THE KEELE-OXFORD-ST ANDREWS KANTIAN (KOSAK) RESEARCH CENTRE & THE FORUM FOR PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH @ THE SCHOOL OF POLITICS, PHILOSOPHY, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND ENVIRONMENT (SPIRE),
Invites you all to the first 2015/16 Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture
Moral Responses and Moral Judgements
By: James Kirwan (Kansai University)
On: Tuesday, 13 October 2015
From: 6-7.30 pm
In: CBA1.102, Chancellor’s Building, Keele University
All Welcome! Wine
About the Speaker:
James Kirwan holds a PhD from Edinburgh University. His publications include Literature, Rhetoric, Metaphysics: Literary Theory and Literary Aesthetics (Routledge, 1990), Beauty (Manchester University Press, 1999), The Aesthetic in Kant (Continuum, 2004), and Sublimity: The Non-rational and the Irrational in the History of Aesthetics (Routledge, 2005). He has been a professor of cross-cultural studies at Kansai University in Osaka since 2004.
Abstract:
The seminar will concentrate on drawing a distinction between moral responses, which happen to us, and moral judgements, which we make. It will explore the character of each of these distinct entities and the relationship between them, and highlight the way in which the use of ‘judgement’ to refer promiscuously to both is responsible for many apparently intractable problems within metaethics. The seminar will also look at the way in which a failure to distinguish between the two is also responsible for a number of recent pseudo-solutions to standing metaethical problems.
The seminar will concentrate on drawing a distinction between moral responses, which happen to us, and moral judgements, which we make. It will explore the character of each of these distinct entities and the relationship between them, and highlight the way in which the use of ‘judgement’ to refer promiscuously to both is responsible for many apparently intractable problems within metaethics. The seminar will also look at the way in which a failure to distinguish between the two is also responsible for a number of recent pseudo-solutions to standing metaethical problems.
About the Speaker:
James Kirwan holds a PhD from Edinburgh University. His publications include Literature, Rhetoric, Metaphysics: Literary Theory and Literary Aesthetics (Routledge, 1990), Beauty (Manchester University Press, 1999), The Aesthetic in Kant (Continuum, 2004), and Sublimity: The Non-rational and the Irrational in the History of Aesthetics (Routledge, 2005). He has been a professor of cross-cultural studies at Kansai University in Osaka since 2004.
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