Anastasia Berg: Coming to an End: Why Care About the Survival of Humanity?

Name: Anastasia Berg: Coming to an End: Why Care About the Survival of Humanity?
Start: 2027-02-11T18:15:00+00:00
End: 2027-02-11T20:15:00+00:00
Location: Room 349, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Schedule

Thu Feb 11 2027 at 06:15 pm to 08:15 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Room 349, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU | London, EN

What objective reasons, if any, do we have to care about the survival of humanity?
About this Event

What objective reasons, if any, do we have to care about the survival of humanity? I willcritically explore some previously proposed answers—the Arguments from Additional Lives, from Final Value and from Value Dependence—before suggesting an alternative account. According to it, a concern with the existence of human beings in the future is intrinsicallyimplied by the engagement in a particular kind of activities, namely, ones with infinite endsof unconditional worth. The account thereby ties our capacity to appreciate the goodness of ahuman future to the actuality of our recognition of goodness in human existence in the present.

Agenda

🕑: 06:15 PM
Doors Open
🕑: 06:45 PM - 08:15 PM
Main Event