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SUMMARY:POSTPONED: An Ethics of Attention
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Daniel Stephens\, University at Buffalo \nDiscussant: Elizabeth Edenberg\, CUNY Baruch \nSpurred partly by recent attempts to ethically assess various negative effects of the attention economy\, philosophers have begun to pay more attention to the role that attention plays in our ethical lives. This has included some more general discussion of the ethics of attention. In this talk\, I add to this recent discussion by outlining a proposal for a comprehensive ethics of attention. On my proposal\, an ethics of attention includes norms that stem from the role that attention plays in the formation of our character\, in constituting our relationships and social roles\, and in our other ethical decision making and behavior. Because of attention’s nature as a finite resource\, and because our various roles and relationships involve interpersonal expectations for how others allocate their attention\, an ethics of attention should provide norms that govern how we collectively allocate our attention among these morally important purposes. Because these morally important purposes are all competing for our attention\, one goal of an ethics of attention should be to find practices that help to synergize how people meet these demands. I call such a set of practices a “social-attentional scheme”\, and propose that the ultimate goal of an ethics of attention is to find an optimal social-attentional scheme. I conclude by discussing the various ways in which we can understand early Confucian ethics as providing us with one such social-attentional scheme\, and propose some lessons we can take from this Confucian example as we try to continue developing a contemporary ethics of attention. \nThis event is sponsored by The Columbia Society for Comparative Philosophy and co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. \nFor more information\, please visit HERE. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nContact Information\nAllison Aitken\nallison.aitken@columbia.edu\n\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/postponed-an-ethics-of-attention/
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