Dear All, On Tuesday (14th), Stephen Stich, from Rutgers, will give a talk entitled 'Taking Diversity Seriously'. 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 go for dinner after the talk, then please let me know by noon on Tuesday. 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 *** Appeal to intuitions about cases plays an important role in philosophical argument. But in recent years a number of writers have suggested that intuitions about cases - in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of language, and elsewhere - may be significantly different in different cultural and demographic groups. How seriously should we take the possibility that philosophical intuitions vary with culture? In the first part of this talk, I will argue that we should take that possibility very seriously. In the second part of the talk I will assume that there is a substantial amount of cultural variation in philosophical intuition, and ask: So what? Some philosophers maintain that this would be irrelevant to philosophical practice. Others argue that it would undermine appeal to intuition in philosophy. I will argue that both of these reactions are mistaken. Rather, I'll argue, the appropriate philosophical reaction to cultural diversity in intuition depends on the details of the project that a philosopher is engaged in and how she makes use of the evidence of intuition. To make the case, I'll consider a number of examples in epistemology and (if time permits) in moral theory. _____________________________________________________ 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
