Author: Erica Fung
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Nietzsche on Creating Values
Date: December 10, 2025 (Wed) Time:15:30 – 17:30 Venue: Room 4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Speaker: Professor Brian Leiter Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence Director, Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values, University of Chicago Abstract: Nietzsche claims in Beyond Good and Evil (sec. 211) that “philosophical laborers” (even “nobles” ones like…
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Prof James Joyce’s Paper Workshop – Causal Decision Theory for Unratifiable Actions
Date: November 17, 2025 (Mon) Time:15:00 – 17:00 Venue: Room 4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Speaker: Professor James Joyce C. H. Langford Collegiate Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan Commenters: Professor Jiji Zhang (The Chinese University of HK) Professor Boris Babic (Hong Kong University) Professor Simon Goldstein (Hong Kong University) Professor…
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Can Learning Truths Make your Beliefs Less Accurate?
Date: November 14, 2025 (Fri) Time:15:30 – 17:00 Venue: MB142, 1/F, Main Building, HKU Speaker: Professor James Joyce C. H. Langford Collegiate Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan Abstract: After introducing the notion of credal accuracy, and explaining why formal epistemologists use strictly proper scoring rules to measure it, I will introduce some well-known accuracy…
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Is Exploitation a Relational Wrong?
Date: November 28, 2025 (Fri) Time:15:30 – 17:00 Venue: Room 10.13, 10/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Speaker: Professor Brian Berkey Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Abstract: On many accounts of wrongful exploitation, it would appear that exploitation should be understood as a relational wrong, in the sense that…