Philosophy @ the Movies: “Fail-Safe”
Caldwell 105 ,Fail-Safe (1964) dir. Sidney Lumet
Fail-Safe (1964) dir. Sidney Lumet
Race, Pain Management, and Epistemic Credibility Yolonda Wilson (Howard University) is a 2019-2020 fellow at the National Humanities Center and a 2019-2020 Encore Public Voices Fellow. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel … Read more
"Moral Ecologies and the Harms of Sexual Violation"
This teaching workshop will be focused on approaches, tips, and tricks to grading with our very own Mariska Leunissen and Geoffrey Sayre-McCord.
Ikiru (1952) dir. Akira Kurosawa
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