Dear all, The next meeting of the Moral Sciences Club will be on Tuesday 3rd March at 2.30-4.15pm in the Sidgwick Hall, Newnham College. Our speaker is Amia Srinivasan (Oxford) who will be giving a talk entitled "The Aptness of Anger" (abstract below).
As usual there is a small charge for attendance: £2 (student) or £3 (other) for the meeting, or £7.50 (student) or £15 (other) for the rest of this academic year. Everyone is welcome to join us for tea and biscuits in the Philosophy Faculty after the meeting. We hope to see you there. Best wishes, Matthew Simpson and Ali Boyle. Amia Srinivasan - "The Aptness of Anger" It is both a philosophical and political commonplace to claim that victims of injustice shouldn’t get angry because doing so is *counterproductive*. A counter-tradition defends the psychic and political usefulness of anger. This debate obscures the fact that anger is normatively evaluable independently of its consequences: we should distinguish the question of whether anger is *intrinsically* justified (viz. an *apt* response to the facts) from the question of whether anger is *instrumentally* justified (viz. a *productive* response to the facts). Contexts of injustice are rife with occasions for anger that is justified in the first sense but unjustified in the second. Attending to this phenomenon – of apt but counterproductive anger – might in turn teach us something about the place of anger in a rational politics, about the nature and extent of injustice, and about moral conflicts faced by both victims of injustice and their allies. -- Ali Boyle and Matthew Simpson Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc _____________________________________________________ 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.
