Philosophy Program and Dean of the College Present

What is Incoherence? Towards a Non-Absolutist View

We often seem to care that our attitudes match the way things are. At the same time, we also seem to care about our attitudes cohering or fitting together. Many philosophers accept that "failing by one’s own lights" in this way is incoherent and in some sense irrational. But what does it mean for attitudes to be incoherent in this way, and what unifies the various examples of incoherence? In this talk, Clark argues that existing theories of incoherence rest on the mistaken assumption that certain attitudes are incoherent no matter what, regardless of who has them or of contextual features, then sketches an alternative way of thinking about incoherence, in terms of intelligibility.

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Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5

Location: Hegeman 204

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