Final Paper & Podcast

Issue No. 3 | Volume CXV | 2014 – 2015
What Are Sources Of Motivation?
Giles Pearson
University of Bristol
Monday, 1 June 2015
17.30 – 19.15
The Woburn Suite
Senate House
University of London
Malet Street
London WC13 7HU
United Kingdom
Chaired by Adrian Moore (Oxford) – President of the Aristotelian Society
About the Speaker
Giles Pearson is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Bristol. He has been at Bristol since 2007. Prior to that he was a lecturer at Birkbeck College, London (2006-2007), and a research fellow at Christ’s College, Cambridge (2003-6). His research is in ancient philosophy and metaethics, with particular interests in Aristotle’s moral and philosophical psychology, and philosophical accounts of motivation. He is the author of Aristotle on Desire (2012, Cambridge University Press) and he co-edited (with M. Pakaluk) Moral Psychology and Human Action in Aristotle (2011, Oxford University Press). He is currently working on his second monograph, on contemporary metaethics, concerning the role of desire in motivation.
* The final paper will be available in Issue No. 3 of the 2015 Proceedings, which is due to be released in October.
** A podcast of the talk will be available approximately one week after the talk has been delivered.