{"id":171,"date":"2015-12-08T10:46:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T10:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=171"},"modified":"2019-04-29T10:22:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T10:22:23","slug":"seminars-reasons-and-norms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Two seminars: Reasons and Norms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Departmental Research Seminars will be held in Spring 2016, as part of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/Arts\/reasons-norms\/\" ><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Reasons and Norms<\/span><\/a>\u00a0series. Both are\u00a0on\u00a0the Open University\u2019s main Walton Hall campus in Milton Keynes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">rd<\/span><\/sup> February 2016: <\/strong><strong>Dr Ema Sullivan-Bissett (University of Birmingham), \u2018Epistemic normativity and biological function\u2019. 2pm \u2013 4pm, Wilson A, Meeting Room 05<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Summary <\/em>My focus is on epistemic normativity, in particular: beliefs <em>about <\/em>beliefs. With many others, I claim that our mechanisms for belief production have the biological function of producing true beliefs. However, I also claim that beliefs about epistemic normativity are false. We might say that in virtue of their falsity, beliefs about epistemic normativity are not doing what they are supposed to do, that they are malfunctioning beliefs. Here I argue that in this case we do not have <em>accidental<\/em> false belief, but rather we have a case of false belief produced by mechanisms doing exactly what they should be doing. Such beliefs are biologically useful, but not as an approximation to truth.<\/p>\n<h4>2<sup>nd<\/sup> March 2016:\u00a0Dr Eileen John (University of Warwick), title tbc. <strong>2pm \u2013 4pm, Wilson A, Meeting Room 05<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>All welcome. Contact Carolyn Price (carolyn.price@open.ac.uk) for more information on these events and on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/Arts\/reasons-norms\/\" ><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Reasons and Norms<\/span><\/a> research group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Departmental Research Seminars will be held in Spring 2016, as part of the\u00a0Reasons and Norms\u00a0series. Both are\u00a0on\u00a0the Open University\u2019s main Walton Hall campus in Milton Keynes. 3rd February 2016: Dr Ema Sullivan-Bissett (University of Birmingham), \u2018Epistemic normativity and biological function\u2019. 2pm \u2013 4pm, Wilson A, Meeting Room 05 Summary My focus is on epistemic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[19,18],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-seminars","tag-reasons-and-norms","tag-seminar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}