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BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//TYPO3/NONSGML Calendar Base (cal) V1.11.1//EN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:www.hhu.de_248_18821 DTSTAMP:20181004T203808 DTSTART:20181204T173000Z DTEND:20181204T190000Z CATEGORIES:Kolloquium des Instituts SUMMARY:Timothy Williamson (Oxford): Morally Loaded Cases in Philosophy DESCRIPTION:Bitte beachten Sie: Der Vortrag findet abends im großen Saal des Haus der Universität statt.\r\n\r\nIm Rahmen unseres Philosophischen Kolloquiums laden wir herzlich ein zu einem Vortrag von \r\n\r\nTimothy Williamson (Oxford): Morally Loaded Cases in Philosophy\r\n\r\nAbstract\r\n\r\nMorally loaded examples\, e.g. those involving Nazis\, are sometimes more convincing than ones you might expect to be more clear-cut based on common sense or science. I’ll illustrate the phenomenon in connection with relativism\, scepticism\, and internalism in epistemology. But is it legitimate\, or a kind of cheating\, stirring up emotions to bypass reason? I’ll argue that something subtler is going on.\r\n\r\nZur Person\r\n\r\nTimothy Williamson has been the Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford since 2000. He was born in Uppsala\, Sweden\, in 1955. After an undergraduate degree in mathematics and philosophy and a doctorate in philosophy\, both at Oxford\, he was a lecturer in philosophy at Trinity College Dublin\, a fellow and tutor at University College Oxford\, and Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh.\r\n\r\nHe has been a visiting professor at MIT and Princeton\, a visiting fellow at the Australian National University and the University of Canterbury (New Zealand)\, a visiting scholar at the centre for advanced study in Oslo\, a Nelson distinguished professor at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, a Townsend Visitor at Berkeley and Tang Chun-I visiting professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. \r\n\r\nTimothy Williamson is the author of Identity and Discrimination (Blackwell 1990\, updated edition 2013)\, Vagueness (Routledge 1994)\, Knowledge and its Limits (Oxford 2000)\, The Philosophy of Philosophy (Blackwell 2007)\, Modal Logic as Metaphysics (Oxford 2013)\, and two books that are accessible to a wider audience: Tetralogue (Oxford 2015) and Doing Philosophy (2018).\r\n\r\nTimothy Williamson ist Gast der Forschungsgruppe Inductive Metaphysics. LOCATION:Haus der Universität, Schadowplatz 14, 40212 Düsseldorf END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR