[PHILOS-L] Interdisciplinary Online Speaker Series on the Ethics of Argumentation - Ian James Kidd: Whatever Happened to Misology?

[Stevens, Katharina]

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We are excited to announce the fourth talk in the 2025 Interdisciplinary Speaker Series on the Ethics of Argumentation! The series takes place on the first Friday of every month at 1PM ET. It hosts a variety of distinguished speakers from many areas, including philosophy, political science, communication studies, jurisprudence as well as public intellectuals.   

You will be able to see the list of abstracts for this year under: 
https://www.argnet.org/ethics-of-arg.

You will also find information about our upcoming speaker. Furthermore, you can watch past talks on our you-tube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF50_BXQYXwcqFfLdXav5rg.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE A TALK, PLEASE EMAIL Katharin...@uleth.ca. You will be added to a mailing list that receives the zoom links for the talks each month. We will assume that those who subscribed in the last years would like to remain subscribed, but please email us if you would like to be removed from the list. 

We are looking forward to the fourth talk of our 2025 series on April 4th at 1 PM ET by Ian James Kidd:

Whatever happened to misology?

In this talk I discuss the concept of misology – defined by Socrates as the hatred of reason and argumentation – and ask how it might be developed using contemporary work in character epistemology. I argue that Socrates’ account of the aetiology of misology is too individualistic and pathological in ways that occlude the social and interpersonal conditions that can fuel the loss of trust in reason characteristic of misology. I sketch a more complex and dynamic picture of the predicament of those people tempted by misological attitudes. This includes appeal to contemporary work on epistemic vices and corruption, virtuous and vicious forms of cynicism, and the idea that philosophical doctrines can be assessed for their receptivity or resistance to misology. The talk concludes on the connection of misology to misanthropy and pessimism as those terms are understood in their contemporary philosophical senses.

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