会议讲座

5月9日:美国Fordham University哲学系知名知识论学者Stephen R. Grimm讲座

北京大学哲学系、北京大学外国哲学研究所、北京大学分析哲学研究中心特邀
美国福坦莫大学哲学系(Philosophy Department, Fordham University (Bronx, NY, USA))知名知识论学者Professor Stephen R. Grimm

于2017年05月09日(星期二)10:00-12:00主讲:

“Understanding as an Intellectual Virtue”(“作为理智德性的立理解”)

此次学术报告的宣讲和讨论地点为:北京大学人文学苑3号院3109室

报告内容摘要:
In this talk I elucidate various ways in which understanding can be seen as an excellence of the mind or intellectual virtue. Along the way, I take up the neglected issue of what it might mean to be an “understanding person”—by which I mean not a person who understands a number of things about the natural world, but a person who steers clear of things like judgmentalism in her evaluation of other people, and thus is better able to take up different perspectives and view them with a sympathetic eye. Being an understanding person in this sense seems to be a character-level virtue that interestingly combines moral and epistemic elements; it also seems to be a virtue particularly needed in our age of deep political division, where it is commonly said that failures of mutual understanding are partly to blame for this problem.
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主讲人简介:
Stephen R. Grimm教授执教于美国Fordham大学哲学系,目前是剑桥大学Clare Hall访问学者。主要从事知识论与科学哲学领域的研究,在Mind, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science等著名哲学期刊发表论文多篇。他对于“理解”(understanding)问题的研究获得国际同行的普遍认可与关注,他因此受邀为Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy撰写Understanding词条。Grimm教授曾是大型跨学科研究项目“Varieties of Understanding”的主持人(project leader),此项目的主要参与单位包括福特汉姆大学哲学系,纽约大学哲学系和加州大学伯克利分校心理学系等。他还曾受邀担任“泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名”(2011和2015年度)以及“美国国家科学基金会”(National Science Foundation)的评审人。
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