T17:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/lecture-on-harm-by-ben-bradley\/"},"modified":"2017-06-09T18:53:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T17:53:46","slug":"lecture-on-harm-by-ben-bradley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/lecture-on-harm-by-ben-bradley\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture on Harm by Ben Bradley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>June 14th<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>15.30h &#8211; 18.00h<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Room: tba<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Lecture on Harm<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>by Ben Bradley<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Injunctions against harming others can be found everywhere.\u00a0 An obvious example is Mill\u2019s \u201cHarm Principle,\u201d which \u201crequires liberty\u2026 of doing as we like, subject to such consequences as may follow: without impediment from our fellow-creatures, so long as what we do does not harm them.\u201d (Mill 1859: 265).\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Principles like Mill\u2019s suggest that there is something especially important about harm, such that we have strong, perhaps overriding reasons both to avoid harming people and to prevent harm from coming to people. [\u2026] [However,] there\u00a0<em>are<\/em>\u00a0significant disagreements about what counts as a harm.\u00a0 So it is incumbent on philosophers to say what harm is (adapted from Ben Bradley \u201cDoing Away with Harm\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>In this lecture, Ben Bradley takes us through the leading analyses of &#8216;harm&#8217; \u2013 such as, among others, the views defended by Thomson, Norcross and Northcott \u2013 and discusses the main problems they face.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Free attendance<\/p>\n<p>All welcome<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 14th 15.30h &#8211; 18.00h Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa Room: tba &nbsp; Lecture on Harm by Ben Bradley &nbsp; Injunctions against harming others can be found everywhere.\u00a0 An obvious example is Mill\u2019s \u201cHarm Principle,\u201d which \u201crequires liberty\u2026 of doing as we like, subject to such consequences as may follow: without impediment from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}