Dear All, The next meeting of the Moral Sciences Club will be held next Tuesday (28th January). We are delighted to welcome Rachel Sterken (Oslo), who will be giving a talk entitled 'Authentic Speech'. The abstract for the talk is as follows:
This talk provides an account of what it is to speak authentically. Authentic speech is an under-explored topic: Philosophers of language have produced theories of many different forms of speech, but authenticity has been overlooked. This, I suggest, is a mistake: descriptions of speech as authentic (or inauthentic) are ubiquitous and authenticity plays an important role in many communicative exchanges. The talk has three main parts: 1. I provide an account of authentic speech, 2. I show how it differs from sincere speech, and 3. I argue that there are speech acts that have authenticity conditions. The meeting will be held from 2:30 until 4:15 in Sidgwick Hall at Newnham College, and will be followed by tea and coffee. If you would like to have dinner with the speaker in the evening following the talk, please email the secretaries of the club ([email protected]) by midday on Monday 27th. This dinner is open to anyone who has attended the talk and those who sign up for dinner will be notified of the details closer to the time. Best wishes, -- Alex Horne, Roxane Noel and Zoe Walker 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: https://lists.cam.ac.uk/pipermail/phil-events/ Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
