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
Andrew Chignell will give a talk, “Modal Motivations for Noumenal Ignorance", as part of our annual Speaker Series. Andrew is an Associate Professor in Cornell's Susan Linn Sage School of Philosophy, with secondary appointments in German Studies and Religious Studies. … Read more
Professor Bicchieri will give a talk titled, "I Am So Angry I Am Going To Help You.” Bicchieri works at the borders between philosophy, game theory and psychology. She is the author of The Grammar of Society: the Nature and … Read more
Craig Warmke will present his talk, "Modal Intensionalism". Abstract: A possible world is a way the world could have been. Given that there are infinitely many ways the world could have been, a proposition is necessary according to possible worlds … Read more
Jen Kling will present, "Supreme Emergencies? They Don’t Exist. And Even If They Did…" Abstract: In this paper, I discuss non-combatant immunity in extreme wartime situations. Contra several well-known just war theorists, I argue that intentionally attacking non-combatants, even in … Read more
Janum Sethi (University of California - Berkeley) will present a talk, "Kant on Empirical Self-Consciousness". A reception will follow. Abstract: Kant is often acknowledged as being the first to clearly distinguish between two kinds of self-consciousness: consciousness of oneself as … Read more
Russ Shafer-Landau, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin/Madison, works in metaethics and moral theory. He is the author of The Fundamentals of Ethics (Oxford, 2012) and its companion volume, The Ethical Life (Oxford, 2012) written to introduce people … Read more
