Nietzsche's Hunger Games name

I came up with "Helmapfel B. Gehenpetra"

source: here

Jessie Payson at IASH

March 28, 2012

Jessica Payson, Graduate Fellow, Philosophy

IASH Fellows’ Speaker Series:  “Structural Justice and the Objects of Responsibility”

Structural injustice presents unique problems for determining what individuals can be said to carry responsible for.  In the most straightforward applications of a causal responsibility model, what individuals are responsible for can be determined by calculating deviations from a given baseline.  An individual who causes a certain amount of harm is thought to owe that much in return.  In a role-based responsibility model, the content of individuals’ responsibilities can be specified by reference to the tasks and expectations associated with the role.  An individual’s responsibility is determined by reference to her position in a structure, and the content of the responsibility is typically meant to perpetuate this structural framework.  Both causal and role-based models of responsibility suggest that the meaning of individuals’ responsibilities is self-contained: what an individual is responsible for can be explained only in reference to the individual’s own doings or positioning, as measured against either a stable baseline or given structural framework.  Efforts towards structural justice, in contrast, aim to question and amend such background structures.  Additionally, changes to this background are not brought about by individuals acting discretely, but instead by individuals acting together.  The meaning of individual responsibilities is not entirely self-contained, but instead is explicable only through reference to what others are doing to collectively intervene in structural functioning.  The topic of this paper is to explain the content of individual responsibilities in this context.  If an individual, despite her limited causal effects, can do something meaningful towards justice, what is the “something” that can appropriately be said to carry value?  How does an individual contribution become meaningful?

12:00pm, IASH Conference Room (LN 1106)

another Indiana University Press sale

50% off, etc.

here's the link

open SPEL meeting tomorrow

usual time, usual place.

agenda still open as of right now

some kind of dessert

from the Times' Whit Stillman profile:

“I detest Parfit,” said Echikunwoke, with bred-in-the-bone conviction.

“I agree,” Gerwig replied.

“Cut!”

“What is Parfit?” Smith asked. “Some kind of dessert?”

Nobody, including the actors, had any idea what Parfit was. Or to put it properly, who Parfit was, for Parfit was not a dessert but the renowned ethicist and philosopher Derek Parfit, white-haired author of “Reasons and Persons,” whose vogue among academics Stillman found irksome.

“You want to do one more?” Smith said after a few takes.

“Sure.”

Persons unsure of their reasons fired a final volley at poor Parfit.

yeah Saba!

going to Illinois!

yeah Fuat!

going to Maryland