Dear All, Next Tuesday (25th), Claire Benn, from the Univeristy of Cambridge, will give a talk entitled 'Supererogatory Acts: Optional and Good'. An abstract is attached below.
The meeting will start at 5.15pm and will be held in the Fisher Building of St. John's College in either the Boys Smith Room, the Dirac Room, or the Castlereagh Room. As usual, the speaker will present for no longer than 45 minutes, followed by a discussion until 7.00pm. If you would like to join Claire for dinner after the talk, then please let me know by noon on the day of the talk. The termcard is available online: http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/news_events/moral_sci.html Regards, Daniel Brigham Secretary of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge *** There are two core notions at the heart of the concept of supererogation: optionality and goodness. Despite the fact that these two aspects are central to any account of supererogation, few theorists go beyond a very general understanding of them. I flesh out these notions further, specifying exactly what should be meant by the two conditions of optionality and goodness that actions must meet in order to be supererogatory. While the conditions I outline might at first seem unnecessarily complex, I argue that this complexity is in fact necessary in light of the failure of more simplistic characterisations. Developing a more detailed account of these two conditions is important because without it the nature and value of supererogatory actions cannot be fully understood. _____________________________________________________ Sent by the CamPhilEvents mailing list. To unsubscribe or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents Posts are archived here: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive
