Title: Reality is overrated. What should we do about it?
By Sena Bölek (UNSW, Philosophy)
Date: Thursday, November 7, 2024
Time: 1530-1700
Room: H232
Abstract: We don’t need to dig deeply into facts and truth-makers to make sense of what moral reality is. Somebody might say that if we can’t measure something then we don’t need that thing. Whether we need it or not there is always a contradictory truth to what exists. Those truths are and will be discovered through acting together: through conflict and cooperation. So, moral objectivity, or the criterion for being a moral agent is not the ability to differentiate truth from falsity. It is the acceptance of both truth and falsity. Moral realists do not explain reality in this way. I propose a new realist solution.
About the speaker: Sena Bölek is a PhD student at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She completed her MA in Philosophy at Bilkent University and her first degree in Psychology at Yeditepe University. She is currently writing a PhD thesis on the issues of moral uncertainty and objectivity.
