Philosophy @ the Movies: “The Truman Show”
Caldwell 105 ,The Truman Show (1998) dir. Peter Weir
The Truman Show (1998) dir. Peter Weir
For this year's workshop we will be discussing Jan Dowell's "Logical Constraints on a Semantics for Deontic Modals" Chris Howard's "Consequentialism and Constraints” Alex King's "Universalism and the Problem of Aesthetic Diversity" Hille Paakunainen's "Virtue and Practical Inference." Connie Rosati's … Read more
Do you enjoy pondering life's "Big Ideas" (ex: justice, fate, God, knowledge, morality, mind, causation, space and time)? Come for the food…stay for the Philosophy! Featuring: Tom Dougherty, Min Tang, Alan Nelson, and more. This event is free and open to … Read more
"The Nature of Necessity" My talk will be about the concept of ‘necessity’ – the idea that some propositions are not merely true, but necessarily true. Or, to put it in less technical-sounding terms, that certain facts have to obtain; that things … Read more
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), directed by Michel Gondry
"I Didn’t Do It: Very Implausible Denials and Social Unreality" Abstract: When I make a very implausible denial, I deny phi-ing, in a context in which (1) before I speak, it is common knowledge that I phi-ed and (2) after I … Read more
"National Partiality, Immigration, and the Problem of Double-Jeopardy" ABSTRACT: A foundational conviction of contemporary liberal thought is that all persons matter equally. However, states frequently pursue policies that are strikingly partial towards compatriots over foreigners. A common strategy for justifying this partiality … Read more
"A Plea for Translational Ethics" Philosophical ethics, like philosophy as a whole, is sometimes caricatured as an overly abstract and theoretical enterprise. In fact it has always cared about “the real world”; but its modes and methodologies of engaging with … Read more