Dear all,
This Thursday at the Serious Metaphysics Group, Barry Maguire (UBC) will be presenting 'There are no reasons for attitudes' (abstract below). As usual, 1.00-2.30pm at the philosophy faculty board room - feel free to bring lunch along if you wish. Hope to see you there, Li Li - Abstract There are no reasons for emotions or desires. There are no reasons for admiration, delight, fear, envy, gratitude, disgruntlement, contempt, Schadenfreude, relief, pity, shame, or amusement. There is no reason to want to listen to the Köln concert, or to want to avoid a grisly death. No reason to hope for a brighter day. There is no reason for your incredulous reaction to this announcement, but it might be _fitting _all the same. I do not deny that there are normative standards concerning these attitudes. Rather I claim that these two relations of normative support - being favoured by a reason or various reasons, and being made fitting - are different in a variety of important ways. Contrary to a common assumption, token emotional responses are not supported by reasons but by facts that make them fitting, and likewise for desires. That will be the central thesis of this talk. -- 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.
