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<div><span style="text-decoration:none">Hi all,</span><br style="text-decoration:none">
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<font style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span dir="ltr" style="font-size: inherit !important; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 120, 212) !important; color: currentcolor;">On Friday, Oct 13th</span> (tomorrow), we are hosting
a guest postgraduate speaker from ANU, Theo Murray on “Balancing Blame’s Epistemic Norm” (see abstract below). </font>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This talk is part of the speaker swap series that has been running between USYD, MQ, and ANU over the last few months.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div>
<div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">It would be much appreciated if you’d attend this talk, both to give feedback to our guest speaker and to support this initiative of exchanging experiences between philosophy departments. </span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
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<div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>When & Where: </b>The talk will take place<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-size: inherit !important; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 120, 212) !important; color: currentcolor;">Oct
13 from 3 pm - 4.30 pm</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in the Philosophy Seminar Room (N494) in the Quadrangle.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hope to see you there!</span></div>
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<div><font style="line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:14px"><b>Title: </b></span></font><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Balancing Blame’s Epistemic Norm</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Abstract:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Blame is only fitting if certain facts hold: the action
was wrong, the accused is responsible, the blamer has standing (e.g. isn’t a hypocrite), and so on. But as blamers, we only get uncertain evidence of these facts and thus need an epistemic norm of blaming: how strong does the evidence need to be for blame
to be fitting? </span><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:14px">‘</span></font><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I propose
that this norm is just set by weighing up the costs of blaming too readily, and excusing (not blaming) too readily, and that these costs vary case-by-case. I respond to an approach from Coates (2016) who only considers one kind of cost, and fend off a sceptical
challenge from Rosen (2004) who claims that we never have enough evidence to blame. Finally, because our practice of blaming admits flexibility, I argue that we ought to modify our blame to be more conversational in response to uncertainty. And because uncertainty
is ubiquitous, we always have reason to blame conversationally.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14px;line-height:1.5"><b>Speaker:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Theo Murray, </span><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:1.5">PhD Candidate ANU </span><a href="mailto:Theodore.murray@anu.edu.au" data-outlook-id="d72abcf7-eed9-48aa-909d-2983b268a1bf" data-linkindex="0" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(32, 32, 255);">Theodore.murray@anu.edu.au</a></p>
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<span style="font-size:14px;line-height:1.5">Theo completed his philosophy honours at USyd in 2019 on conceivability argument, under the supervision of DBM. </span></p>
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