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Title: Gregory Strom
Agent-Centred Restrictions, the Imagination and Rational Growth
Abstract:
Many philosophers hope that we can shed important light on the conceptual
space determined by philosophical debates about the nature of moral
restrictions on our conduct by distinguishing philosophical positions that
are committed to the existence of agent-centred moral restrictions from
those that are not. I argue that an insufficiently appreciated difficulty
about how to specify criteria of identity for restrictions on our conduct
undermines that hope. Appreciating this difficulty obliges us to
appreciate as well a special role that the imagination plays in the
etiology of an ethically excellent action. I suggest this result enables
us to isolate a domain of rational conduct not best understood on the model
of the interaction between perceptual and agentive rationality that has
dominated philosophy since Descartes, but rather on the model of nutrition
and growth. The isolation of this vegetative rational domain should be
welcome news for virtue ethicists, who wish somehow to maintain that
morality requires more of us than merely that we act in conformity to its
requirements.
When: Mon 10 Oct 13:00 – 14:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney
Where: University of Sydney, Philosophy Common Room
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