The Nonconservation of causation as a conserved quantity Abstract: This talk lays out a counterintuitive consequence of the causal nexus of Salmon understood in terms of transfer of conserved quantities: even though the causation is comprised of transferred or propagated … Read more
A Game-Theoretic Analysis and Critique of John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice with Robert Wolff, sponsored by PPE and Parr Center for Ethics.
“Well-being and Cybernetics: integrating philosophy and personality psychology to build a better theory”
Neither a Populist nor a Vanguardist Be: Respecting the Will and Wisdom of the People Abstract: This paper considers three different conceptions of “the people” and what it means to “respect” their collective will and wisdom: (a) the democratic conception of the … Read more
Positions in Patriarchy: Retooling the Metaphysics of Gender
"How to teach Quantum Mechanics - Part I" Abstract: Albert distinguishes between two conceptually different kinds of physical space: a space of ordinary material bodies, which is the space of points at which one could imaginably place (say) the … Read more
"How to Teach Quantum Mechanics: Part I"
"Moral Ecologies and the Harms of Sexual Violation"
"The Nature of Necessity" My talk will be about the concept of ‘necessity’ – the idea that some propositions are not merely true, but necessarily true. Or, to put it in less technical-sounding terms, that certain facts have to obtain; that things … Read more
