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…
Reading: tbc Location: Edgecliffe G03
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 copy.
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: 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 Razor, the principle of parsimony that tells us that things should not be multiplied more than is necessary (all else being equal). After I distinguish…
Reading: tbc Location: Edgecliffe G03
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