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Please join us on for the Second edition of the Philosophy of Climate Science (PhiCliSci) working group, which will bring together philosophers and climate scientists to discuss central themes relating to the climate crisis. In the first session, climate scientist Simon Lee and philosopher Viviane Fairbank will give presentations on the topic of 鈥楥limate Modelling…

Title:聽Resisting the unexperienced Abstract: An experience is epistemically transformative when you can鈥檛 know what it鈥檚 like without having the experience. Though this characterisation doesn鈥檛 neatly fit聽transformative聽experiences, a surprising number of everyday experiences fit the description. The clearest parallel is with aesthetic experiences. The Acquaintance Principle (Budd, 2003) says that an agent can only appreciate an…

Title:聽Multiple Aims of Science and the New Demarcation Problem Abstract: TBC Location: Edgecliffe G03

Title:聽The Democratic Soul in Plato and Whitman Abstract: In Books II-IV of the Republic, Plato famously proposes an analogy between the constitution of the Greek city-state and the constitution of the human soul. The methodological assumption that underlies the architecture of the聽Republic聽is that philosophical questions about topics that we might today group under the heading…

Title:聽Hypocrisy as Evasion Abstract: Hypocrites attract moral condemnation and are widely thought to lack standing to criticise others. This paper argues against attempts to explain this that appeal to moral conditions on blaming and notions of moral authority, proposing instead an account based on a conception of moral interactions聽as fundamentally dialogical in character. According to…

Title: Revisiting the Spinoza Controversy in an age of Environmental Crisis Abstract: Modern scientific naturalism arguably tries to ontologically describe or account for the entirety of the natural world using necessity. Scientific naturalism presents logical causal necessity as constituting how nature “makes” things exist, and it presents necessity in the more general or abstract sense…

Title:聽The Incomparable Value of the Individual Abstract: Kant believed that every human being should be treated as an end in itself. In the聽Groundwork, Kant explains many of our duties by arguing that their violation would involve treating a human being as a mere means. But we cannot explain all of our duties that way. Nor…

Title:聽Autonomy and control over one鈥檚 social self-consciousness Abstract: Humans have the capacity to absorb 鈥� to feel 鈥� others鈥� feelings. More particularly we feel others鈥� feelings about ourselves: at least as long as we are awake, we are subject to being self-consciously affected in our interactions with others. We are capable of social self-consciousness, and…

Title:聽Hope and the Powers of Shared Agency Abstract: This paper argues that Kant鈥檚 theory of radical evil exalts the powers of organized, shared and institutional, agency. In section 1, I illustrate the paradoxicality of radical evil and the novelty of Kant鈥檚 鈥渆mpowering鈥� conception focused on human agency. In section 2, I argue that radical evil…

Title:聽The (Aesthetic) Value of Environmental Activism Abstract: TBC Location: Edgecliffe G03

Title: Merely Imagined Moralities Abstract: Artworks and other cultural products (films, novels, operas, pop songs, etc.) often express heroic, pessimistic, melancholy, or dark ways of looking at the world (also referred to as 鈥榩erspectives鈥�). Sometimes, these worldviews appear politically inflected; we may, for instance, describe a work as “feminist” or “patriotic” according to the worldview…

Title: Tbc Abstract: Tbc Location: Edgecliffe G03