Dear all, This Thursday, Paulina Sliwa will be talking on "Reverse-Engineering Blame" (abstract below) at the Serious Metaphysics Group. As usual, we will meet from 1-2.30pm in the Faculty Board Room. Feel free to bring your lunch along. All welcome!
Best wishes, Dan. Abstract: In recent philosophical literature, there is considerable disagreement as to what blame is. A belief? An emotion? A desire + belief combination? This belies an underlying agreement as to the kind of thing it is, namely a mental state. And this underlying assumption frames much of the methodology in investigating when agents are blameworthy. In this paper, I suggest that blame might be more fruitfully investigated as a practice: as something that is governed by constitutive norms and that serves some particular function. I explore a potential constitutive norm on blame – the intentional wrongdoing norm – as well as a candidate function. I suggest that the function of blame is to promote trust within a community. -- Daniel Williams PhD Candidate in Philosophy Email: [email protected] Trinity Hall, Cambridge _____________________________________________________ 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.
