Lecturing Effectively Lecturing is a staple of the philosophy classroom. This workshop will be on the topic of lecturing effectively and in such a way as to engage students. Panelists are Jim Lesher, Steve Swartzer, and John Phillips. Lunch will … Read more
Richard Reeves is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute. He works on "social mobility, inequality, and family change." Before his time at Brookings, he served as Director of Strategy for the UK's Deputy Prime Minister.
A new workshop organized by Chris Howard and Alex Worsnip on normativity, broadly construed. There will be seven talks - six filled via an open call for papers, plus a keynote delivered by Prof. Selim Berker (Harvard), plus drinks, a … Read more
Alex Worsnip, “Believing at Will (or: I’d Do Anything for Cash, but I Can’t Do That)” There are probably a lot of things that you would do for $1,000,000. But suppose you are offered $1,000,000 to believe that the number of stars in … Read more
To infer is to draw a conclusion from some premises. To reason is to consider what conclusion to draw from some premises. But how, more specifically, do these acts differ from the many other mental acts that agents can perform? … Read more
Accumulating Epistemic Power Abstract: In her, December 3rd, 2014, Salon piece, “White American’s Scary Delusion: Why Its Sense of Black Humanity is So Skewed,” Brittney Cooper labels the stupefaction many people have in the face of today’s Black rage an “epistemology … Read more
Please note: this lecture will take place in Caldwell 208 (not 213).
