The Depa rtment of Philosophy is pleased to invite you to our 2022/2023 colloquium s eries.
Our guest speaker Dr. Brian Berkey\, Associate Professor of Le gal Studies and Business Ethics and of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania will give a talk on “Who is Wronged by Wrongful Exploitation?” on March 3.
Brian works in moral and political philosophy (including business
ethics and environmental ethics). He has written on issues such as the dema
ndingness of morality\, individual and corporate obligations of justice\, e
thical issues arising with regard to climate change\, exploitation\, effect
ive altruism\, animal ethics\, collective obligations\, ethical consumerism
\, and the relationship between ideal and non-ideal theory. He is also inte
rested in methodological issues in ethics and political philosophy\, includ
ing the appropriate role of appeals to intuitions. His work has appeared in
journals such as Philosophy & Public Affairs\, Mind\,
Title: "Who is Wronged by Wrongful Exploitation?"
Abstract: Most accounts of what makes exploitation impermissible imply that it’s necessarily a narrowly directed wrong. Specifically\, these accou nts suggest that only those who are the vulnerable parties to exploitative transactions can be wronged.
There’s much that is intuitively appealing about this view. In this pape r\, however\, I argue that there are strong reasons to think that in some c ases of wrongful exploitation the wrong is not narrowly directed. Specifica lly\, I claim that reflecting on the broader context within which many of t he paradigm cases of wrongful exploitation occurs suggests that exploitatio n often wrongs a broader class of agents than those who are taken advantage of within particular transactions.
I argue that once we focus on the fact that in many cases a large number of people attempted to become parties to the transactions\, but wer e refused\, it looks more puzzling to hold that those who were selected are uniquely wronged.
I note s ome central differences between my view and views on which the wrong is nar rowly directed\, and highlight what I take to be some important implication s of my view\, in particular with regard to the remedial duties of parties guilty of wrongful exploitation.
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