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PPE Talk: Richard Reeves
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.
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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
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Philosophy Cafe
Philosophy Cafe
Alex 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
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Conference on Inference and Reasoning
To 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
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Speaker Series: Kristie Dotson (Michigan State)
Speaker Series: Kristie Dotson (Michigan State)
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
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Speaker Series: Cass Sunstein (Harvard)
Speaker Series: Cass Sunstein (Harvard)
Cass 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
Lecture Series: The Thought of Karl Marx
Lecture Series: The Thought of Karl Marx
Please note: this lecture will take place in Caldwell 208 (not 213).
PPE Talk: Cass Sunstein (Harvard)
PPE Talk: Cass Sunstein (Harvard)
How Good Looking Are You? Brains, Optimism, and Climate Change People are frequently exposed to competing evidence about climate change. We examined how new information alters people’s beliefs. We find that people who doubt that man-made climate change is occurring, and … Read more