Hosted by the Center for Bioethics
Join the NYU Center for Bioethics for a colloquium with Caspar Hare, Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT, whose work spans ethics, practical rationality, and metaphysics. Drawing on his new book, Living in a Strange World, Professor Hare will explore a striking idea: for almost every action ever taken, future generations can correctly say that if it had not happened, they almost certainly would not exist. He argues that this has no surprising implications for what we ought to do, but very surprising implications for what we ought to regret. Attendees will see how big ideas from cosmology, physics, and metaphysics can bear on everyday moral life, and how they might change the way we think about past wrongs and our own existence. The talk will be followed by a reception.