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The Alberta RNA Research and Training Institute presents Dr. Michael Stingl from the Department of Philosophy. His talk is titled "Ethical Arguments: Are They Aimed at Truth?" The ARRTI Speaker Series is open to the public and was established to bring leading researchers to the University of Lethbridge for lectures on a broad range of topics relating to RNA research. All are welcome! Coffee and snacks will be provided.
Abstract:
The talk will start with two moral dilemmas to get us arguing about ethics. Given how we in fact argue about ethics, it seems like we are in the pursuit of something we might want to call moral truth: the truth about what we ought to do, or at least, ought not to do. Is moral truth purely a matter of the internal coherence of our overall system of moral beliefs, from beliefs about particular cases all the way up to the most abstract and general of moral principles? Or might moral belief systems be anchored in certain kinds of things that are naturally and biologically good, like empathetic caring, fairness and trust? Might moral beliefs, in other words, be on the track of moral goods that are what they are, independently of how we might want to think and argue about them?
Contact:
Emily Wilton | emily.wilton@uleth.ca