I'm applying for an intramural grant to work on a perfectly ordinary, non X-phi, piece of philosophy. (I want to think about the claim that […] Read More
Author: Dale Miller
Many of you will know that John Stuart Mill advocates a scheme whereby college graduates, and the more educated more generally, would get more votes. […] Read More
Always the non-conformist, I let my "special month" slip by without a post. I'd had been planning to contribute something about what Strawson's account of […] Read More
Ben Eggleston and I are putting the final touches on the manuscript for The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism, forthcoming from… well, you know. Now that […] Read More
Saturday, September 8, 2012 Washington and Jefferson College Washington, Pennsylvania Keynote Speaker: Carl Craver (Washington University in St. Louis)
PITTSBURGH AREA PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUMSaturday, September 10, 2011Washington and Jefferson CollegeWashington, PennsylvaniaKeynote Speaker: Karl Schafer (University of Pittsburgh)
At the "start of the year" college meeting last week our dean showed some Powerpoint slides listing the number of majors in each department over […] Read More
I once heard someone maintain something absolutely absurd: A life in prison is just the price for committing murder, he said, and you are "free" […] Read More
In the comments on Jussi’s thread, a side discussion developed about Mill’s theory of value. Dale Dorsey indicated that he has concluded that Mill is […] Read More