Fictionalism in Ethics
Some time ago, my colleague Matthias Neuber persuaded me to present a paper at his Vaihinger conference (also see the conference page on Lanyrd). The paper is supposed to deal with ‘fictionalism’ in ethics and should ‘somehow’ relate to Vaihinger’s philosophy of the as if. Oh well! But I agreed. The upshot is that I will present a paper entitled “Eine Moral des als ob?” at Matthias’ Vaihinger-conference. The commentary will be done by Bahadir Eker, who currently does a wonderful job in assisting me in my meta-ethics courses. I am afraid, though, that my concern might be more with Frege-Geach than with Vaihinger… Still, it’s fun!
There was none yet, so I propose this handy Twitter hashtag: #alsob
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Sabine Döring is Professor of Philosophy at Universität Tübingen.
She is also Board Member and Principal Investigator of the Tübingen cluster of excellence Center for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN). And she is speaker of the Mini-GK Grounding Self and Agency.
Sabine studied Philosophy, German Literature, Linguistics, and Psychology at Göttingen University. She was Research Associate in Philosophy at King's College London and The University of Manchester, and prior to that an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Duisburg-Essen University, also doing research at UC Berkeley and St. Andrews University.
Her main research areas are (meta-) ethics, aesthetics, and the theory of practical rationality, with an emphasis on emotion and the question of what role the emotions have to play in the theory of value. She is also interested in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of the social sciences, in particular, in the philosophy of economics.
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