school of philosophy

spring lecture series

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Darwin, Aristotle,
and Moral Knowledge
Dr. Micah Lott
Boston College

In a series of thought-provoking essays, Sharon Street has argued that

once we appreciate the influence of natural selection on our normative
beliefs, we see that normative realism leads to skepticism about moral
knowledge. While Street's "Darwinian Dilemma" has generated
significant debate in meta-ethics, Aristotelian views have been almost
entirely absent from that debate. In this lecture, Dr. Lott will develop
an Aristotelian response to Street, and, in the process, attempt to
clarify the sense in which Aristotelian naturalism is a form of moral
realism.

March 27, 2015

2 PM Aquinas Hall Auditorium