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A public talk as part of TCD's Policy Institute series,The Debt Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Controls
Antti Kauppinen, Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin
Thursday 10 May 6.30 - 7.45pm
Swift Theatre, Arts
Building, Trinity
College Dublin
Is the economic crisis the result of a moral crisis? Antti
Kauppinen, will address the surprisingly popular explanation that it is the
greed of bankers, developers, and politicians that accounts for the economic situation.
This will require understanding when pursuit of self-interest becomes greed,
exploring the role of character in explaining behaviour, and asking how
institutional arrangements can promote virtue, or at least discourage vice.
Antti Kauppinen is a lecturer in the Philosophy Department
in Trinity College Dublin. His research interests in ethics and political
philosophy include philosophical moral psychology, metaethics, well–being, and
the foundations of human rights.
This lecture is open to the public and there is no charge to
attend. However, advance registration is recommended. To register please
contact Helen Murray - policy.institute@tcd.ie
To mark 300 years since Rousseau's birth UCD School of Politics and International Relations presents
Darach Sanfey
(University of Limerick, Mary Immaculate College)
'Reckless, scandalous,impious': un drôle de citoyen Rousseau and the prerogatives of citizenship
Thursday 8 March 5pm G 317 Newman Building, Belfield followed by a reception in the UCD Common Room All welcome This event is supported by the Embassy of Switzerland
Ian Carter (Pavia) Are Respect and Toleration Compatible?
4:00-5:30 pm Thursday 8 March 2012
Room 333, School of Political Science & Sociology, Aras Moyola Building, NUI Galway.
Ian Carter is currently a member of the Department of Political and Social Studies at the University of Pavia, where he is currently Associate Professor in Political Philosophy. In 2003, he was a visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.
His current research concerns the idea of equal respect. In particular, it examines the relation between respect and the basis of equality (the problem of specifying in what sense, if any, all persons are equals), the implications of equal respect for distributive justice, and the role of respect in interpreting the principles of equal opportunity and equal freedom.
We wish to acknowledge the generous support for this seminar from the Social Sciences Research Centre (SSRC), NUI Galway and from the School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway.
