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Title: Claire Benn, "Ethics must be seen to be done: Signalling and moral
ambiguity"
Zoom link: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/82621166975*In-person in the
seminar room and simulcast via Zoom*Title: Ethics must be seen to be
done: Signalling and moral ambiguityEthicists have already begun to grapple
with the question of how our own ignorance and uncertainty affects what we
ought to do. I reveal the extent to which an agent must also be responsive
to the uncertainty and mistaken beliefs of others. Drawing on
Signalling Theory from economics and biology and extending it to the moral
domain, I show that an information asymmetry can exist between an agent and
an observer resulting in the agent’s actions being ‘morally ambiguous’:
even the actions of a conscientious moral agent can look impermissible from
an observer’s point of view. This paper provides a systematic exploration
of some of the ethical dimensions of such information asymmetries: how
moral ambiguity is morally consequential and thus, in turn, how normative
signalling is a matter of moral responsibility. Highlighting the
informational value of ethical action, I demonstrate that, like justice,
ethics must be seen to be done.
When: Wed 6 Apr 2022 15:30 – 17:00 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney
Where: Philosophy Seminar Room
Calendar: Seminars
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