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The JDG will be hosting two Junior Scholar seminars to complement our JDG events each term. These seminars will focus on work by members of our community, who are either close to completion of their D.Phil or who have completed their D.Phil recently.
Andreas Vassiliou completed his D.Phil in Law in 2023, and will be presenting the second Junior Scholar paper of this Michaelmas Term: "Weight Monism and Supererogation".
Weight pluralism holds that there are more than one dimension of normative weight. A central motivation for this emerging view is that weight monism, according to which normative reasons have a single weight dimension, is held unable to explain two puzzling phenomena associated with supererogation: our latitude in choosing whether to perform supererogatory actions despite variations in their relative choiceworthiness and the superiority of these actions despite their optionality. This article argues that weight monism has the resources to provide an extensionally adequate account of both phenomena, rendering the admission of new weight dimensions for this purpose otiose.
This seminar will take place in Russell Room, at Balliol College, University of Oxford (Broad St, Oxford OX1 3BJ) at 5pm on Thursday 13 November.
This event is open to anyone. No registration needed.
Pre-reading is desirable and strongly suggested, but not a requirement to attend.
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