Dear all, The next meeting of the Moral Sciences Club will take place from 2.30pm-4.15pm on Tuesday 28th April, in Sidgwick Hall, Newnham College. Our speaker is Debbie Roberts (Edinburgh) who will be giving a talk entitled "Supervenience and explanation in metaethics" (abstract below).
There is a small charge for attendance - £2 for students and £3 for others. We hope to see you there. Best wishes, Matthew Simpson and Ali Boyle Debbie Roberts - "Supervenience and explanation in metaethics": My aim is to defend explanatory indispensability arguments in metaethics against a certain objection, drawing on recent work in the philosophy of mathematics. Explanatory indispensibility arguments claim, roughly, that an entity or property is a genuine feature of the world if reference to that entity or property figures ineliminably in the best explanation of some phenomena. The objection that I’m concerned to defend such arguments in metaethics against I call the supervenience objection. This objection holds that e*ven if* the relevant evaluative *terms* are indispensible to the best explanation of some phenomenon, this does not generate ontological commitment to the evaluative properties. I draw on recent work by platonists in philosophy of maths to reply to this objection. -- 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.
