2012 Gudrun and Hari Sharma Lecture/Philosophy Colloquium

[Vicki Brett]

The 2012 Gudrun and Hari Sharma Lecture/Philosophy Colloquium will be held Friday, October 12, 2012
at 3:30 p.m. in HH 280:  Joshua Knobe, Yale University, "Person as Scientist, Person as Moralist".
The abstract is pasted below:

"Person as Scientist, Person as Moralist"
Joshua Knobe
Yale University

It has often been suggested that people's ordinary understanding of the world is a bit like a scientific theory -- not quite as rigorous or precise, perhaps, but still best understood as serving the same basic purpose. Yet a series of recent experimental studies have called this view into question. These studies show that people's ordinary understanding of the world can actually be influenced in surprising ways by moral considerations. I will be discussing this wave of new research and its implications, focusing especially on experiments that examine the way people ordinarily use the notions of intention, knowledge, innateness and valuing.

Please see  http://philosophy.uwaterloo.ca/research/upcomingevents.html  for more information on the Philosophy Colloquium Series 2012/2013.


Vicki Brett
Undergraduate Coordinator
Philosophy Department - HH 365
University of Waterloo
vbrett at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:vbrett at uwaterloo.ca>
Tel: 519-888-4567 (x 32449)
Fax: 519-746-3097

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