Title: Responsibility in Philosophy and Law
Lecturer: John Hyman (Grote Chair in the Philosophy of Mind and Logic in University College London)
Chairperson: XU Zhu (Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, East China Normal University)
Date: 2:30 pm, November 14th, 2019 (Thursday)
Venue: Room 5303, Building of School of Humanities, Minhang Campus, ECNU
Sponsor: Si-mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, ECNU
Abstract of the Lecture:
The concept of responsibility has been studied intensively during the last sixty years in both philosophy and legal theory, but these two investigations have run for the most part on independent tracks. I shall show how the philosophical study of responsibility can benefit from ideas developed in legal theory, where the institutional framework in which questions about responsibility are raised and addressed guides research.
Brief Introduction of the Lecturer:
Professor John Hyman is the Grote Chair in the Philosophy of Mind and Logic in University College London. Since 1988 he spent around thirty years in teaching and researching philosophy in University of Oxford. He specializes in epistemology and metaphysics, philosophy of mind and action, philosophy of art, and the philosophy of Wittgenstein. His main publications include Action, Knowledge, and Will (Oxford University Press 2015), The Objective Eye (University of Chicago Press 2006), and lots of papers on honorable journals. He was one of editors for Blackwell Companion to Wittgenstein, and British Journal of Aesthetics. Now he begins to lead a five-year research project entitled Roots of Responsibility, supported by an ERC Advanced Grant.
