Seminar Room 00.063, Ground Floor, Schwarzman Centre
Nico Cornell (University of Michigan): 'Residing Humility'
Abstract: Calls for epistemic humility are ubiquitous; seemingly everyone acknowledges the need for it. This paper defends a non-epistemic idea of humility. That is, it defends the existence of normative phenomena that does not involve epistemic content or processes, and yet that seemingly constitute a form of humility. It involves seeing yourself as having a limited sphere of action; it is captured colloquially by the thought, “not my place.” The paper then explores some connections between this idea and environmental ethics and the so-called rights of nature.
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Workshop in Moral Philosophy Convenor: David Owens
