Naturalizing Respect - Philip Pettit (ANU & Princeton)
Seminar
This Friday, March 19th, Philip Pettit (ANU & Princeton) will present on "Naturalizing Respect". Abstract: There is hardly a more significant ideal in human relationships, relevant in both ethics and politics, than that of respect. But what is the sort of treatment that respect requires…
A Pluralist Theory of Perception - Neil Mehta
Seminar
Philosophers of perception usually assume that there is a unitary philosophical account of what it is to perceive, say, a scarlet bell pepper. I reject that monist assumption. Here I begin to defend an alternative pluralist theory of perception, which says that what it is to (consciously) perceive…
Brian Hedden (ANU): Multidimensionality and Disparate Scale Types
Seminar
Abstract: Multidimensionality is everywhere: in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind, as well as a host of domains outside philosophy. Many ethicists are pluralists about value, holding that whether one state of affairs is better than another…
Fittingness, Practice, and Emotion
Seminar
Fitting attitude analyses of value aim to analyse various kinds of value in terms of fitting attitudes. Thus, for example, something is disgusting if and only if disgust is a fitting response towards it. One question for this approach is to explain what it means for some property to make some other…