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…
Catrin Campbell-Moore (Bristol): Avoiding Risk and Avoiding Evidence
Seminar
It is natural to think that there is something epistemically objectionable about avoiding evidence, at least in ideal cases. We argue that this natural thought is inconsistent with a kind of risk avoidance that is both wide-spread and intuitively rational. More specifically, we argue that if the…