"How to Resist Epistemicism" According to epistemicists about vagueness, vague language has a classical, bivalent semantics. So there is a precise height which separates people who are tall from those who are not tall, though we can never know what it is. This … Read more

Join us at Gerrard Hall for an evening of food and drink, and “15 Minutes of Philosophy” with Carla Merino-Rajme, Luc Bovens, and Kyle Driggers. This is always a wonderful evening, and lots of fun for all in attendance. Refreshments … Read more

"Causation as Production and Dependence, or: A Model-Invariant Theory of Causation" Abstract: Many contemporary theories of singular causation (alternatively: token causation, or actual causation) are formulated within the framework of structural equations modelling (or causal modeling).  These theories say whether … Read more

More than Fair: How Excessive Sympathy for Him (“Himpathy”) Obscures and Causes Misogyny Abstract: According to my ameliorative definition, misogyny is, roughly, the “law enforcement” branch of patriarchy, which serves to police, enforce, or restore patriarchal social order—often by visiting … Read more

Accumulating Epistemic Power Abstract: In her, December 3rd, 2014, Salon piece, “White American’s Scary Delusion: Why Its Sense of Black Humanity is So Skewed,” Brittney Cooper labels the stupefaction many people have in the face of today’s Black rage an “epistemology … Read more

Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard University “As Judged By Themselves” Do people’s choices make their lives go better? Under what conditions? Consider three distinct answers. (1) In many situations, human beings face a problem of "navigability"; they do … Read more

Frankenvaluers, Sticky Attitudes and Stone-Swallowing: Three Objections to the Hybrid Theory of Valuing What is it to value something?  One might think that valuing is a form of believing—for instance, believing that the object of value is good or worthy.  … Read more

Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa (University of British Columbia)  "Contextual Injustice" Abstract: Contextualist treatments of clashes of intuitions can render both claims true. But making true utterances is far from the only thing that matters—there can be substantive normative questions about what … Read more

Robin Celikates, Can Digital Disobedience Be Civil? In recent years the Internet has not only expanded the repertoire of contestation by providing new tools for political protest, it has also emerged as an object and arena of contestation in its … Read more