Center for Law and Philosophy

FALL 2021

Colloquium 2021

Professors Liam Murphy and Samuel Scheffler

September 2nd
Kim Ferzan, University of Pennsylvania, Law

Rethinking Credit for Time Served

September 9th
Liam Murphy, NYU

International Responsibility for Global Environment Harm: Collective and Individual

September 17th ( Friday 2.00-5.00)
Moshe Halbertal, NYU

On Being Human

September 23rd
Jeff McMahan, Oxford

"It Might Have Been!": What Matters in Alternative Possible Lives

September 30th
Emma Kaufman, NYU Law

Territoriality in American Criminal Law

October 7th
Rick Pildes, NYU Law

Political Fragmentation in Democracies of the West

October 14th
Samuel Scheffler, NYU

The Lives We Lead
Lecture 1 - Against Temporal Neutrality : The Significance of Future Bias
Lecture 2 - Against Personal Neutrality: The Significance of Partiality

October 21st
Steve Darwall, Yale, Philosophy

Why Obligations Can' Be Relational (Bipolar) All The Way Down

Below are two papers that might provide useful background:

Bipolar Obligation
and
What Are Moral Reasons?

October 28th
Chris Kutz, University of California, Berkeley, Law

The Improvisational Public

November 4th
Anthony Appiah, NYU

Pandemic Lessons: The Philosophy of Work and the Modularity of Professional Ethics

November 11th
Johann Frick, University of California, Berkeley, Philosophy

Dilemmas, Luck, and the Two Faces of Morality

November 18th
Teresa Bejan, Oxford

Peers and Equals

December 2nd
Ruth Chang, Oxford

Are Hard Cases Vague Cases?