Hi everyone, This week's speaker in the University of Sydney Philosophy Seminar Series is Waldemar Brys, (University of Notre Dame, Australia)
The title of the talk is "Early Confucianism and Knowledge-to". Here is an abstract for the talk: I argue that early Confucian philosophical texts offer us a view on which a person’s knowing to φ—that is, her knowledge-to—is a distinct kind of knowledge irreducible to more familiar kinds, such as knowing-that, knowing-how, or knowing-by-acquaintance. Unlike knowing-that, knowing-to is non-propositional, and unlike knowing-how and knowing-by-acquaintance, knowing-to is present only when the agent is performing a corresponding action. I defend such an early Confucian account of knowledge-to by arguing that it offers us an attractive conceptual alternative to standard ways of thinking about the relation between knowledge and action. The seminar will take place at 3:30pm on Wednesday Aug 13 in the Philosophy Seminar Room (N494). Enquiries about the seminar series can be directed to [email protected] Ryan Cox Associate Lecturer in Philosophy Discipline of Philosophy School of Humanities University of Sydney [email protected]
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