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KJuris seminar with Gwen Bradford (Rice)
The King's Legal Philosophy Workshop, directed by Professor Lorenzo Zucca and Professor Massimo Renzo is a forum devoted to discussing works in progress by today's leading legal philosophers and theorists as well as by promising younger talents from around the world. While our focus is philosophical and jurisprudential, we construe these terms broadly and welcome all rigorous methodological approaches to legal theory.
Anyone with a keen interest in Legal Philosophy is welcome, the format of the event has now changed. Papers will no longer be circulated in advance. There will be a 45 min presentation, followed by discussion.
Abstract
If the Mona Lisa, the Sistine Chapel, the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun, or the Sword of Goujian were destroyed, nothing, it is reasonable to think, could replace them. New works of art that are even more impressive may be created, or new artifacts may be discovered, which may replenish the value in the world in amount, but they would not, one might think, replenish it in kind. Works of art, historical artifacts, endangered species, and perhaps even you and me all have irreplaceable value. But just what is irreplaceable value, how is it different from other kinds of value, and why does it matter? I argue that irreplaceable value is a matter of intrinsic value in virtue of unreinstantiable good-making properties, which give rise to reasons to preserve and protect, in contrast to traditional intrinsic value, which is in virtue of reinstantiable good-making properties, and gives rise to reasons to promote.
Speaker biography
Dr Gwen Bradford is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rice University, and she has been a Faculty Fellow at the Murphy Institute at Tulane University. Her book, Achievement (OUP), was awarded the APA Book Prize in 2017. Her current work investigates issues in well-being, ill-being, and the nature of intrinsic value.