4/02/2025 Mich "A subjectivist view on meaningful work"
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Mardi, 04 février 2025, 12h45Mardi, 04 février 2025, 14h00
Mardi intime de la Chaire Hoover par Charlotte Unruh
This talk develops and defends a novel subjectivist view on meaningful work. I argue that work is meaningful for a worker when the worker has attachment-based reasons to engage in the work. I argue that this “attachment view” can explain variations in the meaningfulness of work and show how the view avoids apparent counterexamples. If I have time, I will end with some preliminary observations about meaningful work in an age of automation and AI.