[SydPhil] CAVE Seminar (Macquarie): Logi Gunnarson, "On becoming a good philosopher" - Tues 7 March 1pm

Thu Mar 2 14:00:03 AEDT 2017

Hi all,

You are invited to a seminar hosted by the Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE). Logi Gunnarson (Potsdam) will give a seminar on 7 March, entitled, "On becoming a good philosopher." All are welcome and no registration is required.

Logi Gunnarson (Potsdam), "On becoming a good philosopher"
Date: Tuesday 7 March 2017
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Venue: W6A 708, Macquarie University (P12 on the campus map<http://www.mq.edu.au/__data/assets/image/0010/183556/campus_map.png>) NOTE change of room number

Abstract:
Ludwig Wittgenstein is reported to have said about William James: “That is what makes him a good philosopher; he was a real human being”. I believe that Wittgenstein was right about James. However, I also think that Wittgenstein’s contention is true of philosophy in general. My lecture is about this general claim.

About the speaker:
Logi Gunnarsson studied philosophy at the University of Iceland (B.A), the University of Pittsburgh (M.A., Ph.D.) and the University of Frankfurt am Main. He is Professor of Philosophy, the founder and director of the William James Center and co-director of the Human Rights Center at the University of Potsdam (Germany). His research interests include issues in personal identity, moral philosophy, the philosophy of philosophy and William James. Among his publications are Philosophy of Personal Identity and Multiple Personality (Routledge, 2010) and Making Moral Sense: Beyond Habermas and Gauthier (Cambridge UP, 2000, paperback 2007). He is completing a book in German on the philosophy of philosophy with the title Vernunft und Temperament (Reason and Temperament).

All welcome, and no registration is required.

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Kelly

Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (CAVE)
Department of Philosophy
Macquarie University
Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
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