Epiphanies
Talk
Professor Sophie Grace Chappell, The Open University
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Event date
Monday 4 November 2024, 6.15pm to 7.45pm
Location
In-person only
Room ATB/056, Seebohm Rowntree Building (ATB), Campus West, University of York (Map)
Room ATB/056, Seebohm Rowntree Building (ATB), Campus West, University of York (Map)
Audience
Open to alumni, staff, students, the public
Admission
Free admission, booking not required
Event details
The Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture
A serious and humane philosophical ethics should take epiphanies as seriously as humans do. An epiphany is an overwhelming existentially significant manifestation of value, often sudden and surprising, which feels like it “comes from outside”—it is something given, relative to which I am a passive perceiver—which teaches us something new, which “takes us out of ourselves”, and to which there is a natural and correct response. What will an ethics centred on epiphanies look like? And what won’t it look like? These are the questions that Sophie will address in this talk.
Please note the change in venue from that previously advertised.
Venue details
Wheelchair accessible
Hearing loop