Colin Marshall (Melbourne): "Empathetic Moral Realism"
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This paper argues for a novel form of naturalist moral realism. Showing that cold psychopaths have an incomplete grasp on reality is, I claim, one of the defining tasks of moral realism. The core idea behind Empathetic Moral Realism is that to see something as it is, you must…
Vincent Lam (Queensland): "Physics and metaphysics of ontic structural realism"
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The 'traditional' conception of nature (e.g. from Aristotle to Einstein and Lewis) considers the world as being made up of independently existing entities that possess some intrinsic identity and individuality and that stand in relations to one another. It has been claimed that current fundamental…
Jonathan Tapsell (ANU): "Conceivabilism and the elucidation of knowledge of de re necessity"
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How, if at all, can we have knowledge of the mind-independent facts of de re modality? According to conceivabilism, the faculty of conception can yield such knowledge, and it can do so without reliance on the modal deliverances of any other source. Contra this doctrine, Sonia Roca-Royes (2011) has…