Does blameworthiness depend on awareness of wrongdoing? Five views Event as iCalendar
(Philosophy)
13 March 2019
4 - 6pm
Venue: Pat Hanan Room, Te Puna Reo / Cultures, Languages and Linguistics Building (207-501)
Location: 31 Wynyard street, Auckland
Tom Yates | Philosophy post-graduate research seminar
In this talk, Tom Yates presents five competing answers to the question of whether being worthy of blame for wrongdoing depends on having awareness of that wrongdoing. Four of these answers are attempts to avoid a skeptical problem for the classic view - strong internalism - which holds that blameworthiness depends on a strong form of awareness.
Agreeing that strong internalism should be rejected, it is argued that whichever alternative should be taken depends less on intuitions about individual cases and more on which background theories of blame and responsibility should be accepted.
John Bishop will provide a brief orientation to post-graduate studies for new Honours, MA and Post-Graduate Diploma students. All Philosophy post-graduate students are encouraged to attend and support this post-graduate seminar. Refreshments will be provided!
