Location: Teams (online only) Title: Disharmony as a Political Vice Abstract: In this presentation, I examine two important concepts, those of harmony and disharmony by drawing on some thoughts including in three areas of African philosophical ideas and understanding. While I take harmony as virtuous or at least valuable or desirable, I take disharmony as…
Location: Teams (online only) Title: Epistemic Dynamics Abstract:聽Epistemic agents are finite and fallible.聽 Our range is limited and some of what we accept is, no doubt, flawed.聽 To achieve our epistemic and practical objectives, we devise methods and practices that foster correction, refinement, and expansion of our current epistemic commitments. Traditional epistemology maintains that epistemic…
Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title:聽“The Mind that Matters: Degrees of Sentience and Moral Status”. Abstract:聽It is often argued that the capacity for conscious experience is necessary for a creature to morally matter for its own sake and thus have moral status. Entities that lack the capacity for consciousness, such as chairs, philosophical zombies, or anencephalic infants,…
Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: Values as Vectors Abstract: Often, two things seem tied in value, though slightly improving one would not break the tie. How can we model such ‘insensitivity to sweetening’? A leading answer is that overall values, rather than being like precise numbers, must be imprecise, giving rise to a special nontransitive value…
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Tweet The 58吃瓜 Institute for Gender Studies is delighted to announce that Professor Robin Dembroff will be visiting the Institute in April 2023. Robin Dembroff is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. They work on feminist and LGBTQ philosophy, with a focus on what gender is and how it shapes social…
Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: QUASI-REALISM FOR REALISTS Abstract: Reductive realists think that normative properties are identical to descriptive properties. But they are often charged with being relativists: it is often argued that their view implies that when two people make conflicting normative judgements, these judgements can both be true. I will argue that reductive realists…
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Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: 鈥淪uperspreading the Word鈥�. Abstract: Quasi-realists are expressivists who say much of what realists say. To avoid making their view indistinguishable from realism, however, they usually stop short of saying everything realists say. Many realists therefore think that something important is missing from quasi-realism. I will argue that quasi-realists can undermine this…
Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: Humorlessness and Moral Recognition Abstract: We鈥檙e often quick to point fingers at people who fail to find humor in themselves. And our accusations have a moral tinge: we decry people for being sanctimonious buzzkills, and command them to聽 鈥榞et over themselves鈥�. But are these moralized reactions justified? And what, if anything,…
Tweet We invite to the presentation of the Book: Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela, Moises Da Silva 2nd of May 2-4 pm. Book Launch. School 1 followed by a reception in Social Anthropology Coffee Room 3rd of May 2-4 pm, Workshop I: Publishing St Mary鈥檚 College T205 Lecture Room 2 4rd of…
4 MAY 10.45-11.00 Welcome 11.00-12.00 Key Note: Jennifer S. Maru拧i膰 (Edinburgh), Locke on Moral Demonstration Break 12.15-13.00 John J. Callanan (King鈥檚 College London), Mandeville鈥檚 Genealogy of Virtue Lunch 14.00-14.45 Michael Jaworzyn (Edinburgh), 鈥楩reedom is a relation鈥� 鈥� Metaphysics, Freedom, and Action in the Early German Reception of Locke 14.45-15.30 Marzia Marconi (Pavia/Turin), Custom as legitimate…