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Limits of Duty

Talks recorded at the Limits of Duty workshop at Newnham College Cambridge on 14th June 2013. The purpose of the workshop is primarily to foster engagement with issues of supererogation, (over) demandingness, and the value and foundation of duty, and other issues surrounding the limits of duty broadly construed. (Photograph copyright Ad Meskens)

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Demandingness objections in ethics from 2013-06-21T17:02:28

Paper given by Brian McElwee (University of St. Andrews). Moral theories are frequently rejected on the basis that they are too demanding. I aim to establish what structure convincing demandingnes...

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Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? Specifying the Limits of the Robustness of Associative Duties across Change from 2013-06-21T16:57:49

Paper given by Robbie Arrell (Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne). Special relationships generate associative duties that exhibit robustness across change. It...

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Supererogatory Spandrels from 2013-06-21T16:43:15

Paper given by Claire Benn (University of Cambridge) cmab3@cam.ac.uk cambridge.academia.edu/ClaireBenn. The‘good-ought tie-up’, a thesis that denies that there can be any actions that are both goo...

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Kant’s moral theory and demandingness from 2013-06-21T15:10:53

Paper given by Alice Pinheiro Walla (Trinity College, Dublin). This paper addresses problems arising from Kant’s distinction between perfect and imperfect duties. Firstly, I discuss the intuition ...

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The nature of duty and its limits from 2013-06-21T15:06:23

Keynote paper given by David Owens (University of Reading). On one influential theory of promising, promising involves the transfer of a right to determine whether you do something. So when I succ...

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