Speaker Series: Lucy Allais (Johns Hopkins University)
Caldwell 105 Caldwell 105 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel HillPlease check back for further details.
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Title: The Background Virtues Abstract: When you read this sentence, you're looking at black letters that make up the words. But you're also looking at a white background that is both necessary for and implied by those black letters. Taking this … Read more
Join the Philosophy Department for a viewing of My Dinner with Andre (1981)! Old friends Wallace (Wallace Shawn) and Andre (Andre Gregory) haven't seen each another in five years and agree to meet for dinner. Andre, a once well-known theater director, … Read more
Title: Transparency, Self-Knowledge, and the Sociality of Belief Abstract: Several prominent accounts of our knowledge of our own beliefs appeal to the transparency of the question "Do you believe that p?" to the question "Is p true?": we typically answer the former … Read more
Children of Men (2006), directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Taking Sides (2001), directed by István Szabó
Christine Tappolet, “Affective Knowledge in Ethics and the Plasticity of Emotions” Gopal Sreenivasan, “Plasticity and Perfection: Emotions and the Moral Life”
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010), directed by Werner Herzog
Force Majeure (2014), directed by Ruben Östlund
Possible Worlds (2000), directed by Robert Lepage