Dear all,
This Thursday (28 Jan) at the Serious Metaphysics Group we will have Christopher Mole (UBC), who will be presenting 'Beauty is Objective' (abstract below). The talk will be at 1.00-2.30pm, at the Philosophy Faculty Board Room. You are welcome to bring along lunch if you are arriving from another talk/lecture beforehand. For the rest of the Lent term card please have a look at the website: http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/SMG Best wishes, Li Li -- ABSTRACT I shall argue for objective realism concerning attributions of beauty. In first half of the paper I'll explain the distinctions between objectivism and subjectivism, relativism and absolutism, and realism and anti-realism. In the second I'll argue (1) that no anti-realist interpretation of beauty-attributions is tenable; (2) that the truth of such attributions must be understood as relative to a contextually-specified standard; and (3) that the relativism at work here cannot be of a sort that would carry any commitment to subjectivism. -- Li Li Tan PhD (Probationary) in Philosophy St Catharine's College _____________________________________________________ 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.
