Professor Wolff will offer a series of fourteen lectures on Kant’s First Critique. Each lecture will meet on Monday afternoon from 1pm-2:45pm in Caldwell room 213, beginning Monday August 29. The lectures are open to all serious students of Philosophy … Read more
"Descartes' Generosity" C.G. Normore In what is sometimes called the letter on the Sovereign Good (to Christina Nov. 20, 1647) Descartes claims that our chief good " and consists only in a firm will to do well, and the contentment … Read more
Professor Wolff will offer a series of fourteen lectures on Kant’s First Critique. Each lecture will meet on Monday afternoon from 1pm-2:45pm in Caldwell room 213, beginning Monday August 29. The lectures are open to all serious students of Philosophy … Read more
Professor Wolff will offer a series of fourteen lectures on Kant’s First Critique. Each lecture will meet on Monday afternoon from 1pm-2:45pm in Caldwell room 213, beginning Monday August 29. The lectures are open to all serious students of Philosophy … Read more
Professor Wolff will offer a series of fourteen lectures on Kant’s First Critique. Each lecture will meet on Monday afternoon from 1pm-2:45pm in Caldwell room 213, beginning Monday August 29. The lectures are open to all serious students of Philosophy … Read more
Jenann Ismael will present a Speaker Series talk. "Human Action Through the Lenses of Physics" This is a big picture talk that discusses the question of how human action (and more specifically decision) fits into the kind of deterministic dynamical … Read more
“How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways” Luc Bovens A core challenge in the Philosophy of Love is to account for love’s constancy: True love is not subject to trading up and it persists in the face … Read more
"Making Risky Decisions for Others" Luc Bovens There is much disagreement about choices involving risk to others, such as choices involving rescue missions, treatment versus prevention, selective medical treatment, C-sections, cancer screening, alcohol policies, effective charities, and support for Diesel … Read more
"Hard Choices" Ruth Chang What are hard choices? I discuss and criticize three common answers and then make a proposal of my own. Hard choices point the way to a different way of thinking about what it is to be … Read more
