Philosophy Talk Annoucement. I am very pleased to announce that Professor Voula Tsouna will be giving a talk on 'Pyrrhonian Scepticism and the Concept of reason'
Tuesday 7th June from 1-2.30, Raised Faculty Building Room 326. Voula Tsouna is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her work is in the area of ancient Greek philosophy, specializing in Socrates, Plato, the Socratic schools, and Hellenistic Philosophy. She has written three books and numerous articles and is currently working on aspects of Aristotle's metaphysics and ethics, Hellenistic and Roman philosophy, and a book on Plato's Charmides. 'Pyrrhonian Scepticism and the Concept of reason' Abstract: Some scholars (Striker, Barnes) claim that the Sceptics are anti-rationalists; among other things, they do not really argue or infer but only parasitically. Otherwise what might be considered inference is really an automatic association of one thought to another. On the other side of the spectrum, Casey Perin and Gale Fine claim that the Sceptics follow deliberately the rules of logic and have an operating concept of hypothetical necessity. I try to follow a middle course, distinguishing between two concepts of reason, the one pertaining to lay thinking, the other committed to dogmatic claims concerning the nature of reason, syllogism, and the Stoic indemonstrables. I contend that the Sceptic does think and does infer, as we all do. What he does not do it take his inferential thinking to reflect patterns in nature or deliver truths about the reality of things. ALL WELCOME! -- Dr Sophia M Connell Selwyn College Cambridge, CB3 9DQ Newnham College Cambridge, CB3 9DF 01223 335818 Faculty of Philosophy Raised Faculty Building Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge, CB3 9DA 01223 767869 _____________________________________________________ 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.
