Hi everyone, The next Philosophy seminar at Macquarie will be 26 August W6A Rm 720, 11-1.
Lisa Bortolotti (Philosophy Department University of Birmingham and MACCS, Macquarie University) will present a paper titled The Epistemic Benefits of Reason Giving There is an apparent tension in current accounts of the relationship between reason giving and self knowledge. Philosophers like Richard Moran (2001) claim that deliberation and justification can give rise to a special kind of first-person authority over the attitudes that subjects form or defend on the basis of reasons. On the other hand, the psychological evidence on the introspection effect and the literature on elusive reasons (e.g. Wilson 2002) suggest that engaging in explicit deliberation or justification leads subjects to report attitudes that are not consistent with their previous attitudes or with their future behaviour. Do deliberation and justification contribute to first-person authority and self knowledge? I shall defend a modest account of authorship of attitudes as the capacity to endorse one's attitudes by adducing reasons in support of their content. This account is compatible with the empirical findings on introspection and also with the claim that deliberation and justification have epistemic benefits. All are welcome. Further details of the seminar series can be found at http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/events/index.html Cynthia Townley Philosophy Department Macquarie University Sydney NSW 2109 Australia Tel: +61 2 9850 8812 Fax: +61 2 9850 8892 _______________________________________________ SydPhil mailing list [email protected] List Info: http://lists.arts.usyd.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil NEW LIST ARCHIVE: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
