Promises and Morality
A philosophy seminar at UCL Laws in which Dr Lucy McDonald of King's College London defends a third strategy for handling "wicked promises," which are promises to do wrong. AI summary of the listing
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Speaker: Dr Lucy McDonald (King's College London) Chair: Prof George Letsas , Professor of Philosophy of Law (UCL Laws) About the Seminar: It is widely assumed that promises necessarily create obligations. If this is right, then how do we make sense of so-called ‘wicked promises’? One strategy defended in the literature involves biting the bullet, by conceding that when one makes a wicked promise, one acquires a…
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