Dear all, This is just a reminder that Rowan Williams (Cambridge) will be giving a talk entitled "Feeling For Others: Is Empathy the Answer to Ethical Problems?", tomorrow, 25 February at 5:15pm in the *Old Combination Room *in Trinity College. An abstract is provided below.
*Please note that we are expecting this to be a popular event, so arrive early in order to secure entrance. If you are not already a member of the Club, we ask that you please arrive by 4:50pm in order to pay your entrance fee. Attendance at a single meeting costs £2 for students, and £3 for all others; subscriptions for the year cost £7.50 for students, and £15 for all others. * For more information, check out our webpage at http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc. Looking forward to seeing many of you there. Best wishes. Kyle and Shyane ABSTRACT: This talk will look at the current fashion for appealing to 'empathy' as what is needed to make appropriate moral judgements and to motivate moral acts. It will be looking at some of the popularised science around this (Baron-Cohen, Gerhardt) and at the rather different philosophical discussions in both continental European and Anglo-American contexts, to suggest that the modern appeal is confused and that (paradoxically?) we need a stronger sense of the *difference *of the experience of others for a robust ethical policy. -- 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
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