[PhilosophyEvents] Talk tomorrow: Dr. Paul Irikefe (UC Irvine) "The Vice of Nepotism"

[Carolyn Jennings]

Dear Students and Colleagues,

Thank you to all those who were able to attend Brenda Lara’s talk last week—we had great turnout and discussion. We have another talk tomorrow, Friday, October 6th from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in COB2 290:

Paul Irikefe (UC Irvine) will visit us to discuss his work on "The vice of nepotism: The political, the moral, and the epistemic"

Nepotism forms a core part of our everyday moral and socio-political vocabulary, and yet we lack a coherent account of it. The aim of this paper is to supply that account. I argue that nepotism (i.e., nepotism proper) is a moral vice, which has a hitherto unnoticed epistemic counterpart, namely, “epistemic nepotism.” Further, I claim that both forms of nepotism arise from a vicious motive, morbid love of one’s “primordial private realm,” which makes individuals to assign undue weight to the side of the distributive equation they belong to, thus leading to injustice in the distribution of social and epistemic goods. The result of the analysis is then used to address the question as to how vice attribution or explanation is cogent in cases of individuals whose epistemic conduct proceeds from value or ideology.

A poster is attached. You are all welcome to attend. Please share with other interested students and faculty.

Best wishes,
Carolyn Dicey Jennings


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