Conférence | Talk
Journée mondiale de la philosophie | World Philosophy Day
COVE (Carleton Center on Values and Ethics) Distinguished Speaker 2015
(DukeUniversity)
Gopal
Sreenivasan is Crown Professor of Ethics at Duke University. He has
written a number of recent papers on human rights; on the nature of
rights generally; and on the relations between justice and health. He
is the author of two books, Emotion and Virtue (forthcoming) and The
Limits of Lockean Rights in Property (1995).
Human Rights and Public Goods: Problems for Health and Beyond
In
international law and in common opinion, there is clearly a human right
to health. But is there one in morality? What does this even mean?
My lecture explores some problems for moral human rights that arise from
acknowledging the importance to good health systems of pure public
goods, like herd immunity against measles or diphtheria. Evaluation of
these problems, as well as of various unsuccessful
attempts to solve or evade them, forces us to think hard about what it
means to say that something is a (moral) human right.
Thursday, November 19th, 2015
6:00pm
(a reception with refreshments begins at 5:00pm)