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SUMMARY:Plenary Seminar: Pree Jareonsettasin (Cambridge)\, ‘Bradwardinian modal contextualism to the rescue’
DESCRIPTION:TITLE: ‘Bradwardinian modal contextualism to the rescue: reconciling divine determinism with creaturely freedom by distinguishing sorts of contingency’. \nABSTRACT: \nIs man free in a world created by God and over which God exercises providence? The fourteenth-century logician-mathematician-theologian Thomas Bradwardine has\, for seven centuries\, been accused of having sacrificed human freedom on the altar of divine providence. He argued that every event occurs\, by unstoppable divine will\, of necessity. Yet he is committed to non-divine moral agents contingently determining their actions. His divine determinism needs a complementarily credible account of contingent action.  \nThe main aim of this paper is to expound Bradwardine’s account of (the modal notion) contingency and trace its consequences for understanding freedom of action. I first set up the reconciliation problem and show three claims: that Bradwardine \n(1)  was\, like David Lewis\, a modal contextualist\, taking the meaning of everyday modal terms to depends on an implicit context (relevant causal facts\, including facts about causal preconditions). \n(2)  defines contingency as a causal concept. Calling an action contingent relates it to its causal circumstances: E is contingent iff given the obtaining of E’s causal preconditions\, E is evitable. \n(3)  distinguishes between two (simpliciter/unrestricted and secundum-quid/restricted) types of contingency. E is contingent simpliciter iff all of E’s causal preconditions obtain and E is evitable. E is contingent secundum-quid iff some of E’s causal preconditions obtain and E is evitable. \nI argue he solves the reconciliation problem through his insight that when our actions are considered to be up to us\, we don’t consider God as their causal agent (even though He is). Accordingly\, our everyday moral-responsibility-relevant use of modal terms is implicitly indexicalised to a domain of causal facts restricted to exclude the causal fact of God’s unstoppable causation of all events. Assume that a free action won’t inevitably occur given the obtainment of its non-divine causal preconditions. It follows\, by Bradwardine’s definition of restricted contingency\, that free action is contingent secundum-quid. \nA significant upshot is that the seven-century-old accusation that Bradwardine’s commitment to theological fatalism entails an error-theoretic account of creaturely freedom is unfounded. His deterministic worldview does not entail holding a proto-Hobbesian/Calvinist/Frankfurtian view of freedom. The future is (metaphysically\, not merely phenomenologically) open\, because our fellow creatures cannot compel us to freely act.
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LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Medieval Logic Research Group,Plenary session,Speaker visit
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SUMMARY:Plenary / Special Seminar
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URL:/philevents/event/plenary-special-seminar-6/
CATEGORIES:Plenary session
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SUMMARY:ECT Seminar
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URL:/philevents/event/ect-seminar-6/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03
CATEGORIES:Epistemology Seminar
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the 300th Anniversary of the Publication of  Francis Hutcheson’s An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
DESCRIPTION:Thursday 23 October \n1.30-2.30 Elizabeth Radcliffe (William and Mary): “Moral Epistemology in Hutcheson’s Inquiry” \n2.30-3.30 Michael Walschots (Milan): “Hutcheson on Desire: A Reappraisal” \n3.30-4.00 Tea and coffee \n4.00-5.00 Enrico Galvagni (Edinburgh): “Hutcheson’s Sentimentalist Voluntarism” \n5.00-6.00 Signy Gutnick Allen (Zurich): ‘Hutcheson and Smith on Justice and Compassion’ \n6.00-6.30 A toast to the Liberty Fund edition of Hutcheson’s A System of Moral Philosophy \nFriday 24 October \n9.00-10.00 Xiao Qi (Nankai): “Hutcheson on Moral Obligation and its Relations to Virtue and Right” \n10.00-11.00 Michael Gill (Edinburgh): “The Authority of Morality\, and Kant’s Disagreement with Hutcheson” \n11.00-11.30 Tea and coffee \n11.30-12.30 Ryan Hanley (Boston College): “Hutcheson on Love and Disinterestedness” \n12.30-1.30 Lunch \n1.30-2.30 Dale Dorsey (Oxford): “That Peculiar Relation: Friendship and Fellowship in Shaftesbury and Hutcheson” \n2.30-3.30 Emily Brady (Texas A&M): “Hutcheson\, Formal Beauty\, and Imagination” \n3.30-4.00 Tea and coffee \n4.00-5.00 Aaron Garrett (Boston University): “Cutting Hutcheson’s Gordian Knot\, and Modern Moral Philosophy” \nSee also the event website
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LOCATION:Edgecliffe\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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