Dear All, This week in The Claim of Reason reading group, we will be reading the chapter entitled "An Absence of Morality," wherein Cavell analyzes and criticizes Charles Stevenson's classic defense of emotivism in Ethics and Language. This chapter is a forceful and beautifully written critique of both emotivism, in particular, and of the methodology of mainstream analytic ethics, more generally; it is an exemplary performance of Cavell's peculiar brand of Wittgensteinian ordinary language philosophical therapy, and incidentally, it also reads fairly well as a standalone piece.
Attached below is an additional resource—a link to an excellent talk given by Avner Baz of Tufts University on Cavell's philosophical methodology, which draws on this chapter as its example—that may be of aid to our reading and discussion of the material. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKCOCdC06YI Note that we have completely deviated from the initial schedule and will instead rely on email notifications from here on out. Anyway, looking forward to seeing some of you in the Graduate Common Room on Wednesday from 5-6 pm. Best Yo and Paolo _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: https://lists.cam.ac.uk/pipermail/phil-events/ Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
