Events
PPE Talk: Richard Reeves
Richard Reeves is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute. He works on "social mobility, inequality, and family change." Before his time at Brookings, he served as Director of Strategy for the UK's Deputy Prime Minister.
Normativity Workshop
A new workshop organized by Chris Howard and Alex Worsnip on normativity, broadly construed. There will be seven talks - six filled via an open call for papers, plus a keynote delivered by Prof. Selim Berker (Harvard), plus drinks, a … Read more
Philosophy Cafe
Mystery Brewing Company 437 Dimmocks Mill Rd, Hillsborough, NC 27278Alex Worsnip, “Believing at Will (or: I’d Do Anything for Cash, but I Can’t Do That)” There are probably a lot of things that you would do for $1,000,000. But suppose you are offered $1,000,000 to believe that the number of stars in … Read more
Conference on Inference and Reasoning
Hyde Hall, University RoomTo infer is to draw a conclusion from some premises. To reason is to consider what conclusion to draw from some premises. But how, more specifically, do these acts differ from the many other mental acts that agents can perform? … Read more
Speaker Series: Kristie Dotson (Michigan State)
Caldwell 105 ,Accumulating Epistemic Power Abstract: In her, December 3rd, 2014, Salon piece, “White American’s Scary Delusion: Why Its Sense of Black Humanity is So Skewed,” Brittney Cooper labels the stupefaction many people have in the face of today’s Black rage an “epistemology … Read more
Lecture Series: The Thought of Karl Marx
213 Caldwell HallPlease note: this lecture will take place in Caldwell 208 (not 213).
Speaker Series: Cass Sunstein (Harvard)
Caldwell 213Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard University “As Judged By Themselves” Do people’s choices make their lives go better? Under what conditions? Consider three distinct answers. (1) In many situations, human beings face a problem of "navigability"; they do … Read more