Yesterday the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team decided to not play its playoff game in protest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake and the continuing pattern of racialized police violence. This protest quickly grew. First all of the NBA was cancelled yesterday. Then all WNBA […] Read More
Most, if not all, of our readers have by now heard of the tragic and sudden death of political philosopher Gerald (Jerry) Gaus last week. Jerry was an award-winning teacher and a prolific scholar, whose many publications most recently include his forthcoming The Open Society […] Read More
We are happy to host a guest post by Wes Siscoe, the Mellon Course Design Coordinator with the Philosophy as a Way of Life Project at Notre Dame. Their aim this summer has been to help philosophy instructors make the transition to online teaching. Herewith, […] Read More
Call for Abstracts Workshop: Working as Equals Deadline: November 1, 2020 Event Dates: June 4-5, 2021 Event Venue: Saint Mary’s College of California (Moraga, CA), with contingency plans for a virtual event if the COVID-19 pandemic conditions have not sufficiently improved Keynote Speakers: Nien-hê Hsieh […] Read More
Today we conclude our three part series devoted to Ben Bramble’s just published open access book Pandemic Ethics. A Revolutionary Argument: How and Why to Change Things Post-Pandemic Ben Bramble Here are some claims about what we should be doing during the pandemic: While the virus […] Read More
This is the second installment of a discussion of Ben Bramble’s recently published, open access book Pandemic Ethics. The third installment will drop on Friday. How Should Onlookers Live and Feel in the Pandemic? Ben Bramble COVID-19 has caused widespread hardship. Many people have become severely […] Read More
Today we start a three-part series on Ben Bramble’s just published open access book Pandemic Ethics. Part 1 (“Three Problems for Human Challenge Trials, and A Way Forward”) is below. Part 2 (“How Should Onlookers Live and Feel in the Pandemic?”) will get started here Wed. And […] Read More
Welcome to what promises to be an engaging discussion of Aidan McGlynn’s “Objects or Others? Epistemic Agency and the Primary Harm of Testimonial Injustice.” The paper was recently published in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice and may be found here. What follows is a critical […] Read More
Welcome to our highly anticipated discussion of Joe Horton‘s “Aggregation, Risk, and Reductio.” The paper is published in the most recent issue of Ethics; you can find it here. Johann Frick‘s critical précis is immediately below. Please join the discussion! Johann Frick writes: It is a great pleasure […] Read More