Julia Driver (Washington U St. Louis)
Seminar
Deference, Testimony, and the Moral/Aesthetic Analogy The puzzle of moral or aesthetic deference holds that there is something odd or wrong about pure deference to moral or aesthetic testimony. Something is missing in deference cases, even if it is true that knowledge can be conveyed solely…
Awesome Workshop in Moral Philosophy
Activity
Awesome Moral Philosophy Workshop Date: 24-25 July Times: 0930-1730 Location: RC Mills Room, Chancelry Register by emailing phil.admin.cass@anu.edu.au Monday 24th Session 1 0930-1100 Anne Barnhill - What is manipulation and why does it matter? Morning Tea 1100-1130 Session 2 1130-1300…
Juan Comensana (U Arizona): Experience and Defeasible Justification
Seminar
Experience and Defeasible Justification I consider three theories about the role of experience in empirical justification: the phenomenal conception of evidence, according to which experiences themselves are evidence; factualism, according to which empirical evidence is constituted by facts (or…
Carolina Sartorio (Arizona): More of a Cause?
Seminar
"The driver’s speeding was more of a cause of the accident than the bad state of the roads.” Claims like this, which are quite common in ordinary discourse, presuppose that causal contributions come in degrees. Some accounts of moral responsibility and liability rely on a graded notion of causation…
Connie Rosati (Arizona): Normativity and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Other
In Principia Ethica, G. E. Moore famously accused ethical naturalists of committing the “naturalistic fallacy.” Critics charged that this was no fallacy at all, and that the open question argument, which Moore deployed to defeat naturalism, depended on a mistaken view of analysis. In what was…
Philosophy Workshop: Some Recent Stuff on the Imagination
Activity
Timetable: 9.30: Coffee and Welcome 10.00-11.30: Jennifer Windt (Monash): “Mental simulation in sleep: Towards an integrative theory of dream imagery formation” 11.45-1.15: Daniel Stoljar (ANU): “Imagining-how” Lunch 2.30-4.00: Talia Morag (Deakin): “Towards a New Associationism” 4.15—5.45:…
ANU Workshop: Some Recent Stuff on the Imagination
Conference
Timetable: 9.30: Coffee and Welcome 10.00-11.30: Jennifer Windt (Monash): “Mental simulation in sleep: Towards an integrative theory of dream imagery formation” 11.45-1.15: Daniel Stoljar (ANU): “Imagining-how” Lunch 2.30-4.00: Talia Morag (Deakin): “Towards a New Associationism” 4.15—5.45:…