Date: Thursday, April 19, 2012. 05:30 PM.
Location: 370-370 (Main quad) 450 Serra mall Stanford, CA 94305
The Kant Lectures are a three-day event that consists of two lectures and a discussion seminar, given yearly by a distinguished philosopher. This event is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at Stanford. Distinguished philosopher Thomas Scanlon will be our guest speaker this year. Abstract: "Contrary to what is often said, the idea that there are irreducibly normative truths does not have troubling metaphysical implications, nor is it incompatible with 'a scientific view of the world.' Moreover, because facts about reasons are not entities existing apart from us, there is no epistemological problem of how we can 'be in touch with' such facts. There are serious problems about our knowledge of normative truths, but these problems are internal to the normative domain itself. They arise from the fact that we do not have, and perhaps cannot hope to attain, a sufficiently complete and determinate first-order characterization of this domain."
Location: 370-370 (Main quad) 450 Serra mall Stanford, CA 94305
The Kant Lectures are a three-day event that consists of two lectures and a discussion seminar, given yearly by a distinguished philosopher. This event is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at Stanford. Distinguished philosopher Thomas Scanlon will be our guest speaker this year. Abstract: "Contrary to what is often said, the idea that there are irreducibly normative truths does not have troubling metaphysical implications, nor is it incompatible with 'a scientific view of the world.' Moreover, because facts about reasons are not entities existing apart from us, there is no epistemological problem of how we can 'be in touch with' such facts. There are serious problems about our knowledge of normative truths, but these problems are internal to the normative domain itself. They arise from the fact that we do not have, and perhaps cannot hope to attain, a sufficiently complete and determinate first-order characterization of this domain."