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  • Moral Philosophy Reading Group

    Moral Philosophy Reading Group Description: This group reads and discusses an article per week, chosen by a different member each time. Day/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. Organizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).

  • Philosophy and Social Theory Seminar: Emilia Wilson Dangerous Speech, Free Speech and Cancel Culture

    Abstract: Toxic speech inflicts individual and group harm, damaging the social fabric upon which we all depend. To understand and combat the harms of toxic speech, philosophers can learn from epidemiology, while epidemiologists can benefit from lessons of philosophy of language. In medicine and public health, research into remedies for toxins pushes in two directions:…

  • Epistemology Seminar: Paulina Sliwa (Cambridge) “Asking the right moral questions”

    Abstract: What is it to engage in moral inquiry? The received wisdom is that it is to answer moral questions 鈥� that is, questions about what we ought to do. Someone has moral expertise to the extent to which she is reliable at arriving at true answers to those questions. Philosophical disagreements have focused on…

  • CEPPA Talk 鈥� Lisa Herzog (University of Groningen)

    Title: Big Data and the Risk of Misguided Responsibilization 聽 Abstract: The arrival of 鈥渂ig data鈥� promises new degrees of precision in understanding human behavior. Could it also make it possible to draw a finer line between individual choices and circumstances that operate in the background? In a culture in which individual responsibility continues to…

  • Metaphysics Seminar Travis Manuel (University of 58吃瓜)

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United Kingdom

    Title: Composition as Identity defeats an Ethical Objection to Four-Dimensionalism Abstract: Johnston, Olson, and Taylor have argued against four-dimensionalism on the grounds that it commits us to the existence of personites, which are proper temporal parts of four-dimensional persons. They argue that the existence of personites makes many of our moral beliefs and practices untenable,…