Dear all,
This coming Monday, James Ley (USyd) will talk to us about "The long
familiar ethics of memory". 1.00-2.30 in the philosophy common room.
Abstract:
"The ethics of memory concerns claims that we should remember, or
should not forget, certain events or features of the past. These
claims are made in relation to both individuals and groups, and so
concern both 'individual' and 'collective' memory. In this paper I
consider Avishai Margalit's outline of an ethics of memory (Harvard UP
2002) in the context of recent findings in cognitive psychology
(retrieval-induced forgetting and SS-RIF) and the phenomena of
'language evolution' described in two recent letters to the journal
Nature. I argue that these sources afford us consideration of the
means by which human action affects the content of individual and
collective memory. And by saying how it is that action affects the
content of memory it becomes possible to describe the foundation of
claims that we should remember, or should not forget. I argue that the
foundation of these claims is one long-familiar to us. The ethics of
memory is best understood in relation to Aristotelian virtue ethics."
See you all there...
Dr. Kristie Miller
University of Sydney Research Fellow
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and
The Centre for Time
The University of Sydney
Sydney Australia
Room 411, A 18
[email protected]
[email protected]
Ph: 02 93569663
http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Home_Page.html
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