The purpose of the conference is to bring together researchers from aesthetics and metaethics\u2014especially moral epistemology\u2014to discuss the nature of moral and aesthetic testimony. It has been observed that, while testimony is an important and perfectly good source of justification and knowledge in most domains, there is something odd about basing one\u2019s moral and aesthetic beliefs (purely) on the testimony of others. For example, while I can know that there\u2019s an ATM around the corner purely on the basis of your testimony, and basing my belief on this testimony seems totally unproblematic (assuming I don\u2019t have reason to think you\u2019re lying, unreliable, etc.), basing my belief that eating meat is morally wrong, or that the new painting in the gallery is beautiful wholly on your testimony is problematic in some way. This conference will explore questions such as, \u2018What, if anything, is problematic about this?\u2019, \u2018What does this mean for the possibility of moral and aesthetic experts?\u2019, and \u2018Are there relevant asymmetries between the moral and aesthetic cases?\u2019.<\/p>\n
Confirmed speakers are: Alison Hills (Oxford) Julia Driver (Washington) Louise Hanson (Cambridge) Errol Lord (Pennsylvania) Jon Robson (Nottingham) Aaron Meskin (Leeds)<\/p>\n
Please let us know if you would like to come by emailing either\u00a0Justin Snedegar<\/a>\u00a0(js280@st-andrews.ac.uk<\/a>) or\u00a0Lisa Jones<\/a>(lj14@st-andrews.ac.uk<\/a>)<\/p>\n This conference is open to all philosophers in Scotland and beyond and is made possible by the generous support of the Scots Philosophical Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The purpose of the conference is to bring together researchers from aesthetics and metaethics\u2014especially moral epistemology\u2014to discuss the nature of moral and aesthetic testimony. It…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1863,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-2269","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2270,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2269\/revisions\/2270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}