Self-Torture as Practical Sorites
Wednesday 22 October 2014, 4.30PM to 6.30pm
Speaker(s): Visiting Speaker: Dr Luke Elson, University of Reading
Self-Torture as Practical Sorites
“Philosophers have argued that Warren Quinn’s Puzzle of the Self-Torturer and other ‘vague projects’ require radical revisions to orthodox, utility-maximising rational choice theory. I disagree, and argue that they are best understood as a variant of the paradox of the heap, or sorites. Orthodox decision theories may require extension to cover such cases, but not radical revision.”
Further details about Dr Luke Elson can be found at:
Location: Department of Philosophy, S/B/A009 Sally Baldwin Building, Block
Admission: PEP and Philosophy Colloquium members, and postgraduate students