• Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Dr Jarred Snodgrass (Co-intensional Properties and Running Afoul of Ockham’s Razor)

    Edgecliffe G03

    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 Ockhams 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…

  • Moral Philosophy Reading Group

    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.

  • CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) Katherine Snow (Princeton)

    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 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…

  • Moral Philosophy Reading Group

    Edgecliffe G03

    Reading: Crisp, Roger, and Christopher Cowton. Hypocrisy and Moral Seriousness. Location: Edgecliffe G03

  • Moral Philosophy Reading Group

    Edgecliffe G03

    Reading: Jessica Isserow and Colin Klein Hypocrisy and Moral Authority, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 12 (2):191-222 (2017) Location: Edgecliffe G03

  • Moral Philosophy Reading Group

    Edgecliffe G03

    Reading: this week we will discussMark Johnstone: Anarchic Souls: Platos Depiction of the Democratic Man in Phronesis 58 (2013) Location: Edgecliffe G03