In-Person

MPWG: Margaret Shea (UNC Chapel Hill)

Fri Oct 10, 2025 1:00 p.m.—3:00 p.m.
Detailed view of the beauty and grandeur of one of the clocks of Harkness Tower

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451 College Street
451 College Street New Haven, CT 06511

Location: 451 College St, room B04

Title: Dilemmatic Deliberative Oughts

Abstract:

Sometimes, what you alone ought to do seems to conflict with what you together with another agent ought to do. The prospect of such conflict raises the question whether first-personal plural ‘ought’ judgments of the form ‘You and I together ought to φ’ can be genuinely deliberative. In this talk, I argue that they can be. I then show how this thesis can be reconciled with familiar arguments against the possibility of practical dilemmas.