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…
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Reading: 聽Jessica Isserow and Colin Klein 鈥楬ypocrisy and Moral Authority鈥�, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 12 (2):191-222 (2017) Location: Edgecliffe G03
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…
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Reading: Crisp, Roger, and Christopher Cowton. 鈥淗ypocrisy and Moral Seriousness.鈥� Location: Edgecliffe G03
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…
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Reading: ‘Being Good and Being Good-For-Someone: Why Consequentialism Must Be Wrong’ Location: hybrid On this occasion, the paper will be distributed separately. Please email Joel Joseph if you’d like a…
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…
Title: Co-intensional Properties and Running Afoul of Ockham’s Razor Abstract: Hyperintensionalists like myself hold that there are distinct but co-intensional properties. However, intensionalists object that accepting such properties violates Ockham鈥檚…
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