[SydPhil] University of Sydney Philosophy Seminar Series, Waldemar Brys, (University of Notre Dame, Australia)

[Ryan Cox]

Hi everyone,

This week's speaker in the University of Sydney Philosophy Seminar Series is Waldemar Brys, (University of Notre Dame, Australia)

The title of the talk is "Early Confucianism and Knowledge-to". Here is an abstract for the talk:

I argue that early Confucian philosophical texts offer us a view on which a person’s knowing to φ—that  is, her knowledge-to—is a distinct kind of knowledge irreducible to more familiar kinds, such as knowing-that, knowing-how, or knowing-by-acquaintance. Unlike knowing-that, knowing-to is non-propositional, and unlike knowing-how and knowing-by-acquaintance, knowing-to is present only when the agent is performing a corresponding action. I defend such an early Confucian account of knowledge-to by arguing that it offers us an attractive conceptual alternative to standard ways of thinking about the relation between knowledge and action.

The seminar will take place at 3:30pm on Wednesday Aug 13 in the Philosophy Seminar Room (N494).

Enquiries about the seminar series can be directed to ryan.cox at sydney.edu.au

Ryan Cox
Associate Lecturer in Philosophy
Discipline of Philosophy
School of Humanities
University of Sydney
ryan.cox at sydney.edu.au
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