In this seminar Associate Professor Karen Green (Melbourne University, philosophy) develops Catharine Macaulay's distinctive, anti-Hobbesian approach to the social contract, before exploring her own, Macaulay-inspired account of the co-evolution of language and morality. 

Do stay around for the discussion time after the paper, when among other topics we discuss the question of objective rationality, and Macaulay's relationship to Hobbes and Rousseau.

The seminar took place over Zoom on 7 September 2021, and was hosted by Christopher Watkin (Monash University), as part of the Australian Research Council funded Future Fellowship project "Rewriting the Social Contract: Technology, Ecology, Extremism".  

This seminar is an initiative of the Social Contract Research Network. To find out more about the SCRN, and to subscribe to email updates, please visit https://www.monash.edu/arts/languages-literatures-cultures-linguistics/social-contract-research-network   

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