RIP Seminar Monday 13 February 2017 - Professor Stephen Grimm

Professor Stephen Grimm (Fordham University, New York)

Join us for this one-off extra seminar from Stephen Grimm, Professor of Philosophy at New York's Fordham University, who will be visiting the UK from the US.

Title: Understanding as an Intellectual Virtue

Abstract: "I will try to elucidate the various ways in which understanding can be seen as an excellence of the mind or intellectual virtue. Along the way, I will take up the neglected issue of what it might mean to be an “understanding person” — by which I mean not a person who understands a number of things about the natural world, but a person who steers clear of things like judgmentalism in her evaluation of other people, and thus is better able to take up different perspectives and view them with a sympathetic eye. Being an understanding person in this sense seems to be a character-level virtue that interestingly combines moral and epistemic elements; it also seems to be a virtue particularly needed in our age of deep political division, where it is commonly said that failures of mutual understanding are partly to blame for this problem."

N.B. This event will take place on Monday 13 February in room A31, Sir Clive Granger Building — not the usual venue of the Machicado Suite.

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