[SydPhil] Current Projects - Luke Russell

[Kristie Miller]

Greetings all,

This coming Monday, April 21, 1.00-2.30 in the
philosophy common room, Luke Russell from the
University of Sydney will give a paper titled:

He Did It Because He Was Evil

Abstract: 

In his book The Myth of Evil Phillip Cole argues that
even if there were actual evil persons, evil would be
a redundant,pseudo-explanatory concept, a
psychological black-hole that is incapable of
explaining why people do wrong. In this paper I defend
the view that evil does have the requisite form to
function as an explanation, and thus,if
there are any actual evil actions or persons, evil
will be explanatorily useful.

Dr. Kristie Miller
Australian Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and
The Centre for Time
The University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia

Room 411, A18
Email: kristie_miller at yahoo.com
Email: kmiller at usyd.edu.au
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