Herbst Colloqium
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The Power of Images - Philosophy, Politics, Law Under the auspices of the Peter Herbst Fund in Continental Philosophy, faculty and graduate students have been invited to present or participate in work-in-progress seminars related to this year’s theme. The Seminars serve as an…
Alma Barner (ANU): Sensory Imaginings from the inside and outside *thesis proposal review*
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Sometimes when I am bored sitting at my office desk I imagine swimming in the ocean at the South Coast. I can arguably do these in two ways. I can imagine swimming in the ocean from the inside. When I do so, I for example imagine feeling the warm water on my skin. I can also imagine swimming in the…
Patrick Forber (Tufts University): Evolutionary puzzles about social behavior
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Spite, the shady relative of altruism, involves paying a fitness cost to inflict a cost on some recipient. William Hamilton famously argued that spite is unlikely to ever evolve on the grounds that such harming behavior would destabilize a population, leading to extinction. Here I will present some…