21-25 May 2007
Bayreuth, Germany
Ankndigung Vorlesungsreihe: WITTGENSTEIN LECTURES 2007 IN BAYREUTH Prof. Michael Smith (Princeton University) "From Rankings to Reasons" Universitt Bayreuth, 21. bis 25 Mai 2007 INHALT "Consequentialism is the view that we have most reason to do whatever we can do that brings about the best outcome. In this series of lectures I provide an argument for consequentialism, so understood, from very basic premises about the nature of goodness and human psychology. The view that emerges has several very surprising features: it is consistent with Geach's claim that 'good' is attributive; it is a version of rationalism, and so dovetails nicely with rationalist accounts of freedom and responsibility; it is neutral on the issue that is commonly thought to divide deontologists from utilitiarians; and, perhaps most surprisingly, it shows why religious approaches to values and reasons are themselves, at the very deepest level, secular in nature." ORTE, ZEITEN (c.t.), TITEL Montag, 21. Mai Vorlesung 1: So what if 'good' is attributive? 16 bis 18 h, H 26, GW I Anschlieend kleiner Empfang im Foyer von GW II Dienstag, 22. Mai Vorlesung 2: The explanatory role of being rational 10 bis 12 h, H 12, NW I Kolloquium: 14 bis 16 h, H 23, RW Mittwoch, 23. Mai Vorlesung 3: From rationalism to the dispositional theory of value 10 bis 12 h, H 19, NW II Kolloquium: 14 bis 16 h, H 13, NW I Donnerstag, 24. Mai Vorlesung 4: Values and reasons: two kinds of consequentialism 10 bis 12 h, H 12, NW I Kolloquium: 14 bis 16 h, H 12, NW I Freitag, 25. Mai Vorlesung 5: Secular vs religious approaches to values and reasons 10 bis 12 h, H 19, NW II Informationen zu Michael Smith: http://www.princeton.edu/~msmith/ Informationen zu seinen Wittgenstein Lectures: http://pe.uni-bayreuth.de/?coid=93 Informationen zu Bayreuth: http://www.bayreuth.de/deutsch/tourismus_29.html Kontakt: Prof. Dr. Rudolf Schler (rudolf.schuessler@uni-bayreuth.de) Sekretariat: Brigitte Gossler (brigitte.gossler@uni-bayreuth.de)