Lund Philosophical Society: Stephen Finlay

The Lund Philosophical Society invites everyone to attend a public lecture by professor Stephen Finlay (University of Illinois) on the 25th of September at 18:15 in LUX:B237. The title is "Objective Re_alativity" and the abstract is as follows:

“It’s all relative!” This may be truer than you think, unobvious relativity characterizing a wide swathe of central philosophical issues—such as possibility and probability, ontology, free will, and consciousness. The relativity of value and morality is a case of particular interest and controversy. Some people consider it obviously true, others consider it equally obviously false—and often, pernicious. If morality is relative, doesn’t that mean anything goes? That morality doesn’t really matter? That we fail to engage each other, our moral pontifications like ships passing in the night? But it all depends: relative how, and to what? Exploring an analogy with Left/Right I’ll suggest that morality’s being relative is compatible with a robust degree of objectivity, and properly formulated is nothing to fear.