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Lecture on Harm

Ben Bradley
Syracuse University


14 June 2017, 15:30-18:00
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
Room 4

Abstract: Injunctions against harming others can be found everywhere. An obvious example is Mill’s “Harm Principle,” which “requires liberty… of doing as we like, subject to such consequences as may follow: without impediment from our fellow-creatures, so long as what we do does not harm them.” (Mill 1859: 265). Principles like Mill’s suggest that there is something especially important about harm, such that we have strong, perhaps overriding reasons both to avoid harming people and to prevent harm from coming to people. However, there are significant disagreements about what counts as a harm. So it is incumbent on philosophers to say what harm is. In this lecture, I survey the leading analyses of 'harm' – such as, among others, the views defended by Thomson, Norcross and Northcott – and discuss the main problems they face.
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