Greetings all, This coming Monday, June 16 1.00-2.30 Cynthia Townley from Macquarie University will talk to us about betrayal.
Abstract: It is tempting to invoke a concept of betrayal to distinguish trust from other forms of dependence or expectation, and thus to characterise trust as the form of dependence that makes the depender vulnerable to betrayal. But if trust is defined in terms of betrayal, it is uninformative to explain betrayal as that kind of letting someone down, or disappointing them which involves a violation of trust. Hence the need for independent work on betrayal, whether or not it is a counterpart to trust. In this paper, I examine what an account of betrayal would need to achieve, and begin to develop such an account. See you all there Dr. Kristie Miller Australian Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and The Centre for Time The University of Sydney Sydney, Australia Room 411, A18 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: (work) 02 9036 9663 Ph: (mobile) 0432 275 286 http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Home%20Page.html _______________________________________________ SydPhil mailing list [email protected] List Info: http://lists.arts.usyd.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil NEW LIST ARCHIVE: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
