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
"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
Leave No Trace (Brief description from Rotten Tomatoes) Will (Ben Foster) and his teenage daughter, Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), have lived off the grid for years in the forests of Portland, Oregon. When their idyllic life is shattered, both are … Read more
Jennifer Morton, The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility In this talk, I argue that there are ethical costs upwardly mobile students must bear if they are to dramatically transform their life circumstances. These costs affect their relationships with family and friends, … Read more
According to tradition, the members of the Florentine Platonic Academy used to get together every November 7th to celebrate Plato’s birthday. This year some modern Platonists (aka the students enrolled in PHIL 60) will be gathering on November 7th to … Read more
Market economies have made us rich, but have they done so at the cost of our souls? Office Space offers a comedic glimpse into the lives of corporate employees who hate their jobs and finally decide to do something about it. Starring … Read more
PHI SIGMA TAU INTEREST MEETING FOR ALL PHIL UNDERGRADS - APPLYING TO GRADUATE SCHOOL Thinking about going to graduate school in philosophy? Join our lunch meeting in Caldwell 105 on Friday October 12, 1:00 –2:00 pm, to talk about what … Read more
Dominion: What, if anything, do humans owe to other animals? A common and often unquestioned belief in our society is that humans have dominion over other animals. This belief is not unproblematic, as it arguably underlies the widespread mistreatment and … Read more
Come watch the philosophically dense 2017 film “A Ghost Story”, starring Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck. “A Ghost Story” is not a horror movie, but it does employ some horror tropes. This film explores philosophical issues such as the phenomenology … Read more
This is a meeting for current PPE minors as well as any students who would like to find out more about the PPE Program, the PPE minor, and our various extracurricular offerings. It will be a chance to meet some … Read more
