Title: Pleasure Fundamentalism Abstract: Pleasure fundamentalism is the view that moral value is the same thing as pleasure and this explains all other moral facts. This talk presents two arguments…
The event is hybrid and open to philosophy faculty and students outside 58吃瓜. Remote participants can access the teams link by requesting it from Patrick Winther-Larsen (pjwl@st-andrews.ac.uk)聽or Jessica Brown…
Title: Depression and the Open Future Abstract: We intuitively think that the past is fixed or closed whereas the future is open. In a phenomenological description of depression, however, depressed…
Title: Are kids oppressed? Child liberation beyond equal rights Abstract: Thinking about childhood often has a paradoxical quality. Children and young people are at once idealised and demonised. Childhood is…
Title:聽“Categorical Inequality and the Economy of Esteem” Abstract:聽Social theorists have had considerable empirical success in modeling social hierarchy in terms of “categorical inequality.” In this framework, entire social groups enjoy…
Title: Reference Without Identity Abstract: Singular reference to non-individuals is often thought to be impossible. At present, however, this claim rests solely on intuitions. In this paper, I present four…
Title: Numerical and Mereological Indeterminacy. Abstract:This talk has two aims, one negative and the other positive.聽 The negative aim is to argue against the possibility of numerical or mereological indeterminacy…
