Events
Philosophy Department
Language of Conservation Project: In Search of “Values as Yet Uncaptured by Language”
Page Smith LibraryIn Search of “Values as Yet Uncaptured by Language:” Learning from Great Historical Paradigm Shifts A Language of Conservation Project Colloquium. Presented by The Humanities Institute and the Center for Public Philosophy. Event Photos: Speakers: Daniel Guevara - Chair, Department of Philosophy at UCSC Claudio Campagna - Adjunct Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at UCSC, Wildlife Conservation Society Karen […]
Maeve Cooke: “Civil Disobedience as Civil Regeneration: The Radically Transformative Power of Political Law-Breaking”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesMaeve Cooke is Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. Professor Cooke's work focuses on the question of truth (intrinsic value) in social and political theory, with particular attention to debates on religion and politics. Her principal book publications are Language and Reason: A Study of Haberma's Pragmatics (MIT […]
Ram Neta: “Puzzle of Transparency”
Humanities 1, Room 202The Puzzle of Transparency As you and I are out for a walk, I notice that the sky is getting cloudier and so I ask you "do you believe that it's going to rain?" In response to this question, you normally do not pay attention to your own states of mind, but rather to the […]
Center for Public Philosophy: High School Ethics Bowl
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWhat is an Ethics Bowl? The Ethics Bowl is a collaborative yet competitive event, more nuanced than debate, in which teams are presented with a series of wide-ranging ethical dilemmas and are asked to analyze them; they are then judged on the basis of their analyses. An exciting tournament, it is also a way for […]
Philosophy Colloquium: Jonathan Cohen, “Many Molyneux Questions”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Many Molyneux Questions" Mohan Matthen and Jonathan Cohen Molyneux asked whether a newly sighted man would recognize and distinguish a sphere and a cube by sight alone, assuming that he could previously do this by touch. The most historically important responses to Molyneux arise from views that apply uniformly to questions about the transferability of […]
Maudemarie Clark “Nietzsche’s Nihilism”
Humanities 1, Room 202Nietzsche claims that in realating the "advent of nihilism," he is relating "the history of the next two centuries." He also claims that he himself has been a nihilist, but that he had now left it behind, "outside of self." In this paper, I offer an account of how Nietzsche understands nihilism and of how […]
Ethics and Language of Conservation Colloquium
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: Ethics and Language of Conservation What is Lost When a Species Goes Extinct? A Colloquium on the Unspeakable Value of Life Friday, April 14, 2017 2:00-5:30pm Humanities 1, Room 210 Speakers: Claudio Campagna Adjunct Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCSC Wildlife Conservation Society Daniel Guevara Chair, Department of Philosophy, UCSC Paul Koch […]
Audun Dahl: The Empirical Reality of Moral Reasoning
Humanities 1, Room 202Many theories have viewed reason and reasoning as essential to making moral judgments. In contrast, recent psychological proposals have contested the centrality of reasoning, arguing that most or many moral judgments are based on automatic, emotional reactions (sometimes termed "institutions," e.g. Greene, 2013; Haidt 2013). These proposals are based on experiments taken to show that […]
Susanna Schellenberg “Perceptual Consciousness as a Mental Activity”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAbstract: I argue that perceptual consciousness is constituted by a mental activity. The mental activity in question is the activity of employing perceptual capacities, such as discriminatory, selective capacities. This is a radical view, but I hope to make it plausible. In arguing for this mental activist view, I reject orthodox views on which perceptual […]
Northern California High School Ethics Bowl
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: by Crystal Birns What is an Ethics Bowl? The Ethics Bowl is a collaborative yet competitive event, more nuanced than debate, in which teams are presented with a series of wide-ranging ethical dilemmas and are asked to analyze them; they are then judged on the basis of their analyses. An exciting tournament, […]