Dear all, Next week, Dr. Anna Alexandrova (Cambridge) will give a talk entitled 'Values Fit For Science: The Case of Child Well-being' at the Moral Sciences Club. An abstract is provided below.
The meeting will be held at 5:15pm on Tuesday, 4 February, in the Boys Smith Room (found in the Fisher Building), St. John's College. For more information, including information about our membership fees, please visit our website at http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc. Best wishes, Kyle and Shyane Abstract: Normative assumptions, be they moral, prudential or political, are core parts of many theories in the social, psychological and medical sciences. Justifying these assumptions requires normative theories. What demands do scientific, clinical and policy uses impose on normative theories? And can the existing theories in normative philosophy live up to these demands? I explore this general issue by focusing on the case of child well-being. Today there are many measures of child well-being and much is known about its determinants. But curiously there is no theory of the constituents of child well-being. I propose one and show that although it draws on the resources of some of the existing theories of well-being in philosophy, it is not obviously implied by any of these theories. The general lesson is that the normative theories so much needed in science may not be the ones philosophers are currently refining. -- -- Kyle Mitchell and Shyane Siriwardena Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] 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: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
