Department of the History of Modern 

and Contemporary Philosophy

Faculty of Philosophy
The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

 

Third Lublin Seminar 

Philosophy of Law

 

Stefaan Cuypers, Przemysław Gut, Marcin Iwanicki

20 V – 6 VI 2024

Time: from 4 to 6 p.m. room CP-26

 

 

Week I

 

• Mon Intro & Problematic Responsibility in Law and Morals (Feinberg’s "Doing and Deserving", Chapter 2)
• Tue The Expressive Function of Punishment (Feinberg’s "Doing and Deserving", Chapter 5) 
• Thu The Expressive Function of Punishment (continued) & PF Strawson on punishment (Stefaan Cuyper’s paper)
• Fri "Harmless Immoralities" and Offensive Nuisances (response to Devlin-Hart debate)

 

Week II

 

• Mon "Harmless Immoralities" and Offensive Nuisances
• Tue The Rights of Animals and Unborn Generations
• Wed The Rights of Animals and Unborn Generations (continued)
• Thu (Corpus Christi)
• Fri Sentiment and Sentimentality in Practical Ethics

 

Week III

 

• Mon Sentiment and Sentimentality in Practical Ethics (continued)
• Tue The Moral and Legal Responsibility of the Bad Samaritan
• Wed or Thu The Moral and Legal Responsibility of the Bad Samaritan (continued) & Conclusion

 

Reading texts

 

• Joel Feinberg: Doing and Deserving (ch. 2 and ch. 5)
• Joel Feinberg: "Harmless Immoralities" and Offensive Nuisances
• Joel Feinberg: Sentiment and Sentimentality 
• Joel Feinberg: The Rights of Animals and Unborn Generations 
• Joel Feinberg: The Moral and Legal Responsibility of the Bad Samaritan
• Stefaan Cuypers P.F. Strawson on Punishment and the Hypothesis of Symbolic Retribution 

 

Zainteresowane osoby uczestnictwem w seminarium proszone są o kontakt z prof. Przemysławem Gutem (dedo@kul.pl) celem uzyskania dalszych informacji oraz zgłoszenia swojej chęci uczestnictwa. Warunkiem udziału jest lektura tekstów, które będą omawiane podczas seminarium.