A forum for discussing Philosophy, Ethics, and Academia
[Another entry in our Agency and Responsibility October series, by Jake Wojtowicz. Take it away, Jake!] “The mature agent… will recognize his relation to his acts in their undeliberated, and also in their unforeseen and unintended aspects. He recognizes that his identity as an agent […] Read More
Much of the ever-growing conversation concerning empathy’s moral significance has centered around cases where the target of our empathy is another person’s suffering. Today, I want to consider a puzzle that comes into sharper focus when we start to consider empathy with other sorts of […] Read More
Welcome to our book forum on Serene Khader’s Decolonizing Universalism! Below is a brief introduction to the book from Khader herself. Just a reminder: you do not need to have read the book to participate in the discussion. Feel free to ask questions about any […] Read More
[Another contribution on October’s theme of Agency & Responsibility, by Danny Weltman. Take it away, Danny!] Can one justifiably believe that, on the one hand, agent-regret is a warranted response to certain situations, but, on the other hand, survivor’s guilt isn’t? I do not think […] Read More
[Welcome to the first of our official “Agency & Responsibility October” Posts, written by Neal Tognazzini. Take it away, Neal!] In a recent NYT column, Paul Krugman draws on recent work by two political scientists to argue that our democracy is dying. The major symptom […] Read More
More information can be found here. The conference will take place in Oxford, England, May 21-3, 2020. Papers (and abstracts) can be submitted here. The deadline for submissions is January 15th. We anticipate letting people know if their paper was accepted by March 1.
Critical Precis of “Is Sympathy Naïve? Dai Zhen on the Use of Shu to Track Well-Being” by Justin Tiwald By Tobias A. Fuchs I am very grateful for the opportunity to comment on Justin Tiwald’s incredibly rich paper. It’s been a pleasure to engage with […] Read More
Connie Rosati writes: As you know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This year, I am hosting a contest to raise money for women’s cancer research—breast, ovarian, cervical—the whole kit and kaboodle, so to speak. So what is the contest, you might ask? Each of […] Read More
The Cross-Cultural Normative Philosophy series will return next Wednesday with a discussion of Welfare, Sympathy, and Confucianism. “Is Sympathy Naive? Dai Zhen on the Use of Shu to Track Well-Being”, by Justin Tiwald (San Francisco State) is the focus article and Tobias Fuchs (Brown/IIT), who […] Read More