Moral Philosophy Reading Group
This week we will discuss James Sias, ‘Ethical Intuitionism and the Emotions: Toward an Empirically Adequate Moral Sense Theory’, available here. Location: Edgecliffe G03
This week we will discuss James Sias, ‘Ethical Intuitionism and the Emotions: Toward an Empirically Adequate Moral Sense Theory’, available here. Location: Edgecliffe G03
Title: Emotion-Based Environmental Ethics: The Radical Implications of Taking Wonder Seriously Abstract: In environmental ethics, we find many competing theories of environmental value, but little discussion of the epistemological grounds for believing…
Title: The Paradox at the Boundary of Everything Abstract: TBC
Title: Beyond Speech: Pictures and Oppression Abstract: Philosophical work on oppressive forms of expression strongly tends to give verbal and written linguistic expression pride of place. When it comes to…
Title: The Sex/Gender Distinction, Revisited Abstract: This talk will build on an earlier chapter in my thesis where I sketched out two conceptual resources from psychoanalysis, these being the body-schema…
Title: Saying Something with Nothing Abstract: Ontological nihilism is the view that fundamentally there are no objects. Whilst it is an increasingly popular view, nihilists face a so-called expressive adequacy…
Philip Ebert (University of Stirling): Varieties of Risk Pluralism (joint work  with N. Pedersen) The dominant approach in the literature on risk is to adopt a monist stance by taking…
 Location: Edgecliffe G03
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