39th Annual Francis W. Gramlich Memorial Lecture
39th Annual Francis W. Gramlich Memorial Lecture - Sally Haslanger, Professor of Philosophy, MIT
Location
Filene Auditorium
Sponsored by
Philosophy Department
Audience
Public
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Marcia Welsh, Administrative Assistant
603-646-8172
- Title: "Ideology, Moral Theory, and Social Change"
- Abstract: Human beings are agents able to make choices and govern their own lives. Recognizing this is important for moral evaluation of our actions. There is a temptation, then, to explain patterns of inequality in terms of individual choice. Those who are disadvantaged have made poor - possibly even irrational - choices. This common strategy of explanation, however, fails to identify how social structures both constrain and enable our choices, and how unjust structures perpetuate injustice. Can we develop an account of action that both grants individual agency and moral responsibility, but also locates action within structures that perpetuate injustice in spite of our best intentions? How do structures get a grip on us, and how do we change them?
- Free & Open to the Public
- Reception to follow
Philosophy Department events webpage
Sally Haslanger's webpage
Location
Filene Auditorium
Sponsored by
Philosophy Department
Audience
Public
More information
Marcia Welsh, Administrative Assistant
603-646-8172
