New department blog
Welcome, fellow philosophers. This is the newly opened UCSB Philosophy Department blog, on which we hope to have some random discussion of philosophical (or other) issues. If you've got an issue that you're thinking about (and who doesn't?) write up a little something for other readers to respond to. I'll post some of my own concerns soon, but here are a few starter questions that I mostly don't know how to answer.
- What is the object of belief? I.e., when George believes that it is raining, is there a thing to which he is thereby related, and if so, what is that thing? E.g., is it a Russellian proposition, a neural state type, or what? Is there an answer that is satisfying from both a semantic and psychological point of view?
- Can I name anything anything? I.e., does a name have to be a linguistic entity, or could it be, e.g., a person or a tree or an event? Could I name something as the Battle of Trafalgar (not "The Battle of Trafalgar")? (MG's question)
- Does art have moral properties, as well as aesthetic properties? Are good works of art morally good, or is art morally neutral? What's the relation between these notions?
posted by Luke M @ 9/23/2005 10:20:00 AM
1 Comments:
At 3:14 PM,
Luke M said…
Thanks Anand. Yes, the question was not sufficiently specific, and there are probably multiple interesting ways to take it. One possibility I had in mind was the question of whether works of art (can) have moral properties in virtue of their aesthetic properties, or vice versa, perhaps. Is it ever, e.g., morally good that something is beautiful? Whether or not we think that these morally properties are ultimately non-relational, this question is still open.
I'm not sure if your example could be an example of aesthetic properties, but then I can't think of a suitable way to delimit the class of aesthetic properties right now. But that's a bigger problem.
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