Frankenvaluers, Sticky Attitudes and Stone-Swallowing: Three Objections to the Hybrid Theory of Valuing What is it to value something? One might think that valuing is a form of believing—for instance, believing that the object of value is good or worthy. … Read more
Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa (University of British Columbia) "Contextual Injustice" Abstract: Contextualist treatments of clashes of intuitions can render both claims true. But making true utterances is far from the only thing that matters—there can be substantive normative questions about what … Read more
"Trust, Anger, Resentment, Forgiveness: On Blame and its Reasons" Abstract: A discussion of the scope that exists for the normative assessment of blame. The paper starts from the assumption that blame is to be understood in terms of the reactive … Read more
Conceptual Amelioration: Going on, Not in the Same Way In this paper I argue that there are two ways to think about conceptual amelioration on a model according to which the content of a concept is to be understood as … Read more
A Radical Solution to the Race Problem Quayshawn Spencer Abstract. Recent work in population genetics has revealed that the human species naturally subdivides into five major biological populations: Africans, Caucasians, East Asians, Native Americans, and Oceanians. Since the discovery of … Read more
The Nonconservation of causation as a conserved quantity Abstract: This talk lays out a counterintuitive consequence of the causal nexus of Salmon understood in terms of transfer of conserved quantities: even though the causation is comprised of transferred or propagated … Read more
“Well-being and Cybernetics: integrating philosophy and personality psychology to build a better theory”
Neither a Populist nor a Vanguardist Be: Respecting the Will and Wisdom of the People Abstract: This paper considers three different conceptions of “the people” and what it means to “respect” their collective will and wisdom: (a) the democratic conception of the … Read more
Positions in Patriarchy: Retooling the Metaphysics of Gender
"Moral Ecologies and the Harms of Sexual Violation"
