Talk: What ethics might be

20 January 2025, 10:15 am

We am very happy to announce that Professor Sophie Grace Chappell (Open University) is gracing us with a visit soon. On 20 January she will be giving a talk on the same theme of her 2022 book Epiphanies: An Ethics of Experience (OUP).

Talk title: What ethics might be

Abstract:  Why isn’t philosophical ethics more interested in epiphanies? I don’t mean that epiphanies are the only thing that ethical philosophers should be allowed to talk about. But I do wonder why moral philosophers don’t more often start with some careful and accurate examination of our experience of value; with some phenomenology, as philosophers call it, some close and detailed descriptive examination of our ethical experience. We hear a lot in philosophy about questions like “What is it like to be a bat?”, and such questions intrigue me too. But what about asking ourselves “What is it like to be a human being?”?

Details: 20 January, 10:15-11:45, AS-Saal (ESA Hauptgebäude)

All are welcome, no registration necessary.