Archive for November 2022
Philosophy Talk at Marmara: Silvia Caprioglio Panizza on “Attention and the Foundations of Morality” (25.11.2022) Via Zoom
Silvia Caprioglio Panizza (University of Pardubice, University College Dublin) will give a talk at Marmara on Friday. All are welcome.
Date: Friday November 25, 2022
Time: 18:00 – 20:00 (Istanbul Time)
To attend the event please send an e-mail to marmara.phil.talks@gmail.com
“Attention and the Foundations of Morality”
About the Speaker: Silvia Caprioglio Panizzais Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Centre for Ethics, University of Pardubice, working on a project on moral impossibility (MIGHT), and honorary fellow at the PEriTiA project on public trust at the Centre for Ethics in Public Life, University College Dublin. She is the author of The Ethics of Attention: Engaging the Real with Iris Murdoch and Simone Weil (Routledge 2022), co-editor of The Murdochian Mind (Routledge 2022) and co-editor of Simone Weil’s literary works (Bloomsbury 2019 and 2023). Her research focuses on meta-ethics, moral psychology, environmental ethics, and animal ethics, for which she is has founded the research group Vegan Studies Network (VSN).
Abstract: in this paper I present an argument for an ethics of attention, i.e. a conception of ethics which takes attention as fundamental. I will do this by drawing on and developing insights from Iris Murdoch and Simone Weil. I present two axes along which to consider attention ethically: the presence and absence of attention (attention as truth-revealing), and the objects of attention (attention as focusing our minds and structuring our visions via some particular objects). Together, these axes show that whether we attend and what we attend do determine the background upon which moral thinking, deliberation, and action take place. Hence, attention does not replace, but is prior, to much of what is considered in contemporary academic moral discourse. It follows that, to address moral issues, we first of all need to pay attention to attention.
Talk on Friday at Boğaziçi University: ‘DICE: A HAZARDOUS SYMBOL FOR CHANCE?’ by Jean-Yves Beziau
Dear all,
There will be a talk on Friday, Nov 18, 2022, at 5pm at JF507. Everybody is welcome.
Title: DICE: A HAZARDOUS SYMBOL FOR CHANCE?
Abstract: In this talk we examine up to which point dice throwing is a good symbolization of chance. This is the opportunity to examine the notion of chance relating it to other notions like determinism and causality in the perspective of a general theory of semiotics distinguishing symbols from arbitrary signs, related to the use of formalism in logic and mathematics.
by Jean-Yves Beziau, Federal University of Rio de Janerio
6th Bilkent International Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
6th Bilkent International Undergraduate Philosophy Conference will take place on Saturday, November 19, 2022, via Zoom. This year, we have 6 speakers from 5 countries.
To attend the conference, please see the registration link here:
Registration is free but required. Once you are registered, Zoom meeting information will be sent to you via e-mail.
Hesperus is Bosphorus 