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Bitesize Ethics Summer Programme 2023, The Ethics of Consciousness with Mattia Cecchinato

Mattia Cecchinato provides the 6th seminar for the 2023 Bitesize Ethics Programme. In this 6th seminar, he will present how the phenomenal consciousness consists in experiences which are such that there is something about having them (e.g. seeing colours, smelling coffee, or feeling warm). It is of moral significance in a number of ways, one’s well-being at least partly depends on the quality of one’s conscious experiences. From this, he will explain how our obligations to non-human animals are often motivated by concern for their conscious life. And crucial moral questions in human medicine concerning euthanasia and brain death turn on whether consciousness is present. Essentially, he will introduce the central debates of what we may call ‘the ethics of consciousness’. He will then discuss whether consciousness is valuable in itself, which kind of consciousness might ground moral status, and the extent to which the quality of our conscious experience contributes to the goodness of our life.