Polanyi Visitor Talk: David Albert
Caldwell 213"How to Teach Quantum Mechanics: Part I"
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Department Talks
Speaker Series: Rebecca Kukla (Georgetown)
Caldwell 213"Moral Ecologies and the Harms of Sexual Violation"
Speaker Series: Paul Horwich (NYU)
Caldwell 105 Caldwell 105 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill"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
Speaker Series: Sam Berstler
Caldwell Hall 240 E. Cameron Ave, Chapel Hill, NC, United States"I Didn’t Do It: Very Implausible Denials and Social Unreality" Abstract: When I make a very implausible denial, I deny phi-ing, in a context in which (1) before I speak, it is common knowledge that I phi-ed and (2) after I … Read more
Speaker Series: Johann Frick
"National Partiality, Immigration, and the Problem of Double-Jeopardy" ABSTRACT: A foundational conviction of contemporary liberal thought is that all persons matter equally. However, states frequently pursue policies that are strikingly partial towards compatriots over foreigners. A common strategy for justifying this partiality … Read more
Speaker Series: Kenny Easwaran
Caldwell Hall"Infinite Ethics Meets Decision Theory" ABSTRACT: Some classic forms of utilitarianism presume that the goodness of a state of affairs can be determined by adding up numerical representations of the welfare of each of the people. When a population is … Read more
Balter Distinguished Lecture: Harjit Bhogal (Maryland)
Strikingness Some facts are striking. That is, they seem to call out for explanation in a way that other facts do not. If a coin is tossed 50 times and lands heads every time, that’s striking. The correlation between the moral truths and … Read more
Faculty WiP Series: Jen Morton on Resisting Pessimism Traps
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Faculty WiP Series: Markus Kohl
Kant on Knowledge of Transcendental Freedom of Will On a common reading, one major legacy of Kant's critique of rationalism is that we cannot know the existence of metaphysical, super-sensible objects such as, chiefly, God, the immortality of our soul, … Read more
Faculty WiP Series: Thomas Hofweber
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