Megan Mitchell will present her paper, "Every's a Little Bit Racist:' Implicit Racial Bias as Institutional Racism".

Paper title TBA.

Dan will present his paper, "Republican Freedom as Positive Liberty".

Luke will present his paper, 'Self-torture as practical Sorites'.

"Vague Objective Chances" There have been some recent arguments that the Best System account of chances will lead to vague or unsharp chances, thanks to vagueness in what will count as the best system. I'll argue that unsharp chances should … Read more

"Negative Liberty's Instability” -John Lawless Three conceptions of liberty have dominated Anglophone political philosophy in the 19th and 20th centuries, positive, negative, and republican. Though the negative conception (on which a person's freedom varies indirectly with the probability that another … Read more

What Does it Take for our Belief to be Responsive To Reasons? The kinds of mental processing that gives rise to and sustain our beliefs, much like the kinds mental processing that give rise to and sustain our perceptual experiences, … Read more

"Problems for Pure Probabilism about Promotion" Humean promotionalists about reasons think that whether there is a reason for an agent to perform an action depends on whether her performing that action promotes the satisfaction of at least one of her … Read more