Dear all, Just a reminder that tomorrow at the Moral Sciences Club, Amia Srinivasan (Oxford) will be giving a talk entitled 'The Aptness of Anger' (abstract below). The talk will begin at 2.30 in the Sidgwick Hall, Newnham College.
As always, there's a small charge for attendance - £2 (students) or £3 (faculty) - or you can purchase a subscription for the rest of the academic year for £7.50 (students)/£15 (faculty). After the meeting, everyone is welcome to join us for tea and biscuits in the philosophy faculty. We look forward to seeing many of you there. Best wishes, Ali Boyle and Mat Simpson 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.
