Dear all, The next meeting of the Moral Sciences Club will be held next Tuesday (27th October). We are delighted to welcome Professor Sally Haslanger (MIT), who will be giving a talk entitled 'Political Epistemology and Social Critique'. The abstract for the talk is as follows:
*Under conditions of ideology, a standard model of normative political epistemology – relying on a domain-specific reflective equilibrium – risks status-quo bias. Social critique requires a more critical standpoint. What are the aims of social critique? How is such a standpoint achieved and what grounds its claims? One way of achieving a critical standpoint is through consciousness raising. Consciousness raising offers a paradigm shift in our understanding of the social world; but not all epistemic practices that appear to “raise” consciousness, are warranted. However, under certain conditions sketched in the paper, consciousness raising produces a warranted critical standpoint and a pro tanto claim against others. This is an important epistemic achievement, yet under conditions of collective self-governance, there is no guarantee that all warranted claims can be met simultaneously. There will be winners and losers even after legitimate democratic processes have been followed.* The meeting will be held from 2:30 until 4:15 on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/98343588455 (Meeting ID: 983 4358 8455). Best wishes, Christopher, Emma, Sofía and Wouter -- Christopher Benzenberg, Emma Curran, Sofía Meléndez-Gutiérrez and Wouter Cohen Acting Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge msc...@hermes.cam.ac.uk <msc...@hermes.cam.ac.uk> http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc _____________________________________________________ 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.
