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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This week's speaker in the University of Sydney Philosophy Seminar Series is Hannah Tierney, (University of California, Davis)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The title of the talk is "The Risky Business of Forgiveness". Here is an abstract for the talk:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Philosophers have noted a tension between two independently plausible features of forgiveness: (1) Forgiveness is reasoned: it is something that agents do for reasons, and (2) Forgiveness is elective: it is not
something that agents can be required to do. As Per-Erik Milam (2018) has recently argued, if something is done for reasons, particularly moral reasons, then those reasons can, at least sometimes, generate a requirement for an agent to do that thing. So, those
who wish to defend both (1) and (2) must deny that reasons to forgive can be requiring and explain why these reasons possess this potentially unique feature. In this talk, I take up this challenge. I argue that forgiveness is reasoned and elective because
it is risky. By reflecting on the riskiness of forgiveness, we can come to see not only how forgiveness can be both reasoned and elective, but also why forgiveness is not so unlike other attitudes at play in our moral lives.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The seminar will take place at 3:30pm on Wednesday Aug 21 in the Philosophy Seminar Room (N494).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Enquiries about the seminar series can be directed to <a href="mailto:ryan.cox@sydney.edu.au">
ryan.cox@sydney.edu.au</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ryan Cox<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Associate Lecturer in Philosophy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Discipline of Philosophy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">School of Humanities<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of Sydney<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ryan.cox@sydney.edu.au<o:p></o:p></p>
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