Dear all, The first meeting on the Serious Metaphysics Group for the term will be on this Thursday (the 15th). Piotr Szalek will be speaking on 'The Minimal Definition of Goodness and the Problem of Generalisation'(abstract below). We'll meet from 1:00 - 2:30pm in the Graduate Common Room in the Philosophy Faculty (please note the change of venue).
Hope to see you there, Georgie The Minimal Definition of Goodness and the Problem of Generalisation In his Presidential Address to the Aristotelian Society, Simon Blackburn proposed a minimal definition of goodness that applies a deflationist approach to moral concepts by analogy with the minimal theory of truth. The analogy was criticised by Bradley Armour-Garb in virtue of the so-called problem of generalisation – truth and goodness are seen as devices of generalisation over particular instances, while in fact they are not such devices. In the paper I offer a possible response to this criticism by emphasising the intrinsically pragmatic character of Blackburn’s proposal. -- Georgie Statham PhD Candidate Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
