{"id":524,"date":"2017-02-07T01:46:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T01:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philsoc.eu\/?p=524"},"modified":"2017-02-07T01:47:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T01:47:49","slug":"week-4-events-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euphilsoc.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/07\/week-4-events-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 4 Events"},"content":{"rendered":"
Reading and Film Group<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n
Monday, 6th\u00a0February; 7 pm<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0The New Amphion, Teviot Row House\u00a0(Map<\/a>)<\/em><\/div>\n
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Reading: Anita L. Allen’s\u00a0Atmospherics: Abortion Law and Philosophy<\/a>. <\/em>
\n(Next week’s reading:\u00a0Susan Bordo’s Anorexia Nervosa: Psychopathology as the Crystallization of Culture<\/em><\/a>)<\/div>\n
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Discussion Group<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n
Tuesday, 7th February; 7 pm<\/span><\/span>, The New Amphion, Teviot Row House\u00a0(Map)<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n
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Topic: Science vs. Pseudo-science<\/em><\/div>\n
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Academic Support Office Hours<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n
Wednesday, 8th February<\/span><\/span>; 1.30\u00a0pm until 3.30\u00a0pm<\/span><\/span>, Dugald Stewart Building (DSB), Room 5.01.<\/em><\/div>\n

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Guest Lecture<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Thursday, 9th\u00a0February<\/span><\/span>; 6.15 pm<\/span><\/span>, David Hume Tower, Lecture Theatre B.<\/em><\/p>\n

Speaker: Prof. David Bloor, University of Edinburgh<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Title: “Relativism and Mr. Trump”<\/em><\/div>\n
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Abstract:\u00a0Donald Trump became president of the USA after a campaign notable for its mendacity. Why did such behaviour attract, rather than repel, votes? Some commentators answer this question by saying that we live in a post-truth age. But how did that come about? Part of the blame has been attributed to a group of academics, called \u2018relativists\u2019, who are said to have undermined the respect for truth. I shall examine this argument and show that, among other mistakes, it rests on an absurd misrepresentation of relativism. There are Trump-like tendencies in the academic world but they find expression in the anti-relativist, not the relativist, literature.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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