Venue: Public Lecture Theatre 122, Old Arts Building
Presenters: Professor Elizabeth Anderson
The 2016 Barry Taylor and David Lewis Philosophy Lecture
Pragmatism is often loosely characterized as the view that people should adopt "whatever works." This seems like empty and useless advice, since it omits any substantive criterion of what works. This lecture will explain what this advice really means, why we ought to follow it, and how we can follow it. The key to pragmatism lies in its method, which deeply integrates moral with empirical inquiry. Pragmatism offers two ways to intelligently update our moral beliefs: bias correction, and experiments in living. In this presentation, Professor Anderson will illustrate how these methods work and why they make sense.
Professor Elizabeth Anderson is the author of Value in Ethics and Economics (Harvard UP, 1993), The Imperative of Integration (Princeton UP, 2010), and numerous, widely reprinted articles in journals of philosophy, law, and economics.
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https://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/6986-how-to-be-a-pragmatist
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