Dear All, This is a reminder that the next meeting of the Moral Sciences Club will be held tomorrow (11th February). We are delighted to welcome Manuel Garcia-Carpintero (Barcelona), who will be giving a talk entitled 'Two Views on Rule-Constituted Kinds'. The abstract for the talk is as follows:
The paper distinguishes between two conceptions of kinds defined by constitutive rules, the one suggested by Searle, and the one invoked by Williamson to define assertion. Against recent arguments to the contrary by Maitra, Johnson and others, it argues for the superiority of the latter as an account of games. On this basis, the paper argues that the alleged disanalogies between standard games and language games suggested in the literature in fact don’t exist. The paper relies on Rawls’s distinction between types (“blueprints”, as Rawls called them) of practices and institutions defined by constitutive rules, and those among them that are actually in force, and hence truly normative; it defends along Rawlsian lines the plurality of norms applying to actual instances of rule-constituted practices, and uses this fact to counter the plausible examples that Maitra, Johnson and others provide to sustain their case. The meeting will be held from 2:30 until 4:15 in the Jane Harrison Room 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 today. 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.
