Proposal deadline extended to March 10th The second of six ESRC-funded workshops exploring issues where the ethics and economics of climate change intersect will be […] Read More
Author: Campbell Brown
Eidyn: The Edinburgh Centre for Epistemology, Mind and Normativity is a new research centre at the University of Edinburgh. Drawing on Edinburgh’s past success in […] Read More
University of Edinburgh, 15-16 October, 2011. Details, including online registration can be found here:http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/philosophy/events/view/epistemic-expressivism-workshop Speakers include: Matthew Chrisman, Terence Cuneo, Allan Gibbard, Klemens Kappel, Michael Lynch, […] Read More
Supervenience-based arguments for moral naturalism have tended to apply only to moral properties, not to relations. One might have thought that they could easily be generalised so […] Read More
University of Edinburgh 28-29 June 2009 Speakers: Simon Blackburn, Campbell Brown, Matthew Chrisman, Jonathan Dancy, Jamie Dreier, Graham Hubbs, Kent Hurtig, Elinor Mason, Sean McKeever, […] Read More
Sometimes I hear people (well, philosophers) compare the goodness of one thing with the badness of another. They say, for example, the goodness of pleasure […] Read More
While we’re having a mini-Mill-fest, I thought I’d try out the following wee argument, which I’ve been thinking about lately. John Stuart Mill [thanks, Dale […] Read More
Some philosophers are bold; they defend strong positions with few hedges or caveats. Others are cautious; they defend weak positions with many hedges and caveats. […] Read More
It seems the following is nowadays a popular view: Wide scope view: sentences of the form “If p, then it ought to be the case […] Read More