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A public lecture with Akeel Bilgrami and Laurent Jaffro on Are Moral Reasons Response - Dependent?
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - 4:10pm - 5:30pm
Columbia University
Morningside Campus
716 Philosophy Hall
The analogy between colors and values, drawn by Hume in a subjectivist
manner, has been applied in the opposite direction by moral realists
who claim that 'desirability' is a quality to which agents are
sensible under ideal conditions. The paper sets out objections to
Michael Smith's view that moral reasons are response-dependent and
that they constitute the kind of reasons which would motivate ideal
agents.
Laurent Jaffro is the Director of the Department of Philosophy and a Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Panthon-Sorbonne University, where he is also a member of the Philosophies contemporaines research center. His main areas of research are moral theory and history of moral philosophy, skepticism and common sense, and history of British philosophy.
For more information, please visit http://www.jaffro.net/
Akeel Bilgrami will act as a discussant.
Co-sponsored by the Philosophy Department Colloquium Series at Columbia University.
Laurent Jaffro is the Director of the Department of Philosophy and a Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Panthon-Sorbonne University, where he is also a member of the Philosophies contemporaines research center. His main areas of research are moral theory and history of moral philosophy, skepticism and common sense, and history of British philosophy.
For more information, please visit http://www.jaffro.net/
Akeel Bilgrami will act as a discussant.
Co-sponsored by the Philosophy Department Colloquium Series at Columbia University.
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