TITLE: Fundamentality Without Favouritism ABSTRACT: According to a widely endorsed conception of fundamentality, the fundamental is characterized in terms of a certain privileged relation or set of relations. On this conception, something is fundamental just in case it is unexplained relative to a unique privileged relation or a privileged set of relations. Let us say…
ABSTRACT. 鈥斅燱e are living in times where there is considerable debate over what sex and gender are and who gets to be of what sex and what gender. These are questions that impact people’s lives greatly, some more than others. They are metaphysical questions but they also concern what principles we should be guided by…
Abstract: In supplementing the familiar ways that our interpersonal relationships are morally fraught, recent work in epistemology on doxastic wronging has highlighted how these relationships can be epistemically fraught as well. However, in focusing predominantly on beliefs鈥� mental states that arguably constitute a small fraction of our mental lives鈥攖hese theories have their own theoretical blindspots.…
Title: ‘Normative Expectations’ Abstract: In supplementing the familiar ways that our interpersonal relationships are morally fraught, recent work in epistemology on doxastic wronging has highlighted how these relationships can be epistemically fraught as well. However, in focusing predominantly on beliefs鈥� mental states that arguably constitute a small fraction of our mental lives鈥攖hese theories have their…
2021 Knox Lecture (online via Teams) Knox Lecturer: Tim Scanlon (Harvard University) Title: Further Reflections on Tolerance and its Difficulty Abstract: The paper revisits the account of tolerance discussed in the author鈥檚 paper, 鈥淭he Difficulty of Tolerance,鈥� with the aim of clarifying (1) the reasons people have to care about the character of their society…
TITLE: Against Conservative Ontology ABSTRACT:聽In his recent book聽Objects: Nothing Out of the Ordinary聽(2015), Dan Z. Korman argues in favour of conservatism in metaphysics, that is, very roughly, that what we聽ordinarily聽take there to be is true. Especially, we are right about how many objects there are and what these objects are supposed to be. Korman takes…