The Moral Significance of Introspection
Seminar
17 July 3:30-5:30pm Sir Roland Wilson Building, Room 2.02 Kranti Saran (Ashoka) The Moral Significance of Introspection While the significance of introspection to the philosophy of mind and epistemology is widely recognised, its significance to our moral lives has gone unrecognised. I…
Ethics and Risk Workshop
Workshop
This workshop brings ethicists and decision theorists together to work out how risk affects moral and rational requirements. Some of the topics include: problems raised when applying decision theory to moral questions; the project of identifying a criterion of subjective permissibility…
Julia Staffel (WUSTL/Boulder): Unsettled Thoughts: A Theory of Degrees of Rationality
Seminar
Theories of epistemic rationality typically formulate norms of what it takes to have ideally rational beliefs or credences. Humans thinkers tend to be unable to fully comply with these ideal norms due to their cognitive limitations. Still, it is often claimed, ideal norms are relevant to human…
Non-Propositional Attitudes Workshop
Workshop
Propositional attitudes, such as belief and desire, have long been taken to play a foundational role in the theories of meaning and mind. But recently, semantic, perceptual, and cognitive considerations have emerged that illustrate the limitations of theories that countenance only propositional…
MSPT Seminar- Brian Talbot (Colorado, Boulder), Why and how false moral views affect moral obligations
Seminar
People often have some degree of credence in false moral claims. It is intuitive that, in some cases, it is morally wrong to act against these credences. Theories which attempt to accommodate these intuitions have run into difficulties. For one, they tend to have other…