Coming up: Andrew Sepielli discusses uncertainty about how to deal with uncertainty

Monday Seminar talk, November 14th, 3-5pm, Larkin 200

What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do”
Andrew Sepielli, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto

From the introduction: “There’s been renewed interest in the question of what it’s rational to do in the face of normative uncertainty – uncertainty among moral theories, claims about what to do in particular cases, and even accounts of rationality itself. But some fascinating problems have been raised not for any particular answer to this question, but to the very project of trying to answer this question. One of these problems invokes agents who’ve tried to answer the question for themselves, but have arrived at answers that we might regard as mistaken…”