Sophie Grace Chappell is Professor of Philosophy at the Open University in the UK. Before that she taught at the University of Dundee and Oxford. Sophie has a wide variety of interests, including ancient philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of literature. She and Robinson speak about her latest book, Epiphanies: An Ethics of Experience. More particularly, their discussion centers around philosophy and literature—including a wonderful reading of Gerard Manley Hopkins—the relationship between ethics and aesthetics, and some potential pitfalls of taking a theory-building approach to moral philosophy.
Outline:
00:00 Introduction
2:27 Literae Humaniores
14:42 The Etymology of "Outrage"
19:19 Literature and the Phenomenology of Being Human
36:51 Ethics and Aesthetics
49:13 Poetry and Philosophy
53:40 What Are Epiphanies?
58:56 Gerard Manley Hopkins and His Terrible Sonnets
1:10:20 James Joyce and Epiphanies
1:14:35 Theory-Building Approaches to Ethics
1:24:41 Sophie's Approach to Ethics
1:29:49 Testing Ethical Theories
1:32:12 Sophie the Mountaineer
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