Dear Verena, Thank you so much for such an interesting talk today. I really enjoyed it. Hopefully see you again soon!
Best, Dan. On 2017-02-22 20:42, D. Williams wrote: > Dear all, > > A reminder that this Thursday (tomorrow, the 23rd), Verena Wagner from > the University of Konstanz will be talking at the Serious Metaphysics > Group on "Glitterfree Freedom" (abstract below). > > We will be meeting from 1 to 2.30pm in the Faculty Board Room. > > All welcome. Feel free to bring your lunch. > > Best, > > Dan. > > - > > Abstract. > > *Glitter-free Freedom* is what I'm calling my attempt to argue against > the widespread expectation that free will can be proposed as a solution > for all our problems with regard to action, moral responsibility, > praise- and blameworthiness, punishment, rationality, human dignity, > personhood, sanity, akrasia and many more issues. This is the "glitter" > I want to get rid of. In this talk, I will ask what might be left of > freedom once we removed its "glittery" ornament and what we should > expect a glitterfree account of freedom to do. I will argue that > freedom > of action, unlike freedom of the will, is well equipped for covering > all > the relevant phenomena. Specifically, my account correctly analyses the > paradigm examples of unfree agents that dominate the debate: the > hold-up > victim, the addict, the compulsive handwasher and the paranoid > schizophrenic. I will oppose the standard strategy to look for > different > sorts of freedom (of action, will, belief) and will instead argue that > each of the aforementioned cases shares a specific structure that can > be > captured by my unified account. For this, it is important to see a) > that > freedom is a negative notion, and b) that attempts to define freedom > positively will very likely end up in tinsel and glitter. > > -- > Daniel Williams > PhD Candidate in Philosophy > Email: [email protected] > Trinity Hall, Cambridge > > _____________________________________________________ > 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. -- Daniel Williams PhD Candidate in Philosophy Email: [email protected] Trinity Hall, Cambridge _____________________________________________________ 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.
