This workshop will be held October 6-8, 2016 at Georgetown University. Invited speakers include Robert and Marilyn Adams, Russ Shafer-Landau, Chris Tucker, and Candace Vogler. […] Read More
Tag: Philosophy
Policing and Prisons: Ethical and Political Questions about Law Enforcement and Incarceration The Bowling Green Workshop in Applied Ethics and Public Policy will take place […] Read More
Hi everyone. I’ve started a blog to workshop some ideas connected to my manuscript-in-progress, which I’m currently calling Normlessness and Nihilism. I’m at the very early […] Read More
Consider the question “Can regret be appropriate even apart from any belief that one’s choice was misguided or irrational if a monistic theory of the […] Read More
I'm curious to know whether cover letters that accompany journal submissions make any difference — whether editors read them, whether the letters influence publication decisions, […] Read More
Hi, everyone. Meena Krishnamurthy has very generously allowed me to post a few prelimary thoughts on the above topic and I thought I’d shard the […] Read More
Warren Quinn’s puzzle of the self-torturer is supposed to show that cyclic preferences can be rational, and that, in cases where they are, rationality can […] Read More
Dear Soupers, Do you enjoy puzzles? Yeah? Well then, let me share one with you. John Basl (Northeastern University) and I have had some fruitful […] Read More
Brian Weatherson has posted a new paper in which he argues against "moral hedging" — roughly, refraining from A-ing on the grounds that there's a […] Read More