Rachel Barney will give a talk titled, "Three Kinds of Socratic Courage". Abstract: Courage is a major but rarely discussed theme of Plato's early dialogues, exemplified by Socrates in the Apology and Phaedo and discussed in the Protagoras and (inconclusively) … Read more
"Freedom and Other Robustly Demanding Goods". Professor Pettit is the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University. He works in political philosophy and moral theory.
Jennifer Hawkins (Trent Scholar in Bioethics, Associate Research Professor of Philosophy, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Duke University) will present her work-in-progress paper Happiness, Unhappiness and Suffering at the next PPRG meeting, which will be Tuesday, May 13 from 7:00 - 8:30pm … Read more
Don Garrett (Ph.D., Yale), went to NYU in 2003 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence. He has also taught at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University … Read more
Professor Carla Merino-Rajme will present "The Experience of Duration", as part of our annual Speaker Series. Abstract: How do we experience the duration of an event? What is it to experience today’s jog as lasting twice as long as yesterday’s? Why does … Read more
Daniel Nolan will present "Hyperintensional Metaphysics", as part of our annual Speaker Series. Please note that because it is a Monday occurrence of the Speaker Series, this talk will begin at 1:00 p.m.
Adam Cureton will give a talk entitled, "Making Room For Rules". Reception to follow, all are encouraged to attend! Abstract: Kantian moral theories must explain how their most basic moral values of dignity and autonomy should be interpreted and applied … Read more
Miriam Schoenfield will give a talk as part of our annual Speaker Series.
Miriam Schoenfield will present "Internalism without Luminosity". Abstract: In this paper I defend a modest internalist claim: there are some purposes for which it is sensible to be interested in a set of exclusively internalist epistemic norms. I understand an … Read more
Professor Ned Hall will give a paper in our Speaker Series, "On some connections between explanation, necessity, and grounding”. Abstract: Gideon Rosen begins his (excellent) paper “Metaphysical Dependence” with a “plea for ideological toleration” – of the notion of grounding (and closely … Read more
