"The Epistemology of Essence" Our epistemic access to essence is a topic which has received very little attention. This is partly due to confusion surrounding the notion of essence itself, and partly due to the sheer difficulty of coming up … Read more
"Cartesian Consciousness Reconsidered" Chapel Hill Philosophy Speaker Series Talk by Alison Simmons(Harvard). Descartes (in)famously revolutionized our conception of the mind by identifying consciousness as the mark of the mental: all and only thoughts are conscious. Today the idea that all thoughts … Read more
Polanyi Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Natural Science For more on Phlip Kitcher click here.
Chapel Hill Philosophy Speaker Series Talk by Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers).
Chapel Hill Philosophy Speaker Series Talk by Verity Harte (Yale)
Maggie Little is Director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University.
Iskra Fileva and Jon Tresan will lead a discussion of Gerrans and Kennett’s “Neurosentimentalism and Moral Agency”. Pizza will be served. Please contact Dan if you would like a copy of the paper. More information about this event…
Paul Guyer is the Jonathan Nelson Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Brown University. He will give a talk entitled "The Real Life of Freedom: Kant on Freedom in the Phenomenal World."
