Scholarship for an Uncertain World – A Series of Public Lectures by Professors in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo

The Winter 2012 Arts Lecture Series has begun. This year the series is borrowing the theme from the upcoming Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (www.congress2012.ca): Scholarship for an Uncertain World.  Six Faculty of Arts colleagues will be presenting lectures on how they are exploring uncertainties of the present age.

This lecture series is open to one and all.  Please take some time out of your day to attend and support your colleagues.  And bring friends and students with you!   For a snappy webpage giving information on all of the lectures, go to www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301. 

Monday 27 February 2012, 3:30pm, HH 1101

Mathieu Doucet / Philosophy

Should the Numbers Count?

What should we do when faced with a hard choice between helping (or harming) two groups of people, one smaller and one larger? Should we prefer the larger group? This question, it turns out, goes to the heart of some very difficult issues in moral philosophy.