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<p class="MsoNormal">The next Philosophy Colloquium will be:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Friday, November 1, 2013 <br>
3:30 p.m. in HH 373<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">James Beebe, University at Buffalo SUNY<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>“The Folk Conception of Weakness of Will”<br>
</b>Experimental philosophers have recently begun to investigate the folk conception of weakness of will. Despite the fact that philosophers have traditionally viewed weakness of will as consisting solely in akrasia--i.e., in acting contrary to one's better
judgment--researchers have found that the moral valence of actions and the violation of resolutions to act in particular ways also figure prominently in folk thinking about weakness of will. Some have suggested that these findings are not easily accommodated
by the traditional analysis and that it must be replaced. I will discuss the results of studies that investigate the role that moral valence and resolution violations play in attributions of weakness of will and how these factors interact with attributions
of akrasia. I then propose a unifying explanation of the data in terms of the violation of normative reasons for action.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A list of our upcoming talks can be found at <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/philosophy/events">https://uwaterloo.ca/philosophy/events</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Vicki Brett</b><br>
<span style="font-size:9.0pt">Undergraduate Coordinator<br>
Philosophy Department – HH 365<br>
200 University Avenue W.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Caflisch Script Pro Regular","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><a href="mailto:vbrett@uwaterloo.ca">vbrett@uwaterloo.ca</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Tel: 519-888-4567 x32449<br>
Fax: 519-746-3097<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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