METAETHICS SEMINAR, LENT TERM 2013 'PRAGMATISM IN METAETHICS'
Convenors: Huw Price & Hallvard Lillehammer Place: Graduate Common Room, Faculty of Philosophy *This seminar is open both to Part II undergraduate students, graduate students, and researchers in Philosophy. PART 1 (wks 1-4) of the seminar will be targeted specifically at students taking the Part II Ethics paper of the Philosophy Tripos. PART 2 (wks 5-8) will be targeted at graduate students. Both graduates and undergraduates are welcome to attend both parts.* -- PART 1: Weeks 1-4 (targeted at Part II students) 1. Hilary Putnam, 'Fact and Value', chapter 6 of his Reason, Truth and History, CUP 1983, pp. 127-149; 201-216. (See also Ch. 9, 'Values, facts and cognition', pp. 201-16). 2. David Lewis, 'Dispositional Theories of Value', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplemenrary Volume, 1989, pp. 113-137. (See also Mark Johnston, 'Dispositional Theories of Value', op. cit. pp. 139-74). 3. Simon Blackburn, 'Errors and the Phenomenology of Value', Chapter 8 of his Essays in Quasi-Realism, OUP 1993, pp. 149-165. (See also his Ruling Passions, OUP 1998, pp. 48-83; 104-119). 4. Sharon Street, 'Mind-Independence without the Mystery: Why Quasi-Realists Can't Have it Both Ways', in R. Shafer-Landau (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaethics, 6, 2011, pp. 1-32. (See also Simon Blackburn, 'Sharon Street on The Independent Normative Truth as Such', available HTTP: http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/~swb24/PAPERS/Meanstreet.htm). -- PART 2: Weeks 5-8 (targeted at graduate students) 5. Simon Blackburn, 'Morals and Modals', Ch. 3 of his Essays in Quasi-Realism, OUP 1993, pp. 52-74. (See also (See also Ch. 1, 'Truth, Realism and the Regulation of Theory', pp. 15-34.) 6. Huw Price, 'Pragmatism, Quasi-realism, and the Global Challenge', Chapter 11 of his Naturalism without Mirrors, OUP 2011, pp. 228-252. (See also Ch. 1, 'Moving the Morror Aside', op. cit. pp. 3-33). 7. Robert Brandom, 'Global Anti-representationalism?', in H. Price (ed.), Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism, CUP 2013, pp. 75-98. (See also Steven Levine, 'Rehabilitating Objectivity: Rorty, Brandom and the New Pragmatism', Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 40, 2010, pp. 567-589). 8. Michael Williams, 'How Pragmatists can be Local Expressivists', in H. Price (ed.), Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism, CUP 2013, pp. 113-126. (See also his 'Pragmatism, Minimalism, Expressivism', International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 18, 2010, pp. 317-330). -- Participants can access the seminar readings either by going to: http://bit.ly/metaethics2013 or by: 1) Going to the Camtools site: http://camtools.cam.ac.uk/ 2) Selecting 'Philosophy tripos' 3) Opening the 'Resources' folder 4) Clicking on the ' Metaethics Seminar Readings- LT 2013' link -- _____________________________________________________ Sent by the CamPhilEvents mailing list. To unsubscribe or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents Posts are archived here: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive
