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Episteme - the Epistemology research group in Geneva

Rationality and Logic of Norms: Séminaire Episteme / P. Engel, Maîtrise-Pro*Doc Printemps 09

Programme FNS connaissance, raison et normes

Horaire et salle: hebomadaire, jeudis 14-16, salle B108 (Uni Bastions).

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Ce séminaire est la suite du séminaire "Problèmes d'éthique et d'épistémologie" d'automne 2008.

Aims

The seminar (which is a sequel to the seminar on epistemology and ethics in autumn 08) is devoted to a set of questions relating to the norms of thought and the “oughts” of thoughts : are there such oughts and obligations? what is their logic ? to what extent can deontic logic help analysing these? In what sense are they related to the general requirements of rationality? What is their relation to reasons and to values ? We shall mostly examine these issues through a detailed analysis of recent work by John Broome. A seminar and a workshop on John Broome will end the seminar, which will also make room for papers given by guest and participants on these topics.

Calendar

See also the wiki webpage of the seminar for updates on the calendar.

1. 19 february 2009 P.Engel: The scope and nature of normativity
2. 26 february P. Engel: Broome on "Normative Requirements" (2000)
3. 5 March P. Engel: Kolodny on "Why be rational?" (2005)
4. 12 March J. Dutant (Genève), "Knowledge, safety and methods"
5. 19 March J. Dutant (Genève), "Modals and Knowledge Attributions"; included within the eidos epistemology workshop organized by Gian-Andri Toendury
6. 26 March TBA or P. Engel, "Oughty Thoughts"
7. 2 April Mircea Dumitru (Bucarest), "Modal and deontic logic"
8. 9 April Olivier Massin (Genève) "Distinguishing values from norms"
9. 23 April TBA
10. 30 April Davide Fassio (Genève), "Detachment in deontic logic"
11. 7 Mai Maksymilian del Mar (Lausanne), "Straw people, straw lives: the myths of compliance and motivation"
12. 14 May Jack Darach (Fribourg), "Normative Sensitivity"
13. FRIDAY 22 May Workshop with J. Broome, Josée Brunet (UQAM), Olav Gjelsvik (Oslo)

Basic bibliography

• Broome, J. 2000 “Normative requirements”, in Dancy, J. ed Normativity, Oxford Blackwell
• Broome, J. ‘Reasons’, in Reason and Value: Themes from the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz, edited by Jay Wallace, Michael Smith, Samuel Scheffler and Philip Pettit, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Broome, J. ‘The unity of reasoning?’, forthcoming in Spheres of Reason, edited by Simon Robertson.
• Broome, J. ‘Is rationality normative?’, Disputatio, 11 (2008), pp. 153–71.
• Broome, J. ‘Requirements’, in Homage à Wlodek: Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz, edited by Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen, Björn Petersson, Jonas Josefsson and Dan Egonsson.
• Broome, J. ‘Does rationality consist in responding correctly to reasons?’, Journal of Moral Philosophy, 4 (2007), pp. 349–74.
• Hattiangadi, A. Oughts and Thoughts, Oxford, Oxford University Press
• Kolodny, N 2004 “Why be Rational ?” , Mind 114:455 (2005): 509–63
• Wedgwood, R. 2007 The nature of Normativity, Oxford, Oxford University Press

Other relevant material will be given in the seminar.

Episteme is a newly created research group on epistemology at the University of Geneva led by Pascal Engel.