Fellowship Lunchtime Lectures: Edward Lamb
Event
This is Teddy Hall’s online lunchtime lecture series which aims to highlight the incredible depth and breadth of research across the Teddy Hall Fellowship.
Speaker and Topic
Dr Edward Lamb on Measuring Beneficence
It is clear enough that we should benefit people. It also seems that we should act more beneficently rather than less. But how should the beneficence of our actions be measured? Dr Edward Lamb brings out this question by considering cases in which some people could benefit more than others. He then argues that it would be no less beneficent to benefit those people who would benefit less.
About the Speaker
Dr Edward Lamb is the Career Development Fellow in Philosophy.
He completed his PhD at University College London after working for several years in homelessness. He grew up in Brighton.
Ed’s areas of research are Ethics and Political Philosophy. He currently focuses on the wrongness of treating people merely as a means and on what we owe the worst off. More generally, he works on the compatibility of equality and economic incentives as well as the relation between political institutions and ideals. His PhD argued for a Kantian conception of moral status and a particular type of Political Liberalism.
As the Organising Tutor for Philosophy, Ed oversees the teaching of Philosophy within the College, as well as teaching undergraduate tutorials for Introduction to Moral Philosophy, 103 Ethics and 114 Theory of Politics. He also supervises graduate students. He is passionate about teaching and the practice of Philosophy.
Registration
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Please note that this lecture will be recorded and published on St Edmund Hall’s digital and print communication platforms where appropriate.