A forum for discussing Philosophy, Ethics, and Academia
Very pleased to be able to introduce our next Featured Philosopher, my Upstate friend, Julia Markovits. Take it away Julia: Thanks so much for inviting me to contribute! I’m currently working on a book about praise- and blameworthiness. One thing I’ll have something to say about […] Read More
John Corvino has a newish series of philosophically informative videos that are super clear and helpful. Consider giving them a look at his YouTube channel here. It would be lovely if folks who know of other good public philosophy would post it below in the […] Read More
Welcome to what should be a fun and insightful discussion of Helena de Bres’ “Narrative and Meaning in Life” (generously made free access by Brill Online and the Journal of Moral Philosophy for the month of November). Antti Kauppinen has kindly contributed a critical précis, […] Read More
Carol Lee Price Scholarships: funding in Montreal for female international students of philosophy. The Scholarships are specifically intended to attract and support women pursuing graduate studies in philosophy at Concordia University, Montreal. They are restricted to students who would otherwise have to pay international fees. […] Read More
Very pleased to be able to introduce today’s Featured Philosopher, Errol Lord. Take it away Errol: The following is based on joint work with Kurt Sylvan (see our paper ‘Reasons: Wrong, Right, Normative, Fundamental’, which is forthcoming in Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy. I wrote […] Read More
Don’t change that dial. We will have a discussion with Errol Lord on Thurs, Nov. 8th. The remaining Featured Philosophers Schedule looks like this: November 14: Julia Markovits Dec 12: Alex Guerrero January 28: Jonathan Quong Feb 11: Heidi Maibom Feb 18: Ellie Mason Feb […] Read More
The Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics (WiNE) is holding its 10th meeting in Tucson, January 3-5, 2019. The program is here. Registration to attend is free and open to all. You may register to attend here. Mark Timmons, conference organizer, will send periodic updates to those […] Read More
The fourth Southampton-Humboldt Normativity Conference will be held in Southampton from 19-21 June 2019. The conference aims to bring together philosophers working on normativity, including foundational problems of moral philosophy and practical normativity more generally, questions about reasons, rationality, and value, and issues about epistemic […] Read More
This is the first in our new series of featured philosophers. Many more to come. For the schedule look here. Ambitious Moral Perceptualism and Moral Knowledge from the Armchair by Preston Werner For a few years, I’ve been defending the view that all moral justification […] Read More