'Who Cares? Reflections on Indifference and Detachment'

Dr Hallvard Lillehammer (Cambridge)

'Who Cares? Reflections on Indifference and Detachment' 28 March 2013 16:30 de Havilland Campus
Refectory Lounge

About the event

Event type: Seminar

Talk about indifference plays an important role in the background of debates about fundamental ethical problems. But what is meant by indifference? What forms can indifference take? Who is indifferent, to what, and in what way? Can indifference be a virtue, or is it always a vice? In this talk I show how different forms of indifference can be both highly dynamic and acutely sensitive their object, and argue that some of the very features that make indifference ethically admirable or virtuous in some situations can in other situations make it ethically vicious or wrong.

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