"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
The inaugural 2017 Balter Distinguished Lecture will welcome Nina Emery to present a paper as part of our annual Speaker Series. Title: Laws and their instances Abstract: I present an argument for the view that laws ground their instances. I … Read more
