I assume most philsophers, even wildly successful philosophers, think they wrote an excellent paper that did not get the attention it deserved. I would ask folks to mention papers by themselves or by others that they think have been unjustly overlooked or that did not […] Read More
Hi all – I'm especially pleased this month to introduce our Featured Philosopher, Ann Cudd. Ann is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas (rock chalk!), and has done truly pioneering work in moral and political philosophy. Her post follows the break. […] Read More
Imagine a person who is not at all motivated to help others. I don’t just mean a person who doesn’t care about others as much as she should; I mean a person who is literally not motivated at all, not even to the tiniest degree. […] Read More
This one day-conference aims to raise and explore problems surrounding the following questions: do we have responsibilities as participants in the global economy? What are the grounds of these responsibilities? What kinds of responsibilities are they? What are the responsibilities of different types of individual and […] Read More
My collegue Jeremy Williams is organising two cracking conferences this summer here at Birmingham. The first one of these, Ethics, War and Intervention, will be on Friday the 30th of May. The keynote at this conference will be Jeff McMahan (Rutgers) who will be talking […] Read More
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Below is the program for the next SLACRR. You can learn more and register at the website. I hope to see you in St. Louis this May!
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. Like some universities, he even accepts work experience in leiu of formal education: If every ordinary unskilled labourer had one […] Read More