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
‘Healthy Nails versus Long Lives: The Psychology, Theory and Practice of Weighing Small against Large Harms’ Alex Voorhoev is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method at LSE. He works broadly in political philosophy and … Read more
Prof. Jack Spencer, from MIT, will be visiting on March 24th to present his latest work in the formal epistemology reading group. All are encouraged to attend. There will be free lunch! "The Forward Principle" According to David Lewis, an … Read more
Join us on Tuesday, March 28 at 5:30 p.m. in the Mandela Auditorium of FedEx Global Center for the Michael Polanyi Lecture in the History and Philosophy of Natural Science in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences. Janet Browne (Harvard), … Read more
